IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This will be the final performance of ESSENSUALITY in this format. If you have been a fan and performer these last three years, please be sure to come say farewell...

Sex, love, relationship…
Anger, passion, longing…
Unspoken desires, unrealized fantasies,
unheard of sensual adventures…

Essensuality invites out the essence of sensuality.  The raw, vulnerable, uncensored, tender – usually private – moments are revealed in poetry, spoken word, dance, comedy, storytelling, music…or some genre of your own imagination.

The evening will include: Featured acts, open mic performances, and spontaneous combustion…not necessarily in that order. Comfortable seating in the round, a limited cash bar, and an unrushed evening of erotic expression. Opportunities to laugh, cry…and blush.

Bring yourself, your friends, your lovers. Your desire, your embarrassment, your uncertainty. It’s all welcome here! After all, that’s what it is to be a sensual being. And that’s what we’re celebrating…the sensuality that lives — whether hidden or on the sleeve — of every single one of us.

FEATURED PERFORMERS:

TWANNA HINES, aka Funky Brown Chick. Called one of “the internet’s sultriest sharers” by the Village Voice, details about her rendezvous have been printed in Glamour magazine. AfterEllen.com calls her the “straight-but-not-narrow” sex columnist. She has appeared on CNN, NPR, Sirius Satellite Radio as well as CBC (Canadian National Radio) and Paris Première (French Television). She has written for Lifetime, Nerve, New York Press, Fast Company and has a blog on the Huffington Post.

RAKESH SATYAL, Author of Blue Boy, which won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction and the 2009 prize in prose & poetry from the Association of Asian American Studies. In his spare time, Rakesh sings jazz music. His cabaret act has been featured in a wide variety of places, including Page Six, DailyCandy, the New York Observer, The New Yorker, New York, the New York Times, and Time Out.