2008 Queer Borderlands Tour Announced

Mangos with Chili, the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color
bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares, is pleased to announce the Bay
Area kick off of our 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour.

Launching on Columbus Day weekend in resistance to the legacy of
imperialism and colonization reflected by the commemoration of the
holiday, Mangos with Chili will present two evenings of unforgettable and
history-making performance in both San Francisco and Oakland. The show
will feature new work in the genres of dance, vaudeville, poetry, spoken
word, theater, burlesque, performance memoir, and hip hop addressing the
themes of border transgressions, migrations, deportations, relocation,
displacement, legacy and the struggle to create new worlds, and in
celebration of queer lives, stories, and the legacies we are creating for
future generations of queer and trans people of color.

Our 2008 Mangos superstars, all of who are trailblazing artists in their
own right with impressive work and credits to their names are:

VIXEN NOIR
CHICA BOOM
QWO-LI DRISKILL
NAR
NICO DACUMOS
TRE VASQUEZ
ZULEIKHA MAHMOOD
MS. CHERRY GALLETE
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA


Who we are:

Mangos with Chili is a Bay-Area based arts organization committed to
showcasing high quality work of life-saving importance by queer and trans
artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Founded in 2006
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms. Cherry Gallete, Mangos With
Chili began as an annual touring cabaret of queer and trans people of
color performance artists.

With no core funding and mostly grassroots publicity, Mangos With Chili
was a phenomenally successful tour. The show packed world class theaters,
underground performance spaces, and campus halls, including Buddies in Bad
Times Theatre in Toronto, C-Space in Cleveland, Swarthmore College,
Cattyshack in New York, The Black Repertory Theater of Providence, Theatre
Juste por Rire in Quebec, and more. Audiences everywhere thanked us for
both the high caliber of work and the life-saving importance of the
testimonies we shared through our art.

The 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour will visit 13 cities down the California
coast and across the Southwest from October 10-26. For complete listings,
artist bios, more information, or to make a donation:
myspace.com/mangoswithchili or email mangos.with.chili@gmail.com.

Mangos With Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of CounterPULSE:
www.counterpulse.org
2008 full tour dates:

• Friday, October 10, 2008: Voice Factory Theater, San Francisco, CA
• Saturday, October 11, 2008, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
• Monday, October 13, EastSide Community Arts, Oakland, CA
• Tuesday, October 14, 2008, UC Davis, Davis, CA
• Wednesday, October 15, 2008, UC Berkeley, Poetry for the People, Berkeley, CA
• Thursday, October 16, 2008, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
• Friday, October 18, 2008, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
• Saturday, October 18, 2008, Casa 0101, Los Angeles, CA
• Sunday, October 19, 2008, Rubber Rose, San Diego, CA
• Monday, October 20, 2008, Wingspan LGBT Community Center, Tucson, AZ
• Tuesday, October 21, 2008, Taala Hooghan Indigenous Youth Center,
• Flagstaff, AZ
• Wednesday, October 22, 2008, FireWomyn, SCA Contemporary Arts,
• Albuquerque, NM
• Thursday, October 23, 2008, Wise Fool Cabaret, Santa Fe, NM,
• Friday, October 24, Denver University, Denver, CO

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