Black Coffee + Raw Sugar

Black Coffee + Raw Sugar is back! Join us for an evening of shorts from Black and Brown Chicago movement artists, performers, and dancemakers. This season’s edition brings Burlesque, Drag, and poetry to the forefront as artists take on experimentation and vulnerability in their rawest forms.

TICKETS $18-$42

Ále Campos (they/them, b. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist and performance maker whose elastic studio practice is anchored in the vernacular of drag and their persona, ‘Celeste’. They generate live performance works that are often rhapsodic and mediated by technology, involving or unfolding into the mediums of sculpture, sound, text, video and installation. Drag is the lens through which they consider performance making: they consider the stage and its borders, the malleability of the gaze, how to de/construct an image, the various states of in/visibility and how to handle time. www.ale-campos.com

Chicago native Sunshine Lombré (she/her) is a dancer & poet who specializes in expressing sensuality & emotional authenticity through her words & movements. Also known as the sweet sultry seductress bringing heat to your skies and your thighs.

Symone Loudly (she/they) is a burlesque performer, flow artist, and lover of music & dance.

Christian Aldana (they/she) is the author of The Water We Swim In (Sampaguita Press, 2023) They are a Filipinx artist, educator, and community organizer based in Chicago. Christian founded Luya, a poetry organization that centers the voices of BIPOC.