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Fri, Feb 14, 2025 7:00pm–10:00pm

Feel Good Friday — Queer Night 2025

performers and guests enjoy Queer Night at UMMA, part of Feel Good Friday
Photo by Doug Coombe
Fri, Feb 14, 2025
7:00pm–10:00pm
Museum of Art

It’s Finally Friday and You Deserve to Feel Good!

This Valentine’s Day, join us for a vibrant celebration of queer love, creativity, and community. Whether you’re coming solo or with a special someone, this night is all about joy, inclusivity, and self-expression. Watch a film screening, customize a bouquet with Bucketworks, receive tarot readings by local queer practitioners Lavender and Erin, and enjoy performances by Ahya Simone, Eartha Kitten, Caffeyne Luv, and DJ BLKshine with Jezebel as MC.

Feeling like dressing up? Wear your Queer Valentine’s best and be photographed by SHEI magazine and the UMMA Student Advisory Board in their photobooth. Plus: meet with local queer community organizations!

Free and open to the public. All galleries open. Please note that burlesque performances and screening are advised 18+, however no one will be turned away due to age.

Special thanks to Detroit-based artist, Jay Orellana for their partnership in curating performances for this night.

SCHEDULE Of EVENTS:

  • 7:00pm
    Film Screening (TBA)

    Tarot Readings with Lavender and Erin

  • 8:00pm
    Burlesque Performance by Eartha Kitten
  • 8:15pm
    Burlesque Performance by Caffeyne Luv
  • 8:30pm
    Burlesque Performance by Eartha Kitten
  • 8:45pm
    Burlesque Performance by Caffeyne Luv
  • 9:00pm
    Music and Vocal Performance by Ahya Simone
  • All Night
    Customize single stem bouquets with Bucket Works (while supplies last)

    Photobooth with Shei Magazine

    UMMA SAB Community Tables

Special Guests & Performers

headshot of Ahya Simone

Ahya Simone

(she/her)

Ahya Simone is an eclectically elusive siren and multidisciplinary artist from Detroit. As a harpist, composer, and filmmaker, she traverses through the world of sound, moving image, and performance. Ever since she began singing in a church choir as a child, her passion for music has only grown when she was introduced to the harp as a teen. Drawing inspiration from her favorite contemporary artists, she began to mix R&B/soul, jazz, and experimental elements into her works and performances.

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Caffeyne luv is your neighborhood #unfriendlyblackhottie bringing their southern Californian Afro-Latine' attitude to the Midwest. Headliner of the 2023 Midwest Nerdlesque festival, and producer of Juneteenth Jamz- Detroit's first and only ALL Black Queer burlesque variety festival, their charisma and charm has them tearing up stages across the nation. Sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, but always a Daddy, they're not your typical Cup of Tease!

Caffeyne Luv

Instagram: @caffeyneluv
(they/them)
A burlesque artist who currently curates multiple burlesque shows in the Detroit area including her signature production, Rouge Reveal. She is also the headmistress of the Metro Detroit Burlesque Academy. She has produced with Planet Ant, stage managed Jeezy's Juke Joint and emceed the Dirty Show. Eartha is currently voted Best Burlesque Performer and Rouge Reveal was voted Best Burlesque Show for the Detroit Metro Times Best of 2024.

Eartha Kitten

Instagram: @presentedbyearthakitten / @earthakittenburlesque
(she/they)
A Detroit born, Brooklyn based artist, curated, writer, and DJ. As a Dj, BLKshine they prioritizes a space for queer, femme and black people to get lost in the music, to find a temporary moment of freedom from the groove, and bass of House, funk, soul, disco and techno music.

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, aka BLKshine

Instagram: @blkboyshine
(they/them)
Lavender Morin is a worker and theatre artist from Detroit. They have practiced reading cards for 15 years and astrological charts for 5 years. They are informed and guided by angelic energies and light forces. A researcher of occult practices and histories, they deeply respect ideologies of opened and closed practices. They love working with natural magic and elemental forces, angels, honoring deities, and kitchen witchery.

Lavender Morin

Instagram: @the_lavender_scare
(they/she)
A multimedia artist from Detroit who has been reading tarot for 8 years. Invested in their Gullah Geechee heritage and the spirituality they grew up around. Over the years they developed a skill in interpretation, writing and illustrating their own tarot books for the major and minor arcana. They find comfort in making connections with others searching for clarity as they move through their own personal journeys.

Erin Bobbitt

Instagram: @akabobtoast
(they/them)
Bucket Works is run by farmer-florist Andrew who specializes in growing seasonal, local flowers that are difficult to source elsewhere. He grows unique hues and varieties of cut flowers and procures seeds, tubers, bulbs, and other materials from small-scale farmers across the United States. The tension between that which is cultivated and the Wild serves as the primary inspiration for his designs — nothing influences his work more than the Garden itself.

Bucketworks

Instagram: @bucket.works
A Detroit-based multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose work wields movement, somatic transformation and visuals to facilitate a path for healing, introspection and/or humor. Through this, the audience and artist can explore notions of community care, collaboration, and the preservation of queer stories.

Jay Orellana, aka Jezebel

Instagram: @jezebelsinferno
(they/them)

More About This Event Series

Visitors fill Museum galleries to look at exhibitions and public performances
Photo by Mark Gjukich

Feel Good Friday

It’s Finally Friday and You Deserve to FEEL GOOD!

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