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HOLE PICS presents Performance Space New York’s Annual Holiday Party

HOLE PICS brings you the downtown experimental performance art party of the holiday season, presented in conjunction with Mandy Harris Williams‘ Critique Cabaret, a performance lecture blending pop culture, theory, and cabaret.

HOLE PICS is a performance art collective and event series, founded by MTHR TRSA and produced by Buffy Sierra, that gathers an array of queer subcultures with entrancingly intimate and bombastic avant-pop productions. HOLE PICS (yes, those kind) pulls its name from the intimacy and exposition of sharing the most private parts of ourselves with others. holepics.live

MTHR TRSA (founder, producer) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in photography, performance, direction & production. She is always trying to find some decks to plug into. mthrtrsa.com

Buffy (producer) is an artist, musician, and writer producing work about living horrors and dying beauties. buffysierra.com

Critique Cabaret

Tickets to Critique Cabaret (Performance + Holiday Party)

Critique Cabaret, organized and performed by Mandy Harris Williams, is a performance-lecture and live inquiry examining what it means to think, feel, and perform in a world where attention has become both currency and trap. Moving between critical theory, cabaret glamour, and digital intimacy, Williams stages a space where scholarship becomes spectacle and spectacle becomes survival. Through live writing, original music, improvisation, and audience participation, she invites us into the unstable terrain where intellectual responsibility meets the pressures of marketability, desire, and public expectation.

Critique Cabaret extends into Performance Space New York’s Annual Holiday Party presented by HOLE PICS, dissolving seamlessly into a night of DJs, experimental drag, and communal release, where the performance’s questions will continue to echo in the room.

Across a series of vignettes that unfold like lucid dreams, Williams shifts between the persona of a pop idol, the rigor of a theorist, and the vulnerability of someone trying to hold onto integrity in a time of intense political fatigue. Screens flicker with online fragments, music builds and dissolves, as the performer toggles between her physical audience and her parasocial one — revealing how digital presence distorts, amplifies, and sometimes eclipses the bodies producing it. Critique Cabaret becomes a live examination of influence, exhaustion, and erotic knowledge: a remembrance that thinking can be felt, and feeling can be an act of resistance.

The performance culminates with a final sequence that blurs the line between confession and confrontation, asking who is permitted to step back from the struggle for justice, who is expected to keep performing care, and what it costs to be perceived as politically coherent in public.

Critique Cabaret is creatively produced by Family Affairs Studio, led by Michael R. Speciàle.

Winter Party

Winter party hosted by First Nations Performing Arts and Performance Space New York! Come join us for (free!) food, drinks, performances, vendors, and dancing.

RSVP for FREE by January 10th through the link above, or email at admin@firstnationsperformingarts.global

GUSH

✮⋆。°GUSH LOVE & BBL✮⋆。°

WE FINNA WNBA!!!!! WETNBA A GUSH PRIDE 2-in-1 SPECIAL!!!

The wettest must see 3-on-3 tournament featuring UR FAVS (teams will be announced soon) followed by GUSH ~UAK~THEE SEXIEST SOFTCORE BUSINESS AS USUAL PARTY, JUMBOTRON, KISS CAM, JOCK JAMS, NUTTIN BUTT NET, SWEAT SWEAT SWEAAATTY SWEAT CHECK!

Basketball Tournament —> 9pm-10pm
with legendary commentator @peytondix

GUSH —> 10pm-4am

Doors open @ 8pm

DJs:
Honey Bun, Naija Couture, Daniro, KENDOLLAZ

Live:
Body Hunter, Ivy⁣⁣

MC: Aya Brown⁣⁣
with DJ Sii Sii

ATM by @estehurr, (bring your 1’s or exchange b4 the show)

Hosts & Players
Will be announced soon!…

Red Light Special

✮⋆。°Post Show Privates⋆⌒ヽ(´ ❥ `)

$20 for a private lapdance 2am-4am

Flyer by
@2tt2

+ ADA accessible
+ Please respect that this space is for exclusively celebrating and centering lesbian, qtnb bipoc
+ This event will most likely sell out, we highly recommend you buy presale tix ASAP
+ We are a mindful and respectful nightlife space, please honor that with us and each other. Consent is sexy.

On Body & Ivy’s performance MC’d by Aya Brown:⁣⁣⁣
+ Please remember you are in a sacred space honoring, loving, respecting, and celebrating Black Women. It is a privilege for you to be here.
+ QTNB BIPOC TO THE FRONT.
+ If you are standing in the front row or in a seat, you are participating in the show and must tip. If you don’t have the means you must make room for others that wanna show love $$$.⁣⁣⁣
+ Do not by any means touch any money that’s already been tipped during the show..⁣⁣⁣
+ BUT do help us with collecting all their tips at the end of the show by gathering all dollars toward the center of the circle. ⁣⁣⁣
+ Do be respectful of photos/videos you post & share.

GUSH

✮⋆。°GUSH PUSS IN BOOTS✮⋆。°
A GENTLECAT’S CLUB ALL CATS GO TO HEAVEN!
(bring ur ca$h) 😉

DJs:
swaya, Mellow Domingo, Aisha Mirza, Lil Zé

Live:
@embaci @theonlybodyhunter @call.me.qt_⁣⁣
and special guests!

MC @ayabrown.tiff ⁣⁣
w/ DJ @siii_siii
ATM by @estehurr (bring your 1’s or exchange b4 the show) ⁣⁣

Hosts:
@joop_type @siii_siii , @wonton.titties,
@raff4444444, @rheadillon, @bugproject

RED LIGHT SPECIAL
***POST SHOW PRIVATES ***$20 for a private lap dance 2am-4am

Flyer by
@2tt2

+ ada accessible
+ please respect that this space is for exclusively celebrating and centering lesbian, qtnb bipoc and not your usual party⁣⁣
+ this event will sell out, we highly recommend you buy tix asap⁣⁣⁣⁣
+ very limited tix sold at the door day of: As always, $75 cis het men, $12 everyone else⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
+ this sliding scale’s purpose is to have a sacred place for us while not enforcing or questioning anyone’s gender or identity at the door
+ we are a mindful and respectful nightlife space, please honor that with us and each other⁣⁣⁣

On Body & Ivy’s performance emceed by Aya Brown:⁣⁣⁣

+ Please remember you are in a sacred space honoring, loving, respecting, and celebrating Black Women. It is a privilege for you to be here.⁣⁣⁣
+ If you are standing in the front row or in a seat, you are participating in the show and must tip. If you don’t have the means you must make room for others that wanna show love $$$.⁣⁣⁣
+ Do not by any means touch any money that’s already been tipped.⁣⁣⁣
+ Do help with collecting their tips at the end of the show. ⁣⁣⁣
+ No phones on the dance floor.⁣⁣⁣