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The African Desperate

Date and Time
Wednesday, October 12 2022
7PM
6:30 PM Doors
Tickets
$9 General
$7 Member

The feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms follows 24 hours in the life of Palace, a newly minted MFA grad from an upstate New York art school, whose final day of school becomes a psychedelic odyssey. 

The African Desperate tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant (an expertly deadpan Diamond Stingily), a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip.

Palace is not going to the fucking graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

The electrifying feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms, The African Desperate brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy.

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