Starring Anthony Hudson – the human vessel for Portland Oregon’s premiere drag clown Carla Rossi – Looking For Tiger Lily utilizes song, dance, drag, and video to put a queer spin on the ancestral tradition of storytelling. Asking what it means for a queer mixed Native person to experience their heritage through white normative culture as they recount growing up watching the 1960 production of Peter Pan featuring Sondra Lee’s blonde, blue-eyed 'Indian Princess' Tiger Lily, Anthony (and Carla) draw from a songbook stretching across Disney’s Pocahontas to Cher’s Half-Breed. Not just autobiography, Looking For Tiger Lily is a coming-of-age story that's more than cowboys versus Indians.

 
Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer perhaps best known as Portland, Oregon’s premier drag clown CARLA ROSSI, an immortal trickster whose attempts at realness almost always result in fantastic failure. Together they have been featured at the New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama (NYC), Portland and Seattle Art Museums, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, the 2019 Portland Biennial, the Risk/Reward Festival, PICA's TBA Festival, Melbourne’s Yirramboi Festival, and more, in addition to regularly hosting and programming QUEER HORROR – the only LGBTQ+ horror film screening series in the United States – at the historic Hollywood Theatre.

Anthony was named a 2018 National Artist Fellow from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a 2018 Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad Artist, a 2019 Oregon Arts Commission Fellow, a 2021 First Peoples Fund Fellow, and a 2021 Nia Tero Pacific NW Artist Fellow, and has received project support and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, US Artists International, the Oregon Community Foundation, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Portland Art Museum & NW Film Center, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Ucross Foundation, Caldera Arts Center, and more.

Anthony also co-hosts the weekly queer feminist horror podcast GAYLORDS OF DARKNESS with writer Stacie Ponder.

The program may contain mature content and language. 



For more information on the artist, CLICK HERE.


Digital program can be found HERE.

Food and beverage service will be from 5:30 - 7:30pm in the McCoy Courtyard. See the dinner menu HERE.