Rock Out Volume 4: Gagged by Goth
PeachOut Productions and The Living Earth Show celebrate the darkly dramatic world of goth music. Lineup TBA.
PeachOut Productions returns with Rock Out Volume 4: Gagged by Goth, an electrifying collaboration with The Living Earth Show that celebrates the darkly dramatic world of goth music. Following the success of their previous Rock Out performances, Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater of PeachOut reunite with Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show to transform The Roar Shack into a live concert experience drag spectacular (lineup TBA). Join us for an unforgettable evening of haunting melodies, big emotions, and beautifully dark music and glamour. Doors open at 6:45, and the show begins promptly at 7:30.
Roar Shack Live!: COMMANDO
Queer rap-metal mayhem: COMMANDO returns for a rare live performance.
Featuring five of the most powerful queer vocalists in California music history–Juba Kalamka (Deep Dickollective), Lynnee Breedlove (Tribe 8, The Homobiles), Drew Arriola Sands (Trap Girl), Krylon Superstar (Double Duchess), and Honey Mahogany (San Francisco Democratic Party)–COMMANDO simultaneously confronts our shared cultural past while making music unlike anything that has come before it.
Quarterbacked by a rhythm section of bassist Van Jackson-Weaver and virtuosic San Francisco experimental chamber duo The Living Earth Show (drummer Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews), COMMANDO synthesizes rock, punk, hip hop, experimental music, metal, screaming, shredding, and poetry create something entirely unique.
Peaches Christ, David Flower, + Roar Shack Live!: Holiday Dark Ride Night 2
TICKETS
A new macabre holiday show built by Peaches Christ, David Flower, and The Living Earth Show.
More information coming soon!
Peaches Christ is a San Francisco–based filmmaker, event producer, and theatre creator renowned for fusing drag, horror, and cult cinema into large-scale live experiences.
Roar Shack Live!: BODYSONNET x The Living Earth Show: Classic
Classic brings music, movement, and the personal histories of the performers into playful conversation, using the idea of “canon” as a lens
Classic brings music, movement, and the personal histories of the performers into playful conversation, using the idea of “canon” as a lens through which artists explore the traditions, influences, and knowledge that shape their practice. Through rigorously structured improvisational scores and curated musical remixes, the work creates a dynamic space for virtuosity, individuality, irony, and surprise to emerge. Rather than presenting fixed choreography, Classic highlights the dancers’ extraordinary skills, instincts, and wealth of knowledge, revealing each artist as both interpreter and author.
BODYSONNET (2019) is a New York-based company committed to site-responsive work. Led by Co-Founders Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (AD) and Mio Ishikawa (AAD), BODYSONNET initiates projects that center dance to yield highly physical works unique to the communities with which we engage. Our work demonstrates the intersection of movement with many mediums through collaboration with local artists and institutions. We redefine the viewer’s experience by developing innovative work that reinforces our shared humanity.
BODYSONNET has presented more than 25 original works for site-specific locations, film, and fixed mediums in The Berkshires (MA), Cologne (Germany), The Hudson Valley, NYC, San Francisco, Northwest Arkansas, and online.
@bodysonnet_
Roar Shack Live!: Terry Riley + The Living Earth Show: Tarantella Hill
Tarantella Hill with The Living Earth Show: classical and experimental music. Details soon.
Roar Shack Live!: Black Thursday
Black Thursday: a night of music celebrating and manifesting collective power. With The Living Earth Show.
Roar Shack Live!: Tanner Porter + The Living Earth Show: Beachcomber
Tanner Porter premieres Beachcomber, a new song cycle written for herself and The Living Earth Show.
Roar Shack Live!: Evicshen + The Living Earth Show
A trio performance by Evicshen (Victoria Shen) & The Living Earth Show.
Roar Shack Live!: Cole Pulice + The Living Earth Show
An evening of new works written and performed by Cole Pulice and The Living Earth Show.
Cole Pulice (they/them) is an electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer based in Oakland, California. Cole’s work blends saxophone and wind synth with live signal processing for a deeply contemporary sound that opens up the surrealist sonic spaces between acoustic and digital worlds, playfully drifting between improvisation, modern composition, and experimentalism to explore themes of gender, emotion and technology, modes of memory, and sensations of time.
In addition to their own work, Cole has performed with Bon Iver, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Toro y Moi, and many others.
Roar Shack Live!: Travis Andrews: The Dharma At Big Sur + Other Selections
Travis Andrews performs new music for electric guitar. Details soon.
Travis Andrews is the co-founder, executive director, and electric guitarist in The Living Earth Show. In that capacity, Andrews' performances have been praised as “mind-blowing” and "a vanguard effort of new chamber music" by the San Francisco Examiner and "emotional, transcendent, and at times bursting with raw post-rock power" by the Charleston City Paper. In his work, he strives to use the tools of classical and contemporary music to foreground the voices and perspectives often marginalized by the tradition and its presentation.
Roar Shack Live!: Conrad Tao & Andy Meyerson
Conrad Tao and Andy Meyerson: piano and percussion. Details soon.
Conrad Tao is a leader of the new generation of classical music. The pianist and composer has amassed a steady stream of awards and critical acclaim for his performances, compositions and recordings. A former prodigy, Conrad has emerged as a mature, thoughtful and thought-provoking artist with both a singular vision and the talent to realize it.
Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States. Named one of the “22 performers to watch in ‘22” by the Washington Post, The Living Earth Show has presented over a decade of “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) new music that pushes the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical music tradition has often excluded.
Roar Shack Live!: Paul Dresher + The Living Earth Show
Paul Dresher is a composer, performer, instrument inventor, and producer.
Roar Shack Live!: A Moment Beyond
Two recent ambient classical pieces by Danny Clay, including the live premiere of a new album release on IIKKI editions.
Program (60 minutes):
Still Cycles
Andy Meyerson, vibraphone
A Moment Beyond
Doug Machiz, cello
Danny Clay, piano on tape loops
A Moment Beyond was commissioned by IIKKI editions as a musical response to the work of Gunnar Smoliansky, who lived and worked for several decades in Sweden developing his own voice in the medium of black and white photography.
A limited amount of CDs and records will be available for purchase at the event.
To listen and purchase this release on IIKKI Editions:
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-beyond
Danny Clay (b.1989) is a composer and educator whose work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things with people of all ages and levels of artistic experience. He sees “composing” as the act of putting things together, and strives to find ways to utilize this act to foster creativity and connection around sound – whether it be writing classically notated compositions, playing musical games with visitors to Chicago’s Millennium Park, or building experimental installations with classes of elementary schoolers.m of lesson plans, videos, and interactive web widgets.
The Living Earth Show: Bucket List
Witness the members of experimental music trio Bucket List play the performance art board game Information Hazard.
Co-presented by Roar Shack Live!
The premise of the game is that Roko, a leader of future beings, has instructed Bucket List to construct and play this game to save humanity. Bucket List members are the three players: two opponents and a referee. The rule book is elaborate, fastidious, and often nonsensical. At times the opponents switch sides, thereby confounding the conventional notion of competition. The scoring system is arcane and perplexingly dynamic. Transgressions result first in penalties, but then in gifts. Sometimes dice are rolled, sometimes they are stacked. Hats can be exchanged. Game pieces can be eaten. All three players must execute absurd but tightly coordinated rhythms and gestures. The game seems incredibly irrational. But, as Bucket List says, “The more we play it, the more it makes sense.”
“I am grateful to my colleagues in our trio Bucket List for taking on the project of learning and playing this esoteric and tremendously difficult game. It may easily be the most or least valuable enterprise ever undertaken.” — Mark Applebaum, composer
Bucket List will play Information Hazard from 4 to 8 p.m. with occasional breaks. Visitors are invited to stay for a few minutes or watch the game unfold over several hours.
This performance was commissioned by the Roar Shack, a creative laboratory located in the heart of Mid-Market, San Francisco.
Roar Shack Live!: The Lambert Show
Lambert premieres a good old fashioned musical variety show: great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.
A breakout star of Honey Mahogany's Black Thursday, Lambert opens The Roar Shack's third season with a show of their very own.
With support from The Living Earth Show, Lambert has created a good old fashioned musical variety show. Expect a night of great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.
Roar Shack Live! Season 3
Season 3 opens with a variety show built by The Living Earth Show performing with Roar Shack all-stars like Tanner Porter, Pamela Z, Peaches Christ, Mark Applebaum, and Lynn Breedlove.
Join us as we ring in a new season of San Francisco-centric experimental performance with highlights from the past two seasons and a preview of the season to come.
Roar Shack Live: Pamela Z & The Living Earth Show
A new collaboration between legendary composer/vocalist/electronic musician Pamela Z and experimental chamber ensemble The Living Earth Show
Building off their prior collaborations as part of the Qube Chix reunion last season, Pamela Z and The Living Earth Show create a new, concert-length collaborative production. Performed as a trio of Pamela Z (vocals/electronics), Travis Andrews (guitars), and Andy Meyerson (percussion), the group explores song, improvisation, chamber composition, and experimental performance as they build a SF-centric artistic vocabulary and practice.
This program is made possible by 836M.
Website: https://pamelaz.com/
Roar Shack Live: Season 3 Launch Gala
Support The Roar Shack At Our Season Preview Launch Fundraiser!
Join The Living Earth Show and friends at Living Earth Day: a Fundraiser Gala to support The Roar Shack’s third season.
The Living Earth Show will preview the upcoming season with a set of new music, present a live set with performances by Trust Me (with Lynn Breedlove) and Bucket List (with Mark Applebaum) announce the lineup for The Roar Shack’s third season to our closest friends, and offer conviviality and a few small bites as we raise funds to support a third year of immersive, multidisciplinary, experimental, pay-what-you-can performance in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Roar Shack Live: Danny Clay & The Living Earth Show
An interactive, participatory, family-friendly musical journey with composer/teacher Danny Clay
What if a piece of music could be learned and played live by both the musicians on-stage AND the audience at the same time?
In this family-friendly evening of community music-making by the Living Earth Show and composer / music teacher Danny Clay, concertgoers will be invited to join in on the noise.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate! Bring whatever instruments you have lying around at home (some small noise-makers will also be provided) and we’ll go on a musical scavenger hunt, play improv games, and traverse a video-game-style musical obstacle-course.
Work Sample : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXqhFiYuBo
More about Danny Clay: https://dclaymusic.com/
Big Ears Festival: Lazyhorse
Prolific composer-visual artist Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation) turns away from the gravitas of the art world and returns to one of music’s most immediate, elemental forms: the band. Though well-versed in the terrain—having played in metal and thrash groups like Tenderizor, Kilt, and White People Killed Them—Chacon now channels the raw energy and aggression of these genres into an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American country western music. Teamed up with bassist/composer/singer Mali Obomsawin (Abenaki First Nation), folk singer/composer/improviser Miriam Elhajli, lap-steel player Steve Hammond, and The Living Earth Show, the band Lazyhorse brings experimental noise into the realm of spaghetti western.
At its core, Lazyhorse is in conversation with the western movies and music—injecting its own mythologies and moral ambiguities into the clean-cut heroics expected in American frontier stories. In Lazyhorse’s hands, its disillusioned antiheroes become sonic centerpieces leading us through landscapes where distortion, silence, and satire collide. Spaghetti westerns may conjure images of isolated frontier towns overrun by warring factions of gangs and outlaws, caricatures of Manichean forces of good and evil. The term may also call to mind wanton violence: dueling firearms, fistfights, and flying arrows. Underlying the spectacle lies the unsubtle fact of Lazyhorse exerts what feels like violent intensity within its starkness— music simmering just on the edge of the known world.
Big Ears Festival: Trust Me
Trust Me – a new band featuring queer storyteller Lynn Breedlove, guitarist Travis Andrews, and percussionist Andy Meyerson – performs a live set from their debut album, Why I Like Dead Guys, at the iconic Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.
A satellite project of The Living Earth Show, Trust Me centers this first album on the unfathomable tragedy Breedlove experienced in 2020: the brutal murders of his father and stepmother by his stepbrother in their Grass Valley home. In August 2024, the trio recorded the project and built a live show that tells the story of grief, love, and growth over seven days in the house where the murder took place.
This live performance coincides with the release of Why I Like Dead Guys on all digital platforms on March 27.
"Why I Like Dead Guys" Release Concert
Three years after we started writing, Trust Me is honored to release our debut album: “Why I Like Dead Guys.”
It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with Lynn Breedlove to bring this album to life, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
We’ll be releasing it on March 27 through all streaming platforms, but we’ll be playing an album release show at The Roar Shack on Wednesday, March 25, and at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN on March 28.
Noe Music Kids - Danny Clay, Mark Applebaum, and The Living Earth Show
Get ready to explore the wild side of sound with composers and instrument-inventors Danny Clay, Mark Applebaum, and the boundary-busting duo The Living Earth Show! In this interactive concert, everyday objects become musical instruments, experiments turn into adventures, and kids help shape the music itself. Together we’ll discover how curiosity, play, and imagination can transform noise into art and sound into community. If you were there last season, you know how much fun this really was! Your kid might even start fancying themselves a composer.
We’ll offer this 45-minute performance twice: first from 10:30–11:15 am for the general public, and again from 12:00–12:45 pm as an Azure concert designed for autistic and neurodivergent kids and their families.
Roar Shack Live: Lazyhorse
Raven Chacon with Mali Obomsawin, Andy Meyerson, and Travis Andrews
Lazyhorse is a rotating collective ensemble, prompted by contributed fragments, shards and shared effects from various members. The music of Lazyhorse is an embracing of distortion, classical extended techniques, and song collage.
“The First Light Sessions” #2
Musicians Travis Andrews (guitar), David Coulter (musical saw/multi-instrumentalist), and Andy Meyerson (percussion) perform live in the gallery, improvising in response to the solid light works on view. As visitors move through the space, touching and interacting with the cones of projected light, they immerse themselves in these cinematic sculptures and the live music, journeying through and creating their own perspectives of sight and sound. The program is modeled on “Four Simultaneous Soloists,” a music series organized by David Grubbs for a previous McCall exhibition.
Sliding Scale Tickets Free -$60
Roar Shack Live! Spring Season
Led by Juba Kalamka and featuring Andy Meyerson, Travis Andrews, and Van Jackson Weaver, Dr. Bittinger is a rock, rap and rhythmic blues-fused confrontational Black queer ancestral reckoning with reappropriated pimp-slapping bass to your face.
6:45 PM - 7:30 PM Doors open. Grab a drink!
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Performance
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Post-show Hang
PIVOT Festival: Parallel Play
Now in its eleventh year, San Francisco Performances’ annual PIVOT Festival is eagerly anticipated for its fresh, delightful sampling of captivating and compelling music of our time.
Guest curated this season by Andy Meyerson of San Francisco’s own The Living Earth Show, these three programs offer a thrilling and intimate survey of the networks, interconnections, and impacts of new music.
For this performance, choreographer/dancer Myles Thatcher and percussionist Andy Meyerson offer a contemporary take on the classical ballet pas de deux. Their program will include John Cage’s Child of Tree, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, a work that hasn’t been performed publicly since Cage’s death; Nicole Lizée’s The Filthy 15, with choreography by Rex Wheeler (aka Lady Camden), inspired by songs were at the center of a censorship battle in the 1980s; and a world premiere by Myles Thatcher, with music by Bach.
Myles Thatcher is a member of San Francisco Ballet and, among other works, he choreographed the company’s acclaimed Colorforms, an innovative dance and film collaboration with SFMOMA.
PIVOT Festival: Satellite
Now in its eleventh year, San Francisco Performances’ annual PIVOT Festival is eagerly anticipated for its fresh, delightful sampling of captivating and compelling music of our time.
Guest curated this season by Andy Meyerson of San Francisco’s own The Living Earth Show, these three programs offer a thrilling and intimate survey of the networks, interconnections, and impacts of new music.
In this performance, diverse and compelling “bands” of Bay Area composer/performers share the stage for a thrilling evening of music and movement, including Bucket List (Mark Applebaum, Travis Andrews, Andy Meyerson) and KoollooK (Babatunji, Travis Andrews, Andy Meyerson).
PIVOT Festival: Legacies
Now in its eleventh year, San Francisco Performances’ annual PIVOT Festival is eagerly anticipated for its fresh, delightful sampling of captivating and compelling music of our time.
Guest curated this season by Andy Meyerson of San Francisco’s own The Living Earth Show, these three programs offer a thrilling and intimate survey of the networks, interconnections, and impacts of new music.
In this evening of multidimensional works by two generations of living composers, vocalist Tanner Porter joins The Living Earth Show guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson in performances of works by Sleeping Giant composers group members and their protegés. Featured will be music by Timo Andres, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Andrew Norman.
Bucket List: Night 2
A band in which ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist in fragile harmony.
Achievement is a continuous, 50-minute piece made up of 13 crossfaded musical modules, each designed by Bucket List’s alter ego—"The Achievement Institute." Performed in the round, some traditional seating will be available, but listeners are also encouraged to take in the soothing tones on their own yoga mat and pillow.
Bucket List
A band whose ludic whimsy and rigorous discipline coexist in fragile harmony.
An artistic whiplash of changing styles, moods, and instruments. The concert showcases Bucket List’s dedication to the deadly serious but playfully ludic execution of carefully planned explosions of absurdity, whimsy, gravity, and levity: funk and rock grooves; subtle jazz improvisations; minimalist phasing accompanied by choreography; mercurial, gritty new complexity chamber music; performance art with office supplies and doodads; time-lapse video of a trip to the grocery store; incompetent but vociferously executed vocalizations made whilst trapped in a purple, three-person pope costume; and the reckless administration of mustard to a series of hotdogs.
Smells Like Queen Spirit
PeachOut Productions’ ROCK OUT! Volume 2: Smells Like Queen Spirit, will occur at The Roar Shack on November 3.
Featuring live performances by Vinsantos, Fauxnique, Carnie Asada, Mama Celeste, Kat Robichaud, Cheetah Biscotti, Kylie Minono, Grace Towers, H.P. Mendoza, and Peaches Christ herself with a live band comprised of Andy Meyerson, Travis Andrews, and Edwin Outwater, Smells Like Queen Spirit presents an evening of grunge exploded and reimagined by some of the most iconic drag performers in the Bay.
This isn’t karaoke. This is revolution. Live, loud, and unapologetically queer.
Koollooꓘ: Night 2
Koollooꓘ is a multidisciplinary collective exploring the boundaries of sound, movement, theater, and performance. Koollooꓘ has built a site-specific work for The Roar Shack, using physical space as a character for choreography and movement, new music and sounds, and the shared exploration of the boundaries of what live performance can do.
Because the performance occupies the entire space, seating and tickets are extremely limited. Reserve a spot now!
Koollooꓘ: Night 1
Koollooꓘ is a multidisciplinary collective exploring the boundaries of sound, movement, theater, and performance. Koollooꓘ has built a site-specific work for The Roar Shack, using physical space as a character for choreography and movement, new music and sounds, and the shared exploration of the boundaries of what live performance can do.
Because the performance occupies the entire space, seating and tickets are extremely limited. Reserve a spot now!
Lyra at Washington University St. Louis
The Living Earth Show and Post: ballet present Lyra, a new collaborative production featuring the music of composer Samuel Adams, the movement of choreographer Vanessa Thiessen, and the cinematography of Benjamin Tarquin.
Deemed one of the “22 for ’22 performers to watch” (Washington Post), The Living Earth Show presents multimedia productions featuring music, movement, and visual art. WashU will experience the group’s collaboration with composer Samuel Adams ’10MM and Bay Area dance collective Post:ballet with dance artist Babatunji Johnson in Lyra, a program of live music, film, and dance.
Roar Shack Live! presents Black Thursday
Roar Shack Season Two
Come check out Honey Mahogany’s Black Thursday, our first show at The Roar Shack in our new season! Honey is brilliant, and she has curated a spectacular lineup of singers, drag performers, burlesque artists, and musicians to make one of the most unique and powerful drag shows in San Francisco. Tickets are VERY limited!
EMPAC: Lazyhorse
For TOPOS, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and visual artist Raven Chacon sheds the gravitas of the art world and returns to one of music’s most raw and immediate forms: the band. Drawing on his roots in noise, thrash, and metal (Tenderizor, KILT, White People Killed Them), Chacon channels that energy into an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American musical traditions: country, folk, and their haunted echoes.
Lazyhorse marks the latest chapter in Chacon’s nearly decade-long collaboration with The Living Earth Show (percussionist Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews). Known for transforming the chamber ensemble model into a platform for genre-defying invention, The Living Earth Show builds immersive sonic worlds with their collaborators. After their lauded piece Tremble Staves, Chacon and the duo return with a new vision, this time centering songcraft, improvisation, and the unruly edges of music.
At its core, Lazyhorse is haunted by the spaghetti western—a film genre that injected moral ambiguity into the clean-cut heroics of the American frontier myth. In Chacon’s hands, these disillusioned antiheroes become sonic archetypes, spectral guides complicit in westward violence, leading us through a landscape where distortion, silence, and satire collide.
Commissioned by EMPAC, Lazyhorse assembles a powerhouse lineup: Mali Obomsawin (bass), Miriam Elhajli (vocals, guitar), Steve Hammond (lap steel), Chacon (keys/guitars), and The Living Earth Show. Together, they form a genre-exploding band that dissects and reconstructs the mythology of Americana, stitching together songs that are as biting as they are hauntingly beautiful.
This is no nostalgia trip: Chacon’s topos is resistance. Lazyhorse confronts the violence of empire through sound, turning the stage into a site of reckoning, reclamation, and radical reimagination.
Roar Shack Live: The Qube Chix (Night 2)
A new reunion production created by The Qube Chix (Pamela Z, Leigh Evans, and Julie Queen) with The Living Earth Show.
The final show in the Roar Shack Live's inaugural season will be a new reunion production created by new wave/experimental performance legends The Qube Chix. Featuring Bay Area luminaries Pamela Z, Julie Queen, and (now Pacific Northwesterner) Leigh Evans, The Qube Chix were one of the foremost experimental performance art groups in the early 1990's. Each member has gone on to illustrious individual careers, but this performance will be the first official The Qube Chix performance in several decades.
Blending new wave, experimental music, performance art, butoh dance, electronic music, and theater, The Qube Chix (joined by The Living Earth Show) will create a fittingly immersive, powerful, and boundary-defying end to The Roar Shack's season.
Roar Shack Live: The Qube Chix (Night 1)
A new reunion production created by The Qube Chix (Pamela Z, Leigh Evans, and Julie Queen) with The Living Earth Show.
The final show in the Roar Shack Live's inaugural season will be a new reunion production created by new wave/experimental performance legends The Qube Chix. Featuring Bay Area luminaries Pamela Z, Julie Queen, and (now Pacific Northwesterner) Leigh Evans, The Qube Chix were one of the foremost experimental performance art groups in the early 1990's. Each member has gone on to illustrious individual careers, but this performance will be the first official The Qube Chix performance in several decades.
Blending new wave, experimental music, performance art, butoh dance, electronic music, and theater, The Qube Chix (joined by The Living Earth Show) will create a fittingly immersive, powerful, and boundary-defying end to The Roar Shack's season.
Roar Shack Live: Post:post:ballet
Join The Living Earth Show and a slew of amazing guests in a variety show tribute to the legacy of our favorite dance company.
Roar Shack Live!'s 9th show will be a variety show tribute to Post:ballet, one of our most influential collaborators.
It's hard to overstate the impact of Post:ballet on The Living Earth Show's existence, practice, and life in San Francisco. One of our longest collaborators, Post:ballet has changed the game in terms of how multidisciplinary experimental art is presented and appreciated. We've performed dozens of shows with them, built a bunch of evening length productions (like Lyra), and have grown as sibling organizations over the past ten years.
This past January, Post:ballet presented its final production as a company in San Francisco. We wanted to pay tribute to the groundbreaking music, movement, and performance that was created as a result of our decade-long collaborative relationship in the form of a wonderfully chaotic variety show.
We've invited some of our pals who we knew from working with Post (who have gone on to become renowned San Francisco creators in their own rights), and we're honored to present an evening of sound, movement, and love inspired by one of the most influential and inspiring arts organizations we've had the good fortune of working with.
With performances by Moscylene ParkeHarrison, Riley Nicholson, Doug Machiz, Producer Dennis (Dennis Aman), Mia J. Cheong, Ben Tarquin, and The Living Earth Show (and more guests to come), Post:Post:ballet will be a one-of-a-kind, one-night-only event.
The event will sell out and capacity is EXTREMELY limited because we'll be putting the dance floor on the bar again, so make sure you snag a spot before they're gone!
Roar Shack Live: Honey Mahogany presents “Black Thursday”
Black Thursday is night of music created by Honey Mahogany & her chosen family of collaborators to celebrate and manifest collective power.
For the 8th show of our Roar Shack Live! season, Honey Mahogany will present Black Thursday: a night of music and performance to celebrate and manifest collective power.
Honey Mahogany is a multi-hyphenate San Francisco legend who has worked in drag, music, and political organizing as a force for queer and trans voices in the Bay Area and beyond.
Honey was the first San Franciscan on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and was one of the first contestants to release commercially available music: her debut single It’s Honey was released in 2012, and she has recorded with myriad collaborators ever since. She has worked with everyone from youth hip-hop group the Alphabet Rockers to punk legends The Homobiles to her and The Living Earth Show’s own queer music collective COMMANDO.
As the co-founder of The Stud Collective, she created Black Fridays, SF’s first all-Black queer variety show, and hosted Mahogany Mondays for five years in the Castro, featuring women, trans people, and people of color performing everything from live music to burlesque.
Featuring legendary guest performers by SF drag and music legends Dulce De Leche, Militia Towers, and Lambert Moss and a backing band comprised of The Living Earth Show (guitarist Travis Andrews and drummer Andy Meyerson) and bassist Van Jackson-Weaver, Black Thursday will be a one night only celebration of strength and community.
SFPL Night of Ideas: Music for Hard Times
The Living Earth Show performs Danny Clay’s “Music for Hard Times” at the San Francisco Public Library’s Night of Ideas festival.