Mad 4 Tori is a fundraising event featuring an immersive installation, bedroom conversation, and performance to entice all ears with feet. Esteemed artists and scholars Ksenia M. Soboleva, Samantha Nye, Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, Charlene Incarnate and Macy Rodman lead an evening inspired by Tori Amos, a musician that has shaped countless queer identities.

Mad 4 Tori

November 3rd, 2023

(PAST EVENT)

Doors 7:30pm

Ksenia M. Soboleva

Samantha Nye

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

Charlene

Macy Rodman

Promotional poster with letters made of red hair shaped into MAD 4 TORI on top of cornflakes. The rest of the text reads: SoMad Presents: Conversation with Ksenia M. Soboleva, Catalina Schliebener Munoz, Samantha Nye. Performances + music by Charlene + Macy Rodman. Nov. 3rd 2023, Event, 7:30-12, 34 E 23rd St. 2nd FL. Tickets on Eventbrite.

We gather with intention and awareness, and ask you to join us and dance in protest, dance against war, dance for humanity. All tickets, books, art, and shop proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to deliver emergency medical care to Palestinians in need.

We are stronger together.

Thank you to everyone who joined us! We raised $1792 for Doctors Without Borders.

Open Call for Tori Amos Fan Art! Submit your artwork to adorn the walls of a Tori Amos fan’s fantasy bedroom, the set for an artist talk by artists and scholars Ksenia M. Soboleva, Samantha Nye and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz.

A set of pink nails that read OPEN CALL on a piece of paper that reads Tori Amos Fan Art in collaged letters. Around the image are cutouts of Tori Amos, a game console that says Cornflake Girl, butterflies, lips, and a pair of coyotes, one with a text box that says Do you think New York is dead?

Selected fan artists earn two free tickets for the Mad 4 Tori event and features on SoMad’s social media and site.

Event Photos

A person in a flowery jacket brushes a red wig, Tori Amos images in the background.
An action shot of three seated people singing animatedly, microphones in hand, surrounded by Tori Amos posters, snapshots, red wigs, and pillows.
An action shot of several group of people chatting, one at the center of the image in a leather jacket facing away from the camera, another in a silver vest, also facing away. Pink and orange blurs adorn the upper parts of the photo.
A woman in a long, sparkly silver dress over a black slip standing in front of a small television and many Tori Amos posters. A pink blur effect accents the photo.
An action shot of several groups of people chatting by SoMad's bar, pink blur effects around the image.
An action shot of a woman in a red dress mid-performance, surrounded by a pink blur effect by the camera, Tori Amos posters in the background.
A woman in a red dress seated on the Mad 4 Tori couch set-up surrounded by Tori Amos posters, a mirror, snapshots, red wigs, and pillows.
A group of people in front of a brick wall, some dancing, some chatting, one person nearest to the camera dressed in black and accessorized in lots of silver, pink blur effects accenting the. photo.
Blurred shot of a person in glasses dancing, pink and blue lights creating a psychedelic effect.
Two people seated on the Mad 4 Tori couch set-up and tucked under a Tori blanket, surrounded by Tori Amos posters, snapshots, red wigs, and pillows.
Two people smiling and embracing, one in orange and yellow, the other in a brown coat and a fuzzy scarf.