This October, Vital Matters is holding the Queer Climate Cabaret at Creative Alliance. In the two months leading up to the Cabaret, we welcome you to join our community conversation in an embodied, creative exploration of climate, queerness, and performance over three workshops. Go to www.vitalmatters.net or @_vital_matters_ for more information.

Workshops:

September 7: Drag King 101 w/ Pretty Boi Drag
September 28: Writing with the Elements: A Generative Workshop w/ Jacob Budenz
October 19: Climate, Queerness, and Performance 101 w/ Nigel Semaj, Jacob Marrero, & Michele Minnick

The climate crisis and the rise of anti-queer sentiments and actions can stimulate fear and anxiety. They are also an invitation to mend, tend, and befriend our relationship to our own bodies and the earth, who supports our lives even in her own state of woundedness, and an invitation to get creative, think and act differently. Join us in Patterson Park for a grounding and centering session with Michele, your own body, and some beautiful Baltimore trees. Back in the studio at the Creativity Center, Jacob takes us through an overview of his work uniting drag and queer ecology and a printmaking experience that will leave you with some take-home art! Nigel rounds out Workshop 1 with an overview of sustainability practices in theatre and performance and devising exercises that integrate and synthesize elements of the workshop.

Where: Creativity Center, 3137 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224
When: SAT OCT 19 | 3-6PM
Age Range: 16+
Cost: $15-75 Sliding Scale
Materials: Clothes to move in!