UPCOMING SHOWS:
A fever dream of a lineup with @xinaxurner @noisepup @coreyvogeln, playing alongside the Transfigured Streets group show with @michaelgreenart @karim.shuquem @mr.raulbaltazar @rachid.bouhamidi @thelouiseodonnell @ferventsquirrel @pgh_amhq @iamnotchadporter @patrickjamesdonovan @lizeon
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PAST SHOWS:
Feminist Synth Lab 7 Year Anniversary Showcase & Fundraiser
Coaxial - 1815 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Saturday, 6/29 - Doors 7PM - Music 7:30PM - $10. NOTAFLOF
Come celebrate SEVEN years of Feminist Synth Lab with us! Time really does fly. Feminist Synth Lab is a music equipment lending library and workshop series for all marginalized genders in Los Angeles. We're back with a night of genre and gender expansive musical performances (electronic and otherwise) as we showcase the incredible talent of our community. COME SUPPORT--we'll be donating proceeds for this event to our friends at Coaxial who lost their grant funding this year! Expect music spanning avant garde pop, ambient, experimental modular and vibey house.
We will be selling Feminist Synth Lab t-shirts, totes and USB's as well as a LIMITED RUN of bleach-dyed and distressed tees :) Come early to get your merch!
Feminist Synth Lab @femsynthlab
Live Sets by:
VORA
IG: @vora______
Leslie Lancaster
IG: @leslie_resonantbody
Music: https://www.leslieallison.net
Paradot
IG: @parad0t
Music: https://parad0t.bandcamp.com
Xina Xurner
IG: @xinaxurner
Music: https://www.xinaxurner.com
ARKMprime
IG: @ARKMprime
Music: https://soundcloud.com/arkmprime
Neyva
IG: @neyvathealien
Music: https://linktr.ee/neyvamusic
Panic Hardware
IG: @ omiindustriies
Music: https://panichardware.bandcamp.com/music
agraybé (Live/DJ set)
IG: @agraybe
Music: https://soundcloud.com/agraybe
https://acidcamp.bandcamp.com/track/crepuscular-ray
Flyer Design by:
@huil0ta
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Mask wearing is highly recommended indoors. N/95, KN/95, surgical masks suggested and provided.
JOAN presents an evening of performances by Johanna Hedva and Xina Xurner, in conjunction with If You’re Reading This, I’m Already Dead, the first institutional solo exhibition in Los Angeles by Los Angeles- and Berlin-based artist Johanna Hedva.
https://joanlosangeles.org/performance-johanna-hedva-and-xina-xurner/
Hedva will debut songs from their upcoming, in-progress album, Fist. Written on a haunted acoustic guitar that disappeared for ten years and then returned in winter 2023, the songs from Fist produce a voice that slouches toward a serenade by screeching, croaking, and growling. Dominatrix blues, bog-witch lullabies, succubus folk: There is doomed lament, dismembered body parts, murderous rage, and, of course, ordinary swampy heartbreak with men on their knees.
Xina Xurner will present their cathartic music performance combining DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans femme bodies and cultivate intimacy with otherness. Their music combines a variety of genres (including happy hardcore, industrial, drone metal, and techno), to create sadical and sexperimental noise-diva-dance anthems that evoke a sense of transformation, rebirth, and renewal.
(Photo of Johanna Hedva by Oscar Rohleder)
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Johanna Hedva : https://johannahedva.com
JOAN : https://joanlosangeles.org/
QUEERSPACE
El Cid
Fri, January 5, 2024
INTÉNTAME (feat. San Cha) MUTANT CUT
Debut screening at CAVERNOUS Publication Launch!
Heavy Manners Library - 1200 N Alvarado St Unit D, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Fri, December 2, 2022 | 7-10pm
Special debut screening of INTÉNTAME (MUTANT CUT) by Xina Xurner featuring San Cha
Click here to RSVP on Eventbrite!
Featuring performances by Sarah Gail, Dove Ayinde, Dalton Chase Goulette and TravisD
DJ set by CRASSLOS
Join Mutant Salon and the LACE team for a very special celebration–the launch of the CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon exhibition catalog! This book is full of beautiful installation shots, essays, quotes, a mutant conversation and other gems.
CAVERNOUS (publication) is a living queer archive led by artist Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon, a collective of queer-trans-femme-POC artists. CAVERNOUS shares the members’ stories navigating arts institutions as marginalized artists alongside tales of gender affirmation and more. In doing so, this project documents the fullness of queer lived experiences through the imaginative fractures in white heteropatriarchal hegemony, with all its alternative bodies and performances of existence and desire. CAVERNOUS is an ongoing critical deconstruction of how we view our bodies, and reimagines alternative forms of existence and desire through sculpture, installation, performance, wigs and more.
FAIL-SAFE: LOS ANGELES X PITTSBURGH
Billy Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
November 11, 2022 & November 12, 2022
Fail-Safe is a recurring variety performance show which brings together artists exploring performance across disciplines to present new experimental projects in early stages of development. Organized by Angela Washko, Scott Andrew, and Jesse Stiles, this fourth edition of Fail-Safe will create a dialogue about performance between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh comprises two evenings of new and in-progress performance works by interdisciplinary musicians, performance artists, and dancers from these two cities. On both evenings, visiting artists will be preceded by a lineup of Pittsburgh-based artists whose practices share affinities.
On November 11th, Los Angeles-based artists Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye present a new experimental performance work from their series Rites of Matrilineal Dissent. The digitally mediated performance takes audiences through a journey of failure and discovery, of new selves and new bodies, and new forms of love and kinship. Pittsburgh artists include Caroline Yoo, Goofy Toof, London Williams, and MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clark.
On November 12th, visiting artist duo Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak) will present their cathartic music performance combining DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Pittsburgh artists include Swampwalk, Samira Mendoza and Davine Byon. The performances will be followed by a dance party hosted by Formosa (Jellyfish).
This event is co-organized between Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, with financial support from the The National Endowment for the Arts, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts.
Please be advised: these performances will explore the topic of sexuality and some may include nudity.
USC VISIONS & VOICES PRESENTS - LIVE ARTISTS LIVE: SINGS OF FREEDOM
USC Roski Graduate Programs • 1262 Palmetto Street • Los Angeles, CA
Fri, September 30, 2022, 10:30 am - 6:30 pm
Showtime: 4:30 pm • Admission: FREE ~ RSVP
TIPPING POINTS
LAXART - 7000 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90038
Sun, July 17, 2022, 5PM
FREE!
TRUNK PARTY, SEOUL
TRUNK - 126-15, Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Sat, May 21, 2022
Showtime: Midnight ~ 6 AM
CRUISE @ EAGLE LA
THE EAGLE LA - 4219 Santa Monica Blvd, LA, CA
Sat, April 16, 2022, 4pm - 8pm
LA’s favorite monthly queer leather party.
The 5 Year Anniversary of Queerspace in Los Angeles coincides with the reopening of nightlife. Featuring some of our favorite performers, vendors, with DJ sets and video installation. Come reunite with us and dance to our hearts desire.
DISCOUNT PRESALE TIX BELOW:
https://ra.co/events/1449579
Featuring
Geneva Jacuzzi
http://genevajacuzzi.com/
Xina Xurner
https://www.xinaxurner.com
Dvvsk
https://www.instagram.com/dvvsk_/
¿LA PREGUNTA?
https://www.instagram.com/taco.guillen/
Agnes Azria
https://agnesazria.com
DJ sets by
Romy
https://www.instagram.com/romyohh/
Video Installation by
Jenny Sayaka Nono
https://vimeo.com/user19505532
VENDORS
Tom of Finland Foundation
https://www.tomoffinland.org
Lockwood 51
http://lockwood51.com/
Descontrol Punk Shop
http://descontrolshop.bigcartel.com/
Molly Conn
https://www.instagram.com/mollyconnx/?hl=en
at NAVEL
(DTLA)
$10 presales still available
$15-$20 at the door
LIMITED NUMBER OF DISCOUNTED PRESALES AVAILABLE VIA RESIDENT ADVISOR!!!
“Xina Xurner: Under The” for Montez Press Radio
Xina Xurner brings together a searing selection of music cuts from queer/trans/femme/POC/mutant friends, family, and favorites in the Los Angeles, SF-Bay, and Chicago underground communities, as well as several Xina Xurner collaborations with luminaries from our community. This is music for obliterating the patriarchy, dancing, crying, shapeshifting, and collective healing through the power of sound.
Tracklist:
We Are One — Xina Xurner
People — Sister Mantos (sistermantos.bandcamp.com).
Dead Men Don’t Rape — Trap Girl (trap girl.bandcamp.com)
@SEXWORKISWORK — The Uhuruverse (uhuruverse.bandcamp.com)
Intentame (feat. San Cha) — Xina Xurner (sanchamusic.bandcamp.com)
I Dream of Sodomy — ONO (ono1980.bandcamp.com)
False Skin — Moira Scar (moirascar.bandcamp.com)
Staring Contest — Hausa (hausaband.bandcamp.com)
I’m Everything (feat. Sarah Gail) — Xina Xurner (instagram: @sarahgail)
Dark Paradise (Xina Xurner Remix) — Anna Luisa Petrisko x Xina Xurner (annaluisapetrisko.bandcamp.com)
Haere Pa — M/A/N/Ø/S (manos-xi.bandcamp.com)
Dos Lados — Big Debbie with Heather Ciriza (bigdebbie.bandcamp.com)
Mirrors (feat. Rhea Fowler) — White Boy Scream (wbscream.bandcamp.com)
Under The - Xina Xurner
glimmered through the actual square
Young Joon Kwak, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Marnie Weber
curated by Jeanne Dreskin
Deli Gallery
March 7, 2020. 9pm
Deli Gallery presents:
glimmered through the actual square
Young Joon Kwak, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Marnie Weber
curated by Jeanne Dreskin
March 7 - April 12, 2020 (Gallery 2)
Music at 9PM
DisGender Euphoria
Zebulon
Sun, January 26, 2022, 8pm-12am. 21+
DisGender Euphoria
Nayland Blake’s First International Intergenerational Gender Discard Party
Join us for a special evening of performance, music, dance, and gender discard with Nayland Blake and friends.
Featuring:
Marvin Astorga
Nayland Blake
Nao Bustamante
Ron Athey
Robert Crouch
Jennifer Doyle
Jamillah James
Young Joon Kwak
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Bradford Nordeen
Party games:
BYOB (Bring Your Own Baggage) SWAP: Bring a tote full of gendered personal items you want to discard to donate to the swap.
Makeover Station Discard one look for another. Get your make-up done and find some style tips.
Open Mic: Discard Stories Get up on stage and tell us something about the discard journey. It can be show-and-tell or just TELL.
Performances:
Gender Reveal Party
Nao Bustamante, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Pony Lee Musgrave, Liz Miller-Kovacs, and special guest
Come on the rollicking ride of Gender Reveal Party. Your gender will be revealed to you by Nao Bustamante as Conchita in collaboration with doula/hype-man, Cecilio Nazario. Conchita, an 8.5 month pregnant, fat-shaming Zumba instructor, will get you in shape for your gender reveal while zumbatistas, Liz Miller-Kovacs and a special guest join the workout. A baby is on the way; gender TBD.
DJs:
Ron Athey
Robert Crouch
Jennifer Doyle
Jamillah James
Bradford Nordeen
Location:
Zebulon 2478 Fletcher Dr Los Angeles, CA 90039
DisGender Euphoria: Nayland Blake’s First International Intergenerational Gender Discard Party is presented in conjunction with No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, on view from September 29, 2019 to January 26, 2020, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Xina Xurner
M Lamar
Johanna Hedva
Pauline Lay + Gabie Strong
doors at 8, sound at 9
$7 suggested donation, no-one turned away for lack of funds.
M. Lamar is a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Lamar holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Yale School of Art, sculpture program, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has been presented internationally, most recently at The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Funkhaus Berlin Germany, Kunstgebäude Stuttgart, The Meet Factory in Prague, National Sawdust New York, The Kitchen New York, MoMa PS1’s Greater New York, among others.
Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. They are the author of the novel, On Hell (2018, Sator Press) and their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, The White Review, and Black Warrior Review. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Their album The Sun and the Moon was released in March 2019. Since 2018, they’ve been touring Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, a drone metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual.
http://johannahedva.com/
https://bighedva.bandcamp.com/
Gabie Strong is interdisciplinary, conceptual artist exploring sonic constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of feminist meaning. She uses the guitar in acoustically violent ways to create noise as both an exploration of bodily listening and as a critique of femininity.
http://gabiestrong.com/
Pauline Lay
violin and electronics
http://paulinelay.com/
REYNA RIPPER / XINA XURNER / DVVSK / PETER KALISCH
@COAXIAL / 12.21.2019 / 9PM - 2AM / $8
Hope to get some asses popping on Halloween in support of the fundamental human rights of sex workers with @swopla. Buy your tix now at monstersmash.eventbrite.com!!!
SEPT. 27, 2019
@ THE SMELL
W/
COHERENCE
YAAWN
MOXIE BEAT
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ALL AGES!
CHURCH OF FUN
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 // Doors 8PM // Show 9PM
A benefit for Astrophoria
with:
Dimber
Agender
DJ Pogo Pope
$5
CHURCH OF FUN - 4109 Melrose, LA, CA
NAVEL presents
...live & in person...
Colin Self (Berlin)
Davia Spain (Los Angeles)
Xina Xurner (Los Angeles)
with DJ Alexis Penney
Wednesday, July 24 at 9PM
Doors at 8PM
$7-15 suggested donation
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
NAVEL
1611 S Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
TICKETS: ttps://withfriends.co/event/2100734/
EVENT PAGE: https://navel.la/events/colin-self
THIS SUNDAY!!!!! LET THE DARKNESS IN / OUT XOXOXX
ROMY'S RECORD RELEASE PARTY!
w/ ROMY (live)
JOSH CHEON (Dark Entries Records)
XINA XURNER
TAMARA SKY
DUSK
FRIDAY MAY 24TH
CIVIC CENTER STUDIOS DTLA
https://soundcloud.com/romyohh
https://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/darkentriesrecords
https://soundcloud.com/tamarasky
$10
9pm-LATE
A DANCE PARTY
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LIVE:
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-BIG DEBBIE (RECORD RELEASE)
https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ab-ra-ca-deb-ra
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-CYBORG EYE
https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1983
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-WHITE BOY SCREAM X XINA XURNER
https://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com/
https://wbscream.bandcamp.com/
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DJS:
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-MOMENT TRIGGER
-DANDYMAN
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$0.00 :)
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www.fattgrabbers.com
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Queerspace presents
Noise Pup Series Vol. 12 x Argument? Tour Benefit Show
with
TRAP GIRL
https://trapgirl.bandcamp.com
Bustié
https://soundcloud.com/bustielosangeles
Celeste XXX
https://soundcloud.com/b0y_eater13
Duderella
https://duderella.bandcamp.com
M/A/N/Ø/S
https://soundcloud.com/manos-xi
LA PREGUNTA?
https://argument1.bandcamp.com
DJ SETS BY
MEAN BITCH
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CURATED BY Peter Kalisch + Anthony Guillen
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Queerspace, originally created, curated and conceptualized by The Jordyn Show, has been taken over by noise hoe Peter Kalisch. Queerspace is a party and movement that aims to support underground art, queer talent, creating a safe and loving environment for us to fuck shit up.
9PM - 2AM
REC CENTER
$7 PRESALE VIA Restless Nites
$10 DOOR
surround yourself with people who lift you up
8pm all ages $8
With:
Crystal Quartez (PDX)
https://crystalquartez.bandcamp.com/releases
Hausa (LA)
https://hausaband.bandcamp.com
Clamber (PDX)
https://clamber.bandcamp.com/
Moisture BOYS (LA)
https://soundcloud.com/moistureboys
Oct 11 - San Diego - Tower Bar - 9pm
W/ D.Wrex // DJs Ix Muan and deadmatter
Tower Bar - 4757 University Ave, San Diego, California 92105
Oct 13 - Tijuana - NETT NETT
w/ Paraiso Depresivo and M/M/M/
NETT NETT - 1911 / local 6 & 7, Calle 3ra, entre Revolucion y Constitucion, Tijuana, Baja California
Oct 15 - LA - ACE Hotel Rooftop
W/ JULIUS SMACK
ACE Hotel - 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Oct 17 - Oakland - Pro Arts
w/ Maria Chavez and Tyler Holmes
Pro Arts - 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
Oct 19 - Portland - S1
W/ Amenta Abioto and S1 DJs
S1 - 7320 NE Sandy, Portland, OR 97213
Oct 20 - Seattle - Nii Modo
w/ My Posse Dont Do Homework
Nii Modo - 4455 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103
Oct 21 - Olympia - Le Voyeur
W/ Angel Food
Le Voyeur - 404 4th Ave E, Olympia WA 98501
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 8PM
desperate living - scum takeover @ the stud
Hosted by persia
performances by Vanity & Pan Dulce
DJ’S HEX RAY // RUDY BLEU // JERK OF ALL TRADES
THE STUD - 399 9th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 8PM
Weirdo Night @ zebulon
with DYNASTY HANDBAG, Xina Xurner, Minivan + DANCE-Y-OKE
ZEBULON CAFE - 2478 Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, California 90039
SUNDAY, AUG 26, 3PM - 6PM
CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon closing reception
w/ San Cha, Xina Xurner, Ciriza and Project Rage Queen w/ Mark Golamco
Djs La Disco es Qultura
LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS (LACE)
6522 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon closing reception of 2018 LACE Summer Residency curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Closing reception with musical performances by San Cha, Xina Xurner, Ciriza and Project Rage Queen with Mark Golamco. Djs La Disco es Qultura. Debut screening of new music video Inténtame by Xina Xurner featuring San Cha, directed by Jacinto Astiazarán.
Special thanks to Brewery Brujeria.
Jacinto Astiazarán (Tijuana, Mexico, 1982) was awarded the USC International Artist Fellowship and received an MFA in Fine Art from USC in 2015. Recent exhibitions include Fantasies and Fallacies for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Exhibition catalogs include the 18th Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo and Fragment, UCLA’s Southern California MFA Theme Exhibition. Astiazarán was a visiting artist at SVA’s MFA Fine Arts in Spring 2017. Selected works are archived at Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Sao Paulo and UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Legacy Project, Los Angeles.
San Cha is a vocal priestess, a force of nature to be reckoned with, a Femme Xicanx Goddess who captivates audiences with their blend of Mexican Folk Music, Cumbia and Punk. Belting out ‘Gospel Ranchera Punk’ while twirling around the stage, San Cha will you leave you inspired, healed and transformed.
Dalton Chase Goulette is a multimedia/performance artist based in Los Angeles. Their work focuses on post-apocalyptic visions of the future, queering classical ideas of beauty and deterioration of self/ego/gender/. Dalton’s aspiration is to one day generate ectoplasm.
AUG 18 - @EL CID - OBJECT AS SUBJECT album release ritual w/ White Boy Scream + Pony Sweat + DJ Lisa Orth
This Is Who We Are Now Presents:
OBJECT AS SUBJECT - Record Release Ritual
w/ White Boy Scream + Pony Sweat + Xina Xurner + DJ Lisa Orth
at El Cid
August 18th
8 pm / $12 / 21+
OBJECT AS SUBJECT is an LA-based art punk band led by classical violinist turned punk singer, Paris Hurley. This feminist battle cry is a call to action fueled by raw wailing vocals, a barrage of floor toms, gritty bass riffs, and exacting choreography that shifts from explicit gestural iterations to relentless phrases of wild abandon, featuring Emilia "Pony Sweat" Richeson (dance, drums, vox), Gina Young (bass, vox // SORORITY), Patty Schemel (drums // Hole) and Megan Fowler-Hurst (dance, drums, vox // Tales Between Our Legs).
An irreverent choreographic and sonic ritual, their work is feral and unashamed, spilling from the stage with calculated bursts of irreligious rites. Their debut album, PERMISSION, is a ceremonial destruction of the myth that women exist in a scarcity-driven hierarchy and must make themselves small for the comfort of others; seen but not heard, useful without agency. Laced with hypnotic drones and lyrics tackling the catcalls of construction workers, the degradation of pussy, and the patriarchal pyramid scheme of catholicism that turns the sexuality of women into a sin, OBJECT AS SUBJECT weaves a punk incantation inviting audiences to turn inward, face yourself, free yourself, save yourself, revel in your joy, feel your sorrow, sweat out your fears, and scream your anger. PERMISSION out 8/17/18 on Lost Future.
https://www.objectassubject.com
https://www.instagram.com/object_as_subject
PRE-ORDER ALBUM: https://objectassubject.bandcamp.com
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WHITE BOY SCREAM is Los Angeles based sound artist Micaela Tobin, who specializes in contemporary opera and experimental voice. Within this project Micaela dissects her operatic singing style and extended vocal techniques through the use of electronics, in an attempt to undermine patriarchal constructs in classical music and reclaim the “diva.” She has performed extensively throughout the western United States, most notably as a guest with hip-hop experimentalists and Sub Pop signees clipping. during their tour in support of The Flaming Lips. Micaela’s work, which thus far includes a full length release along with two more set for summer 2018, has been compared to Diamanda Galas.
https://www.micaelatobin.com
https://www.whiteboyscream.com
https://vimeo.com/199106112
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PONY SWEAT is a fiercely noncompetitive dance aerobics celebration. Demonstrated by Emilia Richeson, CJ Miller, and the “Ponies” its aim is to encourage people to be in their bodies, to cheer for one another, to be goofy, to be a part of something, to take care of each other, to express ourselves individually through synchronous dance, to give everyone a chance, and to dance to songs we love!
https://www.instagram.com/ponysweat/
http://ponysweataerobics.com
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On a mission to establish her singular style, tattoo artist LISA ORTH translates natural themes into otherworldly etchings on skin. A creative polymath, Lisa began her artistic path in Seattle as a graphic designer and art director. It was as the first official Art Director for Sub Pop that she designed Nirvana’s first records and their now iconic logo. During the 90's and early 2000's, Lisa saw a need for a cultural queer hub in Seattle and began putting on club nights and underground dance parties with a focus on creating inclusive community for Seattle's queer scene. She was often found DJing in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood to a crowd of young hip queer women. Dedicated to the art of tattooing and graciously tormented by perfectionism, her linework based art style garnered her awards, international acclaim, and a bevy of clients vying for a chance to give her full artistic license to make their dreams come alive on skin. Happily entrenched in sunshine on the daily, she now calls persistently sunny Los Angeles home.
http://lisaorth.com
https://www.instagram.com/lisaorth/
Ain’t I A Womxn? A Genders Promenade, an event that brings together audiences, artists and activist organizations to stretch gender expressions in new directions.
Featuring twenty independent artists, such as Nao Bustamante and Jennifer Moon and ten art groups, including KCHUNG and Las Fotos, the outdoor participatory event will unfold in Los Angeles State Historic Park next to Chinatown under a full moon to explore intersectional identities.
From an audio tunnel to voguing to group scream to the launch of the Zanja Madre Fan Club, participants will present performance art, spoken word, sonic art, media projections and zines. Aint I A Womxn? is the next phase of Dis..Miss, a public art series that investigates current artists’ and audiences’ views on gender. It is an evening of seeing, hearing, finding connections, and mingling.
Participating artists: Bitchface, Nao Bustamante, Martha Carillo, Zackary Drucker, Reanne Estrada & C. Ree, Rafa Esparza, Rudy Bleu Garcia, Janice Gomez & Fatima Hoang, Raquel Gutiérrez, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Elana Mann, Jennifer Moon, Amitis Motevalli, Thinh Nguyen, Snatch Power, Christy Roberts Berkowitz, Yozmit Walker, Kristina Wong, Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga & Young Joon Kwak) and Austin Young.
Participating art groups include: ArtworxLA, Feminist Library on Wheels, KCHUNG, Las Fotos, Ni Santas, Reach LA, Self Help Graphics and Women’s Creative Center for Work.
Activist organizations, a night group bike ride, group discussions, and social media feeds will connect to communities via Multicultural Communities for Mobility and others.
Feminist PSAs by video artists: Adebukola Bodunrin, Mail Order Brides, Gloria Morán, Meena Nanji, and Caress Reeves and art videos by Johanna Breiding, Deanna Erdman and
Andre Keichian.
Postcards by visual artists: April Bey, boychild, Cassils, Chan and Mann, Roya Falahi, Alexandra Grant, Micol Hebron, Thinh Nguyen, and Shizu Saldamando
Bring flashlights!
#lafreewaves #dismiss #aintiawomx
La Disco Es Qultura and After Dark bring you an after hours vibe for all you weirdos
La Disco After Dark
Location to be disclosed the DAY OF. A little hint it’s between DTLA and Boyle Heights
And your DJs for the night:
Xica Soul
Sister Mantos
La Infinita Tristeza
Timido
Boo
Crasslos
This party like all La Disco events are for everyone but specifically a safe party space for queer, trans, femme, non-binary, POC. Everyone is welcomed as long as y’all respect each other.
$5 suggested donation
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 8PM
@ World of Wonder Productions
6650 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028
From 1977 - 1978 the Masque became Los Angeles’ first punk club. Though it only ran for 5 months, the venue paid host to some of the most influential acts of the time: X, Germs, The Go-Go’s and The Screamers. Assembling film and video that illuminates those histories, like LEATHER POLTERGEIST scored by and starring Edward Stapleton from Nervous Gender to Limp Wrist singer Martin Sorrondeguy’s BEYOND THE SCREAMS / MAS ALLA DE LOS GRITOS: A U.S. LATINO HARDCORE PUNK DOCUMENTARY and performances from TRAP GIRL and XINA XURNER, the evening will enliven the former site, now the gallery for production company World of Wonder.
The Masque was founded as a rehearsal venue by Scottish-Irish promoter Brandon Mullen in early 1977. The 10,000 foot venue on the seedy Hollywood Strip boasted rent of only $850 a month, making the space exceedingly ideal for show, and by August of that year, the club officially opened as a venue. Though it was shuttered by January by the Fire Marshall the following year, the short lifespan was long enough to acru scores of flyers and band graffiti that still covers the walls of production company World of Wonder’s basement.
Michael Interiere, Leather Poltergeist, video, 16min., 1982
Martin Sorrondeguy, Beyond the Screams Mas Alla de Los Gritos: A U.S. Latino Hardcore Punk Documentary, video, 28min., 1999
Performances by Trap Girl + Xina Xurner
Curated by Bret Berg, Coaxial + Bradford Nordeen
Lovataraxx + Xina Xurner + Big Debbie + Dscorpr8S
sat, 5/26/2018 @ L.A. Rec CENTER, 8PM:
Lovataraxx - France - https://www.facebook.com/100006917346660
Big Debbie - https://bigdebbie.bandcamp.com/
Xina Xurner - https://www.facebook.com/xinaxurner
Dscorpr8s - https://dscorpr8s.bandcamp.com/
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018 @ 6PM
MUSEO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
Ak 30 #45 - 03, Bogotá, Colombia
Photo by Barak Zemer
Join us for a night of experimental music and performance celebrating the release of Queens of the Night, the new album by Xina Xurner. Featuring performances by Xina Xurner (with guests San Cha, Sarah Gail, and White Boy Scream), Trap Girl, and The Uhuruverse, with a late night DJ set by La Disco Es Qultura.
Presented by Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design in conjunction with the exhibition All Hands on Deck, on view through April 22, 2018. Hosted by Human Resources, with additional support provided by Commonwealth & Council. This event is free and open to the public!
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About the artists:
Trap Girl
Trap Girl is a hardcore punk band formed in 2014 by lead singer Drew Arriola-Sands in LA. Trap Girl creates pissed off and cathartic anthems that spit nihilistic venom and don’t hold back. This roaring diva outfit demands to be seen and heard. In 2015, Trap Girl released their debut album, From Diamonds to Dust, which featured hard-hitting anthems such as “I’m a Trap Girl” and “Dead Men Don’t Rape.” In 2017, they released their follow-up record, The Black Market. Their music addresses issues such as the violence all too frequently experienced by trans POC and womxn, and the risks involved with black market surgical procedures. Arriola-Sands created Queer Queens of LA, a year-round concert series featuring queer artists, and Transgress Fest, the first festival in Southern California to spotlight trans/gender nonconforming punk, hardcore, and rock musicians.
www.trapgirl.bandcamp.com
The Uhuruverse
The Uhuruverse is a Los Angeles-based PROTEST ARTIST who uses multiple mediums and performance styles, including burlesque, butoh, and drag, to speak against oppression and demand the liberation of womxn’s and gender nonconforming bodies. The artist is the electric guitarist for the band Fuck U Pay Us (a four piece Black femme punk band demanding land reparations for the African Holocaust and free self defense training for femmes). The Uhuruvese raps and sings, exploring other genres including but not limited to: Hip Hop, Punk, Funk, Disco, Vogue, Blues, Jazz, and New Jack Swing. In 2014, The Uhuruverse founded #SNATCHPOWER, a post-apocalyptic, afrofuturistic, women's liberationist artist collective. In 2016, The Uhuruverse directed the psychedelic film noir, FIGHT IN HEELS, a collaboration with #SNATCHPOWER. In 2018, The Uhuruverse released her album, THE BRIGHTEST ODDEST STRANGEST STAR U EVER DID SAW UP CLOSE AND AFAR FROM PLANET EARTH TO MARS AND BEYOND!
www.soundcloud.com/theuhuruverse
BENEFIT FOR MEXICO CITY
La Disco Es Qultura
presents
A Mexico City Furdraiser
For the Victims of a Collapesed Apartment Building
Performances by:
SON DEL SERENO
https://www.facebook.com/sondelsereno/
OSCURA LUNA
https://soundcloud.com/oscuraluna
XINA XURNER
https://soundcloud.com/xina-xurner
SISTER MANTOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvRN-MHQ2k
DJ's :
BAT SLAVE (Argumen?)
HEXRAY (Club Scum)
CRASSLOS
TIMIDO
BROWN AMY (OAKLAND)
$5-$20 suggested Donation
8PM
On September 19 an earthquake shook the City of Mexico leaving hundreds of victims.
This party is dedicated specifically to help and collect money for the victims of the building that collapsed on the street called Niños Heroes de Chapultepec on the corner of Galicia, where people were trapped and at least one died due to the collapse.
Most of the survivors are elderly people, some already retired, others with jobs that do not leave them enough money to rebuild their homes and return to their lives.
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Go Fund Me Link:
https://www.gofundme.com/HelpingOurNeighbors
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y02e94vWVoU
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Amigos de El Sereno y comunidad latinx de Los Angeles.
Los invitamos a este día lleno de música, baile, comida y fiesta por una buena causa.
Como saben el pasado 19 de septiembre un terremoto sacudió la Ciudad de Mexico dejando a centenares de damnificados.
Esta fiesta esta dedicada a ayudar y recolectar dinero para las víctimas del edificio que colapsó en la calle Niños heroes de Chapultepec esquina con Galicia. En donde personas quedaron atrapadas y al menos una murió a causa de el derrumbe.
La mayoría de los sobrevivientes son personas de la tercera edad, algunos ya jubilados, otros con trabajos que no les deja el suficiente dinero para reconstruir su vivienda y tener una vida digna.
Es momento de unirnos una vez más para demostrar la fuerza que los latinxs tenemos y ayudar las víctimas de esta tragedia.
Demostremos nuestro amor por Mexico y bailemos por ellos.
SI SE PUEDE! SI SE PUEDE!
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5469 Huntington Dr N, Los Angeles, California 90032
TRANSGRESS FEST 2017!
TRANSGRESS FEST IS BACK... WITH A VENGEANCE!
This is the FIRST ever punk and hardcore festival celebrating the lives and music of TRANS musicians and artists, and this year we are having a Two Day event! All ages!
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DAY ONE Friday Nov 10th: TRANSGRESS FEST PRE PARTY!!!
7pm-11pm
$5-$8
We are having an Open Mic specifically for our vast and varied Trans community to partake in the festivities to sing a song, read a poem, share your experience & tell us a story. Accepting signups NOW!
DJs spinning all night long!
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DAY TWO Saturday Nov.11th: THE MAIN EVENT
THIS IS WHAT THE FEST IS ALL ABOUT
4pm-12am
$10
Featuring performances by:
LYNN BREEDLOVE: Big bad frontman of The Homobiles & formerly ofTribe 8
https://thehomobiles.bandcamp.com/
The Inverts: Queer noise/hardcore from space
https://inverts.bandcamp.com/
TRAP GIRL: Ferocious femme fronted punk from SELA
https://trapgirl.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-market
Xina Xurner:
https://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com/
QTPi Xpress: Wild angular transpunk/improv from OC/IE/SGV
https://socalrockshows2017.bandcamp.com/album/qtpi-xpress-at-programme-2-19-17
MARICON:
https://maricon.bandcamp.com/album/ohc-promo-tape
FORCED INTO FEMININITY
https://forcedintofemininity.bandcamp.com/
THE HECKS
WEST AMERICA: Chaotic rhyme & reason from The Valley
https://westamerica.bandcamp.com/
AND MORE!
DJ G FUNK TRECE
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Join us for two days of TRANSGRESS FEST 2017!
THIS IS A SAFER/SOBER EVENT. RACISM/SEXISM/BIGOTRY/ABLEISM OF ANY KIND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
305 E 4th St, Santa Ana, California 92701
FLESH WORLD - https://fleshworldusa.bandcamp.com/
VERTIGO
XINA XURNER - https://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com/
FYNE ARTIST & Bby Shamu
Club sCUM Dj’s Rudy Bleu & Hex-Ray
HOSTED BY LADY FORBIDDEN
ALL AGES
All Star Lanes :: Los Angeles, CA
4459 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90041