The tensions that erupted in 2020 as the world faced a global pandemic, together and separately, can be felt in the strained relationship between three words…Connection. Communication. COVID-19.

Storytellers, musicians, artists and artisans, makers, activists, and the diverse voices of our communities come together for the exploration of these themes. Part live performance, part interview, our own stories will be interwoven with music, poetry, and movement, to express the inexpressible of an impossible year.

As talking face to face, being physically close to one another, playing music, and performing together became an action that could literally risk one’s life…How do we connect? How do we communicate? How have these operations been changed and challenged by COVID-19? A remembrance of what we’ve lost, a celebration of what we will always have. This one-hour event will be, as much as life is, what we make of it.

Featuring Globe-trotting Interdisciplinary Cabaret Performance Artist, Luminous Pariah (Seattle, WA); Head of Documentation for the Global Initiative to create direly needed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Christina Cole of Open Source Medical Supplies (Bay Area, CA); Miss Brooklyn Pride 2020, Multi-Media Queer Artist, and Producer of A+ Drag Show the Pan-Asian Drag Review, Emi Grate; Bar Director for the worker-ownership team at Tanám Narrative Cuisine, Founder of BarNoirBoston, and current President of the Greater Boston Chamber of Cooperatives Kyisha Davenport (Boston, MA); Multidisciplinary Producer, Musician, Drag King, Chronically Creative Artist, and Host for the evening, Nüqueer Power (Boston, MA); And many more, presenting their solo and combined experiences.