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Celebration!!

Redefining PC for 25 Years

Hello all of you incredibly talented artists, performers, lovers, fighters, friends, academics, dreamers... We're celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year! In honor of this great milestone, we're hosting a huge celebration on Saturday, June 11th - a performance parade and block party, followed by a cabaret and dance party. Save the date now, as you won't want to miss out on all the fun! And spread the word!!

indelibly fabulous

PC-25
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Parade ~ 3pm (rain or shine)

Celebrating artists, free speech & community
Parade starts in Matthew's Park and ends at Patrick's Cabaret
parade route map
Think of this parade like a mile-long, mobile open call cabaret
Come witness the breath taking and the whacky ~ or ~
Come in costumes, perform, dance, strut ~ if you are interested in being part of the parade, contact sarajo@patrickscabaret.org
(see more below*)

Block Party ~ 3:30 - 7:30pm

Main parking lot ~ bands performing
- 3:30 - 4:15 pm ~ Felonious Bosch website
- 4:30 - 5:15 pm ~ Yasercise Facebook
- 5:30 - 6:15 pm ~ Wolf Mountain website
- 6:30 - 7:15 pm ~ Erik Stoeckeler website
- good eats from Magic Bus Café
- drinks by Gandhi Mahal
- Amy Salloway's "Advice Booth" (like Lucy in Peanuts)
- Tarot Reading by Kay Kirscht
- Caricature drawings
Inside the Cabaret ~ demonstrations and workshops until 6:15pm
- 3:30 - 4:00 pm ~ Duniya African Drum and Dance
- 4:15 - 4:30 pm ~ Ballroom Dancing
- 4:30 - 5:00 pm ~ Contact Improv Dance
- 5:15 - 5:45 pm ~ North Star Storytelling League
- 6:00 - 6:30 pm ~ Hip Hop Dance
Cabaret Lobby ~
- 3:30 - 6:30 pm ~ Open Book Arts paper making workshop
Gary Schiff presenting Patrick's Cabaret with a proclamation from the City of Minneapolis

PC-25 Cabaret & Dance Party ~ 8pm

FREE!! (suggested donation of $10)

Doing what we know best ~ a special cabaret performance co-curated by Patrick Scully and Arturo Miles, gathering together past and present talents who've performed at and essentially grown through the Cabaret:

*Parade Participation

In celebration of artists and free speech, we're inviting anyone and everyone to take part as a performer in the parade...and we hope to have a mile of performers! The performance parade will start in Matthews Park at 3pm. The parade route goes down 29th Avenue South and turns towards the Cabaret on 31st Street East - just under a mile long. We're encouraging every performer to bring something really unique, colorful, and (of course!) entertaining to the street, whatever that may be... walking, biking, dancing, playing, marching, speaking, singing, strutting, swirling, etc. We're really pushing individuals to invite their friends and/or other performers to be in the parade with them - seeing as performing with a group would be much less daunting than going it alone! Here are ideas of what some folks are doing:

~ keep an eye on this page as we add performers ~

Aerialists will be performing in Matthews Park before the parade
Zumba, Modern, Flamenco, Contact Improv & MinnesoTap dancers
Musicians will be playing at stationed areas along the parade route
Batucada do Norte Brazilian Drum and Dance
Larry Ripp will be "The Baron of Bubble!" entertaining the kids
Poetry read along the parade route
Art bikes, The Menstrual Cycles (female bike gang) & Art Cars of Minnesota
Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue - Aztec dancers in full regalia

Please contact our Communications & Volunteer Coordinator, Sara Jo Lehrer: sarajo@patrickscabaret.org or 612-724-6273 if you're interested in performing in the parade, as you will need to submit a short application. And, please pass this information along to others you think might be interested in performing in the streets!

25 Years Ago

25 years is a long time. It was 1986, and Patrick was frustrated. Challenged by the red tape required to perform on any stage, Patrick decided to create his own stage, open to anyone that needed it. Located in the gym of St. Stephen's School, Patrick's Cabaret was born. As Patrick puts it, "If what you want in the world isn't there, make it." Patrick's sentiment was true not only for art, but for what was happening in our society at the time.

Though President Reagan had not commented publicly on the epidemic, by the end of 1986, more than 38,000 AIDS cases had been reported; 16,301 people had died. And no effective drugs were available for treating HIV/AIDS. By the end of the decade, more than 8 million people worldwide would have HIV/AIDS. Reagan himself, in 1990, would eventually apologize for his administration's failure to respond to the disease. Better late than never?
We don't think so.

Also in June 1986, in the Bowers v. Hardwick case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Georgia's sodomy law, ruling that the constitutional right to privacy did not extend to homosexual relations. Minnesota still had a sodomy law. Gay rights were on the books in Minneapolis, but not its sister city, St. Paul.

Think about how far we've come in 25 years. Currently, gay marriage is legal in 7 countries and 5 states, nearly 90% of people in the US think that GLBT workers should have the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in the US military has been repealed. Again, think about how far we've come in 25 years...but also keep in mind how far we still need to go.

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