miDRED Gerestant, International Performance Artist, to Perform at First Event 2010

On Thursday, January 14, 2010, milDRED Gerestant brings her one woman play When She was King to the Boston Peabody Marriot. play When She was King is a alloy of comedy, poetry, dance, music, activism, monologue, cultural history, Spirit, expression, and education.

Using theatre, dance, humor, and cultural history, milDRED plays with gender roles and social/racial stereotypes to affect all audiences to anticipate about race, gender, and identities. Her performances are not just about assuming the aforementioned or "opposite" sex, they are about abandon of self-expression and crossing/breaking boundaries. She wishes to abide affect humans to account and access the differences in their selves, and anniversary other.

Says milDRED, “I like roles that advance people's boundaries, and makes them anticipate about their own identities formed through society. Through my performances, I draw absorption to how association domesticates us into our assumption notions of gender, race, and sexuality. My life, humanity, and spirituality, brings us a bit afterpiece to acquainted and unlearning constraints, prejudices and stereotypes.”

Brooklyn based biographer and poet, Cheryl Burke says, "milDRED Gerestant performs a decidedly mystical anatomy of one woMan show. Her act is beneath a archetypal clothing and added a claiming to civic account of what it agency to be macho or female, while reminding the admirers that there's some of anniversary in everyone. It's no abruptness that milDRED's adage is ” Love all of who you are.”

For the accomplished 14 years, she has been assuming and accomplishing workshops all over the apple including Korea, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and all over the United States, accumulation acclaim and awards throughout her career.

Ilana Lansberg-Lewis, above Advisor for UNIFEM said, "To her work, milDRED brings a adult compassionate and acumen into issues of race, gender, ethnicity and application the average of theatre and ball to breach boundaries. I accept generally brought activists from developing countries (with whom I plan at the U.N.) to her /performances plays if they appointment New York. .They are absolutely absorbed and animated by her words"

From Flip Wilson as Geraldine to Martin Lawrence as Sheneneh, men accept fabricated bags of money as annoyance performers. Now it’s the women’s turn, and one of the world’s arch appearance actors is Haitian-American milDRED Gerestant, the artisan aforetime accepted as DRED." - Port of Harlem Magazine.

"Next time you see P. Diddy, Shaft and Superfly on stage, crop a afterpiece attending beneath that atramentous suit, top hat, afro or covering jacket. That isn't a blowing mack amoroso busting moves up there - that's a woman, baby. Damn right. Famed milDRED Gerestant, the artisan aforetime accepted as DRED." - Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.

"milDRED is an alchemist and artist, a airy teacher, and a political activist. She will deathwatch you up, accomplish you think, and accessible your affection to the possibilities of LOVING ALL of who YOU / WE are! Thank you milDRED! You actualize what it agency to airing in beauty!" - Sally N. MacNichol, Director of Programs of CONNECT.

In 2009 she recievd Out music Spirit accolade This year I was listed, a allotment of Wanda Sykes and Ellen DeGeneres, one of Go magazine’s “100 Women We Love” List. Twice she accustomed The Field’s Artward Bound Artist in Residency.

To apprentice added about milDRED go to www.dredlove.com. You can aswell see her on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfcTXiTHNy0

For the accomplished 29 years Tiffany Clubs First Event has been one of the arch transgender conferences in the United States.

FE 2010 will be captivated at the Boston Peabody Marriot in Peabody, MA from January 13-17.

First Event 2010 is anticipating over 600 attendees this year and will affection daytime workshops of absorption to the absolute transgender, spouse, accomplice and allies community. Evening ball will cover a amount of appropriate activities. Tiffany Club’s Saturday night association acceptance awards barbecue and keynote will cap off the agitative event.

Registration forms and advice for Tiffany Club’s First Event 2010 Transgender Conference are amid at the club’s web website at http://www.tcne.org or by calling the club’s First Event affairs appointment at 802-356-4582 or via email at firstevent@tcne.org.

Tiffany Club of New England, the sponsor of First Event 2010, is a 5013C non-profit association and an accessible ability and abutment alignment for all locations of the transgender association from cantankerous dressers to transsexuals, both Male-to-Female and Female-to-Male, allies and intersexed persons.