Rivers

of Honey August 2013 Performers

PRIVATE TAILS

Chauvet Bishop - Originally from North

Carolina, Chauvet is a licensed massage therapist/ healer, and has been the licensed massage therapist for Rivers of Honey featured performers for the 2012/2013 performance season. She is a poet, singer, student of life, supporter and lover of art and all things beautiful. Rivers of Honey is honored for Chauvet to be a featured performer after her service to us for all these months.

Theres nothing Private about these Tailshailing from Washington, DC, she joined the Burlesque world in August of 2005, and currently produces the United States largest, longest running Queer Burlesque troupe, the DC Gurly Show. Private Tails is the Original Tease Queen--one who combines the theatrics of a drag queen, the sultriness of an exotic dancer, the flexibility of an acrobat, and the tease of a burlesque dancer. With her background in Theater and Dance, the burlesque community has welcomed her Tails with open arms... and open wallets.

TS Hawkins is an actor, internationally

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The Bubbling Brown Sugar of Burlesque is a member of Brown Girls Burlesque. She has performed all over burlesqueville, NYC at Duane Park, The Slipper Room, Nurse Bettie, Kitty Knights, Room 69 @ the Hotel Chantelle, Abiola's Love, Sex & Dating Vimeo Show, Abiola's Kiss & Tell live events, Hypergender Burlesque, Dr. Choades Upstairs/Downstairs, Red Umbrella Diaries, Sex Worker Cabaret, Sex Worker Literati, Rivers of Honey Cabaret, University's & travels w/Gesel Mason's Women, Sex & Desire. Email to have her delight guests @ your event!

recognized author, performance poet, wedding officiant & producer/host/ founder of her own radio station. Hawkins is fresh off her mini tour, Silent No More in which she wrote the text "Cartons of Ultrasounds" and infused various directors, mask makers and puppeteers on each leg of the tour. Recently, "Cartons of Ultrasounds" was turned into a film short by artists in Singapore! In addition, she showcased a new work "Too Late To Apologize" which debuted and received reviews in Brat Productions pop-up performance "The Diary of Lisa Q". Hawkins released her 7th publication, The Hotel Haikus and plans to tour with it during the second installment of the Authors Under 30 Book Tour. More info, visit www.tspoetics.com

sassaBrass is a pleasure-filled
healer who uses the ritual of performance to deliver the gospel of the pussy. The pussy is magic, is medicine, is gold, is divine, is an entrance and an exit -- an opening to the deepest, most sacred spaces of women's ancestral knowledge. The pussy gospel is ancient. sassaBrass is the messenger, the vessel. Twerking is the testimony -- cuz the booty don't lie! Welcome to church where we pussy pop for praise and worship in the service of our freedom and liberation. Ase..

Foxy Squire After completing the burlesque

class series by Deflouered Productions, Foxy gathered her wits and began performing. In less than 6 months, she had performed both nationally and internationally in London, Connecticut, California, Phili, and NYC. Foxy was the headliner for DC Gurly Show. This year, she will be performing in Georgia and North Carolina. Her motto is EMBRACE YOUR SPECTACLE. Now, she shares her love for deviant art and dark beauty through burlesque.

Takara Estes Altar goddess born and raised in New

York has been dancing African diasporic professional dance from West African to Hatian dance for 16 years, Orisha dance for 4 years. She continues to share her gift of dancing, and working as a dance assistant for a non profit dance company "ourfolklore " for young girls.

Rivers of Honey August 2013 Underwear Party Embrace your Oshun Energy!!!

is co-founder of Philadelphia urban creators a nonprofit teaching sustainability and entrepreneurship to youth in north central Philly. When she's not teaching or turning compost she's interning for Philly's largest poetry collective Spoken Soul 215, helping run the city's largest open mic! Jeaninne has been performing and writing for almost 10 years and hopes to infuse artistic and sustainable practices into less fortunate communities all over the country. DJ Zena Hello beauties! I've been DJing for about 5 years now. I have experience playing for various types of events, from nightclubs down to neighbor bbq's. My favorite genres to spin are old school house and R&B music. I can also do electro and Afro house, hip-hop, dancehall, alternative, and rock music. I have a full setup and am capable of entertaining at any event. My prices are negotiable. If anyone's interested, hit me up 917-524-9263 or at facebook.com/djzena.

Jeaninne Kayembe Host

Co-Produced by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz & Jaz Smith-Cruz

Flyer & Program Design: Shawn Smith-Cruz Direction: Jaz Smith-Cruz Lights: Jasmine Presson Video: Sissy Van Dyke Sound: DJ Zena Artist Massages: Chauvet Bishop House Manager: JZ Bich Staff: Sarita Covington, Julia Harvard, Joi Sanchez

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Co-Producer

With our Ancestors, we honor the Goddess & Orisha

lesbian separatist, writer, Archivist, Librarian, and Brooklyn native, whose work is focused on preserving the stories of women of color, particularly African ancestral lesbians. She archives at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Jaz Smith-Cruz, Co-Producer Artist, Writer, Barber. She has been a member of WOW for eight years and a Producer and organizer of Rivers of Honey for seven years. She single-handedly resurrected the Rivers of Honey framework to represent a spiritual artist space for women of color. You:

Oshun, Ochun, Osun, Oxum, Ochn, Osun, Oxum, Ikol, Erzulie-Freda-Dahomey

La Virgen de la Caridad de Cobre, Venus

New Email: riversofhoneynyc@gmail.com

Rivers of Honey is a Cabaret held the first Friday of Every Month at WOW Caf Theater highlighting the art of womyn of color. For more information, to join us, perform, or hear about our other events find us online at http://riversofhoney.com

Rivers of Honey is a member of WOW Caf Theater a woman and trans theater collective. For more info: http://wowcafe.org