Seattle Is Burning….This Friday At Seattle Art Museum

August 10, 2015• byMichael Strangeways

Artwork by Kerstin M Graudins

Some Friday evening fierceness is happening this coming Friday, August 14, 2015 at the Seattle Art Museum as Legendary Children: Paris Is Burning & Beyond takes over the ENTIRE SAM building for a night of drag ball culture from 6pm to 10pm complete with DJ, performances by some lovely divas and a chance to check out EVERYTHING on display at SAM including their brilliant current show, Disguise: Masks and Global African Art.

Oh. And, it’s FREE!

But, you should register to go to insure entry! Go HERE!

MO’ Skinny:

Co-presented with Seattle Public Library, and in conjunction with Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, a fierce evening of ball culture organized by and for Seattle’s TQPOC (Trans, Queer People of Color) communities.

Walk the runway. Dance to music from Seattle’s DJ Reverend Dollars. Pose for the cameras. Watch a portion of the documentary Paris Is Burning and join the community talk back at 7:00pm. Find films, books and more that explore the ball scene.

PLUS Disguise: Masks and Global African Art will stay open late until 10pm. Free with RSVP.

Performances by:
okanomodé
Amora Dior Black
Diamond St. James
Atasha Manila
Dani Tirrell

Legendary Children is a community driven program, thanks to our co-hosts including:
Collective of Genius
Emerald City Gay Pride
Nubian Pride
UW-FHCRC CFAR
Center for MultiCultural Health

Free with RSVP.

Do it!

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.