[IPSM] March 23: In-transit Cabaret

[Devin Butler]

In-Transit Cabaret
A multidisciplinary affair presented by The Dragonroot Centre for Gender 
Advocacy
at the Montreal, Arts Interculturels, 3680 rue Jeanne-Mance
Wednesday March 23, 2005, 7 pm
$12 or sliding scale/free
Info : 848-2424 ext. 7431

Featuring performances and artworks by Aiyyana Maracle,Tranie Tronic, Trish 
Salah, Mirha-Soleil Ross, Tobaron Waxman, James Diamond, Michel Bertrand, 
Ninotchka & Miss Erica, Kit Malo, Niliema Karkhanis, Farah Abdill, Chloe 
Bertrand, Quvisuq Robin Taylor, Ninotchka and Miss Erica.

Mistress of Ceremonies: Anas Zeledon.

The Dragonroot Centre for Gender Advocacy presents the In-Transit Cabaret, a 
night of performance art, film, music, song and installations from members 
of the transsexual, transgender, intersex and genderqueer communities. This 
multidisciplinary Cabaret takes a look at love, homelessness and motherhood, 
survival, war and racism, punk and pop culture and yes, sexual identity.

Multidisciplinary artists Aiyyana Maracle, Tranie Tronic and Trish Salah 
will be performing their latest works. Aiyyana Maracle will perform Peace 
Piece 7.5, a public plea for peace rooted in all that is symbolized by the 
Great Tree of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy. Tranie Tronic's
performances/videos combine elements of identity issues, gender politics and 
notions of personal
transformation and have been toured internationally. Salahs poetry thinks 
through questions of Arab identity, orientalist fantasy, the sex of the 
voice, and social transformation and she will read from her work in 
progress, Breathy.

Different perspectives on film, video, dvd, both lo-tech and hi-tech. 
Mirha-Soleil Ross is a celebrated and groundbreaking transsexual videomaker, 
performer, sex worker and animal rights activist. Her Allo
performance explores transsexual women's relationship to the personal and 
institutional aspects of motherhood. Tobaron Waxman is a performance artist, 
specializing in digital media and voice. His film, How long has it been, is 
a look into daddy-boy relations between two transsexual men, each
at different stages of maturity and masculinity. James Diamond is a First 
Nations transsexual video
artist/activist whose The Man from Venus is a touching dialogue on gender 
identity. Michel Bertrands experimental Medicine and Migration will explores 
transitions from passive memory to active remembering, and faces, in the 
deaths of loved ones in his home country and his own medical
changes, the threat of discontinuance. Chlo Bertrands Narcissus comes face 
to face with desire in the
televisual mirror.

The evening would not be complete without the magical sounds of Kit Malo and 
Niliema Karkhanis, cabaret songs by Quvisuq Robin Taylor and dazzling 
performances by Farah Abdill, former Jewel Box review dancer Ninotchka, and 
Miss Cubana 2002 Second Place holder, Miss Erica.

A co-presentation of the Dragonroot Centre, the M.A.I., QPIRG Concordia, 
CounterShot and CKUT Radio FM.

The In transit Cabaret strives to be a scent and smoke- free event, and the 
M.A.I. is wheelchair
accessible. For more information or to reserve free childcare, A.S.L. 
interpretation, partially or fully discounted tickets, please call the 
Dragonroot Centre before 5pm on Monday March 21. 848-2424-7431

PRESS : Cleo Myers - (514) 982-1812 comm at m-a-i.qc.ca


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2110 Mackay, metro Guy
Office and General Information: 514-848-2424 ext.7431
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