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Dragcycle

  • brooklyn bridge pier 3, Brooklyn, NY (map)

As local governments escalate attacks on Queer rights, we will bring the art of Drag into everyday life, in a celebratory, accessible form on a roving bicycle stage. We invite Brooklyn community to explore the freedom of Drag with help from our artist team and capture the transformation through photography and an interview about the personal experience.

Dragcycle will travel along the south Brooklyn waterfront starting at 3pm towards Brooklyn Bridge Pier 3 where it will arrive at 6pm for performances and reflection.

No reservations necessary—just show up—but to receive a reminder email, RSVP below

A person in DRAG stands on a colorfully checkered stage supported by 4 pink bicycles. They are wearing a brown dress hat, black sunglasses, white shirt, brown vest and jeans. Behind them is a rack of clothes with a large sign saying DRAG is ART. In the front of the stage between the bicycles is a sign saying DEFEND QUEER RIGHTS. On  each side of the sign and resting on the bicycle handlebars are 2 mannequin heads with medium length  brilliant yellow and hot neon pink wigs. Both are wearing bright pinks, red and yellow make up and heavy black eyeliner. The bicycle stage rests in a large cement covered waterfront park.  In the distance is a line of tall gray and blue buildings surrounding the park.

Monica Dudárov Hunken is a Brooklyn-based performer who creates docu-adventure theatre including; Reading the Water, Blondie of Arabia, The Wild Finish, Hunker Down,  Outside the World and Mt Rushmore.  In NY, she has been produced at Culture Project, Exponential Festival,  The Brick, The Living Theatre, Polish Cultural Institute and HERE Arts Center.  She has been produced in Australia’s Horse’s Mouth Festival, the Netherland’s DeParade Festival, Norway’s PIT festival, the Glastonbury Festival in England, among many other theaters across the globe. They are a co-founder of Al Límite Collective, a theater company that sprung out of The Living Theatre and devises original works through social engagement with community at sites of injustice. She was an artist in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fish Factory in Iceland and winner of the Patrolio Award for her work responding to social injustice through art in Spain.  They received a BA in Experimental Theatre and Masters in Educational Theater for Social Change from NYU. They have worked in refugee camps around the world facilitating arts programming.  They are an avid cyclist, having ridden through over 20 countries while also being an activist/ organizer who’s worked with Rev Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping, Resist Spectra, Time’s-Up!, New Sanctuary Coalition, Sane Energy Project on environmental and immigration issues and they work as a direct action trainer with Beautiful Trouble, GreenPeace and Rainforest Action Network in  NYC and abroad.

A dress-up dreamy divinator bloomed from winter flowers, Onyx Odyssey is a NYC-born and raised performance artist and astrologer. Pronouns: they/he

Moon Joy Divine (they/them) is the superhero spirit of the moon and the child of Mother Earth. Moon is committed to nurturing love for their mother and ALL the life she works hard to sustain. Armed with the unique superpowers of community organizing and unconditional love, Moon will shift tides and shift hearts.