12:30pm

you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands.

in this speculative work of dance-theatre, a group of interdisciplinary Black queer and trans artists take on america's poisonous lust for the lone ranger.

using live electronic and folk music, archival video, dance and poetry, high noon casts a long shadow on the cowboy under the heat of an unrelenting sun.

2:30pm

"You shouldn't be doing what your doing on that Ladder" deputed in February 2020 and now returns to tackle the instability of mental health in 2022. Using three different sized ladders, a solo clown performer, Peter Nicholls, strings together success and failure in his pursuit to reach greater heights of well being and ladder steps. Hilarity and terror ensue as the ladders humiliate, confuse, crush and even lick our troubled clown. Filled with spectacle, laughs, tears and fears, Peter attempts to perform the greatest ladder trick ever seen but must first accomplish a more impossible feat: finding the desire to get out of bed in the morning.

4pm

An evening of two artistic explorations that investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement/dance and food. Leila Delicious & Mette Loulou von Kohl will share their works in conversation to probe the spaces of dissonance and familiarity between their individual experiences in relating to their bodies as Palestininans.

7pm

In I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond, artists and audiences alike board a metaphysical flight, traveling together to a visionary place of collective imagining. A Professor and a Facilitator -both on the precipice of revelation - attempt, in their own ways, to explain the world around them, only to realize what they are trying to communicate is nearly impossible for others to comprehend. But as the bodies of the passengers are thrown into acrobatic flight, a certain truth is revealed: either we will put aside our differences and save each other, or we will fall.

4pm

Feeling Red brings color to movement and dance. Choreographer, Savi Stevenoski, sees color when listening to music. A phenomenon know as synesthesia. Red is deep and soulful. Red is a big, broad, strong color that symbolizes much more than anger and love. Feeling Red transcribes the color red into movement, into something that the dancers and audience are able to feel.

6:30pm

Written largely during quarantine, Daughter of the Sea is an internal look into Lizcano's life, addressing a wide range of topics from breaking generational traumas and grapplingwith immigrant identity, to sexual desire and learning radical self-love. Featuring tracks sung in both English and Lizcano's native Spanish, the album is a reflection of her experienceswith and feelings of belonging to something bigger than the boxed identities imposed by culture and society.

9pm

Located in the beautiful Maas Garden Bar, the OVERBOARD! Cabaret is Cannonball's FREE nightly offering of music, circus, comedy, storytelling, strange anthems to pirate lords and ecstatic participatory rituals that are sure to be the perfect end to your night at the Fringe.

SUNDAY COMEDY NIGHTS- Our special guest host Tan Hoang is gathering Philly's finest and funniest to takeover the cabaret. If you're looking to run a rig with the Cannonball crowd, this night is for you!

1pm

BOWER BIRD is a multidisciplinary theater event featuring dance, film, and a design contest. If you've ever wondered what your favorite nature documentary might be like if David Attenborough was a drag queen, you should check this out.

2:30pm

You were a child, and that child is still in you. Without looking at the past and forgiving little you, there's no way future you can get past the past.

After years of working as a teacher, organizer, and facilitator, Matthew Armstead is pushed inward to show themself the care and accept the support they show others. Through poetry, movement, and song, Matthew embodies a chorus of voices. Black people don't have to be perfect. Queer fam don't have to perform to be cool. We all just get to be. Yes and...you get to forgive yourself.

4pm

Nella is the leader of a Women's Mafia Anonymous group. It is rumored that Nella's dad did business with the Mafia. Each women at this meeting is connected to somebody in the Mob.

5:30pm

Pedestrian Circus is a one-human show spanning many discovery zones. Characters and self-perception are shaken and stirred. A fantastic voyage where we feast on a hot wet fantasy of persona pizza, insecurity extra cheese toppings, pepperoni ego death. Hey y'all, the body is a stretched canvas just waiting for the scrumptious tidbits of humanity to get messy. Watch ya girl Rose Luardo and her radical performative costume changes as she flits from human skin to human skin. The show is a multi-character blitzkrieg bop with a business suit, bucket hat, face gems, and prosthetic pee-pees!

6:30pm

Oedipus in Seattle is an auto-theatre mash-up of Oedipus Rex and Sleepless in Seattle. In this unconventional adaptation, two different actors take the stage each night without having rehearsed or read the script. Instructions from a voice in their headphones will guide them through the piece as they assume the roles of Oedipus, Jocasta, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, with the casting decided by random chance.

10pm

Fête de la Ville Natale is a variety cabaret show comprised of classic burlesque, song, and poetry celebrating the beauty of black and brown queer bodies.