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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.⁣⁣⁣

Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City

Join us for Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City, a four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play.

On June 18, we’re excited to host the panel Dendraphilia, Hydrofeminism, Compost, Bees & Beyond, with speakers—poet, author, and “compost sexual” Eileen Myles, dancers and community makers Kevin O’Connor & Brooke Chrisjohn, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Duskin Drum, urban beekeeper and theater maker Luke Dixon, hydrosexual/hydrofeminist artists and scholars Ewelina Jarosz & Justyna Górowska who will discuss the bouquet of approaches to and offshoots of ecosexuality.

Schedule
*Please click the event title to reveal more details.

June 18 (12pm - 4pm)

12:00pm—Panel 3: Dendraphilia, Hydrofeminism, Compost & Beyond

Eileen Myles (Poet, Author) – Compost Sexual
Kevin O’Connor & Brook Chrisjohn (Dancers and Community Makers) – Becoming Walnut Tree: Becoming Forest
Duskin Drum (Artist, Scholar) -A Diagram of Loving Trees
Ewelina Jarosz & Justyna Górowska (Artists and Scholars): Launching the Hydrosexual Movement in Art–An Ecosexual Offspring

2:00pm—Break

2:30pm—Audience Open Mic

Audience members can sign up to present whatever they want for 5 minutes – facilitated by Stefanie Iris Weiss.

3:30pm—Closing with Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, and Linda M. Montano

4:00pm—The End

I wanna be with you everywhere

General Access Information

Gathering Intention
This occasion is first and foremost a space for gathering across multiple realms–virtual and in person. None of it is possible without IWBWYE’s Access Coordinator Madison Zalopany and the care, commitment, and imagination of all of the access workers, consultants, and friends in bringing this occasion into being. Thank you. We’d also like to deeply thank Dickie Hearts for Access Consultation. Special shout out to Alexis Fagan for elaborating the Low Stim room with artworks and more. Shout out to Finnegan Shannon and Carolyn Lazard for providing seating that are both artworks and access. Thank you Constantine for the haptic touches on the already extant seating too.

Performances and moments orchestrated through aesthetic encounters will occur throughout the day. That said, the time in between, alongside, before, and after the artworks, poems, and music shared are the true spirit and intent of this day. As much as we love everyone who is performing, we love the fact that everyone will also, hopefully, be hanging out, too. Throughout the day people will be arriving and leaving, coming and going, and moving between the courtyard and Performance Space’s interior. We hope that the access infrastructure we have planned will be able to hold the different comings and goings we know of, as well as those we have no way of knowing will occur. We don’t separate access from life, life from access or access from fun. We know it won’t all go perfectly and that access interference may occur. When it does, we hope we’ll move through this together. We know that human is tech and tech is human and that both experience interruptions. We know that improvisation is our condition. With all of these realities as our intentions we’ve organized the following access presences and infrastructures:

Access URL
Livestream connectivity between in-person and online attendance via Zoom. Zoom breakout rooms, including a quiet-only breakout room. Live CART captioning. Online ASL interpretation for performances and breakout rooms. Access doulas providing audio and image description.

Access IRL
Livestream connectivity between in-person and online attendance via Zoom. In-person ASL interpretation for performances as well as an informal conversation among attendees. Access doulas providing audio and image description. Quiet rooms and quiet-er rooms will be open both inside Performance Space as well as outdoors in an area adjoining the courtyard. Wayfinding signage will be provided onsite. A large canopy will provide shade and cover in the event of rain with multiple seating spaces and seating options available, including seating with vibrational transducer frequency tactile input.

Covid Protocol
This is a primarily outdoor and online event, with an outdoor stage and projection screen and indoor spaces including bathrooms and a low-stim room. Many people will be wearing masks. Some of us can’t wear masks, and for others of us masks make communicating impossible. If you can maintain distance while communicating and hanging out, please do. If you can wear a mask please do. “Smile” see-through masks will be available onsite. Please stay home and rest if you’re experiencing Covid-related symptoms. Please attend online with us.

Food
Food will be onsite at Performance Space with gluten-free and vegetarian options.

Bathrooms
ADA all-gender bathrooms are located inside Performance Space on the 4th and 5th floors. These uncaptioned videos show the 4th-floor and the 5th-floor bathrooms.

RSVP 
Both in-person and online attendance is free with RSVP. Please RSVP here.

Getting in Touch
If you or a friend require a particular form of support or translation not listed here or in the event descriptions, we would love to connect. Email us at boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org. Advance notice is appreciated and requests made by June 9 will have the best chance of being met.

Venue 
Performance Space New York is located at 150 First Avenue at the corner of 9th Street in Manhattan. The courtyard is step-free with a gridded flooring overlaying gravel. A large canopy will provide shade and cover in the event of rain, with multiple seating options available. Animals are welcome.

Audience Travel Fund 
Getting around New York City is expensive. For local accessible transport in the form of a Lyft/Uber voucher or reimbursement please fill out this form by June 19.

Getting to Performance Space

Subway
Click each train stop to view a video route to Performance Space New York.

L train to 1st Avenue
6 train to Astor Place
F train to 2nd Avenue
R/W trains to 8 Street Station
 4/5/6/N/Q/R trains to Union Square – wheelchair accessible
6/B/D/F/M trains to Bleeker/Broadway-Lafayette Street – wheelchair accessible

Bus Stops
M8– St Marks Place/ 1st Avenue, East 9th Street/1st Avenue
M14a– Avenue A/ East 9th Street
M15– 1st Avenue/ St. Marks Place

Access-A-Ride
Note: If you are new to Access-A-Ride, it may take up to 21 days to process your application. Please plan accordingly.

Parking
Limited street parking is available close to Performance Space New York. Please read street signs carefully. Meter rates are posted on each parking meter, typically $4 for the first hour, and $10.75 for 2-hour increments.

The closest parking garage to Performance Space New York can be found at 310 East 11th Street between First and Second Avenues, 0.2 miles from Performance Space. Please call (212) 475-5262 to inquire about their rates if you are interested.

Weather Contingency
In the event of rain, no ceremonial fire will take place.

Air Quality Contingency
In the event of outdoor Air Quality Index (AQI) numbers projected to reach or exceed 100, this event will be rescheduled or moved to an improvised Zoom room. This event is planned as a hybridized event where our camera crews send multiple angles to Zoom from the Courtyard and our Access Teams are coordinated in and across both spaces. We cannot simply move it all to Zoom in the same ways nor will we move it all inside. No one left behind. We will update all ticket holders on or before June 20th.

Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City

Join us for Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City, a four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play. Ecosexuality offers the opportunity to reimagine our relationship with a world wounded by anthropocentrism, capitalism, and ecological destruction. It is a way of living propagated by PS122 icon, Annie Sprinkle, and her longtime partner and collaborator, Beth Stephens who “humbly propose ecosex as one of many pathways to healing the pain of both the present moment and the horrific injustices of the past by encouraging people to love the Earth.” Bring your animals, costumes, plants, your microbial/biome cloud and mingle with various communities of artists, scholars, sex workers, queers, fashionistas, animals, spores, water drops, clouds, in a weekend full of rituals, paradigm-shifting panels, performances, poetry, music, environmental activism, food, and a free Sidewalk EcoSex Clinic.

Schedule
*Please click on each event title to reveal more details.

Livestream

Thurs, June 15 (12:30pm - 2:30pm)

12:30 pm—Sidewalk Ecosex Clinic

Clinicians:
Annie Sprinkle (E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF)
Beth Stephens (E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF)
Dragonfly Diva (Performance Artivist)
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful (Interior Beauty Salon)
Justyna Górowska Ph.D. (Cyber Nymph, Artist, Professor)
Ewelina Jarosz Ph.D. (Cyber Nymph, Underwater Activist, Professor)
Veronica Vera (Author & Founder of Miss Vera’s TG/CD Academy)

Clinic Team:
Veronica Hart (Actress & Prod. Mgr.) – Clinic Director
Greer Sikes (Artist) – Head Nurse
Stefanie Iris Weiss (Author of Eco-Sex; Go Green Between the Sheets)- Sensate Healing Experiences
Alexandra Neuman (Filmmaker) – Eco Tarot Readings from the ‘radical becoming in the ongoing now’ deck

Fri, June 16 (7pm - 9pm) For adults 18 and over

7pm—Welcome to Exploring Earth as Lover introduced by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle with an activation by lifeist Linda M. Montano

Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement by Jenny Schlenzka, Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space New York

7:30pm—The Ecosexual Gaze: Short Films & Videos

A collection of short videos featuring:

Getting Dirty In the Garden with the Vaginas of Anarchy, Katie Bush, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle (1:00)
Supernatural: Softer world of Earth, Katie Bush (2:00)
Homage to the Scarlot Harlot, Oana Tenter (1:40)
Dinosauria, Alessia Cecchet (2:22)
Oñí Ocan/ The Heart of Sweetness, Courtney Desiree Morris (3:00)
Tree Love, Kevin O’Connor & Friends (5:00)
The Nudist Lunch, Chaki Weed Slut (4:00 excerpt)
La Corrida (2:40) & Turn Around Side Piece, Xandra Ibarra (2:43)
Brine Shrimp Cyber Wedding, Justyna Górowska & Ewelina Jarosz (5:00)
Maria the Korean Bride: Ghost Wedding Trailer, Maria Yoon (2:34)
Pteridophilia 4, Bo Zheng (3:00 excerpt)

Imagine the Earth as Lover – The One Minutes, curated by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle (23:00) produced by Julia van Mourik (23:00)

A collection of one-minute videos from all over the world to mark the international scope of the ecosex movement. Videos by Linda M. Montano, Felix Klee, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Federico Tello Porn Process (Aurore Morillon), Graham Bell Tornado, Lady Monster, Sam Mountford, Kupalua, Joseph Kramer & Scarlot Harlot, Pony Express, Cyril Sancereau, Maria the Korean Bride, K-Haw (Karin Bolender) and L-Haw (Lydia Peelle), Rosario Veneno, Sura Hertzberg & Hailey Jelaire, Lina Bravo & Rowena Buur, Vinicius Davi, Muza de la Luz, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Anna Recasens and Laia Solé , Misha de Ridder, moon wink

Video Installations
The Collective Womb: Alexandra Neuman
The Sensuous Abalone: Elin T. Sørensen

8:30pm—Eco-Jeopardy! Game hosted by Veronica Hart with co-host Sam McGinnis

8:40pm—Improvising with Strawberries: Landing in the Heart with Sweet Labour Art Collective

Improvising with Strawberries: Landing in the Heart with dancers Kevin O’Connor, Montana Summers, music by Wormwood (Christina Willatt & Andrew Wenaus)

9pm—The End

Sat, Jun 17 (11am - 9:30pm)

11am—Ecosex In The City with Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle

11:25am—Presentation of the Altars - Cassils with Pratt Sculpture II students

Ingrid-Andrea “Rea” Gabrielsen, Hui Ying Koh, Samuel Blank and Ashley Mitchell, Sam Plair and Struth Novogratz, Ailin Liu and Hanyu Qi

11:30am—Panel 1: Strange Kin

Maria Yoon (The Korean Bride) – Spirit Marriage
Michael J. Morris (Queer Astrologer) – Celestial Kinship
Camila Marambio (Curator, Artist, & Scholar) – Cosmic Gnosis with an olfactory contribution by agustine zegers
Barbara Carrellas (Sex Educator and Author of Urban Tantra) – Equine Tantra

1:30pm—Break

Ambient Offerings during the breaks:
Stefanie Iris Weiss: Ecosexual Sensate Healing Experiences
Lydia Peelle: Crystal Light as Dom Top
Movies: The opening night videos will be screened continuously in our screening room
Altars by Cassils’ Pratt Sculpture II students
An Ecosexual Manifesto: a poetic declaration from the South by Federico Tello in collaboration with La Pocha Nostra’s Guillermo Gomez-Peńa, Cesar Echeverría, Paloma Medaglia, Mayor Reta, and Balitronica Gómez.

2pm—Panel 2: Elders & Ancestors

Courtney Desiree Morris (Artist, Filmmaker, Performer & Scholar) – Egun Work
Savitri D. (Artist, Activist and Director of The Church of Stop Shopping) – Start in a Place
Sur Rodney (Sur) (Contemporary Art Archivist) – Archives & Ancestors
Kate Bornstein (Performance Artist and Author of Gender Outlaw) – Exploring Gender in Four Directions
Linda M. Montano (Lifeist) – Silent Participation

4pm—Break

Ambient Offering:
Greer Sikes: Orgasm Symphony

4:30pm—Entanglements: Hooking up with Many. SCORE by Sweet Labour Art Collective

Facilitated by Montana Summers, Kevin O’Connor, and Linda Jantz.
This guided score plays with tension and compression and asks how might we cultivate listening to the ways forces of push and pull circulate in the ecologies each of us is entangled within.

5pm—Break

We highly encourage the audience to grab dinner off-site. This break is a chance for performers to rehearse.

7pm—Ecosextravaganza: Performing Earth as Lover (Disclaimer: There may be some nudity)

Emcee & Ecosextravaganza Director: Joy Brooke Fairfield ( Contemporary Performance Director & Community Organizer)
Welcome: Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
Reading: Prairie Relations 100s – Kim Tallbear, The Critical Polyamourist
Music: Balloon Virtuoso – Judy Dunaway
Performance: A Message From Our Sponsors – L.M. Bogad
Eco-Burlesque: Ignition of the Flame Internal – Lady Monster
Performance: Peatland Passion Mas-turba – Camila Marambio with voice accompaniment by Isabel Torres
Performance: Transformation Eternal – Muza De La Luz
Ritual: Orisha Wedding III. Courtney Desiree Morris & Dragonfly Diva
Performance: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

9:30pm—The End

June 18 (12pm - 4pm)

12pm—Panel 3: Dendraphilia, Hydrofeminism, Compost & Beyond

Eileen Myles (Poet, Author) – Compost Sexual
Kevin O’Connor & Montana Summers (Members of Sweet Labour Art Collective) – Becoming Walnut Tree: Becoming Forest
Duskin Drum (Artist, Scholar) -A Diagram of Loving Trees
Ewelina Jarosz & Justyna Górowska (Artists and Scholars): Launching the Hydrosexual Movement in Art–An Ecosexual Offspring

2pm—Break

2:30pm—Audience Open Mic

Audience members can sign up to present whatever they want for 5 minutes – facilitated by Stefanie Iris Weiss.

3:30pm—Closing with Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, and Linda M. Montano

4pm—The End

*Friday night is for adults only as some films may be sexually explicit. Some panels and performances may contain some nudity.

Taíno Needle Science Institute: Electric Works Laboratory

Drone Acupuncture, Talks, Workshops, Performances

Open Room
February 1 – June 30
Full Schedule of Events

Free

The Taíno Needle Science Institute: Electric Works Laboratory is an acupuncture clinic doubling as a guerilla academy inspired by the radical health initiatives of the Young Lords, Black Panthers, and prompted by the medical diplomacy of Maoist China. Combining experimental auricular needle protocols born in the 1970’s South Bronx with forms of minimalist music, the clinic will provide free “drone acupuncture” to all who are in need. The clinic aims to search for new healing modalities and methods that are accessible, non-chemical, and committed to upholding the principle that the ability to choose and control one’s healthcare is a basic human right. Additional programming will center around community-led political education, with talks presented by revolutionary elders, film screenings, experiments in electro-acupuncture, workshops, live “drone acupuncture” performances in assorted variations, and more. This experiential environment explores what it takes to reimagine forms of social reproduction, participation, performance, and inclusion of / by marginalized communities within urban and institutional spaces.

Calendar of Events

April

April 25 | 11am—Chair Yoga with Margarita Pietri

Class

April 25 | 11am