Monster in a Dress - Screening and artist conversation

Join Substation Community Supporters for a screening of "Monster in a Dress," followed by a conversation with artist and filmmaker Annie Weatherwax and author Jennifer Haigh. "Monster in a Dress" is an animated short story about Weatherwax's journey with gender, identity and personhood.

Tickets are pay-what-you-choose with a requested ticket price of $20. All ticket sales and a portion of bar proceeds will directly support the arts programming of Substation Community Supporters.

6-7pm: Drinks & Appetizers 
7-7:30pm: Film Screening
7:30-8pm: Artist Conversation

Annie Weatherwax spent her early career as an artist sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters. Included in her portfolio are characters from Nickelodeon, DC Comics, and Pixar. Her debut novel, All We Had, was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and is now a major motion picture from Tribeca films. She received The Hamilton Life Achievement Award for individuals with dyslexia. She was recently the inaugural fellow at New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson’s Lost and Found Lab.

Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her latest, Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her short stories have been published widely, in the Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Published in eighteen languages, her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, will be published on April 1.