This monthly series creates space for queer performers to take risks, try out new work, and co-create creative community! Date & Time: Sunday April 5th. Doors 6.30, show 7pm. Location: Branded Saloon, at the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and Bergen St. in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Accessibility info: Branded Saloon has a wheelchair accessible entrance and an accessible bathroom. However, please note the Peepshow does… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #23: Essence Revealed, Boy Doña, Lydia Dresser, Beck Heiberg, & Ceci Pineda
This monthly series creates space for queer performers to take risks, try out new work, and co-create creative community! Date & Time: Sunday March 1st. Doors 6.30, show 7pm. Location: Branded Saloon, at the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and Bergen St. in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Accessibility info: Branded Saloon has a wheelchair accessible entrance and an accessible bathroom. However, please note the Peepshow does… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #22: Kit Yan, Devyn Manibo w Jesse Graves, Crimson Kitty, Kate McDonough
Miss Crimson Kitty is NYC’s premier female drag queen taking drag culture by storm one perfected lip-synch at a time! The drag daughter of Rebecca Glasscock of Rupaul’s Drag Race The Lost Season, she has created a haven for other queens at FAUXVASION which is NYC’s only all female drag revue at the world famous Stonewall, and is a member… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #21: Alyssa Harley, Foxy Squire, Suzan Burns, Alexander Alvina Chamberland, & more!!!
This monthly series creates space for queer performers to take risks, try new works out, and to co-create more creative community. Date & Time: Sunday Jan 4. Doors 6.30, show 7pm. Location: Branded Saloon, at the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and Bergen St. in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Accessibility info: Branded has a wheelchair accessible side entrance and washroom. It’s a bar …… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #20: Kama La Mackerel, rosza daniel lang/levitsky, Luz Cruz, Lena Solow, Alexis Clements, and more!
Kama La Mackerel is a performance artist, community organizer and cultural critic whose work draws on the themes of feminism, queerness, alienation, displacement, colonization and failures. A poet, story-teller, dancer, comedian, and video artist, Kama is also the co-founder of Qouleur, an annual arts festival by and for queer Indigenous and racialized communities in Montreal, and is the founder… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #19: Rudy Ramirez, Leah James, Mars Hobrecker, Candice Iloh, Mariam B., and Alejandro Rodriguez
Leah James and Mars Hobrecker are transgender artists who use performance to explore the concepts of family and radical marriage. They incorporate ritual and healing into their works, which take instruments that have historically been used by institutions to dissect and quantify to instead create bonds that will bring queer bodies closer together, and test the limits of the physical… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow Salon #18: Annie Danger, Sparklez, Caitlin Rose & Lazer Goese
Launching our third season at Branded Saloon on Sunday Oct 5, 7p, we have five AWESOME artists! Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/533049063495759 Sparklez is a versatile singer that can go from Bach to Bjork, from Purcell to original Rap. The merging of genres is where she enjoys being. No putting her into a box! She is originally from Louisville, KY and… Read more →
Back to Getting Schooled!
…With Heels on Wheels: September announcements! The Opentoe Peepshow is back! Now with even more thought-provoking glamour! Starting Sunday Oct 5, we’re at Branded Saloon the first Sunday of each month. We’re kicking off our season with a bang featuring the soprano stylings of Sparklez, tap dancing by Luz Cruz, drag by Leah James, art by conceptual crafter Caitlin Rose… Read more →
Opentoe Peepshow #17 June 1 at Branded Saloon!
FEATURING! Clay Aztec Dalmatians, Erica Cardwell & Dondrie Burnham, Carlo Quispe, Sacha Yanow, Lena Solow, and Sarah Marie Degni AKA Lady Killer! Sunday June 1 || $3-10 sliding scale || 7pm doors, 7.30 show || Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn NY || FB event: www.facebook.com/events/1494259700789902/ Sacha Yanow is an NYC-based performance artist and actor. She has performed in theater,… Read more →
Open Letter to our Communities
As organizers and as queer femmes grounded in many communities, we were heartbroken to learn that a community member was hurt by work that was created by an artist which showed at our last tour. Because we know there is no life without conflict, no learning without challenge, and no dignity without facing hard truths, we’ve done personal and organizational… Read more →