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.
Show Category: Party
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.
ur tongue in my mouth
Oscar Nñ, DJ and co-founder of the Brooklyn-based queer nightlife collective Papi Juice, and Julie Tolentino, performance installation maker and founder of Clit Club (1990-2012), a queer and pro-sex lesbian nightclub, have joined forces to present ur tongue in my mouth—a queer nightlife experiment.
DJs: Stud1nt, Yung Bugarron, Morenxxx, Oscar Nñ
MCs: West Dakota & Niki Davis
Live Drums: Maisha Yearwood
Set Design and Video Installation: Julie Tolentino and Oscar Nñ
Soundscape: Oscar Nñ
Image courtesy of Oscar Nñ.