WELCOME!
It has always been a goal of mine to create a newsletter for The Gender Gallery so folks who do not have Instagram can stay up to date on what we are doing, well here it is! If you ever attended a workshop, event, performance, or showed interest in The Gender Gallery you have been added. Don’t worry you can be taken off at anytime and you should only expect around two emails a month. I am hoping this will be a more accessible way to share information. -River Hedgepeth (Project Leader)
LOOKING TO 2024... We are getting back to devising and performing in 2024 thanks to funding from Alternate Roots and Manbites Dog Theater Fund! The next phase of The Gender Gallery involves the development of two devised performances, “A Reclamation of Love: Love Letters to Gender Expansiveness”, a ritualistic interactive living love letter and “Nature Held Me Close and Seemed to Find No Fault With Me”, an immersive look at how gender expansiveness mirrors nature. These performances draw from two years of creative archives, interviews, community workshops, the initial draft of the documentary devised living exhibits, “The Gender Gallery: Growing Into Our Expansiveness”, as well as the lived experiences of our performers. Together, we aim to create interactive, site-specific creative spaces that celebrate gender expansiveness and amplify untold narratives around gender.
IN 2023... We had our first community workshop in Durham (Love Letters to Gender Expansiveness at People’s Solidarity Hub). River Hedgepeth, Haze Grissett, and Ki Hickman represented The Gender Gallery in the Durham Art Parade! We had planned to walk in the Durham Pride Parade. It was canceled due to rain :( River attended, Alternate Roots’ Roots Week in Arden, NC and facilitated Love Letters to Gender Expansiveness! River led a Theatre for Social Change Workshop for Girls Rock NC! We gave out Bits and Pieces, our collective Zine at North Durham’s Mutual Aid Really Really Free Market. We collaborated on Trans Day of Joy with DSA. Bekah Lanier led a Gender Expansive Zine Workshop at UNC-Charlotte!! We facilitated a workshop at a Teen LGBTQ+ Arts Collective in Hillsborough. River spoke on a panel for UNCG’s production of Galatea, Or Whatever You Be.
WHAT IS THE GENDER GALLERY? The Gender Gallery is an interdisciplinary documentary theatre project that explores the expansiveness of gender through creativity, community, and performance. We facilitate creative community workshops, devised documentary theatrical performances, and pop-up gallery experiences which celebrate gender expansive creativity while cultivating a creative archive about trans and gender-nonconforming lived experiences in the South.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO COLLABORATE WITH US? WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO COLLABORATE ON EVENTS, LEAD CREATIVE WORKSHOPS, AND PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL OR VIRTUAL OPPORTUNITIES! EMAIL US AT THEGENDERGALLERY@GMAIL.COM OR DM US @THEGENDERGALLERY