Past Offerings

Transmute

Paper Mache Shape Shifting with Brazen Bandits

Brazen Bandits partnered with the Portland Public Library to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility. We asked the questions "Where have you been? Where are you now? Where are you going?" to guide our paper mache mask making.

A Devising Workshop with Sampson Spadafore

Medical, legal, and community experts share what we most need to know: information, resources, and strategies.  Featuring Greater Portland Health, MaineTansNet, Equality Maine, GLAD, and Frannie Peabody Center. Moderated by Christine Caulfield.

Hosted by Brazen Bandits and the  Equality Community Center.

To celebrate all that happened at SPACE Gallery, Brazen Bandits hosted a closing potluck, a casual ritual of making and sharing food with and for each other to close out a month of community connection and honoring queer and trans art and experience. Bring a dish to share. Enjoy performances by Eliot Howe, Queer Beach, and Sampson Spadafore.

Eliot Howe is a classically trained vocalist turned singer-song writer! They’ve left behind professional singing at churches to sing their own creations. Their musical influences include Bo Burnham, Meghan Trainor, and Mika. Eliot is trans and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Founded a few fortnights ago, Queer Beach is composed of Rexy, Sam and Travis. They’re here to share their queer joy with you.

Let Me Hold That For You is an interactive performance art piece by Sampson Spadafore and Ian-Meredythe Dehne-Lindsey that invites you to bring your grief, your hope, your wishes, your fears to the space, to be shared in community and held. On this Inauguration Day, which coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, join Brazen Bandits for an artistic ritual for collective care, grief, and witnessing of each other. All are welcome.

What is the state of Maine’s politics? Where are we going next? And what are some ways we can prepare, connect, organize and energize? Brazen Bandits hosts a panel of incredible trans organizers who can inspire/conspire us to move forward together. Panelists include Al Cleveland, Rose DuBois, and Olivia Orr.

Featuring organizers: Al Cleveland (they/them), Rose DuBois (she/her), and Olivia Orr (they/them). Moderated by Sampson Spadafore.

Brazen Bandits artwork is all about bodies, and bodies as revolution. First, we invite you to respond to RBoots Shertzer and Hale Linnet’s visual art through your creative practice of choice. Second, we’ll explore movement with Sampson Spadafore. This is a trans-centered space, but allies are welcome to join. Bring your art materials of choice, all mediums welcome. We will have some materials available if you need! Wear comfortable, non-restrictive clothing. Masks required!

RBoots Shertzer, Hale Linnet, and Sampson Spadafore share about their creative practice, what inspires them, and answer your questions. Learn about who the Brazen Bandits are and why we formed this collective.

Brazen Bandits is a trans artist collective calling on co-conspirators to creative collaboration. The Bandits have transformed SPACE’s 534 Congress Street Gallery into an exhibition, performance, and community space through the month of January. As our environment becomes more openly hostile for trans and queer people, this is a space for reprieve, for connection, for making art, for raising our voices and spirits toward change.

Join us for the opening of our exhibition and gathering space on First Friday, where we’ll be joined by community partners who will be tabling in the venue.