Dancing Thru Death: a celebration of life, music and change

Solasta McIntyre Ethridge, Pita Meanata, and No Mirror Movement

With every death there is birth. 
With every ending there is beginning.
With every shadow there is light.
Honor the ancestors May 1

7th West

What Dancing Thru Death Means to Us: Music and dance are huge resources for most human beings. It is culture. It is medicine. It is connection and inspiring and so much more. The past few years has thrust unimaginable loss, grief and change amongst our human family - particularly artists, performers and those in entertainment spaces, especially QTBIPOC communities. Dancing Thru Death is what we have all continued to do through this challenging time. Continue to carve out spaces to be in joy, expression and play together thru the healing energy of music and dance. Continue TO dance and be in relationship with the body. All of us in our own ways have experienced loss whether of a loved one or parts of ourselves that were no longer serving us. With this loss, there is also new space for life, for growth and for expansion. This event aims to provide a time and space to be with the complexities of this experience and use storytelling and community care to lighten the load, release what's ready to go and celebrate what is on its way to us. May we build a future together that allows us to be our messy human selves .May we celebrate our aliveness together and bask in the resource of music and dance to sustain us.Part therapeutic community show honoring what's been lost and re-membered, part educational panel, and part send-off party for Solasta, Pita and No Mirror Movement - a bay area dance collective being laid to rest after six years of service. LET'S DANCE Y'ALL.Schedule:4:00-4:30 —&gt; Arrivals + Music by DJ Liz Videnda + Sign Ups for the Punking/Waacking open floor. 4:30 - 5:30 pm —&gt; Queer Wisdom Share Panel: Learn from Queer dancers and djs who will be sharing their lived experiences and visions for a better future across dance club spaces. The panel will cover topics such as inclusion, safety, gender, sexuality, mental health, transformative justice, and cultural appropriation. Panel will be recorded and available to all ticket holders. 5:30-6:00 pm —&gt; Pre-show Vibez: DJ set by Liz Videnda + final sign ups for the Punking/Waacking open floor6:00-7:30 pm —&gt; Showtime! Performances by Amber Nicole, Pita Meanata, Prince Leezy Amor, Solasta McIntyre Ethridge, Jai Severson, Karla Flores, and an open floor - diggs deeper style for Punkers/Waackers. 7:00-7:30 pm —&gt; Dance Party: DJ Set by Liz Videnda7:30-8:00 pm —&gt; Farewell Dj Set: by Prince LuckyActivities throughout the event include food + drinks provided by 7th West, Queer Crafts n Club Fair and spaces to support your own processing of the pandemic and the theme of Dancing Thru Death.How the Punking/Waacking Open Floor Works:Up to 30 one-minute slots. Dj's choice. Potential for longer dancing slots pending sign ups.First come first serve sign ups.*If you purchased a ticket for Project X and had planned to compete in the waacking category your Dancing Thru Death ticket fee is waived. Just show us the ticket you purchased at the door. If you would still like to support our work by purchasing a ticket we would be grateful, but it is not at all expected. We want to recognize that buying two tickets to two events in one weekend is not financial possible for everyone, and everyone deserves to dance, especially PUNK IT OUT.

Panel + Performance Context:With the death of Diggs Deeper and No Mirror Movement, and the ongoing fragmentation of the all styles dance community due to unaddressed misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, community organizer and artist Solasta McIntyre Ethridge, previously known as SammyMac, is bringing folks together one more time to witness and be witnessed so we may understand, heal and grow together again. Through a series of live performances by a queer-led cast, all of whom were present and involved through the 2019 Know Your Rank community talks, we hope to reengage folks of all walks of life and relationships to dance, into these important conversations and begin the long-term work of community repair.Club spaces are Queer spaces. This event serves as a reminder of this history.The event also aims to fill the gap from Diggs Deeper by providing a therapeutically oriented celebratory space for the medicine of music and dance to help us hold, move and grow from complex human experiences, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s send community members Pita and Solasta off with love and care as they leap into the unknown of a new beginning in New York. May we honor each others losses and celebrate still being alive together.Tickets:Limited capacity.Sliding Scale ticket model.$5-$15 Online and at the Door.Cash or card accepted.30% of sales go to Sogorea Te' Land Trusthttps://sogoreate-landtrust.org/purpose-and-vision/60% of sales go to Rainbow Connection Club - collaborative of multi-talented queer gender expansive artists in the Bay Area and New York City.10% covers misc expense*All Project X tickets can attend Dancing Thru Death for free. Just show your Project X ticket to us at the door.

COVID Guidelines for Guests:All guests must have/wear a mask to enter 7th West. All guests are required to complete 7th West’s digital Health Declaration Form and agree to the following:Agree to participate in our Contract Tracing ProgramAgree to a temperature check as 7th West does not allow anyone over 99 degrees to enterAgree to accepting hand sanitizer provided by 7th West upon successful completion of the Health Declaration FormAgree that anytime guests leave their table to go to the bathroom, talk to another table or if they are leaving the venue, masks must be worn at all times. Masks can be taken off while eating and drinking.All ordering of Food &amp; Drink is contactless and must be ordered at your tables through the QR codes. Once items are ready, staff will bring them out directly to the tables.

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