Friday, November 21st, 2008
I’ll be there! This sounds like a really fabulous event.
Crip2Nite is a queer crip performance salon featuring LGBTQ artists living with disability.
Come celebrate with our first Crip2Nite salon at Femina Potens. This month’s theme is “The Power of Definition.” Enjoy an afternoon of cutting-edge slam poetry, music and comedy hosted by the fabulous, funny Karen Ripley.
Perform at our open mic by contacting crip2nite at fabledasp dot com, or sign up at the door.
WHAT: Crip2Nite
WHERE: Femina Potens at 2199 Market St., San Francisco
WHEN: Sunday, November 23, from 3-5:30 p.m.
COST: Sliding scale $5-$20 (or more). No one turned away.
BENEFIT FOR: Fabled ASP (Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians Living with Disability: A Storytelling Project) whose mission is to celebrate disabled lesbian activism, art and culture and continue the disability arts revolution in the Bay Area. Learn more at www.fabledasp.com
Femina Potens is wheelchair accessible. Please do not wear scents or scented products. Thank you.
Crip2Nite: Conceived by: Joy Taylor, Crip2Nite coined by Joy Taylor and Patty Overland.
Produced by: Joy Taylor, Patty Overland, Jill Lessing, and Laura Rifkin
Enjoy an afternoon of cutting-edge slam poetry, music and comedy hosted by Karen Ripley.
Karen Ripley has been performing comedy and improvisation for the GLBT community for over 30 years. Recently featured on Logo TV “wisecracks.”
Other performers include:
Jenni Mork, who has been outing Buck Deerborn stories with Mothertounge Feminist theatre and has proudly stroked his antlers and told his story in Sex diaries at the Dark room. Buck stories resonate with the greater truth that one sometimes has no choice but to be themselves.
Susan Kay Gilbert is the executive producer and host of “The Inappropriate Show” TV for Lesbians, and she is a Lynch-Syndrome cancer thriver and author of the song “Fuck You Cancer.”
Lesile Gordon, a Jewish Disabled woman, who is always getting into something.
Melodie Morgan Frances, a bay area writer and lesbian with an invisible to the naked eye disability
Patty Overland was one of three founders of Wry Crips Reader’s Theater.
Caera Aislingea is a singer, harper, teacher, and writer, and sings in all three Gaelic languages (Irish, Scottish, and Manx) as well as other languages.
Morningstar doing a butch drag king bit.
Barbara Ruth is a poet going for total immersion into disabled women’s culture.
She is the author of the poem, “The Fabled Asp”- written for the project.
Judy Andreas will be reading one of Pandoura Carpenter’s (may her memory be for a blessing) taxi tales.
AND OTHER SPECIAL SURPRISES!
Tags: disability, disabled lesbian
