New York Live Arts Pride 2021
JUNE 23- 26
Live Arts Pride 2021: THE HOUSE PARTY QUEER MARKETPLACE WED JUNE 23-25, 5-9PM & SAT JUNE 26, 11AM-3PM
ARTISTS & VENDORS Valentine Amartey, BoiPKG, Discwoman, Claire Fleury, Jos Hurt, Voxigma Lo, Moon Mother Apothecary, OkBleepShop, Malika Lee Whitney/Stay Woke, and Prince Peacock.*
ON VIEW Emily Oliveira’s You are Only Sea Foam, So Give Yourself Away Like the Sea Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Gallery & Live Gallery Cafe
DJS AND POPUP PERFORMANCES WED, JUNE 23, 7-9PM: DJ Boston Chery & popup performance by B. Hawk Snipes representing Black Trans Femmes in the Arts (BTFA) THU, JUNE 24, 7-9PM: DJ JLMR & popup performance by ne0_huxtable FRI, JUNE 25, 7-9PM: DJ Luis Fernando & popup performance by Charlene Incarnate SAT, JUNE 26, 1-3PM: DJ JCLEF & popup performance by Miz Jade
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BIOGRAPHIES projects led by Black trans femme Valentine Amartey is a Brooklyn artists, and provide direct to based designer. Arriving in New support to Black trans artists. York from London in 93 he began making costumes for downtown BoiPKG performance artists. A later Established 1/14/2017 BoiPKG is stint as the assistant to knitwear designer Caroline Mckenty turned a no-binary clothing brand that his attention to the craftsmanship creates options for all bodies. We believe that creating affirming of machine knitting which is the base for many of his creations. To wear builds self esteem and shows others that they can feel this date Valentines’ exploration pride in living their truth. We of design has spawned donate proceeds from the sale collaborations with Calvin Klein of our BoiPKG Boxerbrief to Collection and Marc Jacobs and Trans Health Services. We design also a 4 year stint as a machine underwear, harnesses, jumpsuits, knitting instructor in the Parsons BFA Fashion Program. Valentine’s kaftans, tunics, and more. work combines elements of A purveyor of deep and infectious lingerie, corsetry, bondage and dance grooves, a DJ set from macrame to create sleek sexy Boston Chery is more about pieces that push the boundaries creating a vibe and promoting of his craft. a sense of community through melody, harmony, and rhythm BTFA (Black Trans Femmes than anything else. Pronounced in the Arts) is a communityCherié, the Boston-bred, Haitianbased arts organization that American, Brooklyn-based DJ and builds community and mobilizes producer is a star on the rise. With resources to support Black trans the intent to create memorable femme artists (artists who were moments through music, Boston assigned male-at-birth and now Chery’s innate love for all things identify somewhere underneath ‘90s reggae, dancehall, Afrobeat, the femme umbrella). World Music, R&B, and hip-hop is what allows her to constantly We organize programming that centers and highlights Black trans mesmerize and captivate femme artists, executive produce audiences. Although Boston
producers globally to-date. Chery is on an upward climb with her DJing career, Boston Chery Claire Fleury creates easy going is everything but your average yet structural designs, balancing DJ and she envisions a larger between elegance and wit, future for herself. A member of funkiness and comfortability, the inaugural class of the Splice’s originality and tradition. Creator Class, which started in 2019, she plans on furthering her overall musical skills as she delves The designs are committed to into the world of sound design and a radically inclusive vision with music production. In 2020 Boston colors, cuts and patterns not assigned to a single gender, body Chery founded The 8th Path records elevating BIPOC artists in type, skin color, age or season. the dj and remix community with the connections she has built over Claire Fleury’s studio is committed to a sustainable the years. practice of using at least 80% of industry surplus fabrics and Charlene is a doll doing her best to rebuild her scenario after covid, trims, as well as maintaining a no overstock policy as to reduce just like you. She does shows all over Brooklyn, including Baby Tea waste. Brunch, Trish, and Be Cute. She Miz Jade is a Black-queer drag can be seen in the film Wig on performer, event host, and HBO. professional dancer. A queen known for her teaching, activism, Founded by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and quick wit, she’s bound to gag you and turn the party. Known and Christine McCharen-Tran, throughout NYC, Miz Jade Discwoman is a New York-based has been described as fierce, platform, collective, and talent sensual, sophisticated, and full of agency—that showcases and surprises. represents talent in electronic music. Started as a two-day ne0_huxtable is an anonymous festival in September 2014 artist and embodied thinker at Bossa Nova Civic Club, living in new york city that Discwoman has since produced and curated events in 20+ cities— makes performances about the mundanity of existence. working with over 300 DJs and
DJ JCLEF A passionate lifetime musician with classical training, NYC based DJ JCLEF isn’t just a DJ, he’s a sound. JCLEF got his humble nightlife start in 2013 at a drag show in Albany, NY at Tony’s Terrace, with the one and only Chardonnay LaTease.
including live performances, zines, photography and as of recently video. Voxigma is also the producer of the variety show One vvoman Show.
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Moon Mother, is an AfroQuisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer whose work lives intentionally at the In addition to drag shows, JCLEF intersection of plant power and loves spinning parties of all kinds – from live music, performer based people power, lovingly guided in collaboration with her community. events, to creating a full fantasy In 2018, Suhaly founded Moon club experience. He was voted Best DJ in NYC at the GLAM (NYC Mother Apothecary, a practice and offering of heart-centered, Nightlife) Awards 2018 & 2019. moon-powered medicines As an openly gay trans man, JCLEF created in the traditional wisdom believes in being visible for those and knowledge of her ancestors. who can’t be. His passion for music Her work has been featured in The New York Times and Oprah is only matched by his drive to Magazine, among others and bring people together. LOVE IS she is a proud member of United THE MESSAGE, MUSIC IS THE Plant Savers, Herbalists Without ANSWER, AND DANCE IS LIFE! Borders, and Queer Healers. ne0_huxtable is an anonymous JLMR is a Queer, Brooklyn based artist and embodied thinker DJ and artist. After throwing living in new york city that parties in BK / NY over a decade makes performances about the ago, he has since stepped behind mundanity of existence. the booth and served club heavy sets at places including Afropunk Prince Peacock is an inclusive Fest, Mix NYC, Good Room and brand of jewelry. I love working Elsewhere. with all types of media such as resin, 3D printing, laser cutting, Voxigma Lo is a self titled casting, vintage dead stock, “Literary” Drag Queen who’s beading, and more. work exists in multiple mediums
My brand is very personal to me. I have been making accessories since I was 14 years-old. Also, it is my way of expressing my queer and non-binary identity. Before the pandemic, I would sell at drag, cabaret, and burlesque shows. Twenty percent of my sales would go to support the producers and performers of each show. I like to share with my customers that Prince Peacock is a drag queen from the bird-y kingdom that likes to sell jewelry to humans. My logo is a peacock with a little crown on it’s head. People really enjoy that. Especially when I give out my stickers with my logo on it. Also, I try to make everything! I even use vintage salvage for my displays that are then restructured and painted. B. Hawk Snipes (they/she) from The Bronx, NY is a social activist & style icon with a unique born talent for modeling and entertainment. They’re on a mission to conjure honest and captivating projects to explore diversity within the arts through a Queer/Trans lens. You can currently see B. Hawk as “Bebe Pendavis” on the hit show “POSE”. They are also one of the board
members for the BTFA collective which helps Black Trans Femmes succeed in the Arts. If you would like to know more...Google THEM. Malika Lee Whitney/ Stay Woke Stay Woke and Work Out is part of a Pickney Productions and Double Dutch Dutch Dreamz community engagement initiative. Bringing attention to the importance of social justice advocacy is the mission. Reviving fun times through the sport of jumping rope, we invite folks to Get Your Jump On! by participating in our open Pop Up events over the Summer. Emily Oliveira (Live Gallery Installation Artist) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Brooklyn. She was a 2020 NYFA Artist Fellow, the 2019 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill, and an inaugural member of Ars Nova’s Makers Lab; in 2023 she will be the Abbey Award Fellow at the British School at Rome. She uses textiles, video, installation, music, and performance to explore the intersections of labor, and queer futurity. Her performances use original music, handmade sets and costumes, drag, and re-
performance. Her textiles and installations center around intertwining sci-fi narratives in a queer, utopian future, using textiles, murals, video, performance, and immersive installation to transform these narratives into an expansive and interconnected mythology for a future earth. Arnie Zane (1948-1988), cofounder Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by
WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London. Untitled Queen (Co-curator) is an artist, a child of Boriquen and the so-called Philippines, drag queen, poet, decolonizer, and community organizer based on the stolen land of the LenapeHoking, (socalled Brooklyn, NY). She is the recipient of the Drag Queen of the Year 2015 for the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards. She is a resident performer at Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9 Winner Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns. in 2020, She presented Untitled (World), the first global LGBTQIA+ digital drag show, with 47 drag artists each representing 1 country, and benefitting 3 HIV/AIDS organizations in honor of World AIDS Day. Tyler Ashley (Co-curator) is Director of Communications at New York Live Arts and Curatorial Organizer of Live Arts Pride. Outside of the office, Ashley is a choreographer and performer based in Brooklyn, NY and has performed in the work of Elizabeth Streb, Walter Dundervill, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Yackez, Katy Pyle, Biba Bell, and Charles Atlas among others. Ashley’s own performances have been presented by Performa, Friends
of the High Line, Times Square Alliance, NADA Art Fair, BOFFO, and seen at Art Basel, The Knockdown Center, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research, Danspace Project and more. Ashley is also known as The Dauphine - a nightlife personality, performer, and promoter. The Dauphine started the party called BABY TEA, which has raised over $30k for LGBTQAI youth advocacy and queer art programs over the course of seven fundraisers. The Dauphine has performed and/ or promoted at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NADA Art Fair, BUSHWIG ’14 - ‘17, Club Cumming, The Austin International Drag Festival, BOFFO, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, MANA Contemporary and more.
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LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year: $500,000 and higher Anonymous Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker $100,000-$499,999 Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel / Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Zoe Eskin Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan Marks $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Adam Flatto Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy Helen & Peter Haje James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Diana Wege $10,000 - $24,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Alexes Hazen Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang $5,000 - $9,999 Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Williams Family Foundation
$1,000 - $4,999 Anonymous Gerald Appelstein Charlotte & Charles Buchanan Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Joan Davidson Lil and Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle Philip Gallo Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Otho Kerr Glenn Ligon Anna Maltby & Akshay Patil Tommy McCall & Victor Zonana Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Kristalina & Jack Taylor Kate Whitney & Franklin Thomas James & Azin Wilcox Bruce & Megumi Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy $500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 4/1/2020-3/31/2021
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation,, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Otter AI, Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We thank our Partners for New Performance for supporting the Live Feed, Fresh Tracks and engagement programs: Alexes Hazen, Linda Hirschson, Julie Orlando, Andrea Rosen, Nina Stricker.
STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership
Executive Leadership
Board of Directors
Bill T. Jones Artistic Director
Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO
Stephen Hendel Co-Chair
Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director
Development
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Kyle Maude Producing Director
Ali Burke Individual Giving & Special Events Manager
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
Hannah Emerson Producing Associate
Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager
Veronica Falborn Producing Associate & Production Stage Manager
Bianca Bailey Member Services & Education Coordinator
Production
Candystore Development Assistant
Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio
Hillery Makatura Director of Production
Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant
Bjorn Amelan
Creative Director
Finance
Bjorn G. Amelan
Nupur Dey Director of Finance
Communications
Gregory English Rentals Coordinator
Programming, Producing & Engagement
Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Mayadevi Ross Digital Media Coordinator
Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio
Sarah Arison Aimee Meredith Cox LaToya Ruby Frazier Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman
Human Resources
Randy Polumbo
ADP TotalSource
Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman
Hannah Seiden Front of House Coordinator
Legal Services
Jane Bovingdon Semel
Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer
Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel
Ruby Shang
Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Faye Dricoll Raja Feather Kelly Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Barrington Hinds, Dean Michael Husted, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Marie Paspe, Nayaa Opong, Huiwang Zhang
Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman