MAN FOR A DAY WORKSHOPS

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS WILL TAKE PLACE IN BERLIN

ON THE FOLLOWING WEEKENDS:

February 18/19

February 24/25

March 24/25

April 14/15

Please note that there is limited enrollment and workshops tend

to fill up.

I will be offering the MAN FOR A DAY workshop in other places

during the year.

For further details of workshops and to register, contact me at

diane.torr@googlemail.com

STOP PRESS!!!

On Thursday, November 17, there will be an event at Glasgow Women's Library

where the extraordinary and insightful Zoe Strachan and I will be interviewed by the journalist, Anna Burnside.

http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/gender-shift/

Come and join us!

more chances to meet

Visiting artist - Akademie die Kunste June 6-11;

What a Drag Festival, at BRUT Theater, Zieglergasse 25

1070 Wien

gender as performance workshop Vienna - June 7/8 10-6pm

talk/performance /book launch - 25 Years of Sex and Drag at BRUT Theater - June 9 at 8pm

followed by after-party by Crazy Bitch in a Cave

(http://www.myspace.com/crazybitchinacave)

followed by a DJ-set by das_em

An evening of performances by students - June 11 at 8pm

Upcoming is a book-launch and workshop in Berlin as follows:

Book launch - Thursday June 30 8pm

Schwules Museum @ SchwuZ, Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin

Talk on 25 Years of Sex and Drag - an overview of Diane's performances/workshops and culture context 1980-2005 with film, slides and video documentation. Followed by a panel discussion and performances from Diane Torr, Bridge Markland, Marlon Brandy, Toni Transit, Moritz G, Ocean, among others. Then dancing and celebrating to surprise D.J. Entry: 4-8 euros

Workshop:

MAN FOR A DAY (all genders)

June 25/26 150euros

Limited enrollment.

Registration: diane.torr@googlemail.com

upcoming:

workshop Vienna - June 7/8

talk/performance /book launch -25 Years of Sex and Drag at BRUT Theater - June 9

followed by after-party by Crazy Bitch in a Cave

(http://www.myspace.com/crazybitchinacave)

and a DJ-set by das_em

workshop Berlin - June 25/26 - including Christopher Street Day

book launch and drag king extravaganza at SchwuZ , Mehringdamm

thanks to Schwules Museum June 30

more details to follow..

byee

It's Mother's Day in the USA today.

but unlike Mothering Sunday in the UK,

Mother's Day in the USA has very different origins....

Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War,
as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who
had lost their sons.

The following is the original Mother's Day Proclamation
written by Julia Ward Howe in Boston, 1870:

"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart,
whether our baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly:
'We will not have our great questions decided by irrelevant
agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with
carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken
from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be
too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be
trained to injure theirs.'

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask
that a general congress of women without limits of nationality
may be appointed and held at some place deemed most
convenient and at the earliest period consider with its objects
to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the
amicable settlement of international questions, the great and
general interests of peace."

So not a Hallmark construction after all folks!

book launch in Leeds

You are warmly invited to a special event about gender identity, female-to-male drag and transgender performance:

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Thursday 5^th May, 5.30pm, @ Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds

Featuring short performances by:

Diane Torr – performance artist and “Godfather of drag kings”

Joey Hateley – Gender Joker and Artistic Director of TransAction Theatre Co.

And a discussion with colleagues from the School of English including:

Prof. Stephen Bottoms, Dr. Helen Iball, Dr. Jay Prosser

This event celebrates the recent publication of Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance, by Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms (University of Michigan Press). The book documents Torr’s pioneering work in gender-crossing performance experiments, contextualizing them against the backdrop of the alternative New York arts scene from the 1970s to the 2000s, and against a wider history of emerging feminist, queer, and transgender arts and activism. Torr’s Drag King Workshop (now the “Man for a Day” workshop), started in New York in 1990 and has since been taught all over the world, enabling thousands of women from all kinds of backgrounds to experiment with passing as male in everyday life, as well as creating theatricalized character roles.

Special guest Joey Hateley, based in Manchester, is one of the UK’s leading transgender artists, described by Peggy Shaw (Split Britches) as “a very talented performer...the most willing I have ever met to put their body on the line.” He will present highlights from his multi-genre theatre-cabaret piece, The Gender Joker Show.

The discussion event will look back while also looking forward, considering the current state of play (and playfulness) around gender identity and its expression through the arts.

Helen Iball is Lecturer in Theatre Studies, and author of the forthcoming monograph Theatre Personal: audiences with intimacy 1990-2010, as well as studies on Sarah Kane, Bobby Baker, and Howard Barker.

Jay Prosser is Reader in Humanities, and author of books including Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998) and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (2004).

Followed by wine and book signing.

All welcome. Admission free. Please be aware that seating is limited so it's first come first served.

Workshop Theatre is the second building on the left after you enter the main gates of the University of Leeds, off Woodhouse Lane.