Sheroes

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Sheroes was a monthly limited-run art party series that brought together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and cultures of fandom surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies": Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, Dusty Springfield & Nina Simone.


Sheroes is presented by salonnière reeraw (Rea McNamara). Based in Toronto, the series curates specially commissioned performances, sounds, installations & visuals.


All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into fan culture and collaborative content creation.


Virtual Season — our culminating presentation of new and past Sheroes on/offline works & performances — is currently gearing into its first international reunion tour. We will be announcing soon tour dates. (If you would like to book a Sheroes event, please contact us.)


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The High Priestess’s Batshit Genius

NINA SIMONE FINAL INDUCTEE TO THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDARY LADIES

MADAME SIMONE’S REINCARNATED AFROCENTRIC EGYPTIAN QUEENDOM TO BE CELEBRATED AT SHEROES #12: NINA SIMONE

Thursday, July 26, 2012. 10:30PM.

The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West)
Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsheroes [at] gmail [dot] com>

Joni MitchellChaka KhanTina TurnerMadonnaYoko OnoErykah BaduEtta JamesMarianne FaithfullDolly PartonGrace Jones. Dusty Springfield. And finally, Miss Nina Simone.

Sheroes will be presenting their FINAL event, Sheroes #12: Nina Simone, on Thursday, July 26th at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).

Related: [Sheroes Stan] Meet Our Nina Stan: Chris A. Cummings (AKA Mantler)

The last installment of the monthly, limited-run art party series — which brought together for over a year on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the League of Legendary Ladies — will put one last bit of sugar in your bowl with the batshit genius of Madame Simone. (So you better bring those five bottles of champagne, OK? We’re going to need it.)

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Emcee Extraordinaire Silk Degrees performing during Sheroes #11’s League of Legendary Ladies Karaoke. Cinemagraph event GIF by Lorna Mills. (“I certainly couldn’t have evolved this far without Tony Halmos as my muse.”)

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The Queen of the Postmods’ three wigs

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD LATEST INDUCTEE TO THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDARY LADIES

DUST’S SECRET WHITE HEAT TORONTO PRIDE HISTORY TO BE CELEBRATED AT SHEROES #11: DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

Thursday, June 28, 2012. 10:30PM.

The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West)
Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsheroes [at] gmail [dot] com>

Joni MitchellChaka KhanTina TurnerMadonnaYoko OnoErykah BaduEtta JamesMarianne FaithfullDolly Parton. Grace JonesAnd now, Dusty Springfield.

Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #11: Dusty Springfield, on Thursday, June 28th at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).

Related: [Sheroes StanMeet Our Dusty Stan: Jeanette Lynes

The second last installment of the monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the League of Legendary Ladies — will be a very special Pride Toronto variety show extravaganza celebrating Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien’s secret White Heat Toronto history. (Think Dusty/Carol.)

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Silk Degrees (Tony Halmos) & Lavish Bat (Se Ye). Photo by Rea McNamara. Event GIF by Lorna Mills.

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Emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees keeps the League of Legendary Ladies Dolly-oke jumping at Sheroes #9Event GIFs by Lorna Mills.

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Y’all know we dig that ingenious assexual hyperfemininity

The titz and glitz of Backwoods Barbie

Dolly Parton latest inductee to the League of Legendary Ladies

Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #9: Dolly Parton, on Thursday, April 26 at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).

The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and peformatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the League of Legendary Ladies — will be headlined by singer/songwriter Ada Dahli of the Toronto urban folk collective Fedora Upside-Down.

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Emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees (AKA Tony Halmos). Photo by Tony Halmos.

Emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees (AKA Tony Halmos). Photo by Tony Halmos.

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Sheroes presents remix tribute to “Grande Dame”

Marianne Faithfull latest inductee to the “League of Legendary Ladies”

Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, on Thursday, March 22 at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).

The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the “League of Legendary Ladies” — will be co-headlined by U.S. Girls and Ulysses Castellanos.


For Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull, organizer Rea McNamara has commissioned an impressive lineup of local and international artists and performers. Inspired by the Grande Dame’s various personas — the convent-educated waif in lace, the Soho junkie aristocrat, the husky-voiced survivor — these performances, digital animations and interactive installations will reinterpret and remix for one night only our current muse.

Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull
Thursday, March 22, 2012. 10PM.
The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West)
Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsheroes (a) gmail (dot) com>

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• Performances

U.S. Girls

Headliners include a 23rd Century Blues-inspired performance by Chicago/Toronto DIY ingenue U.S. Girls (the alluring “Eno of the 2250s” music/persona of Megan Remy, who recently released her third full length “U.S. Girls on Kraak” on Belgian label Kraak), Sprechgesang live PA by Toronto performance artist Ulysses Castellanos, a Hazelton Clinic Duet with Adventure Studies (a returning Sheroes music project by artist Derek Aubichon) & Sheroes salonnière reeraw, emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees and resident DJ NoLoves.

• Projections

A screen grab of a specially-commissioned animated GIF from Italian new media artist Chiara Passa for Sheroes #8.

Digital Animations by The Global GIF Aristocracy (von Sacher-Masoch Line), a GIF group show projected on the walls of The Beaver. Curated by Lorna Mills, the show will feature the works of A. Bill MillerAbsis MinasAndrew BensonAnthony AntonellisChiara PassaDaniel RehnEmilie GervaisEmilio GomarizEva Papamargariti,Francoise GammaGaby CepedaGeorges JacoteyGiselle ZatonylGrace McEvoyHaruko HirukawaHelen AdamidouJuan Manuel MoralesLorna MillsManuel FernándezOz MeloRea McNamaraRollin LeonardSally McKayTony Halmos Yoshi Sodeoka.

• Interactive Installation

Smack of the Hand

Our popular “nail art bar” by Smack of the Hand (AKA Brittany Bennington) returns, with free Grande Dame-inspired manis.

• What is Sheroes?

Sheroes is committed to doing herstory right — reinterpreting and remixing the mythic woman-power that pervades digital and actual cultures, realizing new works from ephemeral and archival artifacts.

Our next inductee into the “League of Legendary Ladies” will be Dolly Parton on Thursday, April 22 at The Beaver. For further information regarding our upcoming events, click here.

All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into cultures of fandom and collaborative content creation.

Visit the Sheroes Archives for the catalogue of our past events.

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Emcee extraordinaire Silk Degrees (AKA Tony Halmos). Photo by Tony Halmos. Event GIF by Lorna Mills.

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