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DRAG @ The Annex presents confiDance with Major Hammy

Date: Saturday, 11/6/25

Time: 11am – 1pm

Where: The Joe Goode Annex

Want to feel more confident moving your body and dancing during drag performance? Major Hammy has got you covered! In this workshop you will learn simple choreography, as well as dance tips and tricks to enhance your performances. Learn how to tap into movement that feels best in your body and break through hesitation or insecurity. All levels welcome, no dance experience required.

 

About the Artist:   
Saharla Vetsch (she/her) AKA Major Hammy is a Somali American multidisciplinary artist rooted in the Bay Area. Saharla earned a degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice with a concentration on dance from the University of San Francisco. Her artistic and academic journey has been marked by a profound commitment to the transformative power of movement. Saharla’s teaching and performances encourage and celebrate the intersecting identities that make up who we are and inform how we all engage with the world and each other. She does this in the spaces of queer nightlife entertainment, intergenerational dance education, and through collaborative dance performances. As Major, Saharla strives to be a beacon of self-expression, harnessing the liberating power of dance to ignite the same sense of freedom in others.
 
History of Major Hammy (more of a hammy bio….): 
Major Hammy sports androgynous looks and performances that leave audiences “sexually confused” with jaws on the floor. This Drag King has a chaotic vigor and proves that masculinity and femininity can coexist in a mustached package. Major often performs in nightlife spaces such as Oasis & the Stud, but also has created performances that combine drag, vertical dance, and spectacle put on in traditional theater spaces. Combining multiple art forms and gender ideas is what makes Major Hammy, and at the core of everything he does is technical and high energy movement.

WHAT IS DRAG @ THE ANNEX?

Drag as Sacred, Healing, and Empowering

DRAG | Divination, Rainbows & Glitter is strutting back into the Annex with a new season of exciting offerings: a live audience podcast, movement workshop, performances and DJ dance party.
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Centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

We Have Always Existed

At its heart, this program is a celebration—a lifting up of BIPOC ancestral knowledge and voices. It’s about remembering, honoring, and living into the indigenous understandings of sex and gender that have existed long before western drag. From the revered Two-Spirit people of Turtle Island, to the Bakla of the Philippines, to the Māhū of Hawai’i and beyond—these are not just identities, but lineages of wisdom, resilience, and spirit.

What can we learn from our ancestors that speaks to who we are today? How do their truths help shape our liberation?

This isn’t just entertainment—it’s ceremony. It’s storytelling. It’s culture in motion. The Annex is a space where culture bearers remix, reclaim, and reimagine drag in ways them mainstream might never show you. It’s where tradition meets innovation, where joy becomes resistance, and where our histories come alive on our own terms. Come witness. Come celebrate. Come remember.
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A Drag Laboratory of Possibility
Nature is Queer

Think of the Annex and this program as a Drag Institute – but with more glitter. Through different workshops, podcasts, events and experiments, we’re cracking drag open—examining it as personal expression, cultural inheritance, and political imagination.

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What We Do (and Werk!)

● Research & Development: digging into drag’s intersections with history, identity, and community.
● Honoring Culture Bearers: spotlighting the elders, legends, and culture shapers who keep drag alive.
● Community Dialogue: holding space for conversation, critique, and connection.
● Education: showing audiences that drag isn’t just performance—it’s cultural theory with a contour since time immemorial.

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DRAG @ the Annex is redefining what drag can mean: from late-night spectacle to everyday brilliance. It’s drag as scholarship, drag as ritual, drag as resistance, drag as love. Come ready to learn, laugh, and maybe leave with a little more glitter than you arrived with.

 

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Diva Dudes Live Audience Podcast

Date: Friday | 11/21/25

Doors open @ 6:30pm | Event starts @ 7pm

Run Time: 1.5 hours | 10 minute intermission | dance party to follow 8:30 – 10pm

WHAT TO EXPECT
Join us for an evening of hilarious hair, riveting relationships, and stimulating storytelling in this live audience podcast with the divine DIVA DUDES!
Oh yes, expect performances, dancing, and libations too!
DIVA DUDES PODCAST
Kochina Rude and God’s Lil Princess present Diva Dudes: the Worst of Both Worlds!
A podcast from the “Beavis & Butthead of San Francisco Drag,” with subject matter ranging from bawdy storytelling to the splendor and discipline exemplified by our drag foremothers. Listen to Diva Dudes on Substack and Spotify for real talk about sex, drugs, queer nightlife, and the lived realities of being “two guys who can do neither.” @DivaDudes
ABOUT THE DIVA DUDES
GOD’S LIL PRINCESS / PRINCESS PANOCHA / “CLARK”: [ANY PRONOUNS]
Clark aka Princess Panocha aka God’s Lil Princess is a pinko commie cross dressing ANTIFA snowflake…with a passion for fashion. She is the only non binary in San Francisco with a sense of humor. Her hobbies include civil disobedience, cross dresser antics, and accessorizing. This self identified absurdist takes inspiration from artists like Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, and Tiny Tim. You can find her drag style at the intersection of camp and sex appeal.

KOCHINA RUDE: [HE/HIM or SHE/HER] Kochina Rude is a drag queen and internationally recognized harm reduction advocate based in Oakland, California. Armed with a harm femme “do-it-yourself” attitude and over a decade of experience in SF nightlife, Kochina’s work blends activism and performance at the intersection of punk, drag, and public health in her role as a drag artist. In 2021, she established a one-of-a-kind Narcan distribution project at weekly drag show Princess, which has since provided thousands of free doses of naloxone to partygoers and impacted overdose prevention education in nightlife spaces nationwide. Her work has been recognized in public health campaigns, news publications, conferences, the White House, and more.

IN COLLABORATION WITH

Magdalena More! (Wailana Simcock) (all pronouns) was born in the Philippines and raised in Hawai‘i.  He speaks Tagalog and ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i. He first moved to San Francisco from Hawai‘i in the mid 1990’s when he became principal dancer for cultural activist and choreographer Pearl Ubungen. Since then, he has also become a vertical dancer, textile artist and certified massage therapist.  He also teaches yoga and loves to surf when he can. He earned an MFA in Dance from the University of Hawai‘i in 2016. After 17 years living back in Hawai‘i, he moved back here to San Francisco, homeland of the Yelamu people, in 2017. He is currently a core dancer and teaching artist not only for the influential dance-theater company Joe Goode Performance Group, but for the global innovator of vertical dance, BANDALOOP.  Here in the Bay, Wailana has performed with Kunstoff, KAMBARA + Dancers, Steamroller, and Fogbeast.  In Hawai’i he has performed for Tau Dance Theater, Samadhi Hawaii, IONA, and in the ground-breaking production of ‘Ulalena.  Wailana has recently presented his solo work, Kapit Sa Patalim (2025) at CounterPulse and the Annex. Wailana moonlights as Magdalena More! every now and then and considers herself a baby drag queen – even though she is over 51,000 years old – mabuhay!

WHAT IS DRAG @ THE ANNEX?

Drag as Sacred, Healing, and Empowering

DRAG | Divination, Rainbows & Glitter is strutting back into the Annex with a new season of exciting offerings: a live audience podcast, movement workshop, performances and DJ dance party.
________________________________

Centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

We Have Always Existed

At its heart, this program is a celebration—a lifting up of BIPOC ancestral knowledge and voices. It’s about remembering, honoring, and living into the indigenous understandings of sex and gender that have existed long before western drag. From the revered Two-Spirit people of Turtle Island, to the Bakla of the Philippines, to the Māhū of Hawai’i and beyond—these are not just identities, but lineages of wisdom, resilience, and spirit.

What can we learn from our ancestors that speaks to who we are today? How do their truths help shape our liberation?

This isn’t just entertainment—it’s ceremony. It’s storytelling. It’s culture in motion. The Annex is a space where culture bearers remix, reclaim, and reimagine drag in ways them mainstream might never show you. It’s where tradition meets innovation, where joy becomes resistance, and where our histories come alive on our own terms. Come witness. Come celebrate. Come remember.
________________________________
A Drag Laboratory of Possibility
Nature is Queer

Think of the Annex and this program as a Drag Institute – but with more glitter. Through different workshops, podcasts, events and experiments, we’re cracking drag open—examining it as personal expression, cultural inheritance, and political imagination.

________________________________
What We Do (and Werk!)

● Research & Development: digging into drag’s intersections with history, identity, and community.
● Honoring Culture Bearers: spotlighting the elders, legends, and culture shapers who keep drag alive.
● Community Dialogue: holding space for conversation, critique, and connection.
● Education: showing audiences that drag isn’t just performance—it’s cultural theory with a contour since time immemorial.

________________________________

DRAG @ the Annex is redefining what drag can mean: from late-night spectacle to everyday brilliance. It’s drag as scholarship, drag as ritual, drag as resistance, drag as love. Come ready to learn, laugh, and maybe leave with a little more glitter than you arrived with.

Image Description: The background is purple with yellow and pink paint splatters throughout. On the left side, there’s a cartoon-style logo of two exaggerated faces — one with green hair and purple lips, the other with pink hair and red lips — with the text “Diva Dudes” written below in a graffiti-style yellow font. Across the center in large pink block letters, it reads: “DIVA DUDES LIVE AUDIENCE PODCAST.”

On the right side, there are two circular photos with bright yellow borders:

● The top photo shows a performer with platinum blonde hair, dramatic eye makeup, and earrings. The name “Kochina Rude” appears next to this image in bold pink letters.

● The bottom photo shows a performer with long black hair, curled bangs, bold makeup, and red lipstick, wearing hoop earrings and a gold chain. The name “Princess Panocha” appears beside this image in matching pink text.

The Gathering Room Performance Series hosted by JGPG

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The Gathering Room Performance Series hosted by Joe Goode Performance Group 

@ the Joe Goode Annex 

When: Saturday, April 26, 2025

Show Time: 8:00pm

Run Time: 65 minutes | Concessions will be served | Post Performance Q & A to follow

come ready to lounge in your flyest comfy fits and relax into the evening

 

The Gathering Room Performance Series invites you to witness the talents of artists in an intimate setting. Come support performers who have danced alongside Joe over the past ten years.  

Seven artists, each with their unique voice, will share pieces that speak to “their present moment.”

Works By:

Alexandra Mannings

Becca Dean

Brooke Terry

Damara Vita Ganley + Melecio Estrella + Ben Juodvalkis

Jessica Swanson

Pangaea Colter

Patricia West

Wailana Simcock

Sign up for Kitchen Sink: Performance Skills for the End of the World  workshop, then stick around for a low-key, high brow show with libations, and learn more about the dancers you have loved over the years.  

 

Photo Description : Dancer, Aja Randall (Africian American), sits with her back to the viewer, arms wide and thrusted back as she gazes up toward the ceiling in a white button up shirt.  

Photo by: Robbie Sweeney

Kitchen Sink: Performance Skills for the end of the world

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Kitchen Sink: Performance Skills for the end of the world

April 26th & 27th, 12pm-5pm
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Admission for 2 day workshop – $280

Admission for 1 day workshop (Saturday or Sunday) – $140

 

Join lifelong collaborators Joe Goode and Marit Brook-Kothlow for a weekend of skills practice. Learn to make the kind of dance/theater that is a tonic for a tender world.

Using JGPG’s signature creative processes, participants will be guided in cultivating personal source materials that emerge from the “felt experience” and shaping them into performance language and embodied action.

We will move alone and together using JGPG’s choreographic methodologies to learn how differently we tell the stories we need to hear when we listen to our bodies.

Workshop will include: 

  • Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of sensation and simple mobility
  • Practicing Form – propagating dynamic dancing from an intuitive, sensitive, perceptive body.
  • Writing from the Body- writing that draws on what the body knows
  • Metta practice – generating empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action
  • The Power of Making and Crafting – learning to distill, edit and arc material into a cohesive whole
  • Nudging sound into song – becoming vocal through the body’s pathways. Movement and breathing exercises to prepare the body to sing.
Participants should have some background in dance and/or performance.

Image Description: Marit sits at a table with Joe in front of a couple of red chairs and an apple laptop and coffee on the table. She points outward as Joe looks at her to the left.   

our bodies are also stories…

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our bodies are also stories 

an introduction to dance theater with JGPG company members 

Damara Vita Ganley and Wailana Simcock 

 

Dates + Times:

9 week series March 3rd – April 28th 

Mondays 5:30-7pm 

Your attendance for the full series is preferred but not required

$180 for full series |  $25 for drop in 

(Please reach out if finances are a barrier to attending. [email protected]) 

 

You are invited:

To move and be moved. 

To feel the full expression of your body. 

To be curious and led by your senses. 

To live into life through your body. 

 No previous dance or theater experience is necessary.

 

This 9 week series will offer:

  • Intro to contemporary dance techniques – cultivating generative energy through momentum-based floorwork, improvisations in “kinesthetic delight”, inversions and phrase work across the floor. 
  • our bodies have stories too – story sharing and writing from our personal experiences, dreams, and longings as an invocation for our lived experiences to come through our felt senses. 
  • creation reciprocity – performance practices for being together

 

 

Bios:

Wailana Simcock was born in the Philippines and raised in Hawai‘i.  They were born to a Waray-Waray (Samar) mother and Scottish father from Aotearoa (New Zealand). They speak Tagalog, ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i, and Hawaiian Pidgin. Wailana is a performing artist, choreographer, and director.  They have also been known to moonlight as drag artist and curator, Magdalena. Outside of the performing arts, they work as licensed massage therapist and have started a small textile/fashion design company, We Blood. Wailana earned an MFA degree in Dance from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2016.  While in Hawaii they formed their own aerial and contemporary dance company, Wai Company (2010-16). In Hawai‘i, they performed and taught with Samadhi Hawaii, Tau Dance Theatre, IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre, ‘Ulalena (Lāhaina) and studied with Hālau o Kekuhi (Keaukaha).  They also taught creative movement in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i at the Hawaiian immersions schools Nāwahīokalani‘ōpu‘u (Kea‘au) and Ka ‘Umeke Kā‘eo (Keaukaha). They were also the founding and artistic director of both Kalani Performing Arts Festival (2010-2012) and Puna Music Festival (2012).  Back in the mid 1990’s in Ohlone Territory, Wailana began their performance career as principal dancer to Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians (1995-2000) and also worked with Steamroller during that time. Returning in 2017, also from Hawai‘i, they worked again with Steamroller, and joined groups KAMBARA + DANCERS and Fogbeast. Presently, they are a teaching artist and core dancer to both BANDALOOP and Joe Goode Performance Group since 2018. Wailana is living in their Philippine diaspora on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people –  a land colonially known as San Francisco.

 

Damara Vita Ganley (she/they) is a Bay Area dance theater artist dedicated to alchemical creativity. They are grateful to be in long time creative collaborations with the Joe Goode Performance Group, BANDALOOP, Fog Beast Dance and D.A.P collective. These creative connections have generously invited her on many national and international journeys in performance, teaching and learning.  Following degrees in Anthropology, Critical Feminist Theory and Performance, Play and Design, her artistic career has included opportunities to perform with Mel Wong, Ellen Webb, Nancy Karp, Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, Gerald Casel Dance, Cid Pearlman, Holcombe Waller, Erin Mei-ling Stuart/emspace dance, Manuelito Biag/Shift Dance Theatre, and Lisa Townsend.  She currently shares dance practices as a lecturer at UCSC, with people with Parkinson’s, Veterans, Care Providers, At Bay Area High Schools,  SFArtsEd Middle School performers, Broadway performers and anyone inspired to feel and move.  

 

Image Description: Photo on the right is of Wailana standing at the bottom of the staircase with their hand pointing to their other elbow making an “L shape”. Photo on the left is of Damara holding a rock and wearing a large skirt—lifting the rock upward in a high released position facing a wall. 

The Felt Experience – 2025 Spring Workshop with Joe Goode

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“To feel something in an unfeeling world is an act of redemption” ~ Joe Goode

2025 Spring Workshop with Joe Goode – The Felt Experience

Workshop Date + Time

2025 Spring Workshop with Joe Goode

Sunday March 23rd 12-5pm 

Pricing: $175

A weekend workshop with Joe Goode designed to revitalize and nourish your creativity. 

How does sensation guide us?

Are we capable of refining our powers of intuition?

Of trusting what the body knows?

Starting with the “felt experience” is key to entering the creative space, whether we want to use it in our work or our daily lives. The “Felt Experience” methodology is about trusting that the body and its sensations are just as important as the brain in determining a course of action. Becoming awake to how you feel in a given moment is a way of waking up to your life and its possibilities. This is a workshop about finding the inspiration that is right at your fingertips to inhabit your life, your work, and your relationships more deeply and deliberately. 

 

There is no dance or performance background necessary. Just bring your curiosity and something to write on. 

 

Workshop will include:

Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of simple mobility

Seeing and Being Seen- facilitated partner exercises that.generate empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action

The power of Making- after generating materials that come from our “felt” experience, we can then place them together to make a kind of altar, a place of recognition that our feeling selves are the ultimate resource.

 

Image Description: Two dancers stand in the corner of a grey room. One is shirtless standing with wide legs, arms outstretched towards the dancer to the right, looking upwards, while the other has her back and arms towards the wall in a purple dress and on tiptoes. A final third dancer’s silhouette can be seen sitting in the forefront of the image with her arm on her knee.

Belonging to the Body – GUSH 2024 Workshop with Joe Goode

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Belonging to the Body a GUSH 2024 Workshop with Joe Goode

In this workshop we will take time to activate embodied sensation and hone our powers of empathy towards ourselves and each other. 

There is no dance or performance background necessary. Just bring your curiosity and something to write on. 

 

Details:

Saturday October 12th 

@ The Joe Goode Annex

10:00am – 1pm 

$75 per person

 

Workshop will include: 

  • Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of simple mobility
  • Metta practice-  generate empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action

 

“To feel something in an unfeeling world is an act of redemption” ~ Joe Goode

LASOS | REYES Dance

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LASOS, Spanish word for ties, is a new work of film and live performance exploring the links between childhood trauma and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture and traditions.

Conceived and directed by Jocelyn Reyes, LASOS mines the artist’s personal story of recovery from debilitating pain. Like many first-generation Latin Americans living in the U.S., Reyes received a loving but severe upbringing in which corporal punishment was commonplace. After moving to San Francisco in 2017, she began to develop signs of fibromyalgia, a condition which eventually overwhelmed her central nervous system leaving her bedridden for months. LASOS explores the journey Reyes made in the year that followed, uncovering the hidden ties between her childhood experience of abuse and her present-day affliction. With LASOS, Reyes aims to give hope that it’s possible to break the cycle of suffering just as it’s possible to break the cycle of violence.

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Thursday, September 29 | 8pm

Friday, September 30 | 8pm
(7:15pm – pre-show discussion with pain psychologist Valerie Wei-Yee Jackson)

Saturday, October 1 | 8pm
(with post-show reception)

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In the creation of LASOS, Reyes will be collaborating with movement artists Jess Bozzo, Caitlin Hicks, Maya Mohsin and Brooke Terry, music composers Emmet Webster, Michael Webster and Wolf Woodcock, lighting designer Grisel Torres and costume designer Monique Prieto.

LASOS is generously supported by the Joe Goode Performance Group Co-Production Program, the CA$H Grant from Dancers’ Group and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

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COVID PROTOCOLS:

  • The Annex requires audiences to be masked at all times. No concessions will be available.
  • Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test dated within 72 hours of the event are required. Children under 5 may attend without proof of vaccination or a negative test.
  • Fully vaccinated performers may be unmasked on stage. Our COVID policies are based on scientific knowledge, the current local conditions of the pandemic, and our ethos of accessibility and community care.

Please contact [email protected] if you have questions or concerns.

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ACCESSIBILITY

Joe Goode Annex is a wheelchair accessible theater (ramp to front entrance, no internal stairs) with wheelchair seating available for up to six power or manual wheelchairs. Theater seats are movable and have no armrests. Wheelchairs can be seated next to each other and next to theater seats. The Annex has two single-stall all-gender restrooms that are accessible for power and manual wheelchairs.

Please contact [email protected] if you will be using ADA seating or need any additional accommodations.

Time of Change: Show with ASL Interpretation

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Sep 9: Show with ASL Interpretation

This show includes American Sign Language Interpretation. $0-48 Sliding Scale. Contact [email protected] for ticket access!

Time of Change features live speaking, singing, and a pre-recorded audio tour for which live ASL interpretation and written transcripts will be provided. Audiences will be traversing just under 0.5 miles within a 2.5 block of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. This show’s live performance does require audiences to cross 4 intersections (with stop signs on a ‘Slow Street’ and street lights) with the audience group of 20. Three ushers and 1 production staff will be supporting patrons.
JGPG staff are available to assist with reserving tickets, either via email or calling 415-561-6565 to leave a message with your name, phone number, and times to call you back!

Time of Change COVID safety:

ALL PERFORMANCES ARE:
MOSTLY OUTDOORS (only 1 section inside a large, open church space)
SMALL AUDIENCES (20-60)
SOCIAL DISTANCING OBSERVED
VACCINES REQUIRED (for indoor portions)
MASKS ON (for all, all the time)
The safety of our audiences, cast, and crew are our top priority.

See the world premiere of Time of Change created by the Artistic team, co-directors: Joe Goode/Joe Goode Performance Group, Melecio Estrella and OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch + Gabriele Christian). This is an in-person show that will guide small audience groups through the streets of the Haight-Ashbury to witness several pop-up moments of movement, music, monologue and more.

Tickets: Advance registration required.
15 Artist Tickets @ $20
35 General Admission @ $48
Saturday shows will include a VIP experience for 5 people @ $125

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

This ensures audiences and JGPG staff can be accommodated with COVID safety protocols, access needs, and clear communication about show logistics. Please plan ahead and reserve your ticket early!

Time of Change will weave and examine the utopian ideals and failures of the hippie era – as they relate to our current revolution. The project will uplift real peoples’ histories, examine the whiteness of the hippie movement, and explore what intersectional liberation means.

JGPG is presenting this project with SF Heritage (in the Doolan-Larson Residence at Haight x Ashbury), to celebrate their 50th Anniversary (and JGPG’s 35th). Read more about Time of Change here.

Where: Outdoor and indoor locations in the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood
(Our show has several different walking routes that will be randomly assigned to each party of ticket-holders. Some cover a longer distance (8+ blocks) others are somewhat shorter (5-7 blocks). Please indicate in the ‘Comments’ section [when checking out on your ticket order] if your party has a preference on route distance and if anyone in your party has access needs. We will be following up with the email you provide before your show time with several reminders, details and opportunities to ask questions. Please reach out via email if you have any concerns or questions: [email protected])

Contact us at [email protected] for access support (cost or otherwise) to this event.

Photo by RJ Muna
[image description: Highly colorized portrait on a bright blue background, with a yellow and pink toned figure holding a bouquet of flowers in front of their chest. A diagonal splash of red, cyan and yellow flower blossoms are tossed mid-air in front of the figure.]

In an unfeeling world, to feel something, indeed to craft something is an act of redemption.

- Joe Goode
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