At the Grand Opening of go drag! festival everyone will gather together who made the festival possible to raise a toast and celebrate at Tipsy Bear Berlin.
The event will begin with the Berlin Off Stage exhibition by Aja Jacques. Bridge Markland the initiator of go drag! festival will hold a speech. Together you will take a look at what is to come for the nine days of drag festivities. From 19.00 there will be a concert featuring performers from the Berlin drag community who make their own original music, Dornika aka manyfacegodx and Mad Kate.
Dornika is a gender fluid Iranian-American artist. Berlin based musician, visual artist, drag performer and vocal coach. Born in Tehran, she migrated with her mom to the US at age 7 only to move back a few years later to Tehran where she grew up. She moved to Berlin in 2017, establishing herself shorty after in the vibrant queer nightlife scene, creating alter-ego Many Faced Godx, and mixing drag, music and dance performance in festivals and clubs in Europe.
Dornika’s work is heavily influenced by her activism, confronting subjects of state violence, sexism, inequality and mental health. Her debut single, Fatbulous, is a body positive high energy pop track celebrating traditionally shamed elements of female bodies. Dornika’s music is not bound by genre. She draws from all parts of her life, picking up as she goes and exploring elements of jazz, hip-hop, pop, Iranian folk, voguing beats, techno and experimental electronic music.
Dornika’s work is heavily influenced by her activism, confronting subjects of state violence, sexism, inequality and mental health. Her debut single, Fatbulous, is a body positive high energy pop track celebrating traditionally shamed elements of female bodies. Dornika’s music is not bound by genre. She draws from all parts of her life, picking up as she goes and exploring elements of jazz, hip-hop, pop, Iranian folk, voguing beats, techno and experimental electronic music.
Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, performance artist, sex worker and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfucking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world. www.alfabus.us
The exhibition opening will be free of charge, to enjoy the event after 18.30 you must have a ticket. There are 50 presale tickets available. After 20.00 they will also have tickets on the door if there is still space in the bar.
Tipsy Bear
Eberswalder Str. 21, 10437 Berlin
