Black Sheep Books presents:
The Tranny Roadshow 2006
Saturday, April 29 at 8 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, Vermont
$5-15 sliding scale at the door,
but no one will be turned away for lack of money
The Tranny Roadshow is a multimedia performance art extravaganza, which will be touring the country for the second time this spring. It is composed of an eclectic group of artists, each one self-identified as transgender, and includes poets, rappers, filmmakers, storytellers, breakdancers, rock bands, comedians, actors, folk singers, photographers, zinesters, and more. Stationary art (that is, photography and sculpture) will be on display, but most of the presentation is the live show, a unique variety show where the expression of gender and the expression of self are inseparable. The performers are:
* AJ Bryce, photographer and guitarist, will be flying solo from his St. Louis-based band, 42 Point Nothing. He looks forward to traveling the eastern half of the country with his unique style of acoustic and electric rock.
* Citizen Rahne Alexander is a songwriter and comic performance artist from Baltimore. She is a member of Baltimore's revolutionary queer cabaret, the Charm City Kitty Club, which received a Lesbian Theater Award in 2004 from Curve Magazine. Her performances have been featured at events from coast to coast, including the Cinekink Film Festival, Baltimore Pride, Gender Crash, Dark Odyssey, Trans-Unity, and the Tranny Roadshow '05. In 2005, Citizen Rahne recorded and released her debut CD, "Blonde on a Bum Trip."
* Born Daphne Scholinski, she was 15 years old when she was locked up in a mental hospital and diagnosed as "an inappropriate female," thus spending the rest of her high school years undergoing extreme femininity training. Now 39 years old, Dylan Scholinski, resides in Washington, DC, and is a distinguished artist, author, and public speaker ("The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir," on Penguin/Putnam). Dylan has appeared on "20/20," "Dateline," and "Today" to discuss his experiences, and has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines. His work not only portrays the anguish of his hospital years but also his ultimate triumph.
* Jamez Terry is a zine-writing, fiddle-playing, radical tranny boy and co-organizer of the Tranny Roadshow. He moves as often as possible, and is currently living in Alaska, training sled dogs and working on his first book. Jamez has published more than 50 zines in the last 8 years, and in 2003 he co-founded the Denver Zine Library. While living in DC, Jamez worked for SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League) and organized a queer youth conference for Youth Pride Alliance. He has since provided various forms of trans education at conferences, schools, churches, and nonprofits around the country.
* Kelly Shortandqueer, co-organizer of the Tranny Roadshow, is familiar with various forms of education through activism as well as the frustrations and limitations of language. He tries to make amends with words by writing zines, most of which focus on his life. He wants to have lived everywhere and done everything, but for now, he's biking, adventuring, and enjoying life in Denver, CO. Since co-founding the Denver Zine Library in 2003, zines have virtually taken over Kelly's life.
* Ever since Tab Dansby used "frustrated" correctly in a sentence at the age of 3, words have been his weapon of choice. He's performed in the United States and Japan in various venues as a poet/storyteller, and is excited to bring his work to more audiences.
* Tona Brown, violinist and vocalist, began her violin studies at the age of 11 and developed this into a career that has gone all around the world. Ms. Brown attended the Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, VA, before being accepted on a full scholarship to attend the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. At the conservatory, she began to take voice lessons, and thus her love for opera began to be fulfilled. She sings Mezzo Soprano, and enjoys singing negro spirituals and art songs as well as operatic arias and oratorio repertoire.
For more info, see http://www.trannyroadshow.org/