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Cockettes Nouveau Fundraiser at The Roxie on Monday, July 8 featuring Tricia’s Wedding
Light! Camera! Action!
The Cockettes Nouveau are heading back to New York City to perform at Joe's Pub this October and need to raise travel funds.
Join them for a night of glamour as they salute Cockettes on the Silver Screen at the Roxie Theater on Monday, July 8 at 6:15pm featuring three short films, Tricia's Wedding (1971), Highlights from Cockettes Are Golden (2021), The Hibiscus Video (2020) plus a Silent Auction.
$15 General Admission and $20 Preferred Seating with a Cockettes goodie bag!
Tickets and more information: https://roxie.com/film/cockettes-on-the-silver-screen/
Come out for a fabulous night of Cockettes fun. There will be a silent auction featuring mementos from Scrumbly Koldewyn's closet and the cast, plus art by Carl Linkhart, Danny Nicoletta, David Lawrence Hawkins, Gooch, Heidi Alletzhauser, Randall Whitehead, Thomasina Demaio and more!
Sebastian, the director of Tricia's Wedding, will be on hand for a Q&A with other Cockettes after the screening.
The film program:
Hibiscus Video
2020, 3 mins, Digital, USA. Narrated by Mary Lou Harris
This three minute documentary about the Cockettes’ founder Hibiscus made by his sister will get you every time as it beautifully and lyrically tells Hibiscus' story and celebrates the freedom he brought to all those around him.
Cockettes Are Golden
2021, 73 mins, Digital, USA. Photographed and Edited by Dave Johnson
On January 4, 2020, the Cockettes Are Golden, a 50th Anniversary Celebration, premiered at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco. There was a line wrapped around the block, and the audience was so excited it took 30 minutes to calm them down to start the show. What follows is a 73 minute cut of highlights from the show which features recreations of many of the Cockettes most famous numbers. Hosted by the Thrillpeddlers impresario Russell Blackwood and featuring many of the Thrillpeddlers troupe and a who's who of San Francisco performers. Featuring Bambi Lake’s final performance and special guest cult film icon John Waters. Produced by Dan Karkoska.
Tricia’s Wedding
1971, 31 mins, 16mm-to-DCP. Directed by Milton Miron aka Sebastian
The Cockettes in their only movie made this spoof of President Nixon’s daughter Tricia getting married in 1971. It was shown at the exact time the actual wedding happened. It was eventually screened in the White House causing Nixon to consider going after the troupe.
“Hilarious, shocking, and decades ahead of its time, Tricia’s Wedding is a mini-masterpiece of political theatre that brings together guerrilla drag, performance art, the burgeoning queer aesthetic of practitioners like John Waters and Charles Ludlam, and demolishes them all in the process.” – David Serlin, Communication and Science Studies, Critical Gender Studies, University of California at San Diego.
Come revel in psychedelic debauchery as you’ve never seen it before with a new pristine 4K remaster of Tricia’s Wedding. Restoration commissioned by Frameline and the OutFest UCLA Legacy Project and facilitated by the UCLA Film & Television Archive for the 50th anniversary of this queer cinema landmark.
If you want to donate directly to the Cockettes Nouveau Travel Fund, go here: https://gofund.me/7284f9bd
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2473077-0
Facebook: https://go.evvnt.com/2473077-2
