Queer Revolutions featuring Yonci

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When Thu Apr 25, 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.

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

Yonci (they/she) is a Cultural Curator, DJ, Musician, and Writer born/raised/based in Minneapolis. Yonci’s practice is an intricate exploration, experimentation, and expansion into the past, present, and future of Black Queer traditions. With more than a decade of experience in traditional West African percussion and jazz instrumentation, radio programming, and arts education and community organizing, Yonci employs performance, the pen & page, bread breaking, and a love ethic in solidarity with marginalized communities and in efforts to create a future free of anti-Blackness and queerphobia. Yonci has performed with Voice of Culture Drum and Dance, Dua Saleh & Vie Boheme for the Cedar Cultural Center Commissions, Blu Bone for Hi Cotton Ball, and Cameron Downey for the Orchid Blues installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara. Their instrumentation has been featured in Rashaad Newsome’s Self-Inventions Monument (2023), with reviews on MplsArt.org and Hair and Nails Gallery Zine. Yonci hosted Studio Arisaema’s artist panel 10’s Talk: Black Trans Femmes in Music (2024), and is host of “Mostly Jazz” on KFAI 90.3fm.