Elif Bet: July!💛

NOTE: To approve your RSVP, please Venmo $5 to @theelifcollective. Thank you! ✨Welcome to Elif Bet✨ Every month, we're gathering the Elif community in a cozy space in NYC to hear a new play. We’re so excited to bring you a brand new, full-length piece by the wonderful Jaden Alvaro Gines — join us for a reading of “The Z.U.M.”! Come along for friends, snacks, dancing, and, of course, the story! About the playwright… 🛹 Jaden Alvaro Gines (they/them) is a Genderqueer, Latino playwright from working class New Jersey, currently based out of Philadelphia. Their work focuses heavily on the issues plaguing middle class America, touching on topics such as economic strife, the American dream, Trans and Queer bodies, and the attempt at life as an everyday working person. They attempt to reflect the people from their communities that would otherwise be forgotten in the theater world, and produce work that has been put to the side in the craft in recent years. Most recently, their monologue piece, Delivery Boy, had its New York premier through Kitchen Sink Theatre Company in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, this past February. Their work has been produced by Kitchen Sink Theatre Company, Theatermania.com, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and they have had the pleasure of collaborating with other fine artists and collectives in and around New York and Philadelphia. @jad_engines About the play... 🛹 Following a financial emergency back at home, Ash - a genderqueer 18 year old with an affinity for makeup - is sleeping in their car and starting work at a random ZUMIEZ in middle of nowhere, working class suburbia. Here they meet Ez - the assistant manager of the ZUMIEZ and an aspiring rave musician - who also knows a thing or two about makeup. As they grow closer, and learn that their store is under threat of closing in a month, Ez and Ash hatch a scheme to throw a rave in the store overnight playing Ez’s music to secretly pay off their debt and save their store. But, as the two grow closer and tensions rise, they must grapple with their dreams, living versus survival, and how much one is willing to give in order to see their dreams come true, even at the expense of themselves and the ones they love. See you there! 💛 *If your RSVP is not approved for any reason, your Venmo payment will be refunded. If your RSVP is approved, payments are non-refundable. **By attending this event you consent to, and grant The Elif Collective and its agents the right to: (i) photograph, videotape, and record your image, voice and likeness and (ii) to disclose, edit, use, publish and store the same publicly and on social media for commercial/promotional purposes without prior review or approval and without receipt of additional consideration, and you release The Elif Collective, its directors, agents and employees from all claims, demands and liabilities in connection therewith