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I was thrilled to be able to attend a special Mangos with Chile show on Sunday night at Bluestockings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC. I was thrilled not just because I consider the founders, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms Cherry Galette, dear amig@s, nor because dear amig@s of mine have performed under the spicy sweet banner, pero because the center is queer, trans, and gender non conforming artists of color.

Sunday night, people packed the bookstore and activist center to bear witness to the words and work of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Victor Tobar, Ignacio Rivera and, Jai Dulani.

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Who doesn’t love some Mangos with Chile, even more so when you’re talking about the tasty and thought provoking touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performance artists. Bueno, they need some help paying off some debt after their latest tour in the U.S South. So if you’re in the Bay Area this Saturday, support and show some love. You’ll get some back. They will have a kissing booth after all!

Sweet Toothed Solidarity 2
A Benefit To Pay Off A Van for Mangos With Chili

Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Fairview House
1820 Fairview Ave, Berkeley, CA
near Ashby BART

come at 6 PM if you have a baked good
7:30-10 PM otherwise
donations welcome- all appreciated!

performances by Amir Rabiyah, Bea Sullivan, and Bananz/ Anna Whitehead
many-gendered peep shows
sweet treats
kissing booth
whipped cream surprises

as well as a reportback/ slideshow about Mangos With Chili’s Splendor and Grit: The Stunning South Tour and some of the amazing queer/trans of color Southern organizations we met and worked with along the way.

zines and crafts and I’m Too Sexy for the 501c3 t shirts for sale!

Mangos With Chili, an awesome grassroots queer and trans of color love and survival art outfit, just came back from their 17 day Splendor and Grit tour of the Southern U.S. 7 amazing queer and trans of color performance artists traveled from Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice in San Antonio Texas to New Orleans to Durham to DC, meeting with incredible queer and trans of color communities and sharing life-saving and changing QTPOC stories of love, resistance and survival along the way.

Because of drama with Budget Rent a Car, our van rental bill of $1,500 doubled to $3,100. We need help raising money to pay this debt off.

Please join us for an evening of sugary sweets to not only support Mangos With Chili, but in an effort to build stronger support, ally, and community networks. This is also an opportunity to learn more about queer of color grassroots arts institution building, and about queer and trans of color organizing in the South.

warmth*community love*friends*kisses for sale* cupcakes*gluten free cookies*stories*burlesque* love*support*bonfire*whiskey* hot pear cider*more love

***Donations encouraged and all are welcome***

for more information: mangos.with.chili@gmail.com
mangoswithchili.wordpress.com

you can also send money to use via paypaling brownstargirl@gmail.com (if you don’t need a tax receipt)

or through our fiscal sponsor, counterpulse, if you do- counterpulse.org

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Mala always knew that mangos with chile were the bomb pero this brings the tastiness to a whole new level. If you are in the Bay Area support!

The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival and MANGOS WITH CHILI
the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams,
sweat, sweets & nightmares proudly present:

QPOCalypse NOW!

June 20 – One night only
SOMArts, 934 Brannan St, SF
Doors at 7:30, Show at 8pm
Tickets: $13 – $20
No one turned away for lack of funds

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66089

The end times. 2012. The revolution. Terror. The chosen people.
Disaster. Militarism. Revelations. Plague. The dawn of the 5th World.
Space colonization. Making new homes and surviving new worlds.

In this highly anticipated divine new Mangos With Chili performance
spectacular, come see the Bay Area’s noted and notorious QTPOC
performance ensemble present an evening of all new collaborative work
and hybrid performance exploring our visions of the end of the world
and what comes afterwards.

From growing up in the apocalyptic worlds of Brooklyn, Scranton,
Oakland, and Beirut, to the myths of the end times our ancestors told
us, to the last crazy QTPOC dance party before The End, to living
Octavia Butler’s dreams now, the Mangos With Chili crew will give you
dreams and nightmares about revolution and our changing world through
our high-intensity theater, dance, spoken word, drag, song, and more.

Featuring:
Charleston Chu
Nico Dacumos
Maceo Cabrera Estévez
Ms. Cherry Galette
Zuleikha Mahmood
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Amir Rabiyah
Yosimar Reyes
Thisway/Thatway
King TuffNStuff
and TBA

PLUS: a live score mixed by DJ Emancipacion, video by Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, Ami Puri, and TBA, an interactive altar, the Four Gay Unicorns
of the Apocalypse, and other surprises!!!

Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams,
sweats, sweets and nightmares is a Bay Area based arts organization
committed to showcasing high quality work of life saving importance by
queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and
beyond. Founded by writer and spoken word artist Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha and dancer, choreographer, and burlesque artist Ms
Cherry Galette, Mangos with Chili began as an annual touring cabaret
of queer and trans people of color performance artists, and now
presents year round productions in the Bay Area in addition to our
annual touring cabaret.

The troupe has performed to sold out houses across North America,
wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance
spaces, bars, community venues and campus halls with their hot, high
intensity, and breathtaking performance, politics, and craft,
reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color
and speaking out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence,
isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face.

Mangos with Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of CounterPulse.
Production of QPOCalypse Now! is made possible by the generous support
of the Horizons Foundation, the Queer Cultural Center, the San
Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the
generous support of our community of donors.

For more information: http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com

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