[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]SLAY Comedy Showcase — NEW NIGHT, NEW LOCATION! [/sws_yellow_box]

Come check out the tenth (or something like that) SLAY Comedy Showcase! We’re getting bigger and better. Great performers, awesome local beer, places to sit.

**Performers**

Lil Wayne Burfeind
Carly McMenoman
Ron Lamprecht

Thanks to Ricky Noren for the flyer design!

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Date: Friday, July 10 at 7:30pm
Location: Sidhe Brewing Company, 652 Jenks Ave, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55106
Admission: Free
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]Final Frontier Festival: Horror [/sws_yellow_box]

Last year, Gadfly Theatre Productions, an intersectional queer and feminist theatre and performing arts production company out of Minneapolis started an annual one-act geek fest fitting our mission. We started with a sci-fi theme, taking you to galaxies far away and post-apocalyptic worlds. Audiences loved it, and this year we’ve cleaned it up, streamlined it, and given it a spooky take with a one-act horror festival.We have six great shows by six great playwrights being directed by…you guessed it! Six great directors! Ghosts, gore, and glitter are all featured in at least one show, and we can’t wait to bring it to you this July at Nimbus Theater.
Tickets are available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1756511

The six shows and further information are listed below:

Lace Curtain Irish
A Play by Carolyn Gage
Directed by Cassandra Cassandra Katy Snow
This one-woman show starring Gina Sauer is told from the point of view of Lizzie Borden’s maid during the gruesome 19th century Borden murders. Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie Borden’s relationship is unclear, but Borden herself has long been hailed as a secret lesbian icon. Famed playwright Gage imagines her as she most likely was–a rescuing butch trying to make it through life as a closeted queer woman, and imagines Bridget as she likely was–a woman struggling with PTSD and repressed memories, who may or may not have a guilty cross to bear.

Belong Dead
by Andrew Rosdail
Directed by Immanuel Elliott
Dr. Frankenstein made a monster. Later, the monster desired a mate. Now, it is the 21st century and both monster and bride struggle with their borrowed immortality and what we leave behind. This show is a feminist retelling of a woman created for a man, and the fragility of modern relationships. Starring Sarah Parker and Daniel Flohr.

Abscission
by Eric LaRocca
Directed by Paul von Stoetzel
In the fourth quadrant of an unnamed country rampant with civil unrest the government has issued a mandate in which all civilians who openly identify as homosexual are ordered to work camps or executed. In an abandoned cellar and operating theatre of a well-known surgeon and biochemist who has since been executed a young woman crosses paths with a soldier of this regime. This show, starring Rob Ward and Hannah Stein, features a transgender character fighting for her right to exist.

Dragula
by Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt
Directed by Rye Gentleman
You’ll scream . . . with laughter. You’ll gasp . . . at the fabulous wigs. From the wickedly witty pens of Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt, Dragula blends familiar elements of gothic thrillers with insightful commentary gender politics in a madcap comedy that will have you on the edge of your seat . . . with terror! Dragula’s feature cast includes Felix Felix Aguilar-Tomlinson, Shea Roberts, Kelly McKay and Ian Donahue

Gone by Cody Daigle
Directed by Eva Chava Curland
A young gay college student, Harris, played by Denzel Belin, witnesses something horrifying at his job at a porn video store: a man disappears into thin air. He soon discovers from his best friend, Jen, portrayed by Kira Pontiff, that people are “blinking” everywhere, and no one knows how to stop it. As Harris and Jen figure out what to do as the human race is slowly erased, a terrible secret that binds them together comes bubbling to the surface. They must cope with it, before one — or both — are gone.

Hell’s Bed ‘N’ Breakfast
A Staged Reading
by Kim Carney
Directed by Immanuel Elliott
A two-character comedy that tells the story of a queer couple who — while exploring old houses for a possible bed ‘n’ breakfast site — make a chilling and gruesome discovery. The show, which stars Hannah Jo Stein and Eva Chava Curland, brings subconscious fears about queerness and commitment to the surface. Festival Locations and Dates:The Final Frontier Festival: Horror, will be held at Nimbus Theatre July 10-12th and 17th-19th.

Each Friday night includes a post-show discussion about the Set featuring representatives from each show, and Saturday the 11th features a post-show reception for cast, crew, and donors alike.

Set A
7/10 7:30 PM
7/12 3:00 PM
7/18 7:30 PM
Gone
Abscission
Belong Dead

Set B
7/11 7:30 PM
7/17 7:30 PM
7/19 3:00 PM
Lace Curtain Irish
Hell’s Bed and Breakfast
Dragula

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Date: July 10, 11, 12
Location: nimbus theatre, 1517 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413
Admission: Varies
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]Hate In Any Form Is Wrong The Concert [/sws_yellow_box]

Join us for this FREE concert at Calhoun Square in Uptown to send a message and help minimize the negative impact that hate has on our society, especially with today’s youth on bullying.

Performances:
1. Georgie Porgie –
Billboard top 10 dance artist of the decade, next to artist like Madonna, Beyonce, Janet Jackson. Sold millions of records around the world. He has over 25 #1 records in over 18 countries.
2. Jamecia Bennett –
3. Grammy award winner performer Sounds of Blackness
4. Mathew J –
5. Kids Like Us
6. PIPI (Minneapolis and Saint Paul JAZZ Mistress)

Hosts:
Chris Egert from KSTP TV News
Dan Riggs DJ KDWB

Speakers:
Jacob Frey Minneapolis City Council
Monica Meyer Out Front Minnesota

Special Appearances by:
– Mayham rugby team
– Gay softball

Extra special guests Mpls and St.Paul police and firefighter providing security and support for Anti-Bully movement.

Hate In Any Form is a organization created by Esera Tuaolo to help bring people together and embrace and value each others differences. Learn more at http://hateiswrong.com/

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Date: Saturday, July 11 at 3pm
Location: Calhoun Square, 3001 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408
Admission: Free
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]After Pride Drag Show and Social [/sws_yellow_box]

A Fundraiser for “Avenues for Homeless Youth”
Hosted by Duke 23 Mark and Baron 23 Tom
$5 Entry $10 Entry and Beer/Soda Bust
Doors open @ 5 Showtime @ 6 pm

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Date: Saturday, July 11 at 5pm
Location: The Saloon MN, 830 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
Admission: $5
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]Jay Brannan in MINNEAPOLIS, MN! [/sws_yellow_box]

doors 7pm, Jourdan Myers Music at 8pm, me at 8:45ish (schedule approximate & subject to slight adjustments) **show will be OVER by 10 or 10:15 so don’t be late!** 😀

photo: Tommy Kearns

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Date: Saturday, July 11 at 7pm
Location: Triple Rock Social Club, 629 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454
Admission: Tickets via ticketfly
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]Showtune Showdown [/sws_yellow_box]

One Voice Mixed Chorus has thrown down the gauntlet! We’re challenging the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus, and The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists to an epic battle for choral supremacy… a Showtune Showdown!

Showtune Showdown is a unique blend of American Idol, Name That Tune and Glee, with loads of Broadway glitz thrown into the mix. The proceeds will help fund One Voice Mixed Chorus’s community engagement work, including anti-bullying education in schools, and performances in Greater Minnesota.

Prizes will be given to the best costume, and the best group costume, so bring your friends, dress up as your favorite musical, and come join in the revelry.

The doors open at 6:30 and you can join us for a raffle, punch board, and other great games and activities!

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Date: Monday, July 13 at 6:30pm
Location: The Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417
Admission: Varies; tickets at www.trailblz.info
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[sws_yellow_box box_size=”100″]July 14 discussion of Steam-Powered:Lesbian Steampunk Stories [/sws_yellow_box]

Created for North Country Gaylaxians
FFI: https://www.facebook.com/groups/196936024304/.

Steam-Powered:Lesbian Steampunk Stories
Ed. by JoSelle Vanderhooft, who will join the discussion via Skype!
FROM Amazon.COM: The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong — in the captain’s chair, the laboratory, and one another’s arms. Here you’ll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco’s eccentric empire. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each character is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered push steampunk to its limits and beyond. “From colonial India to New Orleans in slavery times, from a rogue San Francisco to the Lower East Side of old New York, these stories are thoughtful, wide-ranging, exciting, and often very, very sexy. Anybody who thinks that “steampunk” and “lesbian” are niche interests should read Steam-Powered and get their horizons seriously expanded.” -Delia Sherman, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner and author of Through a Brazen Mirror.

Besides our website, ncgaylaxians.org, join us on Facebook under North Country Gaylaxians, https://www.facebook.com/groups/196936024304/.

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Date: Tuesday, July 14 at 7pm
Location: Quatrefoil Library, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407
Admission: Free
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