Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle

“Where our baggage is yours!”

Welcome to the Bearded Ladies’ Hairport, an interactive installation & performance series built on 16-years of accumulated baggage from a queer cabaret company devoted to art, care, mess, and community. While you’re waiting for a flight that may never take off, unpack your baggage and rifle through some of ours. You may recognize something as your own, or find something you never knew you were carrying.

Made for anyone who has ever lost a bag, gotten stuck, or missed a (metaphoric) flight, this trans(formational) installation asks: how do you know it’s time to move on when you don’t know where you’re going?

Produced by The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Part of FringeArt’s 2026 Festival & Collective Futures

Installation on view September 10-December 20, 2026 at The Hairport | 444 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia PA 19123

Installation hours: Wednesday*, Thursday & Friday 4-9PM | Last timed entry at 8:15PM Saturday & Sunday 11AM-3PM| Last timed entry at 2:15PM

*Wednesday in September ONLY.

Live events at The Hairport | Saturdays at 8PM

The Hairport is an interactive, immersive installation filled with costumes, cardboard props, and other ephemera from the Bearded Ladies Cabaret’s 16-year performance history. Visitors will make their way through a sprawling multi-room space made to look like a fantastical, metaphorical “airport”. Visitors will be invited to interact with components of the installation and may encounter docents in guiding roles. The experience will culminate in a “lounge” space full of “Bearded baggage” which will also serve as the performance site for the Now Hoarding: In-Flight Entertainment live event series.

It will take visitors approximately 60-75 minutes to view the entirety of the Priority Hoarding installation. Groups of 6 will enter the installation, at 15-minute timed entry intervals. An opportunity to ride a Surrey bike is offered but not required.