Ring in the New Year with a blank slate as the performers, storytellers, and writers of Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival tell you all about Tabula Rasa.
Featured in January are Regie Cabico, Casey Plett, Shawn Stewart Ruff, and Najva Sol.
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
Tuesday, January 11th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
Tuesday, December 14th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
This month’s theme is FAMILY/TRADITIONS, starring:
Alysia Angel (what I do when you’re not looking)
Heather Gold (Tummelvision.tv)
Silas Howard (By Hook or By Crook)
Whitney Porter (Ping Pong Literary Journal)
Lea Robinson (Butch Mamas) and Elizabeth Whitney (The Secretaries)
Check out reader bios and photos!
Thanks very much to maymay for taking video and processing it for us to share with all of you!
Sideshow: Mardi Jaskot from Sinclair Sexsmith on Vimeo.
It’s Not Changing The World That’s Hard – by maymay – Sideshow Reading Series: Masks from maymay on Vimeo.
Sideshow: BB Rydell from Sinclair Sexsmith on Vimeo.
Sideshow: Natalie E. Illum from Sinclair Sexsmith on Vimeo.
Sideshow: Kelli Dunham from Sinclair Sexsmith on Vimeo.
October’s MASKS reading was fantastic. This whole Sideshow series is shaping up to be a wonderful series, I’m so thrilled to be a part of it.
First up was Mardi Jaskot, who read a prose piece the audience loved.
Next was Meitar “maymay” Moscovitz, who talked about sexual freedom activism and his work with MaleSubmissionArt.com. If you haven’t checked out his weekly live online podcast, KinkOnTap.com, do! It happens every Sunday night.
BB Rydell from Seattle was up next, and read the smutty story “Call Me Sir.” Then, of course, the “sir” jokes commenced for the rest of the night. You know a story made an impact when it becomes an instant meme!
After the break, Sarah Schulman read about dating in LA and navigating the dyke world.
Natalie E. Illum came in from DC to do some spoken word poetry for us and read some beautifully moving pieces off the page. I adore her work and was so honored she could make it up here to read! Watch for her collaboration with LAVA in Brooklyn in December.
Kelli Dunham was last but not least, reading about her time in the convent. She recently found a letter she wrote home from 15 years ago and added her own colorful commentary to her younger self. I particularly liked the line, “it looked like a nun bomb exploded in here,” when talking about nap time. Genius.
Maymay also streamed the entire night, and recorded video. Thanks maymay! I’m working on uploading it to share with all of you—watch for that in the next few days!
Sideshow Presents!
Dangerous Mammals Tour 2010: Ivan Coyote and S. Bear Bergman! With Special Guests Jessica Halem and Tania Katan!
Come and celebrate the co-launch of S. Bear Bergman’s Butch Is A Noun and Ivan Coyote’s Missed Her, both hot off the presses at Arsenal Pulp Press. Both Coyote and Bergman are renowned performers, bringing finely their finely honed stage skills and the pitch perfect timing of master storytellers to their live readings.
Click here for reader bios.
November’s Dangerous Mammals Tour
at Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
with S. Bear Bergman, Ivan E. Coyote, Jessica Halem, and Tania Katan
Tuesday, November 9th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
RSVP on Facebook!
Next week’s show, about our MASKS, has a fantastic lineup of performers and writers: Broch Bender (Seattle Spit), Kelli Dunham (Queer Memoir), Natalie Illum (Mothertongue), Mardi Jaskot (Queer Conventions), Maymay (KinkonTap), and Sarah Schulman (Ties That Bind)! Check out reader bios and photos.
Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
Tuesday, October 12th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
RSVP on Facebook!
See you there!
In addition to S. Bear Bergman and Ivan E. Coyote, stopping by Sideshow on their Dangerous Mammals tour on November 9th, we will also be hosting Tania Katan and Jessica Halem! Read all about it.
Decmeber 14th will be the last Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival of 2010 and features the theme of Traditions. We are excited to announce the lineup:
Alysia Angel
Heather Gold
Silas Howard
Whitney Porter
Lea Robinson
and Elizabeth Whitney
More details about the readers will be announced soon! Watch this page for details.
Sideshow teamed up with Queer Memoir to do a Butch Voices NYC Conference related show at Bluestockings last weekend, and it was a huge success. There were at least a hundred people packed into the bookstore, and the pieces were fantastic.
Genne Murphy and Cheryl B. stepped in with Kelli Dunham and myself to host the show.
First up was Kelli Dunham, to open the show with a Queer Memoir set, reading a story about being a kid with a complicated gender in Wisconsin farmland.
Then came Ryann Makenzi Holmes, one of the folks behind the bklynboihood calendar (which you should really get ahold of, if you don’t have it already. Kristen and I picked one up after the reading and it’s beautiful.
Morgan Mann Willis read an impressive piece including secrets and confessions about butch identity and sex. Hot!
Then we switched gears and went into the Sideshow part of the evening. I didn’t get a shot of Cheryl, but rest assured she looked hot.
First up was Renair Amin, telling a story about getting an STI test and the awfulness that can be public health. Health care for all!
Kestryl Cael read a great piece about emotions, crying, and sharing feelings.
I (Sinclair) closed out the evening with a new butch poem I’ve been working on, tentatively titled Unsolicited Advice to a New Butch. I’ll be reading it at the Butch Voices Portland Gender/Queer spoken word show this next weekend, too!
I didn’t get a shot of myself, but Syd London was there and shot the whole thing professionally—and I got a few shots of Syd, too:
And I will of course post the shots Syd took as soon as they’re ready.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and listening to these butch voices speak!
The September show was one of the best we’ve seen—I know, I say that every time, but each time is amazing in it’s own way. This time, we had five readers talking about their experiences with school, growing up, and coming out again.
Loren Krywanczyk kicked off the night with a piece about transsexuals as teachers, and what it’s like to teach middle school.
Tanya Paperny was up next with a piece about coming to a femme identity, and what it was like to buy a couple fancy dresses.
Rachel Simon’s poetry had us laughing and nodding along.
Cheryl B. read next from her memoir in progress about leaving home, escaping New Jersey, and living on her own in New York City. I’ve heard what she read before, at her memoir show at Bluestockings last year, but the story is still poignant and interesting.
Theadora Fisher came down from Boston to read, and talked about what it was like to be gay (but not really out) in high school, and the beginning of the story of marrying her high school sweetheart. I love hearing her read her own work!
Last but not least, Melissa Febos read about Facebook stalking her first love. She was fantastic.
Thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore who provided us with books for the evening, and thanks to all the readers and folks who came out to listen!
Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
Tuesday, October 12th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
RSVP on Facebook!
This month’s theme is MASKS, starring:
Broch Bender (Seattle Spit)
Kelli Dunham (Queer Memoir)
Natalie Illum (Mothertongue)
Mardi Jaskot (Queer Conventions)
Maymay (KinkonTap)
Sarah Schulman (Ties That Bind)
Check out reader bios and photos.
