Quart, 47
"The House of Varieties it is a meeting building, celebration and creation". This is how the blinds of this large self-managed space on Carrer Quart welcomes you, with its decadent charm, welcomes dissenting and non-binary people with open arms, and to everything else too, of course. The ground floor is a pub that runs from Thursday to Sunday drag shows amb Pam Demia, the spooky Glamniss, Letizia Conceta - hypnotic singing with her ukulele -, the Vampirashian or Ferrxn cupletista, the most comical and vindictive with the Valencian. Each with its own marked style, they are divine on stage every weekend, ready to interact with the audience, poking a little to make them have a good time. Valencia was the capital of transformism in the years 60-70, a feature very typical of his countercultural movement thank you, others, to figs like Rampova or La Margot, to whom the MuVIM is currently dedicating an exhibition. before, the shows of variety they had taken deep root in the city commanded by their temple, el Teatro Alcázar, where they passed stars with the great Rosita Amores, which once again shines splendidly on a pan in the large photograph-poster of Calle Corretgeria. Like this, with the land well fertilized, and the guadasarenca Choriza May triumphant to the UK (he participated in RuPaul's Drag Race) claiming his status as a migrant, in September, the space specialized in LGTBIQ+ culture and the drag universe, which we will talk about below, planted a seed in Valencia.
In the social space you will find a small shelf of books donated by people who believe in the project, mostly LGTBIQ+ themed, but also from other areas and different languages, which may be useful to the participants in the language exchange sessions that are organized periodically. Next to it is prints to the band to immortalize some of the main artists of the house, all Valencian, and some great defenders of the language such as Pam Demia and Ferran, that they recently had an encounter with someone in the audience who was vociferating in bad ways about: “in Spanish!”. "We do all kinds of shows, in Valencian, in Spanish… and we don't do it in Galician because we don't have one drag queen gallega, what else would we do with it". Joan Folguerà answers, one of the promoters of the project, which clarifies that these rifrafes they are not common at all. He teaches us one photocall ple of glitter and mirrors of diva putting on make-up before the function, and the room where people can come to drink (at popular prices), chat and choose the music that plays through the speaker. Anyone can approach, upon payment of the three euros that it costs to enter the building, you don't have to be a member, ni trans, neither lesbian, "all we ask is that you be respectful and don't ride bulla”, says Joan, “in fact, if you know other people and what their world is like, what you take with you!”.
above, equipped with comfortable aged armchairs, there is a cinema that used to show "slightly compromised films" and was a place for sexual exchanges. And it is that, in the seventies, this old building, now protected, it was a shelter for LGBTI people. Today the room is used for cultural activities such as talks, debates, round tables, presentations of books and short films, and film screenings. Classics like Rocky Horror Picture Show, cycles dedicated to the cinema of Almodóvar or terror, he film Frankenputa commented by the drag Caneli. And there is another floor reserved for the showroom, a multipurpose room for all kinds of events, from private birthday parties, ball classes and reading clubs, a guatequesthematic around the horoscope, Halloween or Nadals, Fuck Xmas! Karaoke on Sundays, on Thursday Trivials with guests such as Vicent Chover (podcast director There is drag beyond Rupaul), i on Fridays, talks of all kinds: about the Valencian, dissident people, the experience of trans people, the obsession with hair or, within the cycle Being a woman is shit, about women occupying workplaces traditionally occupied by men. House of Varieties is a new space for dissident and LGTBI+ culture that thinks culture should be intersectional, universal and affordable, and that invites you with a "welcome and take care". S.M.
