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DRAG KING BONANZA!

A whole evening with Drag Royalty!
We are Celebrating Diane Torr, who will be reading and talking about her new book
The evening will be lined with Drag Kings, Drag King Lovers and Wannabes, we show film clips, have live performance and talk Drag Kings.

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A whole evening with Drag Royalty!

We are Celebrating Diane Torr, who will be reading and talking about her new book Sex, Drag and Male Roles

The evening will be lined with Drag Kings, Drag King Lovers and Wannabes, we show film clips, have live performance and talk Drag Kings. You will see and hear amongst others;

Valentino King who returns to Bar Wotever, thrilling audiences with his striking male appearance and 100% live vocals, covering artistes such as Kings Of Leon, Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams to name but a few.

King Alberto - Daniela Mory aka Drag King Alberto is an all round performing artist who has established herself in London since 2002. Over the years, Daniela focused on developing her musical skills further by obtaining a Diploma in Contemporary Music Performance form Drumtech music school (London). More recently she has been performing in Bologna, Zurich and Tel Aviv.

Flirty Bertie - My name is Bertie and I am a true gentleman, with the manners of a toff and the devastating good looks of a sex god. All suave and debonair.

Adriana Pegorer & Asta Moro with Tango with a “Différance”

The title draws from Derrida’s concept of “Différance” in which he expressed the notion that words and signs can never fully summon forth what they mean and introduced the force of  ‘spacing’ to differentiate elements from one another.…

Disc Jockey who will play all Masculine music for us is the uber Butch Pat Gently

You are encouraged to dress up, down or not for the occasion.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Performance artist Diane Torr has been experimenting with the performance of gender for thirty years—exploring everything from feminist go-go dancing to masculine power play. One of the key pioneers of drag king performance, Torr has been celebrated internationally for her gender transformation workshops, in which she has taught hundreds of ordinary women how to pass as men on city streets around the world. This cultural subterfuge appeals to participants for many different reasons: personal confidence-building, sexual frisson, gender subversion, trans-curiosity, or simply the appeal of disguise and role play.
The book blends first-person memoir and commentary from Torr with critical reflections and contextualization from leading performance critic Stephen Bottoms, including a consideration of the long cultural history of female-to-male cross-dressing.
The book concludes with Torr’s “Do It Yourself” guide to becoming a “Man for a Day.”
Diane Torr developed her cross-disciplinary art in the downtown New York art scene from 1976 to 2002. Now living in Scotland, Torr has earned an international reputation for her performances and gender transformation workshops (featured on HBO, BBC, and This American Life on NPR, among others). Her work is the focus of a feature film, Man for a Day. Stephen J. Bottoms is Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.

BAR WOTEVER
at ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, 372 KENNINGTON LANE, VAUXHALL, SE11 5HY LONDON

Doors 6-Midnight

Film Clips, Talks & Performance from 8pm

Entry Free (Donations Welcome)

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