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Hadley IS Jacinta, one of Canberra’s most tolerated motivational speakers and conceptual transvestite. In Be The Do-It-Yourself Sex Change You Want To See In The World, Jacinta will be your guide through techniques and lessons to help you be the you that you want to be! Through autobiographical anecdotes, reflecting on her great grandma’s battle with the Nazis in an effort to derail Operation Hello Ladies, the Fuhrer’s dastardly plan to unleash a nuclear powered transvestite bomb on the world, Jacinta will help you be the you that you may not even know you can be!

It’s time to stop being the you you don’t want to be, and start being the you you’ve always known you are! It’s time to dance like no one is watching (nude, at your great grandmother’s funeral), sing like you don’t know the words, and be! be! be! the do-it-yourself sex change you want to see in the world!

Jacinta is the poetry-howling, motivational speaking, conceptual transvestite alter-ego of Canberra based writer/performer Adam Hadley.

Impeccably attired, vaguely confused and excited to see you, Jacinta straddles the divide between poet and performer, man and woman, dog and bicycle. With flailing arms he mashes together drunken laments, campy melodrama, theatrical fairy tales and high-speed slapstick.

Hadley is one of the conspirators behind popular Canberra Poetry Smash BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, and has performed poetry and spoken word at The National Folk Festival, Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, Melbourne’s Babble Slam, Crack Theatre Festival, National Young Writers Festival and Woodford Folk Festival, where he won the WordFood slam in 2008. He has represented Canberra twice in the National Poetry Slam at the Sydney Opera House.

As always, she is here to help.

PERFORMANCES

Theatre 1: HOW TO SEX
The opening double-bill of the festival’s theatre-stream. This is all about you not being scared of anything, ever, don’t get hung up, just get to Smiths and experience Hadley’s Be The DIY-Sex Change You Want To See In The World and blind’s This Is Patient Zero: A Christian Guide To Intimate Sexuality.
6.30-7.30pm Thursday 10 March, Smiths Alternative Bookshop

Theatre 2: Mashing-Up Plays
A triple-bill, godammit! The float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee miracle of Jess Bellamy’s Celebrity Healing, the better-than-the-best-medicine-you-ever-had-before rejuvenation of Hadley’s DIY-Sex Change, and the straight-up-headlights-through-the-fog finality of Ira Gamerman’s Dated – finely spliced together by the eagle-on-the-turntables mixing skill of the You Are Here festival, then upturned in a bookshop, for christ’s sake. A bookshop, yeah? And not just any bookshop – Smiths Alternative Bookshop.
6.30-8pm Friday 11 March, Smiths Alternative Bookshop

Theatre 3: Pub Crawl
A theatre triple-bill featuring Jess Bellamy’s Celebrity Healing, Hadley’s Be The DIY-Sex Change You Want To See In The World, and blind’s This Is Patient Zero: A Christian Guide To Intimate Sexuality.
3.30-5pm Saturday 12 March, PJ O’Reillys Pub, Melbourne Building

Theatre 4: Roasters After-Hours Barrage
This once-in-a-lifetime live event showcases the entire back-catalogue of Walt Disney. From Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie to Camp Rock and the Jonas Brothers, the trio of blind, Hadley and Ira Gamerman take the audience on a high-speed race around the Circle of Life in just 90 minutes.
5-6.30pm Tuesday 15 March, Roasters Cafe, Braddon

LOS ANGELES FACTS:
*The Los Angeles five-county area has a population of almost 20 million. It includes Los Angeles, Riverside, Ventura, Orange and San Bernardino Counties.

* If the five-county Los Angeles area were a state, it would be the fourth largest in the United States.

* When Los Angeles was founded in 1781, 44 people (14 families) lived in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula (Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angeles of the Small Portion). The population grew, but the name shrank to simply "Los Angeles."

* The city flower is the bird of paradise and the city tree is the coral tree.

* Los Angeles is the home of the original Bay Watch television show, and is rimmed with miles of beaches.

* Los Angeles has more than 80 stage theaters and 300 museums, more than any other U.S. city.

* The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest in the U.S. and one of the busiest in the world.

* Despite its image of an oasis with water and palm trees everywhere, Los Angeles is more like a desert, with an annual rainfall of only 15 inches (38 cm).

* City residents are typically called Angelenos (rhymes with casinos).

*Weather in Los Angeles is not always what visitors expect. Smog is worst in the summer, but so is fog (a component of smog) and there are often days in June when the beach cities are foggy all day, more like London than California. Temperatures are moderate all year, and evenings are always cool. Skies are clearest in winter, especially after a winter rain.

*Los Angeles is known by a number of nicknames, including
- L.A.
-City of Angels
-Southland (typically used by local media)
- Lalaland

* Los Angeles has the largest number of women-owned businesses in the nation.
* The City of Los Angeles is the birthplace of the Internet, Mickey Mouse, Barbie, the DC-3, the Mazda Miata, and the Space Shuttle.

* There are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any time in the history of civilization. There are more than 1,100 annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week.

* Marina del Rey is the largest manmade recreational harbor and is home to more than 6,000 private yachts and boats as well as 3,000 additional boats in dry storage.

* Los Angeles is home to around 170 colleges and universities.