Let Yourself Shine: a fundraiser fot Brave Space Alliance
* * * * Let Yourself Shine!!! * * * *
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A fundraiser party to benefit Brave Space Alliance.
Bring your shiniest self, literally or figuratively! Wear your fancy pants, or your unfancy pants if that’s your jam, or no pants! (Keep it legal Just be YOU).
For 6 hours you can get it on, ring in the last of this long cold Winter, and empower Civic Engagement in our City all at the same time while cavorting in a 3,000+ sq ft playground of our co-creation!
ALL PROCEEDS AFTER COSTS DONATED TO BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: a Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ resource center for transgender people here in Chicago.
All labor is 100% volunteer-based.
Costs include supplies & venue rental.
TICKETS INCLUDE:
– Interactive Art 🛝
– Live Stage Show (including burlesque!) 🎭
– Wandering Performers 🤡
– DJs & Live Band 🔊
– Dancing 🪩
– Silent Auction 🖼️
– Strut Your Stuff Contest w prizes 🏆
– Connecting in a space of safety & care ❤️
– 100% volunteer labor 🎁
– 100% of proceeds after costs going to Brave Space Alliance 💌
LOGISTICS:
+ SAT FEB 28: 7PM to 1AM. 1501 N Kingsbury St, 60642.
+ Food & Drink available for sale onsite; none can be brought in
+ Donations, Drink Packages, & Higher Income Tickets here :
https://www.crowdwork.com/e/let-yourself-shine-a-celebration-of-authentic-self-expression
+ Lower-Income tickets available by emailing: cyncat@boldurban.org
+ ADA compliant.
+ All gender bathrooms.
+ 21+.
PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT:
Stage Show:
– Certified Scruffian (DJ)
– Edge of Green, music (4 piece band)
– Evelyn Tensions, burlesque
– Jean Wildest, burlesque
– Jerome Kava, music (violin)
– Phaedra Black, burlesque
– Risqué Noir, burlesque
– Sparkles Strahler & Faith Rogers, hoop duet
– and more!
Ambient Performances:
– DJ Flesh_Bot
– dssyenon
– Em
– Fire Flower
– Gray Cat
– Lucid Dreams
– Nitoo
– Ripley
– tommy von flowington
LINKS:
+ Direct ticketing link. https://www.crowdwork.com/e/let-yourself-shine-a-celebration-of-authentic-self-expression
+ Email address to get lower-income tickets. cyncat@boldurban.org
+ We Keep Us Safe organizational website. https://wkus.pages.dev
+ Partiful. https://partiful.com/e/YYDtGHPG3SnkIHpg5Vtn
+ Facebook event page. https://www.facebook.com/events/1199400798827092
+ Brave Space Alliance. https://www.bravespacealliance.org
+ Bold Urban Renaissance Network NFP. https://www.burningmanchicago.org
Let Yourself Shine is presented by We Keep Us Safe in collaboration with Bold Urban Renaissance Network (B.U.R.N.). This volunteer run event by members of the Chicago burning man community channels our love of artistic expression to build allyship with & support our gender diverse community. We believe that upholding the values of Radical Self-Expression & Radical Inclusion align deeply with this cause.
We Keep Us Safe is a tiny, informal, autonomous collective that’s still gestating. WKUS is dedicated to creating safety for each other on a variety of levels that are vital our communities today from within a paradigm of burner values (https://www.bwbchicago.org/about/11-principles-of-burning-man). We’re discovering our power to help facilitate the awareness & practice of good data hygiene, civically engaged mutual aid, know-your-rights, harm prevention, harm reduction, non-violent communication, & psychological safety.
Brave Space Alliance (BSA) is a Black trans-led LGBTQ+ center on the South Side of Chicago that creates and provides affirming and culturally competent services for the entire LGBTQ+ community of Chicago.
Thank you to our fiscal sponsor, Bold Urban Renaissance Network (B.U.R.N.), a nonprofit organization which fosters community arts through grass-roots projects & civic collaboration. We seek to create, display, & support interactive arts & civic participation that inspires action & connects people by moving them from passive spectators to creative participants.
