Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Truth Serum and MUSK bring you: Team Gina and Amy Kasio
at Midway Cafe
3496 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
doors: 9pm, show: 9.30pm dancing after with MUSK djs 21+ $6-8 sliding.
(press folks, hit thumbnails at right for high res. images)

MUSK is one of my favorite regular hangouts so I'm excited to partner with them once again to bring you Team Gina and Amy Kasio. Hit their links and check out their music. It's going to be a madhouse of a dance party.

from Aliza:
Team Gina is electro hip-hop with brains and eggs of gold. They pull out the stops and the OED to sing about queer dating, gender, lip gloss, suburban teenagers, saving the world by shopping, products and politics... They're a ton of fun and the dance moves really are amazing.
from Team Gina:
TEAM GINA has synchronized dance routines that will blow your mind. TEAM GINA has phat beats and hype rhymes for days. TEAM GINA has matching outfits that will make you cry. TEAM GINA is made up of two fierce femmes: GINA BLING and GINA GENIUS, a former Homecoming Queen and Pageant Winner who have over 20 YEARS of dance classes and theater performances between them. They even appeared on the Broadway stage in XANADU and may or may not have been extras in the movie ROLLER BOOGIE. Let's face it; TEAM GINA must be seen to be believed. http://www.myspace.com/teamgina

from Aliza:
Amy Kasio is a pint sized barely legal dynamo of the pop song. She's been making music in her bedroom since she was in grade school and backs them up with video projections and choreography. Everyone wants her as their younger sister so they can steel her songs.
From Amy Kasio:
Amy Kasio will rock your ears with distorted casio and your eyes with visual mini movie creations on projector for your keyboard pleasure! http://www.myspace.com/amykasio

Sunday July 13, 2008 8pm
TraniWreck: Drag, Decadence, Dissent and Duos
at The Milky Way
405 Centre Street in Hyde Square Jamaica Plain
doors: 8pm show:9:30pm cover: $8 ages: 21+

Truth Serum Productions and Heywood Wakefield have been producing this brilliant and successful show since August 2004. TraniWreck is an all gender, all genre, irreverent performance art cabaret/variety show now run quarterly and usually at the Milky Way. TraniWreck brings the best tranny, trashy, drag, and high femme, burlesque etc talent to the stage.

Our July Independence celebratory TraniWreck will feature performances about decadence and dissent and there'll be a few duos. Every time I come up with a theme for us the performers (in their irreverent way) say, "Yah, whatever, Heywood." So...we'll see. It's bound to be good. That's all I know.



Featuring:

MC/Host Heywood Wakefield
Becca D'bus
Johnny Blazes
Frieda Fries
Maggie Crowley and Rachel Kahn (of The Femme Show)
Elizabeth Whitney (of Bitches with Barrettes)
new dancers on the block Can Can Revolution
and special guests.
What "they" say about us:

Bay Windows April 28, 2005
"...likely the most surreal event Boston has to offer, remains a must see, where creativity and eccentricity rule the night."

Awarded Stuff @ Night's "Nightlife Player's' list April 2004
"Aliza Shapiro of Truth Serum Productions holds the kind of events that spank stodgy old Boston firmly in the posterior with their edgy, often gender-bending creativity. Shapiro, along with her drag alter-ego Heywood Wakefield, makes it happen."
TraniWreck guarantees lapdances for everyone!

Sunday July 13, 2008 2:30pm

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Burlesque Life Drawing Session with Lola!
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave (corner of Harvard and Commonwealth) Allston
$7 2:30pm-5:30pm 18+ (bring your ID, this is a bar)

Dr. Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school.

Starting in Brooklyn, in 2005, artists Molly Crabapple and A.V. Phibes combed New York to find the most beautiful burlesque dancers, the most bizarre circus freaks, and the most rippling hunks of man. Then, they let people draw them for three hours, interspersed with posing are ridiculous drawing contests (best left handed drawing? Best incorporation of a woodland animal?) where you can win booze or prizes.

Aside from the standard structure of short poses to warm you up and then longer ones to give you more time to concentrate, this is definitely not your typical life drawing class. The model wears gorgeous burlesque outfits and slowly strips out of them! The model talks! You'll clap for them and hoot and holler! You'll tip them! You'll chat with your neighbor! There is no teacher to embarrass you when you don't produce enough! You get to drink and draw without getting in trouble! There are snacks! Now is the time to heal those art school wounds. Dr. Sketchy's will guide you.

Boston's a huge art school town but it's hard to find life drawing sessions, plus it has a huge burlesque, drag and performance art scene. So we'll have lots of great models to work with. You don't have to have any experience, or you could be the guy who does the pointalist portraits for The Globe. Dig out your dusty sketchbooks or hit the store and get a pad, and come join us for a little late afternoon nudie drawing date.

THIS MONTH's Dr. Sketchy's model is Lola (pictured)
Need a high res image? I'll have one soon.
Prizes are graciously provided by Artist and Craftsman Supply 957 Commonwealth Ave. downstairs next to In Your Ear and a few doors down from The Paradise.
Check out the photos section for images of past Sketchy's Sessions.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Gender Redesigner
At Brattle Theater:
40 Brattle Street Harvard Sq. Cambridge
9:30pm all ages $10

CineMental is excited to welcome fAe Gibson, subject of Gender Redesigner, to Boston for this screening and discussion.

Gender Redesigner Johnny Bergmann, USA, 2006, Video, 74 min.

Follow fAe over the course of 5 years as she begins to question her gender and decides to surgically modify her body. This intimate fun filled adventure makes you wonder how fAe can handle beginning hormone treatment, having his breasts removed, and drag kinging - all in the middle of rural Western Pennsylvania. While transitioning from female to male, fAe makes a startling discovery about the balance between his masculine and feminine sides. Can she succeed living as a man in the middle of farm country?

Gender Redesigner has screened at: NYC NewFest, San Francisco Frameline Festival, North Carolina Film Fest, Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival, and the Best of NewFest @ BAM and other festivals.

fore more information: http://www.myspace.com/genderredesignerfilm and http://www.RainbowAmerica.org

James Nadeau and Aliza Shapiro, who have been involved with programming for the Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival and other independent film/video presentations, have created a series that explores the fringes of queer film, video and groundbreaking performative work with a decidedly alternative perspective. CineMental showcases the best of independent queer media in a way never before seen in Boston. CineMental is the convergence of film, video, performance and music. It will change the way you think about what is queer, what is art and what is queer art! In a world where "The Gay" is becoming mainstream, we celebrate the radical. CineMental is every third Wednesday at The Brattle (though sometimes we move around.)

CineMental is sponsored by The Video Underground in JP
and we even have a Facebook page: join us here!

Regularly Scheduled Events and The Future:
Second Sundays at 2:30 pm Dr. Sketchy's at Great Scott
Third Wednesdays CineMental at the Brattle

these are in the works, check back for details as they may change:

July 19, Saturday: Truth Serum and UtiliTies at Davis Square ArtBeat.
July 26, Saturday: Hey There Cowboy, Dave End, Quincunx at PA's Lounge with possible Crafts in the Clubs during the day.
August 2, Saturday: The Shondes (from NYC) with Scarce, Basta Ya! and Fortran at PA's Lounge
August 20, Wednesday: CineMental gets hot and bothered with: Trans Entities with stars, Papi and Wil, present for discussion.
Septemeber 6, Saturday:UtiliTies and other junk at Rock and Roll Yard Sale at Union Square
Septemeber 7, Sunday:XRay Aims teaches in Hartford
September 17, Wednesday: CineMental features films that focus on bisexuality. (we're taking suggestions)
Septemeber 20, Saturday: Truth Serum's Second Urban Country Fair in Union Square! Lucky 57, Three Day Threshold, Gays for Patsy... vendors...
October 3 or 4, Friday or Saturday: TraniWreck more details soon.
October 5, Sunday:XRay Aims teaches in Hartford
October 15, Wednesday: CineMental with live performance and film by Ocean LeRoy from France/Germany
October 16-20: IDKE 10...The Internation Drag King Kommunity Extravaganza in Columbus Ohio.

...don't tell me you're tired