Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle
Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle
Installation on view September 10-December 20, 2026
at The Hairport | 444 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
Installation hours:
Thursday & Friday 4-9PM | Last timed entry at 8:15PM
Saturday & Sunday 11AM-3PM| Last timed entry at 2:15PM
Ticketing Information:
Pay What You Decide Advance: $16-35
Pay What You Decide At the Door: $0-35 (NOTAFLOF)
ACCESS Card Holders: Please contact BeardedLadiesCabaret@gmail.com for more information.
"Where our baggage is your baggage!"
Welcome to the Bearded Ladies’ Hairport, an interactive installation 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
Priority Hoarding has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Part of Collective Futures
Live events at The Hairport | Saturdays at 8PM
Click here for tickets, dates and details for the Now Hoarding Live Event Series!
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.
Priority Hoarding Installation Content Transparency
Priority Hoarding will contain themes of loss, grief and death, mentions of sex and hook ups, workplace injuries, hospital visits, and illness, gender dysphoria, and airports. This installation includes loud noises, low vision areas, video that could trigger motion sickness sensitivity, and flashing lights.
We understand that (in the real world) airports can be a location & source of stress or anxiety for LGBTQIA+ individuals. In our queer world, The Hairport has been conceived as a reclamation of those experiences, and creates opportunities for affirmation, expansiveness, agency and safety. If you have additional concerns, please contact BeardedLadiesCabaret@gmail.com for more information.
View our comprehensive Know Before You Go Guide here!
This installation is Mask Optional. Masks will be available at Front of House for anyone who wishes to wear one. Audience members are encouraged to test beforehand. Please exercise good judgement and do not attend if you are feeling unwell or are symptomatic.
