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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 of “But I’m a Cheerleader” with Cinema Lamont, customize a bouquet with Bucketworks, receive tarot readings by local queer practitioners Lavender, Erin, and Mo, and enjoy performances by Ahya Simone, Perry Dox, Burnie Mac, aka Caffeyne Luv, John Jarboe, and DJ BLKshine with Jezebel as MC.

Feeling like dressing up? Wear your Queer Valentine’s best and be photographed by the UMMA Student Advisory Board in their photobooth. Plus: meet with local queer community organizations: Nightsafe, The Jim Toy Community Center, and Spectrum!

Free and open to the public. All galleries open. Please note that the screening is Rated R.

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

SCHEDULE Of EVENTS:

7:00pm

  • Film Screening of But I’m A Cheerleader with Cinema Lamont
  • Vocal Performance by John Jarboe
  • Tarot Readings with Lavender, Erin, and Morgan

8:00 & 8:30pm

  • Performance by Perry Dox

8:15 & 8:45pm

  •  Performance by Caffeyne Luv

9:00pm

  • Music and Vocal Performance by Ahya Simone

All Night

  • Customize single stem bouquets with Bucket Works
  • Photobooth with 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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A 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!

Burnie Mac, aka Caffeyne Luv

Instagram: @caffeyneluv
(they/them)
Perry Dox hails from the great city of Flint but her 6 inch heels & dreams brought her to Ann Arbor to be her home. Her main mission when she steps on any stage is to make sure at least one person leaves laughing & feeling lighter. She is truly the court jester of Michigan Drag. You can find her every Friday hosting & stomping around NECTO in Ann Arbor. Between her colorful displays of fashion, her quick humor, & her pussycat wig; what else could you need from such a gorgeous clown?

Perry Dox

Instagram: @okperryok
(she/her)
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)
A director, producer, writer, performer, and art activist, and the founding artistic director of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. Jarboe's original performance piece Rose: You Are Who You Eat, commissioned by Works and Process, is in the midst of a rolling world premiere at FringeArts in fall 2023, La MaMa January 2024, and Wooly Mammoth in June 2024. She is also a resident artist at The Fabric Workshop in Museum and debuted her first installation of films and objects called The Rose Garden in May of 2024.

John Jarboe

Instagram: @johnjarbeaux
(she/her)
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)
Mo Hoeffel is an intuitive Rune Reader with over 5 years of experience. They work with crystals and energy during their day job and are well versed in what runes and crystals can do for one during a reading.

Mo Hoeffel

Instagram: @em_oh_not_moe
(she/they)
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)

Cinema Lamont is a non profit that fosters cross-cultural understanding through the power of world cinema.

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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