Patrick’s Cabaret invites artists, organizers, and others who care about the future of radical creative spaces in the Twin Cities to join us for our first Community Roundtable on Monday, February 26th.

Our monthly Community Roundtables are intentional spaces for critical and productive conversations about how we as a community will move forward the legacy of Patrick’s Cabaret following the organization’s conclusion. Together we will explore how we, as an organization and as a community, can “pass the torch” to the next generation of artists and organizers.

Patrick’s Cabaret and the Aliveness Project, a nonprofit community center for people living with HIV, culminate a year-long residency with a final performance at the Pillsbury House Theater. Aliveness Project Members have spent the last year working with Teaching Artists drawn from Patrick’s Cabaret’s vast network of artists to develop and refine their ability to tell stories about their own lives. This special afternoon event, free to Aliveness Project Members, brings together Teaching Artists and Aliveness Project Members for readings and performances about resilience and healing.

The Big Gay Mexican, with his trademark unrepentant fabulousness, brings together artists for a night celebrating the cross-currents of Queer and Latinx identities. In a world where being queer is still unwelcomed, and in a political context that marginalizes Latinx people daily, “Latinx-Q” highlights and honors artists who find beauty and resilience in who they are.

Theater in a flash! The second year of a radical experiment in performance inviting over 37 artists to create new works about current events with random collaborators–in the space of just a week.

Co-produced by

Kat Purcell & Marcel Michelle- Mobama

Directors

Dua, Keila Anali Saucedo, Adrienne Kleinman, Xochi de la Luna, Rica de la Concha, Christie Dove 

Writers

Seth Matz, Nina Medvedeva, Yoni Tamang, Zeam Porter, Malakai Greiner, Diana Siegel-Garcia

In a time when the political environment seeks to erase our most marginalized citizens, writer Gabriela Santiago invites artists on the edge of culture to imagine and claim the future through science fiction.

Join us for a coffee drink or tap beer at Carley Coffee for an informal chance to meet-n-greet with members of the Patrick’s Cabaret family as we kick-off the Cabaret’s Spring Season. 

Co-hosted by our new cohort of Curators and team of Ambassadors.

Pangea World Theater, Patrick's Cabaret and 

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