Save the Date!

by Miss Violet DeVille May 2

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For the love of weird.
Feel 13 years of love at the Rendezvous on 7/15/2023.
Triskaideka-FEEL-Ya


Trollop Labs at DC Punk Rock Flea Market!!

by Miss Violet DeVille November 18 Maker

CopyrightSaturday, during my Eastern Sea Broad Tour, I'll be going doing to the DC Punk Rock Flea Market at St. Stephens on 1525 Newton St. NW in Washington DC from noon to 5:00 pm. Admission is free with a canned food donation to We Are Family DC.

Madame DeVille and I have been working on growing new specimens of cranial horticulture!

 


Slack Water public reading

by Miss Violet DeVille November 16 Performance

This Friday and Saturday, I'm taking part in a staged reading of the new work from playwright Nelle Tankus. SLACK WATER is the story of Semmie (Miss Violet DeVille), an elder trans woman who is pregnant and wasn't just a few days ago. She demands that it should be a natural birth or nothing at all, tasking her children, Pearl (Sam Ro) and Marge (Jordi Montes), with helping her carry her miraculous child to term. 

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This staged reading of Slack Water is open to the public via Zoom on Friday, November 19th at 7:00 pm PT with a 15-minute talkback afterward, and Saturday, November 20th at 7:00 pm PT

Starring: Miss Violet DeVille (she/her/they/them), Sam Ro (they/them), and Jordi Montes (she/her/they/them)

This reading will be close captioned in English using Zoom's captioning function.

This reading takes place on the traditional territories of the Duwamish, the first people of this land, past, and present. To learn more about how to be in the right relationship with the Duwamish, please visit https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

Slack Water - a new play Zoom reading
Written by Nelle Tankus
Directed by QuiQui Dominguez

We believe theatre should be accessible to all, therefore there is no cost to attend, but there is a suggested donation of $10. This money will go to paying the artists and supporting the reading.

Please send your donations to the playwright's Venmo @nelletankus.


The Unconvention is this week!

by Miss Violet DeVille November 10 Maker

I'm excited to be heading to my second in-person convention since the pandemic has had us in its grip. I will be vending with Trollop Labs at The Unconvention in Iselin, NJ at the APA Woodbridge Hotel.

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We're bringing our wares (wears?) to New Jersey's own Convention for the Unconventional, a convention for ALL creatures of the dark! 

 


Welcome to Hell Week: The Neverland Night Circus at Vancouver Fringe opens on Friday

by Miss Violet DeVille September 8 Performance

hell week \ ˈhel wēk \ (noun) Hell week, also called technical week, tech week, tech, techweek, and production week, is the week prior to the opening night of a play, musical or similar production in which all of the technical elements (such as costumes, lights, sound, set and makeup) are present during rehearsal for the first time.

I'm am safe ensconced in my host's home up here in Vancouver as we prepare for the opening of the Geekender's Neverland Night Circus run for the Vancouver Fringe Festival. We spent a few hours last night blocking my scene--figuring out how I'm moving--and what bits of business we're going to be doing with my character.Copyright

And who am I? Why, only the fairy mother of the night, midwife to sleeper’s dreams, Queen Mab. A simple “your majesty” will suffice.

Tonight is tech rehearsal. The plan is to run the show at least 3 times tonight. The Neverland Night Circus is an immersive piece of theater, set up in a similar fashion to haunted attractions, where groups of audience members walk from scene to scene which enforces social distancing and small groups in this time of plague. I'm super excited about this innovative approach to managing COVID risk in the theater.

The Neverland Night Circus is a retelling of the Peter Pan story. It's delightful and innovative in its telling.

"Come away with me."

You hesitate... But who doesn't want to run away with the circus?

You escape to a big top lost outside of time, an ephemeral spectacle that springs up every night at dusk in an explosion of music and glitter, only to disappear again as sunbeams crawl over the morning horizon. Audience members will follow that perpetual boy to meet scintillating mermaids, beautiful fairies, and the hopeful Wendy, deciding as she does whether to stay in Neverland... or to fly away home.

The Neverland Night Circus at the Vancouver Fringe Festival opens Friday night, September 10th, and continues through the 19th. Tickets are $15 and the show runs for about an hour. Tickets are available here.

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 Come run away with me. The circus beckons you to join us!


Recent shoot with John Cornicello


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Photo by John Cornicello
Yesterday I had a photoshoot with the amazingly talented photographer, and one of the nicest people I know, John Cornicello of Cornicello Photography. Here's a sneak peek at one of the images we created.

 


The muse strikes again


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Bathroom selfies never looked so good.
Well, my muse has struck again. I was lying there, half-asleep with my noise-canceling headphones on when the song came on and a fan dance pops into my head.

Much like the Hospital Woman, where I took Florence + the Machine’s Shake It Out and reinterpreted it as an anthem of shaking off society’s imposed shame on queer people, this time I’m reinterpreting a love song.

It was originally a plea from a son to his mother, seeking her approval of his love. Approval and withheld from him.

I hear a trans woman, standing before the vanity, begging herself in the mirror. That love is the love she feels for herself but she doesn’t know if it’s real or not. So she pleads with herself. To be worthy of that love.

Let the act development process begin! Now I just need to build myself a vanity that breaks down and travels easily.

 


Astrophotography in Dayville, OR


About a month ago, I snuck off with Lilith Van Dyke to a small cottage nestled in the black skies of Central Oregon to take photos of the Galactic Central Core. We also visited the John Day Fossil Beds and got our nerd on with rocks.

Here are a few of those nighttime skies.

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Every time I go out into the dark, I always pick up some new bit of information that makes my photos better.

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Lilith is in silhouette from the citronella candles near the car. She did her photography using her phone's astrophotography features and they turned out simply stunning.

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All three of the photos were processed as a stack, or many exposures of the same area of the sky layered together and composited to get the best visual information.

This was a fine way to spend the second weekend in June.


Guest hosting this Wednesday at Hot Wench Summer (and Swain)!


Royal Angels Present
Hot Wench Summer (and Swain)

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Come enjoy a free pirate-themed burlesque and drag variety show!

July 14th, 2021
Doors at 7:00 pm
Show at 8:00 pm
All Ages until 9:00 pm

With indoor and outdoor seating!

Raffle prizes abound!

Guest host Miss Violet DeVille
Music by DJ Clove Sloth

Swashbuckling Performers
• Muse Macabre
• Maria Gonorrhea
• Ahri Catastrophe
• Kim Blythe
• Mercy Stackhouse
• Russell Roberre Royale
• Curvy Cake Royale

Picadilly Circus
1104 First Street
Snohomish, WA

Wheelchair accessible and dog-friendly venue


Miss Ellie Productions Presents: The Inaugural Rise & Grind Show on 7/17


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Let's bring them back, but add a little spice... Join us on the third Saturday of each month for a sexy variety show chock full of the vitamins and nutrients your body needs - and by that I mean mimosas! Enjoy act after act as Miss Ellie Fox introduces you to her special guest co-hosts Sparkle Kraken and Lexxi Shackels as we learn more about them as performers!

Your Cast:

  • Audrey Azazel
  • Dark Felina
  • Eva D'Luscious
  • Holden McGroin-Yaz
  • Kitten A. Round
  • Lexxi Shackels
  • Scarlett O'Heartless
  • Temera Titty
  • and Miss Violet DeVille

Tickets for July 17th at 10:00 am PT are available from http://tinyurl.com/riseandgrind1


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