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Looking
to perform? Poonie’s Cabaret is free and easy!
Looking to express ideas in a nontraditional, relaxed,
honest, format? Do you have a piece that’s not quite ready
for primetime but still deserves a chance to be presented; or are
you a fringe performer who just wants to figure some stuff out? Perhaps
(and I am just saying perhaps) maybe
you are just like us: slightly confused, curious, in need of a nudge.
This is the deal: we provide the space, maybe even
an assignment if you need inspiration. You provide the work, no
more than 15 minutes in length. Any work. We welcome all forms of
expression: music, dance, contact improvisation, puppetry, performance
art, theater, live painting, queer expression, Indian classical
singing, tap dancing, cheerleading, hip hop and b-boy/girling, film/video,freestyle
rapping, freestyle martial arts, four square, capoeira, baroque
music, freejazz, middle eastern music/dance, flamenco...etc. We’ll
program up to four artists/groups per show. We are not picky people.
We are Brian Robert Hinkle and Matthew Hollis, the
new hosts/curators of Poonie’s Cabaret.
Email us if you are interested in performing!
Matthew Hollis mach3117@juno.com
Brian Robert Hinkle brobstinkle25@yahoo.com
Poonie's Cabaret was created by Selene Carter,
who was inspired by Patrick Scully’s “Patrick’s
Cabaret” in Minneapolis, MN. Poonie’s is named for Poonie
Dodson, a much-loved Chicago dancer/choreographer who died of AIDS
in the early 90's. Performers and audience members are asked for
a $5 donation. Proceeds from the cabaret go to the Links Hall Duncan
Erley Memorial Coming Out of the Closet Fund, which is periodically
awarded to artists whose work explores the realms of healing, gay
activism, and spiritual and sexual transformation.
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Poonie’s Cabaret
Saturday, January 22 at 10:30 p.m.
Admission $5
Poonie’s Cabaret returns with A Snowy Salute to Life. The
Cabaret that honors the late Poonie Dodson offers fresh, comic,
erotic, and varied performances ranging from dance to drag and all
that lies in between. Come see the only late night Links Hall Cabaret
that benefits gay charities and jumpstarts the heart.
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