07/10/2020
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Join us tomorrow for , I am so thrilled to be apart of this line up of folks!
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is thrilled to announce they are pairing with Puerto Rican LGBTQ+ and trans non-profit, the House of Grace, for Casa Abierta, a digital fundraiser. The event will help raise crucial funds for housing and essential services for trans/non-binary folx on the island, especially pressing in the face of COVID-19. The event will be held over Zoom from 4pm-7pm EST on Saturday July 11th, and will be free, with donations encouraged. Tickets are available here.
The bilingual variety event, curated by WWTNS? Co-Artistic Directors Jorge Morales Picó, James Clements, Ana Cristina DaSilva and Sam Hood Adrain alongside House of Grace founder María-Jose De Les Ángeles, will be hosted by Puerto Rican artists and frequent collaborators María Victoria Martinez and Xavier Reyes. It will be a colorful, lively and invigorating event, dedicated to creating a q***r-and-trans positive digital space. Artists will join the Zoom to perform from across Puerto Rico, the continental United States and Europe over the course of the mini-festival of performance, which will also include interactive workshops.
Confirmed acts include a stand-up comedy set by Suni Reyes, poetry from Pedro De León and Karl Michael Iglesias, gender-bending performance art from Ashton Muniz and music from Kathryn Allison, LuisGa Nunez, Educard María, Zulienette Ralat and Xavier Reyes. Interactive workshops include a cocktail masterclass with WWTNS? Resident Artist Pablo Caldéron-Santiago and a salsa class led by Bianca Medina. Further acts and workshops will be announced in the coming days. Latinx costume designer and artist Carla Posada was commissioned to create original images for the event.
