Thinking Out LOUD
Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14
8:00 pm
$10-20 sliding scale, $5 students
No one turned away for lack of funds
First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans, 5212 South Claiborne Ave
Accessibility: This venue is fully wheelchair accessible.
Trigger warning: This performance addresses mental health struggles, including suicide and sexual assault. We will have space set aside for anyone who needs to step out during the performance.
Thinking Out LOUD is a site-specific, multimedia showcase featuring work from each ensemble member from the third year of LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater. Featuring original theater, dance, music, projection and visual art work, LOUD's youth ensemble takes the audience on an in-depth investigation of the intersections of queerness and mental health. Each unique work in Thinking Out LOUD asks the question: how can we find new ways of thinking of healing as not the act of fixing something broken, but as a lifelong practice rooted in radical community and self-care?
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LOUD, formerly the New Orleans Queer Youth Theater, is an engaging space where LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual) youth and their allies can cultivate tools for self-expression through the process of devising original theater. Our members are outspoken, unapologetic queer and trans* youth who come together in solidarity to build community and control the narratives shared about their lives. In a city with limited access to queer safe space, LOUD’s ensemble creates a much needed community in New Orleans. LOUD is guided by four core values: solidarity, undoing racism, devised theater and youth leadership.
For more information visit www.loudnola.org