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The Femme Show: 9 Lives
For their 9th annual Boston performance, Boston's beloved Femme Show shares queer tales of survival and sadness, triumph and truth in a dynamic, eclectic variety show taking place October 16 and 17 at 8:00 PM at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre. The Femme Show: 9 Lives brings deep, personal explorations of queer and subversive femininity to the stage in a fun, eclectic variety show. This is queer art for queer people: challenging, introspective, brazen, funny, sexy, and gritty but always powerful.
The Femme Show plays October 16 and 17 at 8:00 PM at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theater, located at 820 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. Tickets are available beginning September 9 for $7-12 through www.thefemmeshow.com, and at the door for $15. Saturday's performance will be ASL interpreted.
The Femme Show has been seen at Food for Thought Books (Amherst, MA); Steamer 10 Theatre (Albany, NY); Bluestockings (New York, NY); The Trocadero (Philadelphia, PA); Giovanni's Room (Philadelphia, PA); the Shadow Lounge (Pittsburgh); The DC Center (Washington, DC); and the Wind-up Space (Baltimore, MD). It has also been featured at True Colors, the country's largest LGBTQI youth conference (Storrs, CT); at Emerson College
About the Artists
Amy Raina is a fellow of the National Writer's Project with her MS.Ed in Teaching and Learning, and has been with The Femme Show since it's conception in 2007. Her writing investigates gender and feminism through memoir, comedy, and commentary. She spends her weekdays in a middle school attempting to inspire America's youth to write, read, and create art. Raina can be spotted reading tarot cards, instagramming her cat, teaching gay yoga, or parenting The Femme Show's sparkliest 5-year-old fan.
Essence Revealed knows the essence of woman and graces the best stages to show the world just how strong, sensuous, beautiful and bold that essence is! Essence holds two degrees and is a former former lap dance engineer of the upscale gentlemen's club scene. She has performed around the world and at venues including Duane Park, The Slipper Room, Nurse Bettie, Kitty Knights, Room 69 @ the Hotel Chantelle,, Hypergender Burlesque, Red Umbrella Diaries, Sex Worker Cabaret, Sex Worker Literati, and Rivers of Honey Cabaret.
GeeGee Louise is modern day show girl who considers themselves to be the stepping stone between hetero- and homo-sexualities. Let your imagination soar as The Burlesque Impersonator enchants you.
Kiran Gandhi's thoughts on running the London Marathon without sanitary products during her period went viral this August under #KiranGhandi and was featured in People Magazine, The Huffington Post, and New York Magazine. In 2013 she hooked up with artist M.I.A. and began touring internationally as her drummer all across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Recently a business school graduate of Harvard Business School, Kiran is working on her solo music project called Madame Gandhi.
Maggie Cee(founder and artistic director) is an artist, activist, dancer, and educator committed to community, social change, and pinning stuff to her head. Onstage, Maggie strives to offer provocative, inspiring performances and writings that speak to the heart of contemporary queer experience. She has been seen at PortFringe, MondoHomo, the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, the 2008 and 2012 Femme Conferences, and the Stonewall Inn. She is the 2011 recipient of the History Project's Lavender Rhino Award for an emerging LGBT history maker.
Rachel Kahn is a freelance writer, poet, and performer, but spends the vast majority of her time pretending to be a therapist. Her work has been heard at a variety of venues, including the Apocalypse Lounge, the Ear Inn Poetry Series, and The New York Writers' Coalition 'Writing Aloud' series. She has performed at MondoHomo, the 2012 Femme Conference, PortFringe 2014, and the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, and makes trouble on and off stage up and down the East Coast.
Sabina Ibarrola is an artist and budding herbalist. She finds the meat and magic of her work in the natural world and urban ecosystems of Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by a brilliant galaxy of queer femme artists and instigators, she explores themes of love and heartbreak, mixed-race ancestry, apocalypse and faith. Sabina is associate creative director of Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow.
SublimeLuv (Amber Aliyah Williams) is a native of Boston Massachusetts. Educated in public and private school systems, she became an activist through words at an early age in response to her extremely contrasting experiences within those different institutions. She adopted the stage name of SublimeLuv in 2012.Luv is a revolutionary tool and that is what Sublime taps into each times she blesses the stage.
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LocationCambridge YMCA Theater (View)
820 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
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| Minimum Age: 15 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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