Mangos With Chili

The floating queer people of color touring roadshow!

Wednesday, April 4 @ 7:00PM

Mangos With Chili is two weeks of history-making performance by 9 queer and trans people of color artists! Working in spoken word, theater, drag, dance and burlesque, our work is in celebration of our lives, stories, and the legacies we are creating for future generations of queer and trans people of color. A new annual touring roadshow of QTPOC artists (think Tranny Roadshow but queer and brown) we are setting the Northeast on fire on our first tour ever for April 2007!

Featured artists include: Ching-In Chen, Ignacio Rivera, Dulani, Victor Tobar, Thomas Andre Bardwell, Kay Barrett, Maria Cristina Rangel aka Miss Cherry Galette, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Suhayl Ramirez.
Boston Tour Date:

Wednesday, April 4, Spontaneous Celebrations, Boston, MA

All Tour dates:

Saturday, March 31, 2020: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA,
Sunday, April 1: Cattyshack, 249 4th Avenue (President & Carroll Sts),
Brooklyn, NY, 8:00 PM, $10-12, no one turned away due to lack of funds
Monday, April 2: Smith College, Northhampton, MA
Tuesday, April 3, Providence Black Repertory Theater, Providence RI
Wednesday, April 4, Spontaneous Celebrations, Boston, MA
Thursday, April 5, Le Club Cleopatre, Montreal, QC
Saturday, April 7, Buddies in Bad Times Theater, 12 Alexander St., Toronto, ON
Monday, April 8, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

History: Inspired by similar traveling roadshows like the Tranny Roadshow and the Sex Workers Art Show, in 2006 sister femme vixen writers and performance artists Maria Cristina Rangel and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha decided to start a similar tour featuring the most brilliant queer and trans artists of color they knew. Using their experience creating events in Toronto, Boston, New York and the West Coast, the first Mangos With Chili tour is slated to hit the Northeast for April 2006. Using theater, spoken word, drag, dance and performance art to tell stories of class, survival, sex, dreams, magic, color, and trans, femme and genderqueer identities that span Sri Lanka to Aztland to Morocco to the Philippines to the Caribbean to Brooklyn to migrant small town Washington state, Mangos With Chili is a groundbreaking performance cabaret, taking This Bridge Called My Back into the 21st century.

Contact info:
For more information, downloadable press pics and flyers: www.myspace.com/mangoswithchili
To arrange a media interview, please contact Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-Artistic Director at (416) 533-2697 (until March 30), (347) 721-7250 (after March 30) or at mangos.with.chilli@gmail.com