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The 2016 Transmodern Performance Festival celebrates our election year angst with a CakeWalk!

2016 TRANSMODERN PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
The Peale Museum and at Current Gallery
Baltimore, Maryland
(Let Them Eat) CAKEWALK
NOVEMBER 3rd-8th, 2016
This years festival celebrates all things Cake! Including the many traditions of Cakes and the CAKEWALK – unpacking it’s origins in the US south as a response to oppression. The Festival features dance, theater, performance, music, animation, Political Pageantry, a Yippie inspired Baltimore City Hall Levitation and other election year Hoo-Ha!
November 3-8 2016 – At the Peale Museum and Current Space Baltimore, Maryland
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2016 TRANSMODERN PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
The Peale Museum and at Current Gallery
Baltimore, Maryland
(Let Them Eat) CAKEWALK
NOVEMBER 3rd-8th, 2016
COME ONE AND ALL !
Parade Workshops November 4-6 in CAKEWALK CAMP PAIN HEADQUARTERS at the Peale Museum

join in the Transmodern Parade Workshops and make a headdress with Valeska Populoh
Get you cake parade costume ready in Camp Pain Headquarters
Parade kicks off at 3:30pm from the Peale Museum!
City Hall Levitation with Marcus Civin at 4:00pm

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Artists 
Dan Van Allen
Malaika Aminata
Laurence Arcadias
Paul Baroody
Isa Bejja
Breakfast Hosts (Lindsay Bottos)
Stephanie Barber
Erick Benetiz
Nick Broujos
Brandi Elizabeth Brown
Deborah Black
Barrage Band Orchestra
Marcus Civin
Faith Couch
Ali Clandaniel
The Creepers
Martha Colburn
Zoë Charlton
Allison Clendaniel
Alex D’Agostino
Heat Death
Iman Djouini
Selina Doreshenko
Liz Downing
Thomas Dolby
Rufus Drawlings
Laure Drogoul
Margo Elsayd
Neil Feather
DJ Hummingbirdfeeder
Alice Gadzinski
Alisa Glen
Allison Gragg
Amira Green
Dina Kelbnenrman
DJ LK
Nick Horan
Eze Jackson
Hyster Majesty
Katherine Macyshyn
Josh Nukem
LabBodies
Talbolt Johnson
Isa Leal
April Lewis
La Llorona
Cola-Lola Marie
Chris Mason
Megan McShea
Pony Moon
Xin Ni
Ciara Phillips
Janea Kelly
Alicia Puglionesi
Pony Payroll Bones
Valeska Popoluh
Dan Meyer Choir
Heather Rounds
Peter Redgrave
Stephy Ruszala
Melissa Sharlat
Sarah G. Sharp
Amanda Schmidt
Jonathan Taube
Victor Torres
Noelle Tolbert
Danni Tsuboi
Khristian Weeks
Laura Weiner
Gene Wolf
Stephanie Wallace
Benita Whyte
Matt Willams
Michael Willis

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The Peale
The Peale Museum, built in 1814, is the first dedicated museum structure in North America. It was a popular attraction featuring art and natural curiosities: its proprietor obsessively painted portraits of George Washington; the collection included a wooly mammoth skeleton and a “Fiji mermaid”. Exotic wonders, freaks, and plundered artifacts were bathed in the futuristic glow of Baltimore’s first gas lighting. But Peale couldn’t compete with the full-on sensationalism of P.T. Barnum, and in 1829 the museum ran out of money.
The City of Baltimore bought the building to serve as its first city hall. Through the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, debates raged inside while protests roiled the streets of downtown. In 1878, the Peale became the first high school for Baltimore’s African American students when black leaders organized to demand better education within a segregated system. By the 1930s, the building had fallen into decay and citizens rallied to turn it into a municipal museum, which closed in 1997.
The restored Peale will host rotating community-generated events and exhibits showcasing Baltimore’s unique culture, history, and neighborhoods — an open museum, an experimental hub for residents to share and test out their visions for the city. We need your support to repair the building and make this possible!
To support the Peale’s restoration, visit their website: www.thepealecenter.org
And follow them on Facebook for upcoming events: www.facebook.com/The-Peale-Center

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2016 Transmodern Performance Festival: (Let Them Eat)CAKEWALK
November 3rd – 8th, 2016
in BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA

Media Contact: transmodernage@gmail.com 410-916-7414

The Transmodern Performance Festival, a thirteen year strong nationally renowned experimental art festival, celebrates this year’s election angst with a (Let Them Eat) CAKEWALK through The Peale Museum, Baltimore’s legendary abandoned natural history museum and former city hall site. Artists will unpack the history of the Cake Walk through performance, site-specific installations, happenings, dance, music, film and other political fanfare. The Transmodern Festival will expose the many layers of cake with burlesque, political pageantry and a City Hall Levitation!

The Transmodern Festival was the winner of “Best Arts Festival” by Baltimore Magazine in 2014 and “Best Art Event” by City Paper in 2006, 2011 and 2013.
Thursday November 3rd – Current Space at 421 N. Howard St.
7pm – 11pm The Transmodern Opening Reception including Erick Antonio Benitez’s Esta Tierra Es Tu Tierra Installation and an evening Backlot show featuring Eze Jackson and Amanda Schmidt!

Friday and Sat. Nov 4th and 5th – The Peale Museum at 225 Holiday St.
6:30pm -11:30pm Performances with Alex D’Agonstino/Noelle Tolbert, LabBodies, Neil Feather, Martha Colburn, Liz Downing, DJ Lucas King, Pony Moon, The Creepers, and so many more!

Sunday November 6th, 2016 – The Peale Museum at 225 Holiday St.
11am – 3pm Cake Brunch and Parade Workshops
3:30pm – 5pm CakeWalk  Parade
4:30pm – City Hall Levitation! (be at Baltimore City Hall at 4pm)
6pm – 8:30pm Evening Performances with Dan Myers Choir, La Llorona, and Hyster Majesty.

Monday November 7th, 2016 – The Peale Museum at 225 Holiday St.
7pm – 9:30pm Poetry, Performances, and Thomas Dolby with a reading from his new book, The Speed of Sound!

For more information about the schedule, artists and tickets visit:
http://transmodernfestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/transmodern.baltimore

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Each year a group of curators and organizers come together to pull off multiple nights of mayhem and delight! The connection brings together a unique cross section of performance, art, sound, spoken word and theater from Baltimore and beyond.

2016 Curators:
Markele Cullins/Suldano Abdiruhman, Isa Leal, Labbodies, SLee Triolo, Selina Doroshenko, Laure Drogoul, The Parade Collective (Valeska Populoh, Laure Drogoul, Daniel Van Allen)

2016 Organizers:
Laure Drogoul, SLee Triolo, April Danielle Lewis, Isa Leal

2016 Organizational Partners
The Peale Museum
Current Space