Wheelchair Sports Camp
Thursday, Sep. 17 · 7 pm - 9 pm Longmont Museum 400 Quail Rd., Longmont, CO 80501
Fronted by Kalyn Rose Heffernan—a wheelchair-using, profanely queer and tiny rapper—and backed by Greggy on drums, the band combines humor, playful irreverence, and an undeniable love for the groove with an absolutely face-shredding live show.
“[Their] anthems of emotional chaos are my favorite.” – Andrea Gibson
Kalyn Rose Heffernan has built a career out of refusing the terms by which disabled people, queer people, and working-class communities are often represented. A rapper, performer, educator, community advocate, and founding member of the experimental group Wheelchair Sports Camp, Heffernan’s work moves across music, theater, film, television, museum interventions, creative direction, performance art, permanent installations, politics, and public protest. Her practice is confrontational, humorous, loving, and deliberately difficult to categorize. Heffernan has performed internationally and locally, bringing a voice rooted in disability justice, queer liberation, and community accountability into spaces that have not always known how to hold it. Her work insists that accessibility is not simply a technical accommodation but a cultural and political question: who is allowed to belong, who gets to lead, and who gets heard without being translated for comfort.
This program is part of our Thursday Nights @ the Museum series. Join us every Thursday from Sept. 3 until Dec. 10 for concerts, films, and free talks in the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium.
