Queer @ HERE

QUEER @ HERE is a festival that was born in 2001 and that HERE is proud to revive 24 years later, in the context of the present moment and our continued joyful struggle for queer liberation! QUEER @ HERE will share concerts, solo performances, comedy, and more. QUEER @ HERE will take place on select evenings throughout Pride Month with performances at 8:30pm in the Dorothy B. Williams (DOT) Theater.

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SOFTEE UNPLUGGED & UNRELEASED – JUNE 3

Get ready for an intimate evening with Softee as they strip it all down for a special acoustic set. Featuring raw, emotional performances from their unreleased upcoming album, and reimagined versions of fan favorites, this show offers a rare, up-close look at the heart of their music. Plus some super secret surprises you won’t want to miss.

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QUEER @ HERE KICKOFF: HAPPY HOUR & COMMUNITY ART BUILD – JUNE 6

In the spirit of Pride’s revolutionary roots and power, we’re kicking off the month creating art, signs, and banners to prepare for a season of protest and action towards queer liberation. Join HERE and National Queer Theater for a happy hour and art build!

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A TRIP TO THE MOON – JUNE 9, 16 & 23

A Rock Opera by Adam J. Rineer
Directed by and Developed with Jason Aguirre
A Life Concept LP Recording

In a celestial rock opera of queer curiosity, A Trip to the Moon blasts off into the stratosphere with a flamboyant Victorian stargazer’s cosmic quest. With a soundtrack that’s a wild mashup of prog, punk, electronica, and 19th-century operetta, this odyssey dares to ask the universe: do we belong amongst the stars?____________________________________________________________________________

POP! – JUNE 12-13

Created by Ato Blankson-Wood & Kelly Kerwin

A night of performances. An array of remarkable artists. Meet us at HERE, grab a drink and prepare for an energizing evening of revelry and wild beauty. Buckle up.

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RED TIDE – JUNE 14

A Ten Toes Collective Reading / Created by Dom Martello

Her cat went missing and she’s being haunted by a ghost. He just got out of a long-term relationship and can’t hold down a job. They’re strangers stuck in a house, waiting out a hurricane on Florida’s Gulf Coast. All they have are board games, old CDs, a few cartons of milk, and hope that the house’s foundation is strong enough to withstand the storm. This supernatural love story chronicles grief, transness, and the shifting current of American politics.

Ten Toes Theater Collective is a collaborative group of trans theater artists producing community events through new-play readings. It supports grassroots organizations across the 31 states with proposed anti-trans legislation. This collective has ten toes planted firmly on the earth to further the livelihood and well-being of trans folks across state lines. These readings are free for the community.

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floreography: a plant dance ritual  – JUNE 17

Created by Mahayla Laurence

A participatory solo performance exploring the wisdom of plants and how they can help us re-align ourselves to the natural rhythm of earth’s ecosystems. An open invitation to grapple as a small community for an evening with our own habits of creation and consumption. an ongoing experiment for a queer, Black, astrology-obsessed Gemini with an unfortunate amount of intimacy issues to try and get their plant friends to talk to them.

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would you mind? could you? can I ask? is it possible?  – JUNE 20

Created and performed by Garrett Allen

A solo performance with text, sound, and movement created, run, and performed by Garrett Allen in a theater in New York, here, now, with you. It explores help–support, assistance, resources, service, and presence.

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treya lam – JUNE 24-25

Solo music set. treya lam is a composer, interdisciplinary performing and recording artist whose intersecting identities ignites their work. lam’s voice culminates in liberation-oriented songwriting and environmental scores throughout solo and collaborative work that “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope” (Smithsonian Magazine).

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ART CHIRCH BY DIANA OH– JUNE 26-27

Art Chirch is a Binaural Beat Brain Massage Dance Party that Diana Oh used to throw out of the Warehouse they used to live in. Art Chirch?! They now call it PUNK MONK: A SHAMANIC DANCE RAGER.  TLDR: introverts welcome. a dance party you can crawl to. Matt Park and I will be performing Korean Shamanic and Clairvoyant Brain Cleaning and we will PUNK MONK for the DANCE SET.