MANGOS WITH CHILI: The Floating Cabaret Of Queer And Trans People Takes The Stage At Common Ground Theater 10/27

Mangos with Chili: The Floating Cabaret of Queer and Trans People of Color Bliss, Dreams, Sweat, Sweets, & Nightmares Presents Splendor & Grit: The Stunning South Tour 2009

Tuesday, October 27 in Durham, North Carolina at Common Ground Theater 4815B Hillsborough Road West Durham, NC
doors 7:00, show at 7:30 Tickets: $7-$10, no one turned away

Featuring performances by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ms. Cherry Galette, SKIM, Aleksa Manila, Ms. Vagina Jenkins, Maceo Cabrera Estevez, Amir Rabiyah

Come to a ONE NIGHT ONLY show of queer and trans people of color art, resistance, resilience, heat, heart and magic!

Mangos with Chili is a multi-racial, multi-genre, and multi-gender performance group that uses theater, spoken word, drag, dance, and performance art to tell the stories of class, survival, desire, dreams, and migrations of queer and trans people of color. Mangos spans identities from Sri Lanka, Aztlán, the Philippines, the Caribbean, Brooklyn, the Arab world, and migrant small towns.

Mangos with Chili creates community, builds bridges, and fosters cross-cultural dialogue by presenting breathtaking shows featuring queer and trans of color artists creating cutting-edge, high-caliber work to audiences and communities whose stories are not always represented onstage. By sharing much needed and little heard queer and trans of color stories, the Mangos bring queer and trans people of color out from isolation, helping QTPOC build networks of community, support, resources, and survival. This is This Bridge Called My Back for the 21st century.

Our 2009 Stunning South Tour will take 7 QTPOC artists from Texas to post-Katrina New Orleans, from Birmingham through Atlanta all the way to Baltimore and DC. We are thrilled to meet and build with the genius, beautiful queer of color artmakers, organizers, healers and survivors we'll find- and everyone else.

For more information: mangoswithchili.wordpress.com mangos.with.chili@gmail.com or call 510 282 6223