Mangos with Chili presents Divas & Heroes this Friday, August 14, 2009

Join Mangos with Chili as they present the second in a series of Mama Calizo's Crash Cabarets at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this Friday, August 14 at 8pm. Burlesque sweetheart Ms. Cherry Galette is one of the cofounders of the troupe and will be performing.

There will also be other, free events starting at 5pm. So get there early for the Crash Pad, Snappy Hour and some music with MCs and Dwayne Calizo's BandAIDS.

Mangos With Chili Presents Divas & Heroes at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts!

Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets and nightmares

proudly presents

Divas and Heroes: Bedtime Stories of Fierce Survival, Memory and Lust

Friday, August 14, 2009
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Big Ideas Room!, $10
Buy tickets online here:
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9833 and select the date Friday, 8/14
Come at 5 for the cocktails, show at 8 PM sharp!

Featuring peformances by
Chica Boom
Nico Dacumos
Ms. Cherry Galette
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Thisway/Thatway
Yosimar Reyes

If you've missed all our shows and want a mid-summer taste of Mangos, come through and check us out! We're excited to be at YBCA in partnership with Dwayne Calizo and Mama Calizo's Voice Factory to bring you this cabaret-style night of story, sounds, and reveals! Seating in the theater is limited, but the show will be broadcast for all to see on a wall of television screens in the main lobby area of YBCA.

The Mangos With Chili crew is aching to give you another night of unforgettable performance on queer and trans people of color stories of survival, resistance, lust, ghosts and dreams through our high intensity theater, dance, drag, burlesque and words.

Mangos With Chili is a Bay Area based arts organization committed to showcasing high quality work of life saving importance by queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Mangos With Chili has performed to sold out houses across North America, wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance spaces, bars, and campus halls with their high intensity, breathtaking performance, politics, and storytelling craft, reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color and speaking out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence, isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face.

For more information visit http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com/


http://www.ybca.org/

The Kentucky Fried Woman Show: Drag & Burlesque Commando on Friday, July 3, 2009

Last minute posting of an event for tonight! Kentucky Fried Woman has a show at Velvet in Oakland, and it'll feature some of the area's top burlesque performers! Even Dottie Lux will once again make the trip over to Oakland after her own show in San Francisco, Red Hots Burlesque (previous post), to perform. Here's the information that I've scraped off the "Interwebs" about the show:

The Kentucky Fried Woman Show: Drag & Burlesque Commando

Featuring the very best drag and burlesque artists in an ALL-IMPROV Show! The music is ready to go and the performers and audience are in for a WILD night of fun and adventure. You are not going to believe how much fun this is going to be! A great way to kick off the 4th of JULY weekend and as always, there will be a dance party after the show. This is an awesome event! Featuring: Simone de la Getto Charleston Chu Thisway/Thatway Chica Boom Lil Miss Hot Mess Dottie Lux Lady Monster Amelia Mae Paradise Fritzy Flyes Again the legendary Isis Starr All the way from Toronto, Ashton Kutchie And down from Seattle, my co-femmecee for the evening...Phenix Love

Also, in from Sweden, Ulrika Dahl, who will be on hand to discuss and celebrate her book Femmes of Power and personally invite you to a special Femmes of Power reading next week. Three of the folks from the book are in the show!

Where: Velvet, 3411 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94602

Price: $10, 21 and older

When: 9:30pm Fri 7.03.09


http://www.velvetoakland.com

Burlesque n' Brass tonight, Cabaret de Nude on Sunday, January 4, 2008

Catch Kellita with the rest of the Hot Pink Feathers (www.hotpinkfeathers.com) and Blue Bone Express (www.blueboneexpress.com) tonight (Saturday) at Cafe Van Kleef (www.cafevankleef.com), 1621 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland. Doors are at 8:30pm, show begins at 9:30. Cost is $10 for all those 21 and older.

Tomorrow, catch Kellita again at the Cabaret de Nude in San Francisco. Here are the details:

Cabaret Dé~Nude

We are excited to introduce our monthly club, Cabaret Dé~Nude, a lezzi, queer girl and tranny Strip Joint featuring uncensored, risqué and fun performances guaranteed to tantalize and satiate your every naughty desire. Burlesque, Striptease and Erotic Performance Art, with a dash of comedy, spoken word, poetry, song and more… Down & Dirty go-go dancers keep you wet in between sets.

Our January 2009 Line-up features: Honey Lawless ~ Ms. Cherry Galette ~ The Inimitable Isis Starr ~ Hoku Mama ~ Kellita ~ and introducing all the way from Seattle, Ginger Snapz ~ along with performances from your hostesses, Vixen Noir and Chica Boom! Go-Go Dancers Lady Shadow & Ms. Vera Deville! Resident DJs Pam Hubbuck and Ms. Jackson!

Sunday, January 4, 6pm – midnight @ The Stud Bar
399 9th Street, SF CA 94103
Doors at 6, Show at 7:30
Cover: $8 bef 7; $10 after

http://www.myspace.com/gettonoirproductions
http://www.studsf.com

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