Calling All Saints & All Sinners!Tis Halloween season, which means the veil is thin & the antics are thic(c)(k).Poetry Brothel Chicago is eager to have YOU join us at our delightfully shapeshifting house of pleasure, The Den Theatre in the evening hours of Sunday Oct 27th.You may strongly identify with Saints, or with Sinners, or perhaps you are wondering if you’re a Saint or a Sinner. Don’t worry, darling: it’s all a spectrum! We aren’t here to judge. The key word here is mentioned twice: ALL are welcome at The Poetry Brothel.Poetry Brothel Chicago"All Saints & All Sinners"Sunday, October 27th7pm (Cocktail Hour) 8pm - 11pm (Main Event)The Den Theatre 1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, ILCostumes encouraged though none are required. (Alas, while we cannot allow you to wear no-thing to this particular brothel, please do feel free to wear any-thing you like.)We will celebrate the creativity of the season with a magical night of poetry, live music, burlesque, rap, vaudevillian comedy, good company, impeccable personal style & immersive games of chance, fate, fortune, willpower, & scheming!Madame N. Gomorrah & Professor Pearl Devour present a rotating cast of poets who impart their work as purveyors of private poetry readings in our transformative boudoir on The Den’s second floor. You may avail yourself of your choice of poet for tokens at any time during the event.In the main Cabaret & Haven, the troupe presents Tarot readings, poetic souvenirs, silhouette portraits, live music, & a fantastical chance to chat with our partners SWOP-Chicago, the Chicago Academy of Burlesque, & Xploring Gender. We are also plotting other surprises, so do stay tuned, & come curious!On the stage, we offer a three-hour roster of variety entertainment… & words, words, words!~~~Hosted by:Coelti Ticsay as Professor Pearl DevourElise Ling as Madame N. GomorrahPoetry by:Kay Kro as Catarina Crowe Charles Russell Price as Butch Puddin'Kamille Garst as Grafinya Lisa Marie Farver as Tootsie RouletteSamuel Alton Ettwein as Lucius Lunaria Allie Zander Othman as Moira the MeddlerAntwon Funches as MoonlightSecquoyah Lacy as The HermitRadia Ali as Scheherazade
Music by Bowmanville - The Band Featured Performances by GLITTER MONEYYY, Willy LaQueue & Lucky StiffTarot by The Divine Fox & An Opal A Day (Emilie Modaff)Silhouette Portraits by Nina Nightingale, Silhouette Portrait ArtistProduction support by Charles Baker, Riley Losh, & Travis ScadronEvent page photo courtesy of Courtney Penzato Photography~~~Further Reading for a Very Good Time:~> On Consent: behave with beauty, connect with intention. We are, by and large, a no-contact event -- here to blow your mind and nothing else! Always ask before touching anyone in our House, and report any discomfort to security or staff or the Madame Herself without delay.~> In addition to its poets, The Poetry Brothel presents artists & activists working in a variety of mediums both on stage and through its ever-changing array of intimate, interactive, & creative services. Artists performing with the Brothel may come from any background & be headed towards any future. ~> The Poetry Brothel celebrates paid personal connection, but recognizes that not everyone can take off the mask of being a “whore” at the end of the night. We use our platform to support sex workers & to teach the public that sex work is real work. Sex work & poetry are two of the oldest professions: both feed the human need for intimacy, fantasy, and desire. By entwining these elements into a seamless, immersive experience, The Poetry Brothel promotes empowered sexuality practices & progressive artistic expression by exhibiting radical inclusion, consensual intimacy, conscious communication, & the fundamental value of beauty in all its forms.~> Inspired by the turn-of-the-century brothels in New Orleans, Paris, & Buenos Aires, many of which functioned as permissive spaces where marginalized, fringe, & avant-garde artists could experiment & perform their work, The Poetry Brothel presents a rotating cast of poets, artists, & artisans who operate within self-constructed characters & share their work through staged public performances, spontaneous immersive eruptions, & most distinctly, as purveyors of poetic goods, services, & experiences in intimate spaces.~> Central to The Poetry Brothel experience is the creation of character, which for each artist serves as disguise & freeing device, enabling The Poetry Brothel to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which artists & audience members alike can communicate more authentically.~> Artists performing with the Brothel are, have been, or might be male, female, faeries, sea creatures, witches, aliens, straight, queer, emerging, established, local, international, virgins, whores, & everything in between or outside such terms.