A performance for the community on March 7
“If you don’t see yourself in the culture that surrounds you, it tends to make you crazy.” So Patrick tells us stories of his life, Seeing ourselves in his stories – we feel validated, and less crazy. So local artist and provocateur Patrick Scully tells us stories of his life. For decades Patrick has pushed the edge, being out as a Gay man, and HIV+ since 1985″ – Patrick Scully
Where: Aliveness Project 3808 Nicollet Ave.
When: March 7, Friday, 7 pm
Cost: Free
About the Show: A Few Tales – Fairy & Others is Patrick Scully, telling stories from his life. Stories about everything, including testing positive for HIV, living with HIV, telling the world about it on tv, living as an out Gay artist and activist, speaking truth to power…and more.
The structure of “A Few Tales…” is based on TV’s “Jeopardy”. Behind each box is a story. The audience determines the flow of the show, choosing box by box among 6 categories, with 5 choices in each category to determine the evening’s stories. The 6 categories across the top are things like: Resisting Authority, Making Art about My Life, Being Gay & HIV+, and Creating Spaces. The categories at the Aliveness show will be created specifically for Aliveness. The vertical choices in each category – 5 decades: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s.
About Patrick Scully: As an activist: Over the years, he’s challenged institutions from the Science Museum of MN, Rainbow Health (and MAP before that), the MN Dept of Health, the Mpls StarTribune, Minnesota Public Radio, Twin Cities Public Televison, to Target.
As an artist: No artist in Minnesoata has done more to bring stories about living with HIV to the public, and to the communities living with HIV.
Among the works he’s created are::
- Thrive! (celebrating several decades of living with HIV),
- Queer Thinking (the complexities of being Gay and HIV+),
- Too Soon Lost (remembering friends lost to AIDS)
- A Faerie Home Companion (being gay and HIV+ in rural MN)
- Unsafe Unsuited (dancing in the AIDS epidemic)
- posiT.V. (a video about living with HIV)
