Chad Goller-Sojourner Presents MARCHING IN GUCCI: MEMOIRS OF A WELL-DRESSED BLACK AIDS ACTIVIST A Multi-Media Solo Performance

Set in NYC during the height of the AIDS Crisis, Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist, is a Multimedia Solo Performance, that explores the paradoxical and precarious relationship between fighting AIDS while engaging in self-harming behaviors.

Chad says, "Despite the AIDS epidemic impacting gay Black men at a disproportional rate. We believe this to be the first theatrical and one of few public narratives exploring the AIDS crisis through the lens of a gay Black AIDS activist.

"I moved from Seattle to New York City at the height of the AIDS Crisis. The next three years were the epidemic's deadly. In year one, AIDS became the leading cause of death among Americans age 25 to 44. In year two it claimed 40,000 lives, accounting for 23% of all U.S. deaths among men and 32% of all deaths among Black men. In year three AIDS deaths reached an all-time high of 50,000. Eight thousand less than the number of American casualties lost during the entire twenty-year Vietnam War. A disproportional number of them Black and artists. That I am still here is not lost on me."

Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based writer, solo-performer and recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and featured on NPR. In 2013 he debuted his sophomore solo show: Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. The groundbreaking and crushingly honest story of what happens when a black boy, raised by white parents, "ages out" of honorary white and suburban privilege and into a world where folklore, statistics, and conjecture deem him dangerous until proven otherwise. His inaugural solo show, Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, debuted July 2008, and chronicles the performer's life-long affair with the scale and ten-plus year liaison with an eating disorder.

Tickets: $20.00 General $15 Students

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4 Performances: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle

Thursday June 21st Doors 7 pm, Show 7:30 pm

Friday 22nd, Doors 7 pm, Show 7:30 pm

Saturday 23rd, Doors 3 pm, Show 3:30 pm & Doors 7:00 pm, Show 7:30 pm