THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret - Premiere!
Thursday, March 21, 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: $5-20
Host: Vin Seaman/LOL McFiercen
Featuring Live Performances by: Papi Churro, Rawiyah Tariq, Zara Jamshed and selected open mic performers
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! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret events in 2024!
For the first show, we’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including:
👑 Drag king Papi Churro (King Supreme of the 2023 Emerald City King's Ball, THEYFRIEND ‘22)
🤣 Storyteller Rawiyah Tariq (THEYFRIEND ‘22 & ‘23)
✍️ Poet Zara Jamshed (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
Hosted by Brava artist-in-residence and THEYFRIEND founder Vin Seaman, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
But that’s not all! There will also be a few OPEN MIC slots at the beginning of the show for emerging nonbinary performers looking to flex their skills.
Be sure to arrive at 7 PM and sign up with Vin if you’re interested in performing
Open mic performers will have 5 minutes for their performances with minimal tech needs (microphone and audio playback available).
Save the dates for the next two THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabarets happening on April 18th and May 16th!
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 presented in partnership with Brava! for Women in the Arts and is made possible with support from the California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
All photos by Robbie Sweeny Photography
About the Artists
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he/they/Yehuatl (Yay-waht)
Papi Churro is a Two-Spirit Indiqueer from the Coahuiltecan and Nahua-Otomi Nations. When he's not fighting colonialism and for landback rights for all Indigenous Nations, he's slaying your hearts with the spin of his hips. He's the current reigning King Supreme of the 2023 Seattle Emerald City King's Ball.
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(they/them)
Rawiyah is a writer, singer, dancer and storyteller. Their artistry is expression, expansion and exploration of the world around them. Through their various disciplines they uplift their self and marginalized peoples living and loving in the intersections of fat, queer, Black, disabled, neurodivergent, and non-binary.
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(they/them)
Zara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani-American poet from NYC living in Oakland, CA. Their debut full-length poetry collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize and a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game Over Books.
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Vin Seaman is an interdisciplinary artist and the director of Diamond Wave. They have been featured on Shondaland and Vice.com, were an inaugural APAP Leadership Fellow, and received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award, the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Legacy Award, and a 2022 CALI Catalyst Award. Their creative work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, CounterPulse, the de Young, Frameline, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, 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 THEYFRIEND
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 15–18 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 festival performers will open in June!