Our next gathering will be Sunday Feb 14th from 2-4pm.
Get your ticket and invite friends here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/136454690653
Art, Music, and Radical Self Love with Telling Queer History on Feb 14th from 2-4pm CST.
Zoom link only sent to ticket holders on day of event.
In these times where the world is shifting and listening to news is painful, let's take time to slow down and focus on the things that we want to build in the world.
There will be art, talk of radical love, space to create, space to connect with others, a show and tell (optional) at the end, and music to listen or move to. Creative time facilitated by heather c. lou and opera performance by David Portillo.
hclou is providing color sheets (including the one in our event image) that you can download and print at home. If you don't have a printer or art supplies, email us by Feb 10th so we can try to hook you up. hello@tellingqueerhistory.com
All ages, ASL interpreted, live captioned, substance free event, and sliding scale tickets.
David Portillo: San Antonio Texas native David Portillo (he/him/his) has performed as a tenor soloist on operatic and concert stages around the world for over fifteen years. Currently residing in Saint Louis Park Minnesota, he has sung at The Metropolitan Opera, Hollywood Bowl, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Real in Spain, Royal Albert Hall (UK), Carnegie Hall, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Sydney Opera House, among others. His repertoire includes operas of Handel, Mozart and Rossini while performing many newly-composed works as well. David received a bachelor’s degree in music education and masters in Vocal Performance from universities in Texas, then was an apprentice at San Francisco Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
During and after these internships, he sustained a freelance career, traveling to each project to perform roles and concerts. In 2017, David married his husband David Lawrence, a finance manager for Rosemount Analytical in Chanhassen, and they have now a puppy named Ruthie Doll Bader Parton Ginsberg who just turned one year old. Portillo identifies as Half Mexican, Half German/English descent - LatinX. Image of David Portillo by ARIELLE DONESON
More info on his website https://davidportillotenor.com/biography/
heather lou AKA hclou:
hclou is an angry gemini earth dragon, multiracial, asian, queer, cisgender, disabled, survivor/surviving, anxious, and depressed womxn of color artist and educator based in st. paul, minnesota, which is the hxstorical occupied land of the Dakota and Anishinaabe peoples.
her mixed media pieces include watercolor, acrylic, gold paint pen, oil pastel, radical love, & hope. each piece comments on the intersections of her racial, gender, ability, & sexual identities, as they continue to shift and develop in complexity each day. her art is a form of healing, transformation, and liberation, rooted in womxnism and gender equity through a racialized borderland lens. heather works in education as an administrator.
in her spare time, heather loves birdwatching, snuggling sprout and loon (her pups), hiking for self-care, playing her ukulele, and spending time with her loving partner.
hcl also helps co-organize support local hustle, a black, indigenous, people of color makers collective in the twin cities. for more information about this group, go to instagram and follow @supportlocalhustle!
