Please join us for a performance and talk-back with Sins Invalid, hosted by the LGBTQ Center's Legacy Series, SHAG's 10th Annual Sex Week, and the Student and Employee Accessibility Services (SEAS)!
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Performance tickets
Facebook event for Out for Lunch (a chance to talk with the performers before the performance):
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of "normal" and "sexy" are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities. Creating high-quality artistic work as disabled artists of color and queer/gender non-conforming artists, we use cultural work as a medium for building within and across communities. In our 12th year, Sins Invalid is seen as a thought leader in Disability Justice and continues to alter the cultural context in which people with disabilities are seen and experienced, nurturing an aesthetic vision in which all bodies are recognized as valuable and beautiful.
Established in 2006, Sins Invalid was founded in response to the pronounced scarcity of spaces in which disabled artists are able to determine the cultural message of the work, shape the aesthetics, and create powerful, body-affirming work. The success of our performances speak not only to the artistic integrity of our work, but to a community need for a space where non-normative bodies and sexualities are celebrated, not as a fetishized spectacle, but as a proud reclamation of humanity.
Sins Invalid's Antoine Hunter, Juba Kalamka, and Maria Palacios will be the three performers for the evening!
Links to more information:
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/
https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/
https://jubakalamka.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/goddessonwheels?lang=en
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Accessibility Information
CART services and ASL interpretation will be provided at this performance. Audio description services will be provided as needed. Braille programs will also be available. For this performance, we also ask that folks refrain from wearing/bringing in strong scents/smells into the space. For accessibility reasons, we are trying our best to have the performance space be as fragrant free as possible.
Microphones will be used by the performers. There will also be a microphone available for the audience during the talk-back. There are multi-stall men's and women's restrooms in this building, across from the theater. Please contact [email protected] to arrange other access needs.
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LGBTQ+ Center
The LGBTQ+ Center works to create and maintain an open, safe, and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students, faculty, and staff, their families and friends, and the campus community at large.
This Spring 2019, we are executing our annual Legacy Series. This year’s theme is Building Our Futures: A Trans and Queer Vision which pushes us to consider structural injury while also imagining and building towards a new world where, as adrienne-maree brown writes, “everyone experiences abundance, access, pleasure, human rights, dignity, freedom, transformative justice, [and] peace. [W]e long for this, we believe it is possible.” This Sins Invalid performance is part of our Legacy Series lineup this year. You can find our whole Legacy Series lineup at this link.
SHAG (Sexual Health Awareness Group)
The Sexual Health Awareness Group (SHAG) is a peer education program under BWell Health Promotion. SHAG is comprised of Brown students who provide accessible, LGBTQ-inclusive, consent-centered, and pleasure-guided sexual health education and resources. The annual Sex Week, along with services such as a confidential Q&A texting response service and a free safer sex supplies mailing service called “Ship n SHAG,” is one of many projects made available by SHAG.
This year, SHAG will be continuing this campus tradition with the 10th Annual Sex Week (Sex Week X) called “interseXions: reimagining our culture of sex.” This will be a week-long event from April 7th-13th where we will be centering the framework of intersectionality in our conversations around sexuality and re-envisioning possibilities for our sexual culture and sexual selves that allow people of all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to feel safe, welcome, and empowered.
SEAS (Student and Employee Accessibility Services)
SEAS coordinates and facilitates services for students (including graduate students and postdoctoral trainees), faculty, staff and visitors with physical, psychological, and learning disabilities.
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The performance is sponsored by the Brown Center for Students of Color, BWell, the Department of American Studies, the Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, the Department of Literary Arts, McCormack Family Theater, and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender.
