LQQK Open Mic

WEDNESDAY July 31

In honor of Minority Mental Health Month our open mic will raise funds for Aaokoma Project, which addresses African American youth mental health through culturally relevant programming and clinical care

Have work to share?  Come through to the Counting Room in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s the first stop on the Bedford L, and each month we raise money for a particular cause.

FB Event & Donation Link coming soon

LQQK April 17: Ondina & José Rivera Jr.
¡1st Edition!

Join us at The Counting Room for a cozy Wednesday evening semi- acoustic concert, featuring new original music by artists Ondina (Rebecca Hidalgo) & José Rivera Jr.

LQQK is a monthly event at The Counting Room curated by José Rivera Jr., showcasing new works from artists who perform in varying disciplines.
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7:30PM
Tickets: $5-$10 sliding scale
Purchase

- in advance on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lqqk-41719-ft-ondina-and-jose-rivera-jr-tickets-59805010396

- @ the door

José & Ondina are both multidisciplinary artists whose work brings together the worlds of music, dance and video art.
They are each part of the queer & LatinX communities, and make work that is heavily personal, extravagant and entertaining.

Having worked together on many theatre, dance, and video projects over the years; performing all over NYC & Europe— this dynamic duo will now showcase their individual music projects at the first edition of LQQK.

Bios:

José is a vocalist, choreographer & video artist currently based in NYC. He is creating his first visual EP entitled “LQQK”, which will have components for both stage & screen
www.joseishere.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/joseishere/

Ondina recently moved to Reykjavík, Iceland, where she continues to work as a singer/songwriter, choreographer, circus artist and actor.
www.rebeccahidalgo.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/___ondina/

Queer Kid Stuff is an LGBTQ+ and social justice web series for all ages. We are making a music video for World Pride 2019 and need to cast TWO dancers (hip hop, flow, pop, jazz, athletic).

This is a paid opportunity! All body types, ethnicities, and abilities welcome. QTPOC+ highly encouraged to audition.

Auditions will take place on Sunday, April 7th from 2pm-6pm. Shoot dates are April 27th & 28th with two rehearsals that same week.
Please email business@queerkidstuff.com with your headshot and resume to book a slot.

Friday April 5
7:30pm
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Williamsburg

José performs alongside Julieta Cavagna in The Gay Science (titled after Nietzsche's nihilist text) is a work of dance-theater exploring the malleability of self in all its uncanny, mediated, 21st-century iterations. This work embraces puppet aesthetics in order to explore these themes in an analog world of 2-D limbs.

Created and directed by Anna Lublina

GET TICKETS HERE

José performs “Body” and “het ij/HeySong” from his debut visual EP LQQK to be released Fall of 2019!

hyg•ge | ˈh(j)uːɡə/ | noun 
A quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).

Forget New Years resolutions -- Join La Ti Do NYC for an evening of post-holiday recovery as we celebrate all the things that make us feel warm & fuzzy inside.

https://www.bowerypoetrystudios.com/events/2019/01/07/ltdboweryjan

PROTOTYPE: OUT OF BOUNDS

http://prototypefestival.org/shows/out-of-bounds/

January 7 at 4pm and 7pm | Free Admission at Times Square | Broadway between 43rd Street and 44th Street.

José dances with the LEIMAY ensemble to Grammy Award Winning composition Partita for 8 Voices. Full description below!!

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PROTOTYPE presents its third iteration of Out of Bounds, a platform for new vocal performance pieces taking place in unlikely locations throughout New York. Through the works, public sites will become temporary spaces of contact, exchange, and refreshed social dynamics. Out of Bounds 2019 will feature Partita for 8 Voices, where composer Caroline Shaw’s seminal work meets the vast illuminated canyon of Times Square for its first ever publicly staged performance. Drawing inspiration from the work of artist Sol LeWitt, square dance calls, Inuit-inspired hocketing, and the American folk hymn “Shining Shore”, this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece will be performed in its entirety by Grammy-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
 
Partita for 8 Voices
10 years since beginning to write Partita for 8 Voices, a multi-year process involving extended residencies, vocal training, and walks to Times Square in the middle of the night, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw is joined by the Grammy Award winning ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, to stage the Partita for 8 Voices as an environmental public artwork on Times Square.
 

*In case of severe weather on January 7, performances will take place the following day on January 8.
25 Minutes | Original image by Michael Grimm

A New Performance Series of New Music, Dance, Video, and Art

TICKETS - lqqk.eventbrite.com

Tuesday December 4 atThe Counting Room
44 Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY
Doors 7pm | Shows 8pm

$15 in advance // $20 door

ft performances by
Bree Breeden & Kathleen Kelley (Proteo Media)
Benedict Nguyen (Whitney, Issue Project Room)
Cesar González and Cristina Ramos (Studio G, SLT)
Karl Ronneburg(UMich, New School)
Jorge Morales-Picó(Big Dance Theater, WWTNS?)
José Rivera Jr.(YouTube, New Museum)
Pepper Levain(Berlin, VICE DE)
Sarah Hartshorne(Lady Parts Justice, ANTM)
&DJ TRx(Hot Rabbit, Broome Street, Ace Hotel)

Hosted byJames Allan Clements(WWTNS?, NYU)

All proceeds directly benefit the creation and collaborators working with José on his debut visual EP entitled LQQK, The Way I Look.

José plays John the Baptist in Meg Araneo’s Solomé at Teatro Círculo.

Five time Grammy and Emmy nominated comedian Margaret Cho hosts the most important award show ever! Dubbed “Sexism’s Most Glamorous Night,” Lady Parts Justice's Golden Probes are an extravaganza of comedy and music, created to raise awareness about the politicians running for office this fall who pose the biggest threat to reproductive rights! 

WATCH THE FULL AWARD SHOW HERE - https://ladypjustice.com/aiovg_videos/2018-golden-probe-awards/

Along with Cho, the Probes is also thrilled to announce special appearances by Stormy Daniels, Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show, founder of Lady Parts Justice), Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, Jessica Pimentel (Orange Is the New Black), Dan Savage (Host of Savage Lovecast, Writer of Savage Love), Jordan Klepper (The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper), Dulcé Sloan (The Daily Show), Kathy Najimy (King of the Hill), Michelle Buteau (WNYC’s Late Night Whenever), Brian Unger, Mike Hot-Pence, Holly Miranda, Ambrosia Parsley, Franchesca "Chescaleigh" Ramsey WITH MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO COME!