Print ArticleMarch 26, Thursday Night.
Club TSI.
Life's A Drag!
Outrageous Drag Comedian Karrissa Wade (One of the original Springfield Venue Pioneers and the original owner of Eden) hosts an over the top Stand up show in full Drag, featuring an unmentionable performance by the oldest living dragqueen in Captivity, Blossom. Simultaneously the club will be hosting an indoors skating expo on the TSI halfpipe and the evening will be Deejayed by Jonathan Berlin and Jared Bowser of the Sunbears (http://www.myspace.com/sunbearsmusic ).
The Sunbears will be leaving on tour very shortly with Black Kids, the local band whose album was listed as one of the top 50 releases internationally bt NME magazine (http://www.blackkidsmusic.com/) and Mates of State, and have all the indications of being about to break nationally.
In addition, Jared Bowser just finished his interview with Playboy magazine, a 3,000 word bit on his recent controversies in the landmark digital copyright case which placed the talented young musician on house arrest. (http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512521). Already creating a good bit of buzz, this will be an unduplicatable experience. Lots of fun.
March 31st, Tuesday Night
Florida Theater
Metro Jacksonville is sponsoring a limited number of tickets to the LATheaterworks radioshow performance of War of the Worlds and The Lost World, science fiction classics by HG Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle respectively.
This is sheer steampunk wonderfulness as the stories were penned at the end of the Victorian Era and still exude all of the great story telling and sensibility of the age.
The performances are done in costume at microphone with all of dramatic interp and vocal skills of the 1930s era radio shows.
Contact Stephendare to be included on the Metro Jacksonville list for the performances. Wearing Victorian Era or steampunk costumes is totally encouraged and totally not necessary to get on our list.
This will be a brilliant setting (the Florida Theater is an old Movie Palace of the great era) and the performances are getting rave reviews across the country.
Tuesday, March 31 at 8 pm
Tickets- $38.50 and $28.50
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redpixie
March 26, 2009, 03:39:38 PMi'll be there!
It's really good to see more stuff like this happening downtown.
Props to metrojacksonville for sponsoring the old radio show format!
redpixie
March 26, 2009, 03:49:23 PMHow does the metrojacksonville list work? How many passes can I reserve?
stephendare
March 26, 2009, 09:05:20 PMjust email me and I will send the info!
This is going to be a great show!
Also, the show at TSI is going to be pretty fun tonight.
stephendare
March 26, 2009, 09:25:18 PMtwo of the guys from sunbears, Jonathan Berlin and Jared Bowser. They will be deejaying the event at TSI tonight.
stephendare
March 26, 2009, 10:32:08 PMKarissa Wade, the emcee of the drag show
redpixie
March 27, 2009, 03:12:19 PMthanks for the heads up on the show last night. We went and had an absolute blast.
I didnt realize TSI was as fun as all that.
Also, thanks for the passes to the show on Tuesday night.
You guys should do a lot more of this. I bet there are all kinds of places that would participate.
Thanks!
stephendare
March 28, 2009, 10:41:21 AMNo problem, redpixie! It was great seeing you there Thursday! (Im glad you enjoyed meeting justin, btw)
It looks like its going to be a pretty good group at the War of the Worlds as well.
stephendare
March 31, 2009, 11:56:05 AMtonight is the War of the Worlds Show.
Cant wait for it. A pretty sizeable group of us are going to it.
stephendare
April 02, 2009, 09:06:13 AMThe Jacksonville Steampunk Society at the performance of War of the Worlds.
stephendare
April 02, 2009, 11:39:11 AMThis was an awesome show, btw. Lots of fun! The above photos were provided by Josh Taylor, one of the many people there with metrojacksonville.
The director of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Rick Minor, is the very back fellow.
stephendare
April 02, 2009, 01:29:42 PMOcklawaha also came in full regalia. Of course he can outsteam the steamiest of the steampunks.
BridgeTroll
April 02, 2009, 01:31:56 PMstephendare
April 06, 2009, 04:41:21 PMBridgetroll
You should come out to the skater expo/drag show on this thursday.
My Zorn took third place in the skate competition last week.
Of course he's a bit of a bad ass.
BridgeTroll
April 06, 2009, 07:19:08 PMstephendare
April 09, 2009, 04:30:39 PMTonight the show is going to be pretty great at TSI.
The past two weeks were even busier than the first. Karissa Wade is being joined by two others, including a totally hilarious comedy chica named "Chiqui" who makes her own costumes and was recently on stage looking like the very embodiment of The Great Cabbage!
It should be a blast.
Hope to see you guys there.