About the Experience.

Join us as Queerchata takes over TMR for a day of dance workshops and social dancing. Queerchata is a Latin dance organization that provides classes, teams, and events centering the trans and queer community and their friends. It is a space for movement, authenticity and exploration. Their classes and performances bring Latinx and Queer culture together to foster connection in a way that celebrates all the things that make these identities unique. Event is free but RSVP is necessary. Participants should wear clothes and shoes they feel comfortable moving in.

SCHEDULE - Sat. March 25, 2023

4-5pm Beginner Bachata with Bex

5-6pm Salsa Shines with the legendary Jhesus Aponte

6-9pm Social Dancing

This experience is part of Ellxs. Ellxs is a year-long exhibition comprised of a series of experiences conceived by trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and queer Latinx artists and makers. Their work engages dance, food, holistic medicine, music, fashion, design, gardening, mutual aid and other practices. Collectively, they summon moments of care and joy that challenge the world as it is and give glimpses of the world as it could be.  Inspired by the writings of late scholar José Esteban Muñoz, the exhibition aims to highlight the ways queer people of color subsume dominant forms of creative expression to create their own. As such, each experience is shaped uniquely—broadening what we’ve come to expect from encounters with art and culture in spaces like ours. At a time when legislation across this country attacks the rights and sense of personhood of trans and queer people, this exhibition reminds us of the critical role cultural practices have in building a collective imagination that leads us to better tomorrows. The exhibition begins with three experiences in Spring 2023 and will unfold episodically through March 2024.