TONIGHT’S SHOW:

FOCUSES ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN TWO-SPIRIT COMMUNITY. THE SHOW WILL FEATURE A VARIETY OF TWO-SPIRIT VOICES, POETRY, DRUMMING AND SONG DRAWN FROM A PERFORMANCE BY BAAITS THAT WAS PART OF THE OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA’S QUEER CALIFORNIA: UNTOLD STORIES EXHIBIT.

THE BAY AREA AMERICAN INDIAN TWO-SPIRITS, KNOWN AS BAAITS, DEFINE TWO-SPIRIT AS “THE COMMONLY SHARED NOTION AMONG MANY NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES THAT SOME INDIVIDUALS NATURALLY POSSESSED AND MANIFESTED BOTH MASCULINE AND FEMININE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES.