Text Messages From The Edge of Erasure
Friday, May 2, 2025
7:30pm
Rotunda Studio
$42 | General Admission
Age Recommendation
May not be appropriate for young audiences due to content, length or atmosphere.
Run Time
90 minutes, no intermission
Living within so much history, we rarely are able to breathe without an onslaught of terror. This show is community, advocacy and appeal to humanity. Part storytelling, part poetry and prose, and part community conversation, Text Messages is resistance. Purging the fear to embrace the beauty, magnificence and comfort we find in art, community and connection with all. Dina Nina brings her Collectivist vision and deep contemplation from her day to day into an intentionally sacred space of community and unity. Also, celebrating her 55th year of incarnation.
This is a facility rental event presented by an independent organization separate from Overture Center for the Arts.
Meet the Artist
Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford
Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford is a standup comedian, queer mystic and the first transgender woman to be elected to the Madison Common Council. Her work centers around advocacy for housing, queer rights, and spreading joy through performing, speaking and connection to community. Dina has been called "Very Funny" by James Corden and has been seen on The Late Late Show, Sirius XM, Madison Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and PBS.
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