DECEMBER 28: PIRATE PERFORMANCE ART & MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA

The one and only Captain Bootybeard presents an evening of piratey mayhem early in the evening on Sunday, December 28, at Dante's in downtown Portland, Oregon. Pirate chanteys will be sung, and performance artist Tirana Gjuha will present "Via Crucis Piraticus" based on recent findings that Jesus was a female pirate.

Wear your eyepatch. This early show will be followed by the weekly gyrations of Sinferno Cabaret.

VIA CRUCIS PIRATICUS
Live art by Tirana Gjuha

Tirana Gjuha been a Performance artist of Albania, at AKT-X in Norway, Infr'Axxion in France, EnterPenetrative Language Festival in USA, and in many Performance Festivals. She has a MFA in Baltic Performance Studies from Yale College in Minsk and won the Private Performance Prize from IAPAO in 2003 in the Obscurity category, for her famous "Fire High/d(U)rant," spending one year tied to a yellow hydrant in Toronto.

JESUS WAS A FEMALE PIRATE
"Via Crucis Piraticus" is a one-woman Performance Art depicting the Stations of the Cross, based on new archaeological findings that Jesus was a Female Pirate. "Via Crucis Piraticus" permiered as a three-woman, 72-hour around-clock performance of Miranda Julie, Tirana Gjuha, and Mierle Laderwoman Ukelele this fall at COUP-ON First International Live Art Festival in Sichuan, China.