Queer Revolutions featuring DJ Michel.Be

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When Thu Apr 04, 2024

Where Walker Art Center

Price Free

Black queer joy is powerful and influential. It brings us together, gives us connection, and changes the world. Activating Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon, Queer Revolutions showcases local queer DJs and features their guest-curated evenings filled with performance, music, and collective power. Paired with drinks by local bartending collective Mama San, each Queer Revolution shakes the walls of the Walker with local queer expression.

“My coming out story starts in the year 2006, senior year high school, downtown Minneapolis, Gay 90’s hip-hop room. Many of the basketball girls, both closeted and out, were there…every Sunday.” —DJ Michel.Be

Join us for a flashback to the early 2000s, where DJ Michel.Be will be spinning memorable hip-hop and R & B cuts. Bringing us all back to a time just before social media changed the way we socialize.

Everyone is welcome. Must be 21+ for alcohol. The program is free, but space is limited. Entry is not guaranteed.

Accessibility, Content, and Sensory Notes

This program will include discussions of sexuality and gender.

The evening may contain flickering effects and sudden changes in pitch, tone, and volume.

For information about accessibility or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.

For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.

Bio

With family roots in Chicago, Michel.Be was born and raised in South Minneapolis. Radical healing and revolutionary practice lies at the core of their artistry and community work. Michel.Be is driven to evoke spiritual power through music while creating positive dance spaces and artistic opportunities for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Womyn, and Youth. Performing locally and internationally, DJ Michel.Be uses music to impact nightlife dance floors, radio, and grassroots movement spaces. As a DJ and curator, Michel has collaborated with organizations such as Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Walker Art Center, Juxtaposition Arts, Twin Cities Pride, First Avenue, and many more. DJ Michel.Be has also hosted radio programs and has been featured on local stations such as KMOJ, KRSM, JAZZ88, KFAI, and MN Public Radio. From vinyl to digital, DJ Michel.Be aims to embody the evolving spiritual chronicle of music in pursuit of the Afro Future.