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Dynasty Handbag

Hell in a Handbag

Date:
Wednesday, May 13
Time:
7:30 pm PDT
Cost:
$25 – $50 + Optional Book Add-on
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Venue

The Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States
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Event Format

In-Person

EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM. Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

This program contains mature content, including mentions of suicide and self-harm. 

Book cover for "Hell in a Handbag," a memoir by Jibz Cameron. The title is depicted using distorted, illustrated letters over a green watercolor background. Each character forming the title has unique, whimsical attributes such as limbs, faces, or objects.
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Hell in a Handbag

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Headshot of Dynasty Handbag (with fair skin and short brown hair, wearing smudged makeup and a pin that says "Anxiety Is A Strange Friend.")
Arts & Culture

Queer performance artist Jibz Cameron, best known for her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag, will present an evening of performance, film, and readings celebrating the debut of her memoir.

Hell in a Handbag traces Cameron’s unique perspective, shaped by a childhood spent with hippie clowns in Northern California, through making morbid zines as a teen in the East Bay punk scene, to in-your-face encounters with misogyny in New York City’s avant-garde theater scene. By turns both frank and funny, Cameron addresses the impact of addiction and mental illness in her life, as well as her mother’s suicide, in a candid account of her journey.

This personal narrative culminates in the birth of Dynasty Handbag and her gutting commentary on contemporary life. In a first, both Jibz Cameron and Dynasty Handbag will appear each evening to tell the story of these intimately intertwined halves of one iconic individual.

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Jibz Cameron is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles, performing multimedia work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag. Over the last 20 years, Cameron has combined tragedy and comedy, at such institutions as MOCA, PS1, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen, REDCAT, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, and the New Museum, among others. The New York Times has heralded her as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years,” and New York Magazine has called her “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.” Cameron has written and produced seven evening-length performance pieces and countless short works that have been performed in clubs and venues internationally. She also has produced multiple video works and 3 albums of original music. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee and a 2021 United States Artist. Her film Weirdo Night, made with director Mariah Garnett, is an official Sundance Film Festival 2021 submission. Cameron also produces and hosts Weirdo Night! a monthly experimental comedy and performance event in Los Angeles + New York. Jibz is honored to be included in 2023’s Made In LA Biennale “Acts of Living” at the Hammer Museum.


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