PRIDE, NOT PREJUDICE Returns to the Vineyard with 5 Pulsing Events in the Spirit of Orlando

Come view, share and dance in an inclusive celebration of difference.

" Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds." -RUMI

The Yard presents PRIDE, NOT PREJUDICE for a third straight year, this season honoring the memory of the free spirit victims of the Pulse Club tragedy in Orlando, and expanding from The Yard in Chilmark to Featherstone Center for the Arts and the A Gallery in Oak Bluffs. This season, 4 outstanding women artists are featured in the celebration.

Cherdonna Shinatra is the ideal dance/drag bio-fem performance artist to create outlandish hilarity and waterfalls of mascara. Tiffany Chandelle leads a "Heels" dance workshop. In high-end rave mode, DJ Rekha (some may remember her last sold-out dance-tastic Yard DANCEHALL in 2014) is all beat and heat as she raises the temp/tempo on the dance floor with her highly acclaimed "basement bhangra" stylings, mixing the the pulsing rhythms of India and the Indian Diaspora via London and New York, where she is a DJ in high demand. And Oak Bluff's A Gallery presents a special PRIDE exhibit with international visual artist Zunia Boucher-Myers, a chronicler of lesbian culture and sexual fluidity in South Africa. An old friend, Marvelous Marvin, hosts a science/ and DJ dance party for families, at Featherstone Center for the Arts.

We invite the island community to assemble for those we've lost, as in the words of Rumi.