THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret
Thursday, April 18, 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: Alder Duan Hurley, Jota Mercury, Xtra.dae 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! Join us for the second THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret!
For our April show, we’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including:
👑 Drag king Jota Mercury (Best Drag King of the Bay ‘20, ‘21, 23)
✍️ Poet Alder Duan Hurley (THEYFRIEND ‘22 & ‘23)
🤣 Experimental performance artist Xtra.dae (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 all-AAPI THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret happening 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 Marcella Sanchez of msanchez.studio
About the Artists
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Alder Duan Hurley (he/they) is a mixed-race Chinese American poet based in the East Bay, on Ohlone land. He has performed his work at Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, at Diamondwave’s Theyfriend, and at GAPA’s 2022 QTAPI week celebration. They are the winner of the Wilner Award in Short Fiction at SFSU, where they are currently an MFA student.
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Jota Mercury (they/he) is an international award winning drag performer who uses drag to challenge machismo as we know it. They are Mexican-American and Indigenous, originally from Fresno, California but entertaining crowds in the greater bay area for the past 6 years. You may recognize him performing alongside his drag brothers in the following troupes: Rebel Kings of Oakland, Yeah Girl, and Nine Inch Males. He’s participated in global competitions, going as far as Panama City, Panamá to perform his El Rey act for the Panama Burlesque Festival. They are 48Hills’ best drag king of the bay for 2020, 2021, and 2023.
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Xtra.dae (they/them) is the moniker of Daeun Maroon Hwang, an experimental performance artist residing in Ohlone land in Oakland, California and originally from South Korea. Daeun Hwang is also a Community Organizer and have worked to curate community building workshops and events which informs their exploration of community in Diaspora. Xtra.dae is a persona that Daeun has created to connect with stories of korean mythology and folktales. As well as imagined fantastical stories of origin pre colonization. Using documentation from their life, Xtra.dae uses the life of Daeun Hwang to push reflection and exploration of the nonbinary in gender, queerness, and Asianness.
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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!