Weirdo Night

For one night only, Weirdo Night comes to SFMOMA. Hosted by “crackpot genius” Dynasty Handbag, this underground variety show celebrates the absurd, the brilliant, and the beautifully unhinged through comedy, music, performance art, drag, and whatever else can happen onstage.

Originally developed in San Francisco in 2001, Dynasty Handbag returns to the Bay to help keep SF weird (if that’s still possible), joined by OBSIDIENNE OBSURD, Xandra Ibarra, Cliff Hengst, and HAAGS (Emilia Richeson of Ponysweat and Jibz Cameron). Expect things to go gloriously off the rails.

Earlier in the evening, reconsider your priorities, lay your dreams to rest, and join a hands-on workshop led by local artist Oliver Hawk Holden exploring humor, absurdity, and DIY creativity.

Event Schedule

5, 6, + 7 p.m. | Workshops with Oliver Hawk Holden, Floor 2, Koret Education Center
Please note: Each session has a 30-person limit and spots will be available first come, first served.

7 p.m. | Weirdo Night, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater

About the Artists

Jibz Cameron is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles, performing multimedia work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag. Over the last 15 years, Cameron has combined tragedy and comedy at institutions such as MOCA, PS1, Joe’s Pub, the Kitchen, REDCAT, the Broad Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the New Museum, among others. The New York Times has heralded her as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years,” and New York Magazine has called her “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.” Cameron has written and produced seven evening-length performance pieces and countless short works that have been performed in clubs and venues internationally. She also produced multiple video works and three albums of original music. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee, and a 2021 United States Artist. Cameron was included in the Made In L.A. 2023: Acts of Living biennial at the Hammer Museum. Her film Weirdo Night, made with director Mariah Garnett, was an official Sundance Film Festival 2021 submission. Cameron also produces and hosts Weirdo Night!, a monthly experimental comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York. She is currently working on a memoir to be published by Dopamine Books in 2026.

Haaggzz (fluid spelling) is a wig-forward dance troupe consisting of Emilia Richeson-Valiente of Ponysweat and Jibz Cameron of Dynasty Handbag. They are a pleasure-led and anti-aspirational exploration of body fun.

Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth and Machine Project in Los Angeles, the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Oliver Hawk Holden is a San Francisco–based artist whose works take a satirical look at the world by pulling figurative imagery of distinct actions and deeply intimate moments into semi-autobiographical figurative multimedia collage. His practice includes kinetic sculpture, video, painting, and installation. Holden’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz and been exhibited at SFMOMA, Evergold Gallery, On Approval, Incline Gallery, R/SF Gallery, and Meta AIR Mural Residency San Francisco. Alongside his art practice, Holden is a co-founder of Expert Art Workers, a Bay Area speciality fine art services company. He holds a degree in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects. Ibarra’s work has been featured at the Broad Museum (LA), ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), The Leslie-Lohman Museum (New York), ONE Archives (LA), and Anderson Collection (Stanford), to name a few. She is currently a UC President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Eureka Fellow. She has received the Creative Capital Award, the Queer Art Prize for Recent Work, the Art Matters Grant, the Eisner Film and Video Prize, the Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award, among others. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic, ArtNews, and in various academic journals and books nationally and internationally.

OBSIDIENNE OBSURD is a mind-bending, genre-melting, surrealist, maximalist, pseudo-intellectual bespoke garbage-wearing drag goblin multi-hyphenate. Hailed for her bold silhouettes, absurdist performance proclivity, and iconically recognizable paint, OBSIDIENNE is a prolific drag producer, outlandishly ambitious performer, and classical violist. OBSIDIENNE is currently an artist-in-residence at 200 Channels, an experimental performance art venue in South of Market (SOMA) in San Francisco. She also brings gay chaos to the high desert of Joshua Tree, where she curates a niche pop culture drag show called HORSE GIRL that absolutely no one asked for. In December 2025, OBSIDIENNE will present a full-length, autobiographical drag/contemporary classical music staged production with generous support from the Gerbode Foundation — but until then, you can find her pulling all-nighters up and down Route 5 in her camper van.

Emilia Richeson-Valiente (she/her) is a performer, writer, and the creator of punk-feminist aerobics practice Pony Sweat. She has cultivated a loyal following through her “fiercely noncompetitive” dance aerobics format, which celebrates anti-perfectionism, self-expression, gaiety, and the liberation of bodies. Alongside her Pony Sweat work, Emilia writes about music and somatic practices and is published in Dopamine Book’s 2025 WITCH Anthology. She has choreographed music videos for Alice Bag, Hayley Williams, Wallows, and Scrunchies, and has performed her work at the Broad, Weirdo Night(s), SORORITY, and many, many punk shows. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her wife and pup.