Thursday June 25, 2026 | Meet at 33 Turk St. (outside of the Timbri Hotel)
7pm Trans History Walking Tour | Free; register via Humanitix; space is limited!
8pm TRANSMARSH preview performance | Free; register via Eventbrite
TRANSMARSH is a free outdoor vertical dance performance by trans people, for trans people — and all who love them. The Thursday evening “preview” performance is preceded by a trans history walking tour led by community historian and advocate Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer at 7pm–separate registration required (as space is limited). The night also features a performance by Skywatchers, GRAVITY Access Services, and Oaklash Block Party at the Timbri Hotel, with local drag performers and DJs.
Tenderloin Museum is pleased to co-present a new performance piece organized by BODYSTORM: TRANSMARSH rewilds the Tenderloin with the memory of the prehistoric salt marshes beneath Market Street, the 1966 trans-led uprising at Compton's Cafeteria, and the gay bars teeming with life where the Timbri Hotel now stands. The work lifts these intersecting narratives off the ground and asks what comes next — how we grieve the past, adapt to the present, and move through the coming storms together. In a work by trans people, for trans people, vertical dance flips the stage on its side, beckoning us to see the world anew and reimagine what we are capable of.
"Trans folks are world builders. We imagine new ways of seeing and defy imposed expectations that demand uprightness in an upside-down world. Our bodies are experts at transition, at change, because the trans body is a force of nature, and nature is hella queer." — B Dean, Artistic Director of BODYSTORM.
BODYSTORM is a Bay Area vertical and site-specific dance company centering queer, multiracial, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Founded by transgender vertical dancer B Dean, BODYSTORM is fiscally sponsored by Circo Zero and supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Rainin Foundation, and Svane Family Foundation, with special thanks to BANDALOOP and the Timbri Hotel. TRANSMARSH features the work of B Dean, Pangaea, tome, and House of Perception.
photo by Brooke Anderson