September 6, 2024
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Not to be missed! Luminary performance artist, singer, writer, and trans trailblazer Justin Vivian Bond comes to The Rose Garden for an evening of music and conversation with audiences and Artist-in-Residence John Jarboe. Bond, an Obie and Bessie-winning and Tony-nominated artist, will be joined by Nath Ann Carrera on guitar.
Co-presented with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in conjunction with John Jarboe: The Rose Garden.
September 6, 2024
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
The Green Room, Second Floor Gallery
Please note that the rest of the museum, including The Rose Garden exhibition, will be closed during this event. To plan your visit to the gallery, please reserve timed tickets during our regular museum hours.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond has appeared on stage (Broadway and Off-Broadway, London’s West End), screen (Shortbus, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Sunset Stories, television (High Maintenance, Difficult People, The Get Down), nightclub stages (a decades long residency at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, New York), and in concert halls worldwide (Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House). Their visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the US (Participant, Inc, The New Museum) and abroad (Vitrine, London). In 2019, they made their debut at The Vienna Staatsoper in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando.
Their memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Feminist Press, 2011) won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. They are the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, a Tony nomination, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant for Artists, and The Art Matters Grant. They have self-released several full length recordings: most notably Dendrophile, and Silver Wells. As one half of the legendary punk cabaret duo Kiki & Herb they toured the world and released two cds: Do You Hear What We Hear? and Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall.
Mx Bond has been at the forefront of Trans visibility and activism since the early 1990s. They have a Masters Degree in Live Art from Central Saint Martins College in London and have taught performance composition and Live Art Installation at NYU and Bard College. Currently Viv divides their time between residences in New York City’s East Village and the Hudson Valley.
Learn more at justinvivianbond.com
Major support for John Jarboe: The Rose Garden has been generously provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Major support of FWM is provided by the Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation. FWM receives state art funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support is provided by Agnes Gund and the Board of Directors and Members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Works-in-Process Performance
New Buds: MK Tuomanen and Harmon dot aut
Interactive Performance
Rise Choir
Demo + Workshop
Tufting Circle with Bailey Roper
Live Musical Performance
Emily Bate at The Rose Garden
Family Program
Family Snacks: Eric Jaffe
