In celebration of its current exhibition “Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art and Community,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts will host “A Day of Collaborative Performance” on Saturday, May 17, 2008, from 12 – 6pm.  Organized by guest-curator Carey Lovelace, the event will feature continuous carnival-like events and performances by contemporary and historic collectives including The Brainstormers, Guerrilla Girls, Inc., Spiderwoman Theatre, Ridykeulous, Broadband, Christal Brown and INSPIRIT, 6+ and The Waitresses

Highlights include performance-art group The Waitresses, who will kick-off the festivities with their All Waitress Marching-Band parade.  They will arrive en masse at the museum at 12:30pm, and then return at 4pm to stage an “Unhappy Hour,” serving drinks and snacks. (Women will pay 77 cents to men’s $1.)  Anarchic spirits Ridykeulous will present “That Looks Really Cute On You!”, an afternoon-long performance event in which they build a towering statue made of plaster and found materials to the accompaniment of the band Legends. It will culminate with the smashing of the sculpture. The event will also feature poetry by Dr. Laurie Weeks, along with surprise guests. And Spiderwoman Theater will stage a historic retrospective, multi-generational performance based on “storyweaving.”