HOT Festival presents Lip Service: Black Queers and Their Words

About This Show

Lip Service is an evening of bold words and brilliant voices, featuring Black authors and poets who are reshaping the literary landscape. As part of the HOT Festival, this event centers queer Black storytelling—from the intimate to the imaginative, the grounded to the Afrofuturist.

About the Artists

Justin Allen works in music and sound, performance, visual art, and writing. He has been commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Shed, and ISSUE Project Room and received support from Franklin Furnace, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. He received his BA in literary studies from Eugene Lang College at The New School and his MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art. In 2022 he released a four-song EP, Ekphrastic Punk, with his band Black Boots. In 2024, he released his first book, Language Arts, published by Wendy’s Subway.

Mon Jul 14 @ 7:30 PM

$ 20 Standard Tickets
$ 15 Seniors/Students
$10 All skate (10 available. First come, first served)
$50 Super Sexy Tix (because you love us)
Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

Janelle
Justin Allen

Photo Credit: S*an D. Henry-Smith

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