THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret - AUGUST
Thursday, August 15, 2024
7:30pm (7pm doors)
Brava Theater Center’s Cabaret
2773 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
$15 early bird | $20 general admission
Limited Pay-What-You-Can: $5-10
Host: Vin Seaman / LOL McFiercen
Featuring Live Performances by: Hennessy Williams, Libby Oren, & karinyo
About the Event
Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until November for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck! Experience a range of queer performance mediums at THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret, featuring:
Drag artist Hennessy Williams (Butch Queen Pageant Runner Up ‘23, THEYFRIEND ‘22)
Poet Libby Oren (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
Musician Maya Songbird
Hosted by multidisciplinary artist Vin Seaman, aka drag queen LOL McFiercen, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
THE FUTURE IS NONBINARY! And so are we - save the dates for the next THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabarets happening on September 19th and October 17th.
ACCESSIBILITY: Brava is wheelchair accessible with ADA-accessible all-gender restrooms. The space also includes an upstairs mezzanine with additional seating that is only accessible by stairs. All videos will have open captions. If you need ADA seating for this show, please indicate so during the ticketing process. For any questions about accessibility, please email kiana@diamond-wave.org.
COVID: Masking REQUIRED, KN95 masks available at door. Participating artists and staff are COVID tested before the event.
This event is made possible with support from the California Arts Council and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and is presented in partnership with Brava! for Women in the Arts. Diamond Wave is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts that is supported by Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
About the Artists
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Hennessy Williams is a Chinese American genderqueer drag performer based in Oakland. Their art is versed in storytelling, dance, and oftentimes, genderfuckery and queer joy. As a self-taught seamstress and dancer, they often create many of their costumes and choreograph their numbers. They are the reigning Mx. NorCal Quing Pageant winner and the creator & host of Royales, an all-BIPOC King show. They headlined the Austin International Drag Festival in 2023, and have performed for other stages like Bushwig, Oaklash, Princess at Oasis. You can follow them on Instagram at @Hennessy_Williams.
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Libby Oren (they/them) is a Los Angeles based poet studying Conservation and Resource Studies at UC Berkeley. Oren graduated from Venice High School, where they were the co-captain of the poetry team. They brought their team to the final stage of the GetLit Classic Slam, largest youth poetry slam in the US, twice, participated in the Emerging Writers Fellowship twice, and is a two-time finalist in GetLit’s Why I Rise Competition. They performed for FOX TV’s Pride Month poetry video, which has over 1.5 million views and was broadcast on national television. When they’re not writing, they can be found attempting to save their local garden, or otherwise enjoying talking to trees. They also love fountain pens. -
Maya Songbird (she/they), flamboyant songstress, born in the historical Castro District of San Francisco, sings of sex, love and living the life regally through every day expression. Creating music that takes you on a journey through whimsical ambient sounds, across hints of house beats and trippy synthesized tunes and lyrics that sing to your soul.
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Vin Seaman is an interdisciplinary artist, drag queen (LOL McFiercen) and the director of Diamond Wave. Drawing inspiration from sketch and stand up comedy, queer nightlife, internet aesthetics and their own nonbinary identity, Seaman’s work blends mediums and forms to create dynamic and interactive performances with the potential to shift minds and change hearts. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, El Rio, CounterPulse, the de Young, the Salesforce Tower, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
To Attend
$15 early bird
$20 general admission
Limited pay what you can tickets
About the Festival
Now in its 4th year, THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! This year the festival will take place November 13–17 in partnership with San Francisco presenters, nightlife venues, and community organizations.
With THEYFRIEND, we’re creating a space of trust and growth for nonbinary artists to connect and present their work. Applications for performers are estimated to open in June!