Leigh Bowery homage & queer film classic at Blue Sunshine
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As a farewell to the Montréal’s littlest cinema salon, Blue Sunshine (which also screens Canadian film classic The Winter Kept Us Warm this Sat. Apr. 28), the rag-tag team from Mascara & Popcorn present new performances by Redhead Burlesque Theatre that promise to be “messy and glamourous and everything in between,” and an ode to queer fashion icon Leigh Bowery.
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Much as they were inspired by John Waters for their burlesque festival last summer, this Thursday’s one-night-only performance will be an homage to “cultural lip-synching transvestite” Leigh Bowery, the late London-based performer and fashion designer.
“Leigh Bowery’s larger-than-life persona, thought-provoking attitude and critical look at society taps in the same lines as Mascara and Popcorn and Blue Sunshine,” says Mascara & Popcorn founder Florence Touliatos. While it may be a little on the underground side to be truly lamented by most, Blue Sunshine – “Montréal’s Psychotronic Film Centre” – is an intimate film screening venue on the Main that is sadly in its final days, and the M&P sex-pots want to see it out in style!
The Red Head burlesquers will be premiering a new piece (that they will bring back to the Mainline for their festival in June), Top Her Wear! a.k.a. Pretty and Pink “an abrasive, provocative… extravagant new performance piece by our dysfunctional answer to vaudeville.” The performances will be followed by a screening of The Legend of Leigh Bowery, a revealing BBC documentary tribute featuring interviews with Boy George and Damian Hirst.
And if you can’t make this “evening for club kids, party monsters, fashion victims and lovers of bold, uncompromising, outrageous entertainment,” and you’re more in the mood to discover an underground queer classic, then you have to check out The Winter Kept Us Warm on Saturday (April 28, 8pm) one of the first independent feature films ever to be made in Canada.
Presented by 2B Top Ten personalities Tom Waugh and Matt Hays, this full-length fiction film made waves in 1965 as Canada’s first English language film ever to be invited to Cannes, and is a critically reclaimed favourite for its depiction of a gay love story from before the decriminalization of sodomy!
The Legend of Leigh Bowery & Redhead Burlesque Theatre
Thursday, April 26, 8pm
Blue Sunshine Film Space
3660, St-Laurent blvd – 3rd floor
$8.00
AND
The Winter Kept Us Warm
Saturday, April 28, 9pm
3660, St-Laurent blvd – 3rd floor
Here’s a little clip from The Winter Kept Us Warm:
Blue Sunshine‘s closing party will be May 18th, with a retrospective programme forthcoming!
Check out a different kind of tribute to Leigh Bowery, by Italian queer popster Hard Ton:
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