Katie Burgess Residency

Name: Katie Burgess Residency
Start: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
Location: The Farm

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Katie Burgess Residency

February 15, 2021 - February 22, 2021

Katie Burgess is a transgender performer living in South Minneapolis, and Co-Director of Open Flame Theatre, which creates original, multi-disciplinary performances rooted in the queer/Trans experience.

Katie is developing her role as The Devil in Open Flame’s upcoming performance “The Garden”, an original queer, surrealist opera conceived by Walken Schweigert, which investigates white-supremacist and colonizer culture’s desire to beautify, manage, and control nature (which, of course, includes people) and reveals the horror that ensues when it does.

This residency is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

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We lift up the legacy of the countless peoples of African descent whose blood, bones, bodies, brilliance, and unpaid labor also built and sustained these lands.

Truth, reconciliation, rematriation, and healing will only come with acknowledgment as a first step, followed by cultural and economic reparations and other restorative actions.

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