KICKSTARTER FINAL PUSH!! Monday August 29th 2016 Final Hours and MinutestoDonateandjust$700$650$200 FULLY FUNDED!!!! fromfundinginVISIBLE the project celebratingtheBisexual community and our Allies!
inVISIBLE is one part contemporary dance project, one part activist initiative and a whole lotta pARTy! It celebrates the bisexual community using contemporary dance theatre to give voice to a community that is often invisible, its members considered gay or straight depending on the gender of their current partner. inVISIBLE shares the stories of bi sons dealing with frustrated fathers, biphobic mothers, creating the perfect bi superhero and more.
All funds go directly to the production costs and artists fees associated with our first run of shows. We’re excited to be performing Sept 9th and 10thatHighways Performance SpaceinSanta Monica CA.
Collaborators include: Kate Colman, Kiki K, Molly Yates and Martz Contemporary Dance Company, Barcelona
“I am proud of my intersecting identities as a bisexual transgender woman of color. I recognize that I live at the margins of mainstream society, even within loosely formed LGBT communities.” ~ Ms. Andre Jenkins from “The Importance of Being Earnest: Why Truth Matters”August 2015
Andrea Jenkins, Board Chair at Minneapolis Minnesota’s Intermedia Arts is an artist-activist, and award-winning poet and writer. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bush Foundation, Intermedia Arts, and the Playwrights Center; has won writing and performance grants and scholarships from the Givens Foundation, Intermedia Arts, The Loft, the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Pillsbury House Theater.
Ms. Jenkins a Bi-identified Trans Woman of Color (BiWoc + BiToC) who was a keynoter at the Midwestern USA’s 2015 BECAUSE Conference. She is the co-curator of Queer Voices at Intermedia Arts, the longest-running series of its kind in the nation, and currently works collecting oral histories from hundreds of people in the Upper Midwest transgender community as an Oral Historian in the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
One of my stories was accepted into a comic book anthology centered on Bi Visibility with stories and art from largely bisexual creators!
Bi Visibility: A Bisexual Comic Book Anthology will officially hit Kickstarter on August 30th! For sneak peeks of all 9 Bi Visibility stories, you can support this current Kickstarter:
