July 27th, 2010 maggie
We are so grateful to all our backers!!!! Thanks to you, we’ve reached our goal of $600 on Kickstarter.
And now our backers can look forward to looking fancy in Femme Show accoutrement! You scratch our back, we put pasties on your front.
In addition to hot gluing your goods, Femmes and friends are firing on all cylinders to get ready for tour popping off in a mere 17 days. 17!
So we want to pose one more challenge to our supporters. (When I say pose, imagine this…
We were so successful so quickly we want to see if we can raise a bit more money. So far, your contributions will fund van rental, travel costs, and venue rental on our August tour when we bring the Femme Show to NEW CITIES on our LONGEST TOUR EVER
They will also help fund the rent for our all-new show in Cambridge, October 7 and 8. Renting a venue in Boston is one of our biggest expenses of the entire year. Femme supporters can help us demolish this expense and get some more fancy opportunities in return! Please consider sharing our Kickstarter with your friends so that we can increase our goal and fund the fall show!
**If we reach $800, ALL BACKERS will get your very own postcard from our touring cast mailed from the road!
**If we reach $1000, we will make a sparkly honor roll with ALL our backers’ names, pose with it at each of our tour stops , and post it on the blog. And you’ve seen us pose right??!? THEN we will ask you, our backers to choose our 2010 curtain call song in Cambridge!! As long as it’s not “Single Ladies.”
THANK YOU for helping bring us on the road! See our Tour Page for all our destinations!
If you’re able to increase your donation, that’s great! If you’re able to email this Kickstarter link to 5 friends that’s fabulous! If you’re able to tweet about the Femme Show that’s grand! If you’re able to make our Kickstarter your status for a day that’s superfantastic!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts and glitter bottles.
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July 24th, 2010 maggie
So, we’ve stuck to the schedule, more or less, with a river swim and dinner. 
Now we’re sitting on the couch discussing the origins of SPPSSM. We used to much less philanthropic and more misanthropic.
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July 24th, 2010 maggie
We’ve drafted some SPPSSM, explained public relations to my grandmother, sent tons of booking emails, and eaten lunch. It’s time for a swimming break!
Rachel ate all the cheese puffs. Maggie made salad and Rachel discovered this egg carton.
I had no idea I was eating butch’s eggs for breakfast!
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July 24th, 2010 maggie
Maggie and Rachel have sequestered themselves at Camp Crowley, an exclusive Connecticut resort (formerly known as the Maggie Cee Ancestral Homeland) for a weekend of writing. Will we stick to the schedule? Will we burn the patio down when we attempt to grill our dinner? Will we manage to nap and swim at my parent’s new secret river swimming hole during our two hour afternoon break? I’m sure the suspense is killing you, so we’ll update throughout the day.
So far, more or less on schedule!
In the mess hall. Somehow, I always pick the Catholic coffee mug.
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July 13th, 2010 maggie
Phyllis Troubridge and Beatrice Llewellyn are invaluable members of the Femme Show, keeping our sewing kit stocked and tatting lace gloves for the entire cast as Solstice gifts. They always pack a mean picnic when we’re on the road. You can meet them and enjoy a civilized pot of tea on Wednesday July 28 at their Evening of Tea and Entertainment.
Tell us about your first experience with the Femme Show:
We were very pleased to make the acquaintance of the Femme Show through an introduction in Spring 2008, and delighted to be invited to offer our “Guide to Revolution and Comportment for the Feminine Sapphist” the following fall. Despite the somewhat checkered reputations of artists in general in such matters as manners and hygeine, we found the members of the show to be unfailingly gracious and deeply informative. In fact, to this very day, some of the most valuable pearls of wisdom contained in our etiquette guide have been gleaned from members of the Femme Show ensemble.
What makes the Femme Show so important?
Though we take great pleasure in advising our niece, Tucker, and hir acquaintances on all manner of sartorial and social dilemmas from the comfort of our porch and parlor, the opportunity provided by the Femme Show for SPPSSM to spread the gospel of good manners and good taste to Sapphists everywhere has been invaluable. We at SPPSSM firmly believe that Sapphists of all identifications, orientations, and presentations stand to benefit and to flourish from the addition of etiquette, culture, and class to the collective Sapphic vocabulary. The Femme Show enables this dream to reach to all corners of the Sapphic social universe.
What are you most excited about for the Femme Show in 2010?
We at SPPSSM are always so honored and delighted to share the timeless lessons contained within our very own “Lifestyle Compendium for the Modern Sapphic Socialite.” By October, we are hoping to have enrolled the first class of pupils at the SPPSSM Finishing School for Wayward Sapphists, and look forward to guiding many a lost soul through hir much-needed Sapphic social transformation.
What is your favorite thing to do onstage? Least favorite?
As seasoned presenters– we are, after all, available to address your sewing circles and religious institutions, your historical sociaties and gardening clubs– we derive a great deal of pleasure from addressing the social and sartorial queries that are germane to today’s Sapphist. We always treasure the opportunity to interact with, and enrich the lives of, the Sapphic populus.
As it is most generous of the Femme Show to host us in this forum, we simply cannot identify any aspect of our speaking experience as unsatisfactory. Due to the sheer volume of Sapphists experiencing acute etiquette crises at any given time, we at SPPSSM do wish we had more extensive opportunities for consultation with show attendees.
Sweet or savory?
When paired with a complimentary tea, at the appropriate time of day, both petit fors and tea sandwiches can be equally enjoyable.
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July 11th, 2010 maggie
Did you know that we’re gearing up for our biggest tour yet with the largest group of performers? We need to raise money for the start up costs for food, supplies, gas and lodging. Because we are a diverse group of folks, we are cooking up a variety of ways for fans, friends, and strangers to help us launch the tour in style and fund our rent for our 4th Annual All New Show in Cambridge October 7 and 8! Just for starters:
Kickstarter: (the easiest way to donate!)
Kickstarter is an amazing community based way for artists to raise funds. Here’s how it works: We offer you, our fans and supporters, fun goodies in exchange for your donation starting at the 5-dollar level. We have until August 14 to raise $600 to support the tour and our fall rent at the YMCA. If we reach our goal, your credit or debit card is charged for the donation, we get $600, and you get cool stuff. If we don’t reach our goal, no money changes hands.
We’re offering signed postcards, hand-silk screened limited edition posters, pasties and fascinators made just for you by Femme Show cast members, t-shirts, show tickets and more. See all the goodies and learn more about our campaign here.
Lap Dance!
You can bid on a lap dance from the Fabulous Johnny Blazes and other TraniWreck stars at TraniWreck: Gold on Friday, July 16 (details here).
Tea Party!
Lap dances aren’t really Beatrice’s thing, so SPPSSM would like to offer you another opportunity to enjoy fine company while supporting the Femme Show.
Miss Phyllis Troubridge and Miss Beatrice Llewellyn
on behalf of
the Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Sapphic Social Mores (SPPSSM)
cordially invite you to
An Evening of Tea and Entertainment
to benefit The Femme Show’s Summer Tour
Wednesday July 28 6:00-10:00 PM
7 Carolina Avenue, Apt. 3, Jamaica Plain
admission ten dollars
Featuring Q&A with SPPSSM, mix and mingle, light refreshments and other festivities.
We invite you to join us following a day spent at your place of employment, or stop by later in the evening as you please.
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July 1st, 2010 maggie
I am so excited for this show! I love the Femme Show but I am thrilled to hog the spotlight for a change, and I’ve cooked up a super mix of old and new readings and dance pieces for you!
Transcriptions is a radically inclusive space for queer creative expression! Read a poem, play a song, spit a rhyme, bust a move, tell a joke…
Thursday, July 8th features… Maggie Cee!
STUFF TO KNOW:
Thursday, July 8, 7:30-10:30 PM, Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St in Jamaica Plain
• $5 to $10 at the door… cash only!
• Bring your words… it’s open mic!
• Indulge in our vegan bake sale!
For queer and trans folks, and for you. We’re always ally-friendly!
Buy a Femme Show t-shirt from Mr. Mel!
• Keep up with us by joining our Facebook group: http://groups.to/transcriptions
Maggie Cee is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and wearing things in her hair. She is the founder and artistic director of The Femme Show, a ground-breaking touring variety show about queer femme identity. Maggie performs regularly around Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, at the Femme2008 Conference, in TraniWreck, and at the Stonewall Inn. Her work has been published in the anthologies Second Person Queer and Girl Crazy as well as numerous journals. http://thefemmeshow.com/
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