CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
Weapons of Mass Seduction
June 18-21
Under an even more Trump-than-Trump president — the bombastic Karen Blare — the United States is waging a “culture war” against its new enemy: woke Canada. Determined to win the fight without casualties (or headlines), Blare demands a new kind of non-lethal weapon. Her loyal but dim-witted General Fardmann has the perfect idea: resurrect the long-rumored “Gay Bomb.”
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To make it work, they must thaw out Professor. Victor Vexx — a brilliant, genderfluid chemical weapons scientist frozen since the summer of love in 67 — and assign CIA agent Valerie Steele to keep them in check.
But as Vexx sets their sights on sparking a queer revolution from within, Blare’s administration prepares to test the bomb on a small conservative Southern town. When the plan leaks, chaos erupts. Glitter flies, loyalties shift, and the battle lines between repression and liberation blur in an explosion of camp, color, and chemical warfare.
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This piece detonates a glittery critique of military machismo, political hypocrisy, and homophobia — flipping the script so that queer people aren’t the victims of the system, but the ones who joyfully, fabulously, and furiously blow it up from the inside.
COVERS
Music, Migration, and Memory of the Korean Diaspora
Thursday, July 23, 7-9pm
Doors at 6:30pm
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Join COVERS BY MP3 for an evening of music, memory, and intergenerational storytelling centered around the music that carried our communities as they built new homes across the diaspora.
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The night will feature live performances of songs shared through the project, a sneak peek at our participant documentaries, and a presentation of our recreated album covers, photographic recreations where participants step into the place of the original artists, reimagining iconic covers through the lens of migration, family history, and personal memory.
Together, these images form a visual playlist of the music that shaped the Korean diaspora.
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Guests will also be invited to contribute their own songs and stories through interactive installations, flip through our cassette zines, enjoy food and drinks, and create mini CD keychains programmed with their own “home song” to take with them.
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Suggested Ticket Donation: $10
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2024 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!
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