artists
The people listed on this
page are artists whose work I have seen and which I reccommend to
presenters and potential audience members alike. I find their aesthetic to
be inkeeping with my own: art for the sake of changing the world, one audience
at a time.
This is not intended to constitute a complete list by any means.
More in-depth reviews, and up-to-date reccommendations may also be found on
my blog.
Also, apologies in advance for the lack of order to this list...hey, you can
only do so much! Enjoy the scenery while you search.
-STS
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Imani
Henry (New York, NY) is a writer, performer, and powerful
multi-issue activist. Currently Henry is touring with his multi-media
theatre piece, "B4T (before testosterone)". He was an Artist-in-Residence
at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange for two years where he developed his new
multi-media project, "Living in the Light" about the impact
of the African slave trade on the Caribbean peoples in the US.
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Thea
Hillman (Oakland, CA) is a poet performer who once
did a bird call on the Tonight Show, and also served as Chair of the Board
of the Intersex Society of North America. "Rebel is both a noun and
a verb. More verb than noun, actually. A command, maybe. Actions speaking
louder than words, that kind of thing." |
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Ryka
Aoki de la Cruz (Los Angeles, CA) is a trans goth dyke
poet, organizer, and champion Judo competitor. She is a founder of Cornell
University's Asian American Playhouse, and head coach of Cornell's Ivy
League Judo Championship Team. She is the recipient of a University Award
from the Academy of American Poets. Ryka directs the Trans/Giving Series
in Hollywood, CA. She teaches writing at Santa Monica College. |
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Katastrophe
(San Francisco, CA) has a tongue-twisting rhyme style and
disarming sense of humor, paired with an intense political frankness,
that cause his lyrics to explode with dangerous passions — dangerous
to the status quo, a musical embrace of lives lived unapologetically outside
the mainstream of education, gender and culture. |
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Bear Bergman (Northampton, MA) is a writer, a theater
artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens
when you overeducate a contrarian. |
| Kate
Bornstein (New York, NY) is an author and performance
artist. Hir books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around
the world; ze has performed hir work all over, as well. |
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Elizabeth
Whitney (MA) is a solo performer dedicated to contemplating
gender, popular culture, and the mysteries of adolescent desire. |
| Michael
Burke (New York, NY) Award winning artist/educator/activist.
He is on the faculty at Trinity College, where he teaches performance
art theory and process. |
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Peggy
Shaw (New York) Actor, playwright, and producer...has
received three OBIE Awards for her work with the lesbian theater company
Split
Britches. |
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Jessica
Care Moore (Atlanta, GA) internationally acclaimed
poet-performer-publishing CEO dubbed "A Hip Hop generation Ntozake
Shange." (Poet, Sterling Plump) has “established herself as
a scriber of the black scream." (Independent Weekly) |
| Ajaywa!
& the AnCestral Funk Collective (Atlanta, GA) artistic
director of aJAYwa! & the AnCestral Funk Collective, is an ever-evolving
performing, literary and recording artist who has won several awards for
her workshops and productions. |
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Adriana
Chiknas (Atlanta, GA) writes visceral pieces about
recoveries from the usual suspects of oppression from her experiences
as a survivor of many of them. |
| Anna
Camilleri (Toronto, Canada) Writer, curator, performance
poet. Co-edited Brazen Femme - short-listed for a Lambda Award - published
Boys Like Her: Transfictions to critical acclaim in 1998. Her next book,
I Am a Red Dress, is due out in Fall 2004 (Arsenal Pulp Press).
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| Queen
Sheba (Norfolk, VA) An internationally-known Spoken
Word recording artist, this master poetess steps to the stage commanding
attention with her inferno performances and undeniable stage presence.
Royalty has just walked in. |
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Amanda
Kail (Atlanta, GA) writes and performs poetry in Atlanta
and around the country. She has one CD "No Permit" and a chapbook
"All of the Freedom and None of the Responsibility." |
| Karen
Garrabrant (Atlanta, GA) is a ten-toed creature, scribbler,
wordgeekfanfreakazoid, 3+yr. host of a not erotic mic Cliterati, who makes
lots of mistakes but hopes her hugs make up for it. Her life is held together
with duct tape, spit, and wood glue. She hides out in a library by day,
swings from saw pines at night, and sleeps...whenever possible. |
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Angela
Motter (Atlanta, GA) Self-proclaimed boy/girl with
a black leather and muscle stage persona...coupled with her unpretentious
and oft-disarming stage presence, have won over legions of loyal fans. |
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Athens
Boy's Choir (Athens, GA) is a queer, political, poetry
spittin' duo that jointly and individually creats spokenword. |
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John
Trudell (CA) "More spirit than man, yet more human
than most, John Trudell is an amazing artist. His vision is honest, pure
and strong. He speaks the truth and does it beautifully. His music has
a heartbeat. For a people with no voice--he is a man who will not be silenced."
- Angelina Jolie |
| Jamie
Black (Chicago, IL) "...a disarmingly charming
performer...wins people over with comic honey." - Windy City Times |
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Sonia
Tetlow (Atlanta, GA) "What is music but noise
splayed about like your worst nightmare, your best sex dream." |
| Grover
Weiman (Asheville, NC) is a white-working-class-mutilated-stone-butch-dyke-survived
woman with a transgendered experience speaking and singing and dancing
and spitting and fighting for her people, her history and her life through
her words and art. |
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of Hand Theater (Atlanta, GA) is an ensemble of artists
committed to creating theater as an EVENT. At this event the audience
physically enters the world of the play. Through the creation of a sensory
world we seek to illuminate the playwright's mad genius. |
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Houses
on the Moon, Inc. (New York, NY) creates original plays,
films and workshops facilitating growth and awareness on social equality. |
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He sings, he
dances, he makes Gay and Lesbian History wherever he goes with ICONS Vol.
1 and 2...he's Jade
Esteban Estrada (New York, NY). |
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