Brazen Bandits – Closing Potluck

A casual ritual of making and sharing food with and for each other to close out a month of community connection and honoring queer and trans art and experience. Bring a dish to share. Enjoy performances by Eliot Howe, Queer Beach, and Sampson Spadafore.

Eliot Howe is a classically trained vocalist turned singer-song writer! They’ve left behind professional singing at churches to sing their own creations. Their musical influences include Bo Burnham, Meghan Trainor, and Mika. Eliot is trans and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Founded a few fortnights ago, Queer Beach is composed of Rexy, Sam and Travis. They’re here to share their queer joy with you.

Sampson Spadafore (they/them) is a white, neurodivergent, queer and trans person currently living on unceded Wabanaki land. They are a theatre artist and writer with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Nazareth University.  Sampson thematically focuses their work, whether that’s performance or writing, on trans and queer identity, liberation, the body, god, grief, and healing. They’re a proud co-founder of Brazen Bandits Conspiring Creatives.

Brazen Bandits is a trans artist collective calling on co-conspirators to creative collaboration. The Bandits have transformed SPACE’s 534 Congress Street Gallery into an exhibition, performance, and community space through the month of January. As our environment becomes more openly hostile for trans and queer people, this is a space for reprieve, for connection, for making art, for raising our voices and spirits toward change.