@Salon 2021
QPlayaz | QPride
Playground opens Tuesday, June 22, 2021
5:30pm PT | 7:30pm CT | 8:30pm ET on Zoom
REGISTER FREE @ EVENTBRITE bit.ly/atsalon2021
Ronaldo V. Wilson will host team QPlayaz Vidhu Aggarwal, Lucas de Lima, Dawn Lundy Martin & Angela Peñaredondo for an interactive poetry reading and mixed-genre queer conversation through which to play hard softly in between the face of terror and isolation, fear and possibility, community and catch. The QPlaya-ground will feature rounds of verbal four square, double d-iz-utch, and tag between the participants as they rep what it means to be and/or to be in alliance with lgbqtia+++++ modes of African and other diasporic play/s across practices and performance, so get ready, set, go & come!
About
The Playaz
Ronaldo V. Wilson
The Play Leader
Award-winning author, interdisciplinary artist and Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at UC Santa Cruz
Vidhu Aggarwal
(AKA “Vic Wall”)
Lucas de Lima
author of Wet Land (Action Books) and Tropical Sacrifice
Dawn Lundy Martin
is an American poet and essayist
Angela Peñaredondo
is a queer nonbinary Filipinx interdisciplinary writer-artist-educator
about @Salon
Founded in 2011, @Salon is an interdisciplinary event welcoming artists and arts enthusiasts to come together for conversation, poetry, spoken word, music, sound, performance, visual and digital art.
@Salon hosts live and virtual events. For the live events, in addition to featuring renowned local and regional artists, @Salon includes presentations and discussions of works-in-progress using Liz Lerman’s Format for Critical Response—a format for feedback that affords the artist an active role in the dialogue.
Long a sponsor of @Salon, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, edited by Duriel E. Harris, has taken up the mantle to host and curate this beloved annual event. Obsidian’s @Salon welcomes Black writers and artists and their allies to come together for conversation and exchange.