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SUNDAY AFTERNOON TEASE: BURLESQUE WORKSHOP WITH BLACK ORCHID
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Have you always wondered what it would be like to be a burlesque dancer? Want to tap into your inner showgirl/boy?
Black Orchid, The Transoceanic Tropical Tease (San Antonio, TX) will lead you through a fun crash course in bump and grind dance, clothing removal and stage presence, culminating in a short and sassy strip-tease choreography. Come and set your inner diva free!
Black Orchid AKA Shimarella AKA s.t.shimi is a foxy brown performance artist who has been performing burlesque for over five years all over Texas on stages beyond. She won Best Use of Novelty/Prop at The Texas Burlesque Festival (2014), and has been an instructor in the performing arts for close to two decades.
Sunday, December 7, 1:00-3:00pm at The Studio at Take the Lead on Pine (4701 Pine Street). The workshop is currently full; click here to be placed on a waiting list.
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FINDING BEAUTY IN ANOTHER REALITY
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Last month, Leeway's Executive Director, Denise Brown wrote a piece for Americans for the Arts ARTSblog, a week-long salon hosted by Animating Democracy. Finding Beauty in Another Reality focuses on aesthetics as it relates to socially engaged art and cultural practice.
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HONORING TONI CADE BAMBARA
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Leeway's Board President Amadee L. Braxton, Executive Director Denise Brown, and Leeway Board Member Tina Morton (LTA '06, ACG '06, '05) wrote tributes to the life and legacy of Black feminist, writer, and scholar Toni Cade Bambara for The Feminist Wire. Amadee writes about community building and learning from Toni in My TCB Experience 1991-1995; Denise's piece focuses on the struggle for liberation in For Toni and Sisterhood, with Love; and Tina writes about the importance of meeting Toni in her essay, Permission.
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Our Tumblr is updated weekly with some of our favorite artists and cultural producers who embody Leeway's vision in their work and practice. This month we put the spotlight on interdisciplinary artist Marcelitte Failla; artist and graphic novelist Cristy Road; activist, cultural producer and musician DJ Rekha; and we honor activist and writer Leslie Feinberg.
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