our ART
is NOT ENTERTAINMENT
it is MEMORY
medicine
WORLDBUILDING
and RESISTANCE
UPCOMING events
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UPCOMING events ✧
November 13th and 14th
Showtimes at: 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Multicultural Arts Center | 41 2nd Street, East Cambridge, MA
GODBODY is a ritual opera, an ancestral (re)birthday party, and spiritually charged dance theatre. Fusing elements of Hip Hop culture, Afro-cuban and Yoruba religious ceremony and philosophy, queer joy, live painting, comedy, and poetry, it tasks itself with the making of a body without shame. The body becomes a site of divinity, emotionality, and the processing of those emotions via Black spiritual technologies.
Sunday, December 13 at 2:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre | 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. Directed by Julien while he was a member of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and assisted by the film critic and curator Mark Nash, who worked on the original archival and film research, the 1989 film is a landmark in the exploration of artistic expression, the nature of desire and the reciprocity of the gaze, and would become the hallmark of what B. Ruby Rich named New Queer Cinema. Looking for Langston is also regarded as a touchstone for African-American Studies and has been taught widely in North American universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years.
NEWS
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NEWS ✧
“Queer [Re]Public is a bold, joyful declaration of everything we believe theatre can be,” Des Bennett, TTO’s Queer [Re] Public programs manager, said in a statement. “From aerial dance storytelling to Afro-Indigenous music-infused readings, interactive workshops, and powerful artist conversations, this festival is about more than performance. It’s about amplifying the work of queer and trans BIPOC artists in all their intersectional brilliance. We’re honoring the artistry that’s transforming our stages, launching a civic platform rooted in liberation, and acknowledging Greater Boston’s LGBTQ+ arts sector as a national force for innovation. This is theatre redefined—and a call to action.”
FOUNDED in 1989
through DRAG THEATER
PROTEST,
TTO
was born of
DEFIANCE,
grief,
GLAM—
—OUR,
and radical KINSHIP
during the height of the
AIDS
crisis.
the Theater
OFFEN—
—SIVE
(TTO)
is MORE than a THEATER company
we are a
QUEER
cultural INSTITUTION,
a LIVING
THINK tank,
A spiritual STUDIO,
and a PERFORMANCE lab
GUIDED by
and BUILT for
QUEER and TRANS
people of COLOR
(QTPOC)
over THREE
DECADES later
we remain COMMITTED
to TURNING STAGES
into SANCTUARIES,
ART into technology,
and AESTHETICS
into ABOLITIONIST tools.
we DON’T make
THEATER for TOLERANCE.
we MAKE
theater for
LIBER—
—ATION.
