QUEER, ILL, & OKAY

A project in Chicago, IL by JRV MAJESTY
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Queer, Ill, & Okay is an experimental performing arts series exploring queer artists relationships with chronic illness.
Backers: 123
Average Pledge Per Backer: $34

Funded: $4,142 of $3,500
Dates: May 5th -> Jun 4th (30 days)
Project By: JRV MAJESTY
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Latest News

FINAL 12 HOURS

June 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Friends as we go into our final night of the QUEER, ILL, & OKAY campaign I cannot thank you enough for the amount of love and support you've provided! The show will happen and more opportunities are becoming available as those final funds rise!... (Read More)

TRUDGE ON! TRUDGE ON! THANK YOU!

May 31st - via: kickstarter.com
THANK YOU to everyone who has donated and supported QUEER, ILL, & OKAY!  We have reached our goal with 3 DAYS LEFT! This means that all your friends and kin who wanted to donate still can! The donations we get will allow us to cover taxes and... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Patrick Gill

May 29th - via: kickstarter.com
PATRICK GILL QUEER, ILL, & OKAY welcomes featured artist Patrick Gill! Patrick is the Co-Creator and Editor of In Our Words, the Co-Founder of the queer reading series All The Writers I Know and the co-producer/zine maker for Word Is Out, a... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Mary Fons

May 28th - via: kickstarter.com
MARY FONS QUEER, ILL, & OKAY is thrilled to showcase Mary Fons! Mary is a The Neo-Futurists alumni and host of Quilty. She is a wordsmith and storyteller whose inherent belief in capturing truth and playing with its form offers invaluable... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Chris Knowlton

May 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Chris Knowlton Christopher Knowlton is a dancer, performer and scientist working an advanced degree in biomechanics. Recently, Chris's dance film was a finalist in Science Magazine's international online Dance Your Ph.D. contest. Chris was invited... (Read More)

Catch Fire feature: Only 1 Week Left to Support the Performance Series “Queer, Ill & Okay”!

May 27th - via: kickstarter.com
“Queer, Ill, & Okay” is an experimental performance series started by Joseph Varisco, founder of the Chicago-based multimedia production collective JRV MAJESTY. The collective has done wonderful and impressive community work over the past 3... (Read More)

Producer Message: Home Again

May 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear backers, We're writing to say one thing: YOU. ARE. AWESOME. You helped QUEER, ILL, & OKAY raise nearly $3,000. Thank you so much! We made this short video, an excerpt from Home Again, which was the impetus for QUEER, ILL, & OKAY to take... (Read More)

Special Limited Edition Rewards: Christopher Knowlton's SWANTS

May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
SWANTS QUEER, ILL, & OKAY artist Christopher Knowlton is offering up 10 of their custom handmade limited edition SWANTS as part of our Kickstarter rewards!  Knowlton describes a deep relationship to the making of SWANTS and his own illness as... (Read More)

one+love Feature: QUEER, ILL, & OKAY

May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
one+love Feature: QUEER, ILL, & OKAY Meet Joseph R. Varisco. Also known as JRV MAJESTY. Which is fitting, since so much of his work is dedicated to coronating queer storytelling in all its pathos, pomp, and circumstance. He’s the queer HIV+... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Sara K.

May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
SARA K. Sara K. is a queer theatre artist and activist based in Chicago. She served as the education director at About Face Theatre from 2009-13 where she received a Windy City Times 30-Under-30 Award and a TCG Global Connections Grant to lead the... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Tim'm West

May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
TIM'M WEST Tim'm T. West is a fierce, macho, feminist, jock black queer HIV positive activist, rapper, author, public intellectual who was infected with HIV in their mid-twenties. In 1999 a doctor told Tim'm he had a year to live. He is is now 42... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Cruel Valentine

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
CRUEL VALENTINE Cruel Valentine is Chicago's Own Community Chest. Originally from Ann Arbor, MI, she has made herself at home in the Windy City. A life long singer, actor, dancer and artist, Valentine began performing the art of burlesque in 2007.... (Read More)

Artist Spotlight: Dirty Grits

May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
DIRTY GRITS Dirty Grits is the conceptual catalyst of a dancer, choreographer, wordplay fanatic and powerhouse performance artist. Bringing together the immediacy of intersections in race, gender, class, sexuality and faith, Dirty Grits is ready to... (Read More)

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