PUSSY RIOT + BOYFRIEND (SOLD OUT)

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PUSSY RIOT & BOYFRIEND on the same stage for the first time! And in Mobile Alabama of all places!

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova bio:
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Russian conceptual artist, political activist, and the founder of the art collective Pussy Riot, which has been the world’s most prominent art group in recent years and a global symbol of activism. In 2012 Nadya was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance by Pussy Riot in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Shortly after her release in December 2013 Nadya announced the opening of an independent Russian news service Mediazona.
She has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament, European Parliament to fight and advocate for human rights in Russia. Besides lecturing as an honorary speaker at many universities, including Harvard and Cambridge, she received an honorary degree at RISD.
Nadya’s published two books; Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism (HarperOne, 2018) and Comradely Greetings: The prison letters of Nadya and Slavoj (co-written with Slavoj Zizek, 2014). She is subject in the documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (HBO, 2013) and appeared as herself on Netflix’s House of Cards. Netflix original series Russian Doll included the track “Organs” in Episode 7, during the credits. The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), a comedy starring Mila Kunis, has Nadya’s “Bad Girls” as a soundtrack.
In 2012, while in prison, she became a Lennon Ono Grant for Peace recipient and has performed the song “Refugees In” as part of artist Banksy’s Dismaland and performed live on world renowned stages such as Glastonbury Festival. She’s created the music videos “Chaika”, which exposes Russian corruption, “Make America Great Again” was eerily made before the 45th American president was elected, and other tracks “I Can’t Breathe” (in honor of Eric Garner), “Police State”, “Bad Apples”, “Elections” in protest of the Russian “elections” and most recently Pussy Riot’s “Policeman Enters The Game” was staged during the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Moscow, in solidarity for fellow Russian political prisoners, in front of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
By staging and merging her audio/visual and written art on a world stage and through meetings with world leaders, prison directors and wardens, political activists, philosophers, artists; from Yoko Ono, Madonna, Marina Abramovic, Ai Wei Wei, Noam Chomsky, Martin Sheen, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Courtney Love, Salman Rushdie, Paul McCartney and others, Nadya’s developed a continuous persistent and relentless fight for human rights that shines a unique light, often with humour to make it accessible, relatable, memorable and actionable, to a wider audience.