TRANS EVENTS🎃 WEEKEND (10/13 - 10/15)
T4T Tapes, Teaching a Robot To Love, and Tom Waits burlesque!! Happy Friday the 13th to all!
ALL WEEKEND
FRIDAY - SUNDAY | Sunset Park Open Studios
Sunset Park | 10 AM - 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 (SPOS) is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art-spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public. This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.
FRIDAY
6 PM | Friday the 13th
Bushwick | Purgatory | 6 PM - 10 PM | More Info | Tickets
Friday the 13th at Purgatory! A Haunted market + show featuring Drag Things and Kings, performance art, and music. Vendors will have handmade clothes, art, zines & postcards, jewelry and handcrafted Halloween masks available. Flash tattoos by Spare Ink. Market 6-10 PM, doors at 7.
7 PM | B.A.D. The Slay Edition
East Village | Big Bar | 7 PM - 9 PM | More Info
Special Edition of Bodies After Dark. Dress to distress as there will be a costume contest at intermission!
10:30 PM | Reflections w/ I. Jordan + Sherelle
East Williamsburg | The Loft at Elsewhere | 10:30 PM | More Info | Tickets
SATURDAY
12 PM | T4T Tapes Sound Listening Room
Lenox Hill | The Park Avenue Armory | 12 PM - 6 PM | More Info
come join us at THE T4TAPES SOUND LOUNGE, a space to explore analog sound by and for trans artists. come lounge and expand your musical palette, featuring cassettes from trans artists from far and wide.
7 PM | Tumbleweed Collective Resident Artists Showcase
Midtown | The Green Room 42 | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
A evening with The Tumbleweed Collective: a new NYC-Based theatre collective. Dedicated to doing diverse fearless work both old and new while supporting and empowering emerging BIPOC/ LGBTQIA artists, The Tumbleweed Collective is ready to take the stage. Featuring our Resident Artists (many of them making their NYC performing debut), join us for a night of fierce vocals, a monologue or two, and overall a good time.
SUNDAY
7 PM | Teaching a Robot to Love
Midtown | The Green Room 42 | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
A heartwarming, queer, musical retelling of Frankenstein, TEACHING A ROBOT TO LOVE follows a group of hopeful interns in the big tech city of Nanotropolis, looking for their big break with tech genius billionaire Mr. Norton Norton.
Featuring: Grant Evan, JJ Maley, Travis McElroy, Zachary A. Myers, Emerson Mae Smith, and Murphy Taylor Smith
7:30 PM | The First Punch
Greenwich Village | The Stonewall Inn | 7:30 PM | More Info
9 PM | Band vs Band: Nick Cave vs Tom Waits
South Slope | Freddy's Bar & Backroom | 9 PM | More Info | Tickets
Put on your best old suit for a night of whiskey tinged burlesque and sideshow at Freddy's Back Room. This time, Band vs. Band will be taking on the trashy troubadours themselves: Nick Cave vs. Tom Waits.
10 PM | Gurch Time
Bed-Stuy | C'Mon Everybody | 10 PM | More Info | Tickets
Time for Gurch! Worship at the drag temple of La Zavaleta & company