Max & Mars Present

🎉 11/11 - make a wish! Wow! Max & Mars Present is 7 years old today!!! ♋️ MAX: 7 years ago today, after a beautiful Sunday evening edition of @helenofboy 's On the Tip of My Heart, Mars popped the question I had been waiting for a drag queen to ask me: Will you be the Seymour to my Audrey? And so our first co-producing venture, Little Punk Rock Drag Show of Horrors, was born. Fulfilling all of my wildest teenage theatre kid dreams, I did, in fact, discover I was in love with not just the art that Mars makes, but the whole of her - an honor to live out such a t4t fantasy in real life. Getting this chance to make art and love and life with Mars, growing together and alongside one another, has been one of the greatest adventures of my life thus far, and the infinite 69 of it all continues to spin. Stay tuned. MARS: I made a decision one day - I NEED to play Audrey. But the "real" theater world was never going to hire me. So, my vision was clear - an all drag cast of a live sung Little Shop of Horrors. The task felt a bit large, so I thought... I need my Seymour to also be my collaborator. As soon as I knew I needed a Seymour, I knew it was Max. And of course - I fell so hard for that boy! It's such a pleasure to ideate & create together, our creative sparks pulled together so instantly! The 9 to my 6 and the 6 to my 9, like merged galaxies, binding together and spiraling as both one, and many. ➡️ Max and Mars Present: A 7 Year Herstory Little Punk Rock Drag Show of Horrors WIG: the 21st century TRANSlation of HAIR the Musical (co-directed and co-written with @lalabenet !) Love Will Keep Us Together (a Captain & Tennille birthday drag show in the park!) If I Hold You Like This (a drag show & portal in the park) Goodbye Haute Glue (a drag film elegy) SPACE: The Drag Show (a 2 year drag journey through the solar system!) Along the way we had a blast collaborating with some dear friends: @givenqdaviswrites and @urks.io on MAGIC NIGHT AT THE TRANS BAR! It's a sketch comedy & experimental video art TV show - streaming now for you to watch! Link in Biooo! @tinglesvanpelt and Sonnei for 3 park birthday shows! ABBA, KISS, & Hall & Oates!

got plans Friday, September 12th? well, you do now! and if you already had plans just cancel them, because i gotta see your hot faces @humpfilmfestival for my 🌽 debut!! plus, @maxandmarspresent and @korbin and I are hosting a realllll cute after party to celebrate our silver screen succsex. don’t be a total tease! just pick out your sluttiest outfit and buy your tickets already. can’t wait to squeeze you there!

Hello world! It’s time again for a birthday extravaganza in the park, brought to you by the 🦀 4 cancers 🦀 - Sonnei & Tingles & Max & Mars! From the creators who brought you the summer drag sensations of Captain & Tennille, ABBA, & KISS comes a double dose of the iconic duo... 🎶 Hall & Oates! 🎵 We've selected the best tracks from their albums H20 & Voices to bring to life in the queerest and silliest way possible - with a group of of drag performers playing around in the cutest baseball field in Portland, in 🌲 Irving Park! 🌳 🌞 Bring your fav park-hang accoutrements, a little gay outfit, a little spf (even though the field is actually quite shaded and cool at that time of day!), & some cash to tip the entertainers! "Doors" @ 5pm - SHOW @ 6pm Irving Park Upper Baseball Diamond Saturday July 12th ✨️ STARRING: Ry Bred @rybred.drag U_Phoria @u_phoria Hal Apenyo @spicykinghal Romie Romak @romieromak Khadijah Diamond @thee_kdiamond The Infinite Urkscape @urks.io Chakra Stone Smokez @chakrarstone Max Little @lilmaxlittle Sonnei Verbena Tingles Van Pelt @tinglesvanpelt & Mars! @mars.goddess 🎟 This event is FREE but we encourage a suggested donation of $6.99 - $69.99 in order to help fund this queer AF art! 🎁 There'll be a pretty RAD raffle too, supporting Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition! @pirc_pdx All Ages! 🌞 The seating area is a grass field! Please bring your own cozy blankets, folding chairs, sit-upons, whatever you like! We invite folks with taller chairs to leave space in the front for those sitting lower to the ground. For accessing the field, there is a paved path with no steps from NE 11th and Klickitat Mall. Please message us with any additional access questions! ⚡️Thank you to @communitypowerpodspdx for providing us with POWER! UPDATE: NO ASL 😭

Another (belated) trip across the solar system. @maxandmarspresent

It’s Astro-Disco time! Come TWIRL with us, the Earth, the solar system, the galaxies, and the whole Universe this coming Sunday! Wear your Astro finery! With performances from the hosts and stars of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, AND Saturn, and divination by our hosts from the Sun and the Moon, consider this the unofficial after-after-party for S P A C E – The Drag Show! AND — did you miss out on our super sexy merch?! Say hi to @twinkjoy at our table at Twirl and stock up on patches, stickers, and more… AND pre-order your ✨Year 2 S P A C E Yearbook✨for delivery to you or a loved one in time for the holiday season! OR… buy it online and have it shipped (or delivered in town)! 🚀 MaxAndMarsPresent.art/Merch 🚀 Or L!nk in Bio ✨🌙✨ TWIRL ~ Outdoor Patio Astro Disco! Sunday 9/15 ~ $18*~ 3-9:30pm @kentonclub ✨21+✨Sunday, Sept 15 . *no one turned away for lack of funds, pay what you can . 💚 Raising funds at the door for @gaza.funds 🍉 . 💗 @twirlpdx is an LGBTQIA+ party where these identities are prioritized & celebrated. Consent is essential. Be mindful, be kind, leave the patriarchy behind. Queer Joy ftw! 🌈 Bring a friend or just yourself, just don’t forget the groove in your heart! 💖 ~ *Looks always encouraged!* 🤩 This month’s theme: Astro!💫🪐💫 Get spacey with it & shine like the stardust we’re made of ✨🌌✨Use your personal Astrology and dress according to your birth chart! ♒️♊️♐️🐂🐐⚖️🌾🐏🏹🦂 Craft a look showcasing your Sun/Moon & Rising signs 🌞🌝⬆️ Show us what it looks like to have your Venus in Virgo!💕💐🤓 or your Mars in Libra❤️‍🔥 Give us those matching Gemini looks 👯 The choice is yours whether it’s Astronomy or Astrology - let the stars guide you! 💖 Sounds ~ Disco/Funk/House/Space Boogie Sappho @djsappho 🛸 Detour Dan @detouristdan 🚀 Resident dj LéMix @thesewerethedays 🛰️ ~ Special Guest Performances✨ Isaiah Esquire @isaiah_esquire 💛 Clare Apparently @clare.apparently 🩵 Max & Mars @lilmaxlittle @mars.goddess 🖤❤️ ~ Queer Diviners on hand to answer your cosmic questions!✨🔮 *Astrology with Lazy Susan @lazysusan.lol ! 💫 *Tarot with Given @givenqdaviswrites ! 🌞 *Lunar divination with Loretta Lordchild @hotgirlhamhouse ! ✨ ~ Plus cute vendors!

✨ As we continue to catch our breath and bask in the afterglow of an incendiary crash-landing home from our two-year journey to Outer S P A C E, it’s time to shout out our generous sponsors for this grand finale — The Solar System wouldn’t have happened in the glorious ways it did without the financial and community support of these queer, trans, and accomplice businesses and organizations in town! ✨ 🏡 The Property Weirdos 🏳️‍⚧️ Staple patrons of the local queer arts and your ‘faerie godmothers’ for co-buying a home with your friends, housemates, polycule, and beyond - committed to helping queer & trans Portlanders grow deep roots here and become Old! Freaks! Together! propertyweirdos.com ~ 503.349.3680 ~ @propertyweirdos 📜 Love Joy Print Studio 🖼 Locally-owned and catering to the DIY arts & non-profit events community, Love Joy Print Studio is our go-to for posters & programs! Check out the gorgeous print job on our collectible Solar System programs, which the kind folks at Love Joy donated (and folded!) for us! lovejoyprint.com ~ 503.320.1011 ~ @lovejoyprintstudio 🎟 And of course, our fantastic raffle sponsors — make sure to support these local orgs & businesses who believe in the magic of queer art and space holding! ⚡️ ☀️ @simply_sol_farm 🔥 @givenfiremagic 💎 @clare.apparently 🌹 @ramblin_rose_pdx 💐 @mars.goddess 🌏 @yaaravaley 💆 @transbodycare 🪴 @clarysageherbarium 🍿 @moviemadness_pdx 🌊 @floathq 🎞 @churchoffilm 🦊 @hollyredwinter 🐺 @7ravenwolfe 🗡 @ritualarts_pdx 😈 @marladarlingpdx 💗💗💗 [Image descriptions: Two slides with vintage-looking outer space and stars backgrounds; each has a fuzzy bright blue bubble with hand-written text reading "thank you to our sponsors" and little white stars. The first slide has a circular photo of two cute white queers looking intrigued in matching brightly-colored jump suits, ringed by a progress-flag border, and white handwritten text that reads "The Property Weirdos! propertyweirds.com" circling the image; the second slide has a circular logo of pink and brown floral shapes on a white background, with "Lovejoy Print Studio! lovejoyprint.com" in white handwritten font circling the logo.]

🎉 Guess what?! You get one more opportunity to enter the raffle from The Solar System! 🎉 🎁 We have 1 prize package, representing slow-moving & powerful Pluto, that was generously returned by its tattoo-less recipient (lol, @ Mars’ mom!) - and it’s a good one! So we decided to give y’all one more opportunity to help raise a little bit more $ for the 3 local orgs that our raffle is raising funds for. ✨ By entering this raffle you could win ~The Pluto Package~ 1 hour tattoo by Holly Redwinter @hollyredwinter & 2 tickets to The Rocky Horror Lavender Show by @marladarlingpdx Which will support: ♾ Black & Beyond the Binary @2black4binariespdx -building leadership, healing, & safety for Black - African transgender, queer, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex (TQN2SI+) Oregonians 🌹Budding Roses @budding_roses_pdx -free, social justice centered camps for youth 🏞 IP3 Landback Project @ip3action -supporting indigenous stewardship of Multnomah & Chinook Territory land 1 ticket = $1 6 tickets = $5 25 tickets = $20 🎟 To enter: Send $1, $5, or $20 through cashapp to $MaxAndMars - we will enter the corresponding number of tickets into our raffle pool, and on August 28th at 8pm we will choose a winner via random number generator! **IMPORTANT: Include your IG handle in the note!** Thanks, cuties! 💞

🥵 The Raffle Goddexx’s have blessed us so good y’all! In the interconnected spirit of our Solar System AND our collective liberation, we have amazing celestial body-aligned prizes for every planet AND luminary, and ALL raffle funds will be split between 3 local orgs that we LOVE and are doing rad stuff for all sorts of very important communities! ♾ Black & Beyond the Binary @2black4binariespdx -building leadership, healing, & safety for Black - African transgender, queer, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex (TQN2SI+) Oregonians! 🌹 Budding Roses @budding_roses_pdx -free, social justice centered camps for youth - including one starting August 12! 🏞 IP3 Landback Project @ip3action -supporting indigenous stewardship of Multnomah & Chinook Territory land! We invite you to follow and support these orgs, and get ready to experience some chaos magic -- maybe the Universe will pick you to win some of these very sexy raffle prizes! Even if all you can afford is 1 ticket - it all helps support these orgs! See ya there! 🎟 Raffle Ticket Pricing: 1 for $1 6 for $5 25 for $20 We'll see you at... S P A C E: The Drag Show - The Solar System! Doors 5, show 6 Clinton Street Theater $33/$22/$11 sliding scale tix & NOTAFLOF 🔗 in B!o 🎁 Come early at 4pm and get some affordable astrology readings, get some plant medicine, & bask in the sunshine outside of the theater! 🕺Stay late for our AFTER PARTY across the street at Dot’s Cafe - with astro jams by the astrologer disco DJ himself, DJ LéMix of Twirl!!

S P A C E is the place to get guidance and gifts from the Universe — so come early for our final MAKERS FAIR from 4-5:45pm, and make sure you’ve got the tools and insights you need to continue your post-S P A C E journey into the great unknown! Outside of the Clinton Street Theater! Before the epic finale of: S P A C E The Drag Show - The Solar System! From 6 - 9pm - sliding scale tix in B!o ✨ Astrology with Cay Cay is a 1st-gen Filipinx astrologer who believes in queering the planets and their interpretations-no to binaries!-and seeks for folks to feel affirmed and empowered in this shared work. ⚡️ HPB Presents: Pick Your Planet HPB (aka Hannah Piper Burns) is an incredible multimedia, time-based, & divination artist - She’s offering a special planetary smorgasbord for the Solar System, so come early to Pick Your Planet! 🌀 Readings from the Wormhole Since 2016, River Malachite has been using astrology & tarot to help ease people through the bumpy wormhole rides of life! In his readings, he encourages hope, free will, and box-less ideas to calm the tensions of external forces. 🌱 Plant magic by mj mj Bzdak - a super sweet local plant witch - brings homemade, seasonally responsive herbal tinctures and magic, using home grown & foraged plant medicine! mj also offers plant-magic subscriptions! 🌊 Manatee Medicinals Tavi Waits is a magical community weaver, through story and medicine, offering herbal medicines, sliding scale herbal peer support sessions, with a focus on community education, uplifting BIPOC and decolonizing herbal medicine, and making self-care accessible! 🍦 U-Scream Back by popular demand from The Sun and the Asteroid Belt, it’s our fave queer vegan ice cream truck! It’s gonna be hot on our way back to the Sun, so treat yourself with this cute AF frozen experience! 🔥 Drag Organizing Hub Interested in getting organized with fellow drag artists in your scene? Curious about building (more) political relationships, on & off stage? Stop by The Hub to connect, find resources, & plant seeds for powerful collective change! And save some dollars for a special S P A C E x Solar System cast merch table inside at the show once doors open at 5pm!

Given as… The Sun! ✨☀✨ Coming to you HOT, direct flight from The Sun - it’s Given! Given is a bold & bright performer, healer, musician, clown, and… the list literally goes on and on. We love this fiery human who helps our world go ‘round, so much, and if you’re not already in love with him, it’s pretty much a given that you will be by the end of this show! 💕🦁 Were you there when it all began, by the light of the Leo Season Sun and Given’s sweet hosting, in August 2022?! Reminisce about this king and our blast-off in the comments! 🦁💕 🌌 S P A C E: The Drag Show comes to a close with the GRAND FINALE: The Solar System! Saturday August 10th at The Clinton Street Theater! 2522 SE Clinton St. Show 6, Doors 5 (that’ll be 6pm SHARP - for real for real!) 🌌 🎁 With a MAKERS FAIR at 4pm - come early to peruse the wares of local queer artists & makers, get astrology readings… and more! 🕺And an AFTER PARTY at Dots Cafe after the show - 9-11pm, with astro jams by Twirl legend DJ LéMix! @thesewerethedays ♋ hosted by Max & Mars ♋ STARRING: ☀ Given, The Sun! 🌀 Clare Apparently, Mercury! ♀️ Lala Benét, Venus! 🌎 Mafeta Crumble, The Earth! 🌚 Loretta Lordchild, The Moon! ❤ Mars, … Mars! 👑 Isaiah Esquire, Jupiter! 🪐 Max Little, Saturn! 💚 The Infinite Urkscape, Uranus! 🌊 Dahlia Hearts, Neptune! 🖤 The Glam King, Pluto! 🎟 $33 / $22 / $11 sliding scale tickets* PRESALE TICKETS available at MaxAndMarsPresent.art/SpaceTix or link in bio! Sponsored by 🏡The @propertyweirdos 🏡 🦠 COVID safety: Masks required when not eating or drinking! Masking is community care! Limited Free masks available! 📸by @sissy__ada Additional access info: 🤟 ASL interpreted 🤟 ADA accessible seating - but not bathrooms. ADA Bathrooms across the street at Dots Cafe (they are down to accommodate!). 2 gender neutral bathrooms. Low-to-no scent cleaning products used. Low house lighting, video projection. Content and access warnings given as applicable. *NOTAFLOF! (no one turned away for lack of funds) DM us for other access q’s! [image: background of stars. On top is a photo of Given. Text reads: SPACE The Drag Show, The Solar System. Starring: Given, the former host of The Sun]

Clare Apparently as… Mercury! ✨📚✨ Good thing she’s (oops!) in retrograde! Everyone, meet our messenger: Clare Apparently! Bursting with energy and charm, Clare is no stranger to breaking barriers, traversing boundaries, and getting her wildest and most Geminian ideas out into the world. She’s sure to let us live, laugh, and LEARN! 💕☎️Did you get the message and make it out to Mercury in October 2022?! Tell us what you learned and choose some of your favorite words to describe that Mercurial magic in the comments below! ☎️💕 🌌 S P A C E: The Drag Show comes to a close with the GRAND FINALE: The Solar System! Saturday August 10th at The Clinton Street Theater! 2522 SE Clinton St. Show 6, Doors 5 (that’ll be 6pm SHARP - for real for real!) 🌌 🎁 With a MAKERS FAIR at 4pm - come early to peruse the wares of local queer artists & makers, get astrology readings… and more! 🕺And an AFTER PARTY at Dots Cafe after the show - 9-11pm, with astro jams by Twirl legend DJ LéMix! @thesewerethedays ♋ hosted by Max & Mars ♋ STARRING: ☀ Given, The Sun! 🌀 Clare Apparently, Mercury! ♀️ Lala Benét, Venus! 🌎 Mafeta Crumble, The Earth! 🌚 Loretta Lordchild, The Moon! ❤ Mars, … Mars! 👑 Isaiah Esquire, Jupiter! 🪐 Max Little, Saturn! 💚 The Infinite Urkscape, Uranus! 🌊 Dahlia Hearts, Neptune! 🖤 The Glam King, Pluto! 🎟 $33 / $22 / $11 sliding scale tickets* PRESALE TICKETS available at MaxAndMarsPresent.art/SpaceTix or link in bio! Sponsored by 🏡The @propertyweirdos 🏡 🦠 COVID safety: Masks required when not eating or drinking! Masking is community care! Limited Free masks available! 📸by @mdphotopdx Additional access info: 🤟 ASL interpreted 🤟 ADA accessible seating - but not bathrooms. ADA Bathrooms across the street at Dots Cafe (they are down to accommodate!). 2 gender neutral bathrooms. Low-to-no scent cleaning products used. Low house lighting, video projection. Content and access warnings given as applicable. *NOTAFLOF! (no one turned away for lack of funds) DM us for other access q’s! [image: background of stars. On top is a photo of Clare. Text reads: SPACE The Drag Show, The Solar System. Starring: Clare Apparently, the former host of Mercury]

Lala Benét as… Venus! ✨💋✨ A goddess gracing our stage, it’s the lovely Lala Benét! The picture of beauty, power, and presence, Lala transforms every room she enters into a stage, darling! Whether she’s recounting an episode of Real Housewives or tearing up the runway to the tune of Sylvester, she’ll mesmerize you, every time. Woo-woo-woo! 💕💋Did you party on Venus with Lala in December 2022?! Slide into the comments and tell us what you loved the most about that juicy, sexy, Art-filled show! 💋💕 🌌 S P A C E: The Drag Show comes to a close with the GRAND FINALE: The Solar System! Saturday August 10th at The Clinton Street Theater! 2522 SE Clinton St. Show 6, Doors 5 (that’ll be 6pm SHARP - for real for real!) 🌌 🎁 With a MAKERS FAIR at 4pm - come early to peruse the wares of local queer artists & makers, get astrology readings… and more! 🕺And an AFTER PARTY at Dots Cafe after the show - 9-11pm, with astro jams by Twirl legend DJ LéMix! @thesewerethedays ♋ hosted by Max & Mars ♋ STARRING: ☀ Given, The Sun! 🌀 Clare Apparently, Mercury! ♀️ Lala Benét, Venus! 🌎 Mafeta Crumble, The Earth! 🌚 Loretta Lordchild, The Moon! ❤ Mars, … Mars! 👑 Isaiah Esquire, Jupiter! 🪐 Max Little, Saturn! 💚 The Infinite Urkscape, Uranus! 🌊 Dahlia Hearts, Neptune! 🖤 The Glam King, Pluto! 🎟 $33 / $22 / $11 sliding scale tickets* PRESALE TICKETS available at MaxAndMarsPresent.art/SpaceTix or link in bio! Sponsored by 🏡The @propertyweirdos 🏡 🦠 COVID safety: Masks required when not eating or drinking! Masking is community care! Limited Free masks available! 📸by @tenderheartphoto Additional access info: 🤟 ASL interpreted 🤟 ADA accessible seating - but not bathrooms. ADA Bathrooms across the street at Dots Cafe (they are down to accommodate!). 2 gender neutral bathrooms. Low-to-no scent cleaning products used. Low house lighting, video projection. Content and access warnings given as applicable. *NOTAFLOF! (no one turned away for lack of funds) DM us for other access q’s! [image: background of stars. On top is a photo of Lala. Text reads: SPACE The Drag Show, The Solar System. Starring: Lala Benét, the former host of Venus]