The nonprofit was expressly organized as a community theatre "of, by, and for gay and lesbian people and their friends." One of the nation’s oldest LGBTQIA+ theatres, Celebration Theatre was founded in December 1982 in a Silver Lake storefront. Opening set by DJ Succubus at 6pm, The Poetry of Pride starts at 7pm. In this show he brings together a righteous rainbow of LGBTQ+ poets, ages 17 to 70, to share their own work and write new work in dialogue with the audience about what we all share - the capacity to feel. Through this act of service, he began to ask what it meant to be queer as an artist in conversation with your community: to be an outsider, an expert mimic, and a careful speaker.īrian’s group Pride Poets brings queer poets to write thousands of poems for people at Pride parades, celebrating and memorializing lives which are too often invisible, and therefore, seen as disposable. A drag queen reads banned children’s books aloud while a chorus of poets responds and creates new work on typewriters, on the spot and in collaboration with the audience, celebrating the outsider in us all.īrian Sonia-Wallace has been creating poems for people on-the-spot at a typewriter since 2012, and teaching other poets to do the same. One of LA's most popular outdoor music series, Grand Performances presents The Poetry of Pride on Friday, June 23.
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