[Tsa] Mangos WIth Chili

[smb03 at hampshire.edu]

They are performing at the Trand Health Conference which I'm going to in 2
weeks, so I get to checkem out. I'll give yall an update.


Quoting skw03 at hampshire.edu:

> this sounds pretty amazing to us, folks.
> take a break from all that work & try to check it out!
>
> heart heart,
> yer signerz
>
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> Mangos With Chili!!!
> QTPOC roadshow touring the Northeast March 31-April 9!
>
> NORTHAMPTON, MA:
> Monday, April 2: Smith College
> Wright Hall Auditorium
> 8:00PM-11:00PM
> Free Admission
>
> FEATURING:
>
> Thomas Andre Bardwell (aka Ms. Nicholle Pride)
> Kay Barrett (Mango Tribe)
> Ching-In Chen
> Dulani
> Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
> Maria Cristina Rangel (aka Ms. Cherry Gallete)
> Suhayl Ramirez
> Ignacio Rivera
> Victor Tobar
>
> Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color
> bliss, dreams sweat, sweets and nightmares, is two weeks of history-making,
> electrifying, and revolutionary performance by 9 queer and trans of color
> artists working in the genres of spoken word, theater, dance, drag, and
> burlesque.
>
> Using performance to tell stories of race, class, survival, sex, dreams, and
> trans, femme and genderqueer identities that span Sri Lanka to Morocco to
> the Philippines to the Caribbean to Brooklyn to migrant small town
> Washington state, Mangos With Chili is a groundbreaking performance cabaret,
> taking This Bridge Called My Back into the 21st century.
>
>
> Inspired by similar traveling roadshows like the Tranny Roadshow and the Sex
> Workers Art Show, in 2006 sister femme vixen performance artists María
> Cristina Rangel and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha decided to start a
> similar tour featuring queer and trans artists of color. Using their
> experience creating events in Toronto, Boston, New York and the West Coast,
> the first Mangos With Chili tour will hit the Northeast and Canada for
> Spring 2007 (Full tour dates and venues below).
>
>
> Our spring lineup consists of Ching-in Chen, Dulani, Ignacio Gilberto
> Rivera, Kay Barrett, Suhayl Ramirez, Victor Tobar, Thomas Andre Bardwell
> (aka Miss Nicholle Pride), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and María
> Cristina Rangel. The show will contain both collaborative and individual
> work, bringing a wide spectrum of breathtaking queer and trans artists of
> color to universities, theaters and community art spaces.
> For more information, full cast bios, downloadable press pics and flyers:
> www.myspace.com/mangoswithchili
>
> To arrange a media interview, please contact Co-Directors:
> Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha  (416) 533-2697
> María Cristina Rangel  (413) 218-0464
> or mangos.with.chilli at gmail.com
>
> Full Tour Dates:
>
> PHILADELPHIA:
> Saturday, March 31: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
> Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College (500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA)
> 7:30 PM- 9:30 PM
> Free admission
>
> BROOKLYN, NY:
> Sunday, April 1: Cattyshack
> 249 4th Avenue (President & Carroll Sts),
> 8:00- 11:00 PM
> $10-12, no one turned away due to lack of funds
>
> NORTHAMPTON, MA:
> Monday, April 2: Smith College
> Wright Hall Auditorium
> 8:00PM-11:00PM
> Free Admission
>
> PROVIDENCE, RI:
> Tuesday, April 3, The Black Repertory Theater of Providence, Providence RI
> 276 Westminster St.
> 7-:00PM-9:00 PM
> $8-12, no one turned away due to lack of funds
>
> BOSTON, MA:
> Wednesday, April 4, Spontaneous Celebrations,
> 45 Danforth St.
> 7:00PM-9:00 PM
> $8-12, no one turned away due to lack of funds
>
> MONTREAL: Join Mangos with Chili for Midnight Dinner!!!
> SPECIAL LATER NIGHT PERFORMANCE AND DANCE PARTY
> Thursday, April 5,
> Le Club Cleopatre
> 10:00PM-???
> $8-$12 no one turned away due to lack of funds.
>
> TORONTO:
> Saturday, April 7, Buddies in Bad Times Theater
> 12 Alexander St.
> 8PM-10 PM
> $8-12 sliding scale, no one turned away due to lack of funds
>
> OBERLIN, OH
> Monday, April 9, Oberlin College
> The 'Sco
> 7PM-9 PM
> Free Admission
>
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