Audience Lip Sync Spectacular
Get ready for an interactive, family-friendly, high-energy experience where the audience takes center stage! Hosted by the legendary Black Benatar, this event blends drag, lip sync, and playful performances. Enjoy lip sync battles, surprise guest artists, and playful puppetry. Whether performing or cheering, everyone is welcome to celebrate and let loose in this dynamic, variety-style showcase!
Artist
Black Benatar (Beatrice Thomas) and guests
Black Benatar aka Mx. Beatrice Thomas is a queer interdisciplinary artist/performer, director and media maker, who comes from a family lineage of pastors, performers, doctors and healers. Thomas weaves the experiences of queers and people of color into magical realities with strong critical commentary, comedic satire and media rich production. A maker of objects, installations and theater, Mx. Thomas reveals, revises and constructs alternate realities.
They use the artifice of drag to inhabit Black Benatar, an exaggerated black femme alter ego creature that challenges blackness, whiteness, oppression & convention. Beatrice’s work has graced the stages of the deYoung Museum, SF PRIDE Mainstage, CounterPulse, SomArts Cultural Center and the Institute of Advanced Uncertainty and has shown in galleries across the United States. Thomas works nationally consulting and advocating for equity and the inclusion of queer arts on national mainstream stages.
Performances
Sat, Apr 26: 5pm
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