Agen(c)y: Nonprofit Dreams and Disasters November 8, 2012

Nov 8-9, 8pm

This first-ever cabaret on the "nonprofit activism industry" mixes stand-up comedy, burlesque, film, experimental performance, poetry, song and theater in a sassy, sexy, snarky and scathing critique of the state of social change in America.

The launch show of Peacock Rebellion, a queer and transgender people of color- centered group using the arts for social, economic and environmental justice, promises to be a powerful follow-up to the election (no matter who wins).

Curated by Maya Chapina and Manish Vaidya; co-sponsored by INCITE!, POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, Mangos with Chili and Queer Rebel Productions and featuring arts-activist all-stars:

Lambda Literary Award winner and Pushcart Prize -nominated Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Burlesque superstars Cheek to Cheek

Lambda Literary Fellow and Banff Centre Writer Indira Allegra

Mia McKenzie, creator of Black Girl Dangerous, a hellraiser of a blog cited by The Root, Colorlines, Feministing, Angry Asian Man and Crunk Feminist Collective

Nico Dacumos, who eviscerates the smarmy underbelly of nonprofit nepotism using just a PowerPoint and a thick black mustache

Social justice lion dancing troupe Comrade Lover

Juba Kalamka, Deepdickollective co-founder and homo hop legend

Kundiman Fellow Vanessa Huang, a finalist for the 2010 Poets & Writers' California Writers Exchange Award

Video impresario Irina Contreras, co-creator of Scenes Unseen

Audience members can expect to witness work on nonprofits and:
- queer sex
- ultra-sexy funder initiatives
- pesky evil spirits of the nonprofit world
- a lifetime of activist work but no pension to show for it
- the costs of front-lines advocacy
- the joys of activism
- generations of chronic illness and community care in the eras of AIDS
- activist-healers and community resilience
- surveillance and control of dissent
- our ancestral legacies of resistance
- our freedom dreams

Official Website: http://www.peacockrebellion.org