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BOFFO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL FIRE ISLAND

Baby Tea

8.11.2018
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Date:
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Time:
1:00PM—5:00PM EDT
Location:
231 Bay Walk, Fire Island Pines, NY 11782
FEATURING
Charlene, Merrie Cherry, Patti Spliff, Lucy Balls, Lily Marotta, Elizabeth Jaeger, Emily Oliveira, Raque Ford, Acacia Marable, Sadaf
Baby Tea: BOFFO Fire Island Join us for contemporary Drag Queen and King performances, including Charlene, Merrie Cherry, Patti Spliff, Lucy Balls, Lily Marotta, Elizabeth Jaeger, Emily Oliveira, and Raque Ford. Music by Amber Valentine. Bring your swimsuit and towel! Proceeds support BOFFO. Featuring: Tyler Ashley, The Dauphine of Bushwick with Charlene, Merrie Cherry, Patti Spliff, and Lucy Balls Sarah Zapata. And King of Nightwood with Lily Marotta, Elizabeth Jaeger, Emily Oliveira, and Raque Music by Amber Valentine

Baby Tea started in 2015, inspired by the gay tea dances of Fire Island and the long-running party “Mattachine” at the historic Julius’ Bar of the West Village. The party has raised over $25k for LGBTQIA health care, youth advocacy, and queer art programs over the course of six fundraisers, benefiting Callen-Lorde, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Lifeline, Fierce, and Fire Island Artist Residency. In 2017, Baby Tea was featured at NADA Art Fair in the “Contemporary Drag” program, curated by Gordon Robichaux.

NIGHTWOOD: A Drag King Performance is named after the legendary Djuna Barnes novel, Nightwood, a whimsical, gothic lesbian narrative from 1936, and serves as a double entendre for an evening with DRAG KINGS. As a means to stimulate pride in lesbian history and a dying out performance art, Nightwood brings in members of the lesbian and queer community to perform, reclaim masculinity, and engage with our peers.

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