Hot Tears (Olympia), Junk Food Junkies, Little Animal – Monday 4/28 @ Trumbullplex

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in keeping with our theme of the most awesome shows ever, we at the trumbullplex are proud to present another night of fuckin sweet music!

this particular show is going to be on a monday, namely the 28th of april. so, when the evening arrives, come home from school/work/being a badass and proceed here for what will, without a doubt, be a very majestic experience

hot tears is playing!!! Molly Fischer lives in Olympia WA and is from San Francisco. She has been in other projects including Songs for Moms and Fisting Crystals. oh yeah, she plays ambient, melancholy melodic metal. HELL YESSSSSSSSS

http://hottears.bandcamp.com/

in local support, we will have the Junk Food Junkies. SNAX. SO MANY SNAX. bring some to enjoy (you better bring enough for everyone) with their delectable music offerings…

http://junkfoodjunkies.bandcamp.com/

b/w of little animal! if you have not heard, i highly recommended for you to check them out. electronic jams abound. together, they make sexy music for ghosts and, occasionally, humans to dance to. Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name—but those who go with her are never the same

https://soundcloud.com/littleanimal

Where the ladies at?
In the interest of providing a stage for people whose voices are not heard enough, and working towards a space free from male dominance, we’re calling out to all the female, queer, and trans fronted bands out there. We strive to make our space safe for everyone. We aren’t just showcasing our scene; we’re creating it. We don’t want to recreate a music scene that is dominated by white, straight males.

BROS FALL BACK

as always, all ages

doors 7pm with music to start around 8 to 830

$6 donation please to give hot tears gas money

the most fabulous dance party after bands? the most fabulous dance party after bands

Sister Spit Tonight!

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Sister Spit was established in San Francisco in the early 1990’s as a weekly all-female open mic series, co-founded by Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson. The duo launched the first Sister Spit national tour in 1997: 2 vans chock-full with cutting-edge dyke female writers and performers. Since its inception, Sister Spit has crossed the country many times and re-merged in 2007 as Sister Spit- Next Generation featuring established writers with young, emerging queer and queer-influenced artists of all genders.

April 12, 2014- Trumbullplex
Hosted by Beth Lisick!
SPECIAL GUEST KATHERINE DM CLOVER!!!!

Starring…..
Chinaka Hodge is a poet, educator playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Oakland, California, she graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in May of 2006, and was honored to be the student speaker at the 174th Commencement exercise. In 2010, Chinaka received USC’s prestigious Annenberg Fellowship to continue her studies at its School of Cinematic Arts. She received her MFA in screenwriting, in 2012. In the Fall of that year, she received the San Francisco Foundation’s Phelan Literary Award for emerging Bay Area talent. Chinaka was a 2012 Artist in Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, CA. In early 2013, Hodge was a Sundance Feature Film lab Fellow for her script, 700th&Int’l. Since its early days, Chinaka has served in various capacities at Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project, the nation’s leading literary arts non-profit. During her tenure there, Hodge served as Program Director, Associate Artistic Director, and worked directly with Youth Speaks’ core population — as a teaching artist and poet mentor. When not educating or writing for page, Chinaka rocks mics as a founding member of a collaborative Hip Hop ensemble, The Getback. Her poems, editorials, interviews and prose have been featured in Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, Believer Magazine, PBS, NPR, CNN, C-Span, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry.

Rhiannon Argo is a writer and schooled librarian. She is the author of two works of literary fiction: the Lambda award–winning novel, The Creamsickle, and the YA-ish novel, Girls I’ve Run Away With. Her stories and novels have inspired both short films and German translations. Argo has performed her work in gazillions of bars, colleges, feminist squats, bookstores, and libraries. She has criss-crossed North America and Europe with Sister Spit enough times to have once acquired a mild case of scurvy. She also tours with her own band of literary renegades, the Moon Babes. Argo has been both a Lambda Literary and Radar Lab Fellow. She is the founder Moonshine Press, and co-founder of the Que(e)rySF, a collective that throws parties to raise funds for hidden queer library collections. She enjoys discussing the art of DIY publishing, sex workers rights, and animal spirit guides.

Virgie Tovar, MA is an author, fat activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the editor of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012). She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. After teaching “Female Sexuality” at the University of California at Berkeley, where she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2005, she went onto host “The Virgie Show” (CBS Radio) in San Francisco. She is certified as a sex educator and was voted Best Sex Writer by the Bay Area Guardian in 2008 for her first book. Virgie has been featured by MTV, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Huffington Post, Bust Magazine, Jezebel, 7×7 Magazine, XOJane, and SF Weekly as well as on Women’s Entertainment Television and The Ricki Lake Show. She lives in San Francisco. Find her online at www.virgietovar.com.

Dia Felix is a writer and filmmaker. She has written for blogs including City Lights and the Museum of Arts and Design and performed her work at many venues including Segue Series and Dixon Place. She is founder and editor of “Personality Press.” Her novel “Nochita” will be published through City Lights/Sister Spit in early 2014. She is an award-winning digital media producer for museums (Exploratorium, Museum of Arts and Design) and teaches and mentors teens in experimental documentary filmmaking. Born and raised in California, she lives in New York.

A longtime fixture in the Bay Area arts scene, Beth Lisick has been a nightlife columnist, independent film actor, performance poet, band leader, and arts organizer. She is the author of five books, including the NY Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool, and the co-founder of San Francisco’s Porchlight Storytelling Series. In 2012 she received a grant from the Creative Work Fund for her work with Creativity Explored, an arts center for adults with developmental disabilities. Her most recent book, Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames was published by City Lights/Sister Spit. She is currently at work on her comedy web series with Tara Jepsen, Rods and Cones. www.bethlisick.com.

Jerry Lee Abram has spent the last 15yrs doing just about anything for queer artists. He has Tech Directed an extensive amount of projects including The Sex Workers Art Show, Homo A Gogo, Fabulous Artistic Guys Get Overtly Traumatized Sometimes: The Musical and Sister Spit, additionally his lighting in film can be seen in music videos by Hunx and His Punx, The Younger Lovers, Harlem and Brontez Purnell Dance Company’s film FREE JAZZ. He is honored to be a part of Valencia and will be screening his chapter on Sister Spit 2014.

Award-winning poet, playwright and musician Lenelle Moïse creates jazz-infused, hip-hop bred, politicized performances about Haitian-American identity, creative resistance and the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, memory and spirit. Moïse is a current Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow. Her two-act comedy Merit won the 2012 Southern Rep Ruby Prize. She also wrote, composed, and co-starred in the critically acclaimed drama Expatriate, which launched Off Broadway at the Culture Project in 2008. Lenelle was the fifth Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA. Her debut manuscript of poems, Haiti Glass, is forthcoming from City Lights/ Sister Spit. http://www.lenellemoise.com/

good throb is almost here!!!

so cheerleader had to drop off the show yesterday, but it is okay! i swear! to make up, we have two additional bands! first, coming from flint last minute, are the gods sweat! they are so fuckin good. fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk:

http://sweatflint.bandcamp.com/album/hema

what goes perfect with sweat? public urination, that is what! and we at the trumbullplex have just that! see you tomorrow! that is so soon! remember to come at 6 for the reading and puppet show. there will be delicious food provided. maybe even dj dr. doom will play some songs. only time will tell

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Children’s Book Reading and Puppet Show: John Withee and Blair Ellis

Start your evening with some low-key, all ages fun. On Tuesday, April 8, the Trumbullplex will offer a free event, with knowledge and laughter for the young and the grown. Author John Withee will read from his newly published children’s book “The Scallywags of Nobody’s Island.” Blair Ellis will present a puppet show with multigenerational appeal. So bring the kids, or just your own ageless imagination, and leave the cares of the day behind.

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John Withee

In “The Scallywags of Nobody’s Island,” a crew of castaways overthrows its captain, and forms a cooperative community. This illustrated story is intended for children ages 8 – 11, but will resonate with anyone who dreams of a freer society. The author will read us some highlights, and will have copies to sell and sign.

The evening will also feature a puppet show by Blair Ellis. Not only is Blair a musician, zinester, scholar, adventurer, and activist, but also an accomplished puppeteer! When the puppets visit the Trumbullplex, it’s sure to be fun for all.

If you’re looking to make the rest of your evening a little more raucous, you’ll find that the Trumbullplex has that covered too! Immediately following this event is a great punk show, with bands such as Good Throb and Priests. So for some, the reading and puppets will mark the beginning of an epic night.

Children’s Book Reading and Puppet Show
Tuesday, April 8
6:00 pm
Trumbullplex
4210 Trumbull
Detroit
Free

Good Throb (UK), Priests (DC), Cheerleader (Flint), Marrow – Tuesday April 8

WELL GODDAMN. who is ready for a night of fuckin punk music!!!!! i know that i certainly am. i must warn you, though; for those use to punk that is white and straight and male (for real bro? get yourself an education), this show will be quite lacking as each band features multiple radical as hell women-identified members. come experience the glorious possibilities that exist, if only we all can rise to rip the fuckin door of the cage that has everything so neatly sequestered within itself. well we are at it, is not capitalism great? do you know how incredible of a base unit gold is in organic matter? carbon really just completely fails in comparison to gold in such situations. google it. it is totally legit. so when i start going downhill, i am going to be golden (BAM. gold-brain in action right there), thanks specifically to all the bars i have been stockpiling in my basement while i have been completely and utterly disregarding every other possible aspect of human life i come across. go me!

anywho, good throb is FUCKIN COMING FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO PLAY PUNK MUSIC FOR US. there is nothing else i could possibly type beyond that to convince you to come to the show. just come. for real. do not be that person

http://goodthrob.bandcamp.com/

they are bringing goth punkers priests from DC with them for a fair amount of their tour, and this show is no exception. so somehow you needed another reason to attend the show outside of good throb. well look at that. priests

http://priests.bandcamp.com/

cheerleader. holy crap. so when you heard that good throb and priests are coming to play, you thought to yourself, “cheerleader would fit perfectly with them!” well, guess what. there is a god

wait

lol

okay, i kept a straight face after typing that for at least two seconds before i started rolling around on the floor hysterically, waking up and pissing-off my housemate. that was a lot longer than i would have predicted. really, though, who needs god when there are dogs, so many beautiful dogs everywhere. in all actuality, cheerleader did make me go through satan to confirm them for the show, and i baked him a nice cake, so we are all on the same page now

http://www.youtube.com/user/cheerleaderahrah

and last: marrow? i do not believe. how would that be possible? that would make this, like, the most perfect show ever…

i am not one to usually do this, but I DO DECLARE!

this is not them: https://www.facebook.com/marrowworld

there is a 300% chance this show will deteriorate [evolve] into one of the best dance parties you have ever been to after the bands, so please plan accordingly

bros fall back
all ages
7pm
$6 donation asked, but for the sake of LBJ, please give a little more since last time i checked my stocks on the dow jet fuel was still pretty expensiveImage