MASCellaneous
A creative workshop series exploring queer masculinities
MASCellaneous
about
By providing a nuanced and interactive space for LGBTQ+ community to engage in creative dialogue, the program seeks to create new queer masculine archetypes, shift existing queer masculine culture, and create affinity amongst cis and trans men and masculine of center women and non-binary people.
Diamond wave hosted these workshops regularly from 2021-2022 but has temporarily paused programming to explore new ways to share this offering with our communities in the future. Stay tuned!
Past Workshops
Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for an in-person, hands-on workshop to learn how to write successful grants for drag.
Multidisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías will facilitate attendees' connections between identity, community, art, & euphoric queer visionaries
With Kehinde's guidance, attendees will begin to tap into the power of their divine masculine and divine feminine using the sacred Egyptian deities, Isis and Horus, as a point of reference as well as two archetype examples. Through group discussions and activities, participants will peel back the colonial layer of gender and re-tell our stories through the lens of empowerment and balance.
Join digital content producer & curator Gentry McShane for a virtual workshop centering everyone’s favorite internet content, memes! We’ll discuss how to utilize online platforms to center radical gender identities, practice creating content together, and walk through which free apps make the dankest memes.
No agenda meetup and celebration for nonbinary people on International Nonbinary People’s Day! Register Now!
Queer fantasy roleplaying event exploring queer identity through Dungeons & Dragons with panel, performances and live game play. Register Now!
Drag artist & activist Landa Lakes explores Chickasaw myths and ideas while cooking and discussing gender identities in the kitchen. Register Now!
Join Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman for a no agenda meetup for masculine-of-center queers to connect and discuss queer masculinities. Register Now!
Join artist Nick Ishimaru in this 90-minute creative workshop exploring Noh, Kabuki and Butoh movement in relation to gender expression. Register Now!
Join artist Edgar-Arturo (IG @edgararturoartist) in this workshop about the importance of storytelling as a way to explore masculinities and to break down gender walls. Register Now!
Join your fav fey thaddies Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman for a virtual night of soft tunes and softer masculinities. We’ll be building a playlist together and talking about how the songs reflect our gender expressions. Register Now!
In the final workshop of the 2021 Spring/Summer MASCellaneous series, dancer and performance artist Javier Stell-Frésquez will lead participants through 90-minutes of discussion and movement-based facilitated sharing. Register Now!
Attendees will explore the ways we can (and sometimes already do) wear masculinity! Take a journey through watching drag performances, sharing your own stories, and diving into nurturing discussions where you'll hear from myself, Jota Mercury, regarding my own connection with masculinity and how the world of drag urged me into self acceptance, love, and so much more.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to craft personal narratives that are (yo)uniquely yours. Weaving together pop culture case studies, social marketing fundamentals, and narrative psychology techniques, we’ll explore how storytelling can help you define and/redefine your sense of self, masculinity, and the world.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about how to apply makeup and see a live demonstration, focusing on why makeup is applied the way it is and how to assess skin type and problem solving techniques for their features.
Come explore what makes your gender YOUR gender in this hour long interactive workshop. It's 60 minutes of listening, playing, writing, and sharing including an overview of the artist’s book “How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity,” a guided identity exploration and visualization exercise, writing time and discussion.
In the play Type/Caste, God (in the form of a Nigerian drag queen) says, "Demons are nothing but characters out of the stories we tell ourselves." In this 90-minute interactive workshop we will explore how to craft theatrical narratives that liberate us from the demons of convention and conformity. Theatre artist Rotimi Agbabiaka will present excerpts from his solo shows Type/Caste and MANIFESTO and share techniques for embodying all the characters that reside within us.
MASCellaneous workshop series was curated by Diamond Wave’s Artistic Director Kevin Seaman with input from an eight-person community advisory board (Shannon Amitin, KB Boyce, Leigh Crow, Sarah Guerra, Nick Ishimaru, Honey Mahogany, Baruch Porras-Hernandez and James Rouse Iñiguez) and builds upon the Queer Masculinities Discussion Group and MASCellaneous workshops that Diamond Wave hosted throughout 2020.