Mangos with Chili Queer Borderlands Tour 2008: SF Bay Area kickoff on October 10, 2008

Ms. Cherry Gallete sent me a notice that she is producing a show that will be touring, and the first stops are in SF and Oakland! The first show is later today!

Mangos With Chili Queer Borderlands Tour 2008 Kicks off in SF on 10/10!

Mangos with Chili, the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares, is pleased to announce the Bay Area kick off of our 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour.

Launching on Columbus Day weekend in resistance to the legacy of imperialism and colonization reflected by the commemoration of the holiday, Mangos with Chili will present two evenings of unforgettable and history-making performance in both San Francisco and Oakland. The show will feature new work in the genres of dance, vaudeville, poetry, spoken word, theater, burlesque, performance memoir, and hip hop addressing the themes of border transgressions, migrations, deportations, relocation, displacement, legacy and the struggle to create new worlds, and in celebration of queer lives, stories, and the legacies we are creating for future generations of queer and trans people of color.

Hosted by history making burlesque sensation SIMONE DE LA GETTO!

and with an all star hottie lineup featuring:

VIXEN NOIR presenting her multi-media mix of erotic performance art
CHICA BOOM the Chicana burlesque starlet
QWO-LI DRISKILL the celebrated first nations two spirit poet
NAR boy-girl Arab hip hop duo
NICO DACUMOS mixed Chicano/Filipino performance memoir maker
TRE VASQUEZ two spirit rappero from the borderlands of arizonaztlan
ZULEIKHA MAHMOOD Afghan writer and zine maker
MS. CHERRY GALLETE and her showgurlesque cabaret dance fusions
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA the femme powerhouse spoken word wonder

SF SHOW INFO:
Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:00pm
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory Theater
1519 Mission St. (at Van Ness) , San Francisco, CA
$10-$15 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds.

OAKLAND SHOW INFO:
Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:00PM
East Side Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA 94609
$10-$15 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds.

http://www.myspace.com/mangoswithchili