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[Kwanazza 2003, NYC
photo credit: Desmond Rudder]
Step Right Up All the beautiful & colorful Divas, Muscle Men, B-Boys, 2-Spirits, Amazons & Our Str8 Kin for a new monthly party.
Imani Henry Presents
Carnival @Sputnik
Satursday, October 24th, 2009
10pm – 4am
262 Taaffe Street – Sputnik, Brooklyn , NY
Enjoy Show Stopping Performances by
Jennifer Miller of Circus AMOK and Ashley Brockington, Hostess & Producer of Cabaret Cataplexy
Dance All Night to the best of 4 decades of R&B, Soca, House, HipHop, Reggae, Bhangra and Salsa with DJs AK-Right and Dooga tearing up the decks
$7 w/flyer, $10 without, 21+.
for invite:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272288515430&ref=mf
for more info call 646. 709. 8057
"Before and After T," By Jacob Anderson-Minshall, April 6, 2006, SF Bay Times
"Imani Henry Crosses
Genders and Genres," By Margaret Rhee, March 10, 2006 in L.A. Theatre
| Permalink:
http://backstage.blogs.com/cues/2006/03/imani_henry_cro.html
Velvetpark
- June 2004
http://www.velvetparkmagazine.com/features.html
The Village Voice -
June 2004
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0425/tqi.php
Publications
Imani Henry is one of the contributors to Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing (Other Countries III) edited by G. Winston James & Other Countries : http://www.redbonepress.com/books/voicesrising/index.htm
Imani
Henry is a contributor in the IAC
Publication: War in Colombia: Made in U.S.A:
Whether it’s the so-called "war on Drugs," Plan Colombia or another
racist Hollywood movie, the U.S. government works overtime to slander the struggle
for social justice in Colombia. Authors include: Fidel Castro, Ramsey Clark,
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Gloria Gaitan, Raul Reyes, Stan Goff,
Teresa Gutierrez, James Petras, Javier Correa Suárez, Manuel Marulanda,
Sen. Paul Wellstone, Roy Bourgeois, Garry Leech & others. $19.95, plus $5.00
shipping [212-633-6646, [email protected]].
Online orders will be available at leftbooks.com.
Indexed, referenced and 300 pages.
Step Right Up All the beautiful & colorful Divas, Muscle Men, B-Boys, 2-Spirits, Amazons & Our Str8 Kin for a new monthly party.
Imani Henry Presents
Carnival @Sputnik
Satursday, October 24th, 2009
10pm – 4am
262 Taaffe Street – Sputnik, Brooklyn , NY
Enjoy Show Stopping Performances by
Jennifer Miller of Circus AMOK and Ashley Brockington, Hostess & Producer of Cabaret Cataplexy
Dance All Night to the best of 4 decades of R&B, Soca, House, HipHop, Reggae, Bhangra and Salsa with DJs AK-Right and Dooga tearing up the decks
$7 w/flyer, $10 without, 21+.
for invite:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272288515430&ref=mf
for more info call 646. 709. 8057
Keynote Speaker at Eastern
Oregon University
Date: Thursday, May 24th 2007
Hosted by Gay/Straight Alliance
Details TBA
Performance at Fresh Meat
2007
Sixth Annual Transgender and Queer Performance Festival
Dates: Thursday, June 14th, 2007, 8 pm
Friday, June 15th, 2007, 8 pm
Saturday, June 16th, 2007, 7 pm & 10 pm
Location: ODC Theatre (3153 17th Street @ Shotwell, SF)
Tickets: $15 (advance tickets strongly recommended)
ODC box office: 415-863-9834
www.odctheater.org www.ticketweb.com
Info and nightly lineup: www.freshmeatproductions.org
Fresh Meatis a joyful, soulful, extraordinary Festival of transgender and queer performance. This year’s artists perform traditional forms and path-blazing ones: hula, taiko, traditional Columbian dance, aerial dance, spoken word, rock & roll, theater, hip hop and modern dance.
Fresh Meat 2007 artists include: Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, Columbian Soul, Miguel Chernus-Goldstein, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Freeplay Dance Crew, Imani Henry, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, Julia Serano, Shawna Virago and Taiko Ren with Rachel Ebora. Check website for nightly lineup: www.freshmeatproductions.org.
Fresh Meat 2007 is a featured part of the National Queer Arts Festival: (www.queerculturalcenter.org). These shows sell out – advance tickets are recommended.
Media & News
No Pride in War.
News, Interview with Imani Henry
on the "No Pride in War" contingent planned for NY LGBT Pride, 2003.
OUT-FM Archive: listen
to mp3file [also includes Queer Poetry
from black Puerto Rican activist Ingrid Rivera]
(3.5 meg)
Imani Henry was featured on PBS's In the Life, a gay & lesbian television magazine,
during the month of February.
Check http://www.inthelifetv.org/currentep/airdates.html for local listings.
New York City (WLIW), channel 21
Monday, February 17, Midnight -- February Episode!
New York City (WNET), channel 13 Monday, February 24, 10:00 p.m. -- February Episode
Performances
2007
Keynote Speaker at University
of California, Santa Cruz
Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 7 pm
Hosted by The Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center
www.queer.ucsc.edu/home/home.shtml
Keynote Speaker at University
of Maryland, College Park
Date: Monday, April 16th, 2007, 7 pm
Hosted by University of Maryland Pride Alliance
www.pridealliance.umd.edu/
B4T Performance at Cornell
University
Date: Friday, April 13th, 2007
Workshop on Coalition Building Across Diverse Communities
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Hosted by Transgender Awareness/Activist Group and ZAP! Sexuality
Discussion Panel
Details TBD
Leading Workshop at Building
Unity Conference
Date: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Location: UW Parkside, Madison, WI
Hosted by United Council of UW Students
For more information: www.unitedcouncil.net/buildingunity/index.htm
B4T Performance at FORGE
Forward 2007 Conference
Date: Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Location: Four Points Sheraton, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
For more information: www.forge-forward.org/conference/
TRANS/ART:
A Celebration of Trans Performers
Date: Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Venue: WOW Café Theater, NYC
On the final performance night, cabaret will be hosted by legendary trans-performer
Imani Henry.
For more information visit www.wowcafe.org.
Reservations: (347) 254-9952; www.theatermania.com
Keynote Speaker: Trans Week @ Yale University "Mounting Strategies to Fight Racial, Sexual and Gender Oppression on Campus" - Date: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 Hosted by The LGBT Student Cooperative.
Farewell
Tour for Imani Henry's Multi-Media Show B4T (before testosterone)
Dates: January 26th & 27th, 2007
Charm City Kitty Club Collective's The Price is Dyke
Venue: Creative Alliance Patterson Park Theater, Baltimore, MD
Admission Price: $12
For details: http://www.charmcitykittyclub.com/thepriceisdyke.html
2006
Performance
at Gender Odyssey Conference
September
1-4, 2006
http://www.transconference.org/index.htm
http://www.transconference.org/details/events/keynote.htm
Keynote
Speaker 12th Annual Alaska Pride Conference
October 14th,
2006
http://www.identityinc.org/prideconf.php
B4T Performance at University of New Hampshire
October 11th, 2006
Details TBA
FRESH MEAT 2006
Fifth Annual Transgender and Queer Performance Festival
Dates:
Thurs June 15, 2006: 8pm
Friday June 16: 8pm
Sat June 17: 7pm AND 10pm
Location: ODC Theater (3153
17th Street @ Shotwell,SF)
Tickets:$15 (advance tickets recommended - this show sells out!)
415-863-9834 or www.ticketweb.com
http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/calendar.html?calendar_frame.html&main
May 14, 2006 - Living in the Light Performance, The Faroe Islands
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism
http://www.nifca.org/
Act 1: Reykjavik, Iceland,
March 24 – April 16, 2006
Act 2: Nuuk, Greenland, April 21 – May 14, 2006
Act 3: Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands, May 12 – June 4, 2006
Act 4: Rovaniemi, Sápmi/Finland, June 16 – July 9, 2006
Act 5: DVD Box Set Launch in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo & Stockholm, November
25, 2006
April 1-7, 2006, Imani Henry, Guest Performer of Tranny Road Show
April 2, 2006– Toronto,
ON
Venue: Buddies in Bad Times Theater, 12 Alexander
Street Toronto, ON
Admission Price: $10
Ages: All Ages
Additional Information: Box Office: 416-975-8555
April 3, 2006 – Pittsburgh,
PA
Venue: University of Pittsburgh
Admission Price: Free
April 4 2006 – Oberlin,
OH
Venue: Oberlin College
Admission Price: Free
April 5 2006 – Ann
Arbor, MI
Venue: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Time of show: 6:30pm
Admission Price: Free
Ages: All Ages
April 6 2006 – Milwaukee,
WI
Venue: The Milwaukee Gay Arts Center
Time of show: 10pm
Ages: All Ages
for details: http://www.trannyroadshow.org/schedule.html
Thursday,
March 23, 2006
Women’s History Month Celebration - Imani Henry & Ember Swift
Page Hall, University at
Albany, Downtown Campus
135 Western Ave, Albany, NY
7:00 PM, Free
Ember Swift: Ember Swift and her band speak their minds and their truths boldly, and without fear, from stages across Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Their songs shed light on issues such as globalization, consumer awareness, food politics, disengaging from capitalist greed, feminism, queer politics, racism and environmentalism.
Imani Henry is a Caribbean female-to-male Transsexual activist, writer and performer. For the last 10 years, Henry has worked as an HIV/AIDS education and prevention service provider, directing and supervising HIV prevention street outreach initiatives in the cities of Boston and New York. Trained in the philosophy of harm reduction, he has served as an advocate for homeless & street transgender, lesbian, bisexual and gay young people. He is a consultant and trainer providing technical assistance in areas such as racial, gender identity and sexuality sensitivity, program development and community organizing.
For more info phone 518-210-9563 or email [email protected]
Highways
Performance Space and Tricky Troll Productions Present: IMANI HENRY in B4T
Directed by DIANE BECKETT
February 9-12, 2006 at Highways Performance Space
Thursday - Saturday 8:30 pm
Sunday 2:30 pm $15/$13 (with valid student ID).
2005
American
TranStand - a benefit for the Silvia Rivera Law Project."
Tues Nov. 15th @ the Canal Room, 285 West B'way, NYC
April 23 Keynote Speech
for Transforming Feminism Conference,
SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz NY 5:30-6:30 pm.
transformfeminism.com
April 28 Performance of
B4T at Smith College
sponsored by Tangent http://sophia.smith.edu/tangent/
2004
B4T
performance
Sat August 7th, 2004
at the Homoagogo Festival
Aug 3rd - 8th
Olympia, Washington State
directed by Diane Beckett
Capitol
Theater
206 East Fifth Avenue
Downtown, Olympia WA
360/754-6670
for full festival
schedule:
http://www.homoagogo.com/
June
11-13, 2004, Imani Henry's new
play
Living in the Light, coming to
the WOW Cafe Theatre, NYC
see http://www.wowcafe.org
for details
May
7,8 & 9 the premiere of new multi-media theatre piece "Living in the
Light"
at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 Fifth Ave
Brooklyn, NY
call 718-832-0018
www.bax.org
Download
pdf announcement
April
7th, Brown University, RI
Keynote Address, LGBT Pride Month [flyer]
April 12th, University
of Vermont
B4T Performance - featuring Kim Howard
Under the Direction of Diane Beckett
for more details see:
http://www.uvm.edu/~free2b/index.html
Saturday,
April 17th Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Arts of Resistance Festival [download
flyer]
Registration begins at 10 AM at the
AULA
CONTACT to REGISTER: [email protected]
Please send us an email with your name and
affiliation, as well as your interest in political organizing and/or the arts.
We'll respond with directions information and answer any questions you
may have.
The LINE UP: (in the works....)
Surviving the Material Afternoon Workshop Series and
Performance Set
Mango Tribe
Mahina Movement
The Welfare Poets
Suneel(a) Mubayi
Queen Godis
Amita Swadhin: Integrating Arts and Activism into Youth Training
Shilpa Kamat: Creative Writing/Narmada Valley
Photography Exhibit
Marie Vickles: Screenprinting/Textile Workshop
Militar: Capoeira
Kira Ferrand: Theater and Fighting the Health Care System
Imani Henry
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