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Cozy by Sweety’s

Cozy by Sweety’s is a series of events and workshops engaging with the ideas of coziness, warmth, gathering, chosen families and those we’ve yet to meet—as we gear into the holidays. As part of this month long series we will be hosting Movie Nights serving free hot drinks from our family’s recipes, poetry, sewing, and farol making workshops. Our programming will culminate with a Family Dinner and potluck and throughout the month we will be having a toy drive that will accumulate in POWRPLNT. Come thru with a toy!

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We had such an amazing time live on KnowWave at the Printed Matter Art Book Fair! We sat, laughed and chatted about being sweaty, gentrification, colorism across the diaspora, sexual health in poc communities, wack yts selling things at the fair and more with Stephanie Rodriguez, Tsige Tafesse, Medar De la Cruz, Gisela Zuniga, + Kandis Williams, and had a surprise call from la única Jay Boogie and Black Fly Zine's Justine Frost in the most melanin and glow room at the NY Art Book Fair 🌹🌹

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Sweety’s x Beverly’s 

For four weeks, Sweety’s will be hosting a series of parties and events at Beverly’s in the Lower East Side. We will be discussing/kikiiiing/chatting about nightlife, the nighttime and its role in our lives as people of color. Join us every Saturday, October 14 - Nov 4th for DJs, performers and conversations on what it means to have a stake in the night. 

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~ Saturday October 21st Daytime Panels ~ 

DJs | 2:30-3:30pm Conversation between Elosi, DJ BEMBONA, and Precolumbian on creating their own parties, providing the soundtrack to people’s turn ups, and experiencing nightlife behind the booth. 

Producing the Function | 3:45-4:45pm Edward Salas, Juju, Husky

Who makes a venue? We’ll be hearing from panelists who work where the party happens -- key night time workers who contribute their time, energy, and money to the collective rage.

Crash Course on Party Going | 5-6pm Keijaun Thomas 

A solo presentation by Keioui on Party Going 101, The Function(ing), Self care and safety as practice. 

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DJ BEMBONA

https://soundcloud.com/djbembona

BEMBONA is a Puerto Rican/Panamanian DJ, Multi-Platform Artist & Activist from Brooklyn, NY who represents & pushes forward the Afro-Diaspora.

PRECOLUMBIAN

https://soundcloud.com/precolumbian

Precolumbian is a Philadelphia-based DJ, musician, and cultural creator. Her work operates as a medium for empowerment and decolonization and was honored with the 2013 Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. She is currently teaming up with Bearcat (Discwoman) on a QTPOC centered club night and music platform titled SELTZER.

EDWARD SALAS/DJ LATINO POSER

Edward Salas is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ideas of representation and identity as a Latino in the USA through both an object-based approach and a practice of community organizing. Edward received a BFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2013. He has shown in various group shows in New York and was in residence at the Jamaica Arts and Learning Center in 2016. He is a currently recipient of the 2017-18 More Art Fellowship.

HUSKY

Husky is a proud Brooklynite; a bit of a wild card who has been a bouncer and bodyguard in New York City for 10 years and absolutely loves it. He is also an improv comedian.

JUJU

https://www.trendzbyjuju.com/

A jack of "most trades," model , fashion designer, actress, artist, creative director and dancer Juju loves to have fun and bring people together. A hustler by day and a grinder by night, she was recently seen in a few music videos, including Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow,” DJ Envy ft. Fetty Wap’s “Text Your Number” and Wisin y Yandel’s “Como Antes.”

KEIJAUN THOMAS

http://thechart.me/keijaun-thomas-a-black-femme-goddess-punk-nude-and-in-charge/

Keijaun is a performer making performance for the uplifting of black and brown folks: specifically black and brown trans gurls, femmes and GNC ppl-- thinking about our safety, legacies and unlimited power and potential. In her project "My Last American Dollar: Round 1. Tricking and Flipping Coins: Making Dollars Hit, Round 2. Black Angels in the Infield: Dripping Faggot Sweat, Round 3. Whatchu Gonna Do: Marvelous like Marva" She is thinking about resistance. How do we resist temptation, how do we slow down, how do we play, how do we survive? The project investigates forms in which black and brown people hold space for each other, how we carry the multiplicities of being young, gifted and black.

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Sweety’s x Beverly’s 

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~ Saturday November 4th ~ 

Performance by Los Ciegos Del Barrio | 9-10pmSets by DJ Elosi + Precolumbian | 10pm-2am

LOS CIEGOS DEL BARRIO

http://www.losciegosdelbarrio.com/

Los Ciegos Del Barrio is a multi-genre Latin music group from New York City. They play Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Cumbia, Bolero, Reggaeton and Rock in English and Spanish. Their name translates to "The Blind Boys From The Hood." They play all types of events from private parties to major concerts...they've done it all. They have played around the northeast United States, Texas, Wisconsin, as well as abroad in Russia, Dominican Republic and Cuba. Active since 1997 they have released a demo, 2 singles, 3 studio albums and 1 live album.

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For four weeks, Sweety’s will be hosting a series of parties and events at Beverly’s in the Lower East Side. We will be discussing/kikiiiing/chatting about nightlife, the nighttime and its role in our lives as people of color. Join us every Saturday, October 14 - Nov 4th for DJs, performers and conversations on what it means to have a stake in the night. 

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Sweety’s x Beverly’s

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~ Saturday October 28th ~ 

Performance by STEFA | 9:30-10pm

Sets by DJ Elosi + DJ Latino Poser | 10pm-2am

STEFA*

http://stefalives.com/

Stefa* is a vocal artist and performer focused on the intersection of politics, the self and her cultures. she enjoys taking apart language and musical structures through sonic layering and improvisation while drawing inspiration from her indigenous ancestry and classical music background. by projecting new narratives, she is taking back her power. sounds to expect: diasporic rumbling jungle rhythm&blues opera. debut ep coming soon.

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For four weeks, Sweety’s will be hosting a series of parties and events at Beverly’s in the Lower East Side. We will be discussing/kikiiiing/chatting about nightlife, the nighttime and its role in our lives as people of color. Join us every Saturday, October 14 - Nov 4th for DJs, performers and conversations on what it means to have a stake in the night.

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Sweety’s x Beverlys

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~ Saturday October 14th ~ 

Performance by Controverse | 9:30-10pm

Sets by DJ Elosi + DJ D0uze | 10pm-2am

CONTROVERSE

https://soundcloud.com/mcninja-1

Troy Jules, professionally known as Controverse, is a Haitian American rapper, born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. Growing up in the savage streets of East New York, surrounded by drugs, gun violence, and police brutality, Controverse learned that in order to succeed in life, he had to have tough skin. At the tender age of 8, he developed his love for music inspired by the greats like Jadakiss, Jay-z, and Foxy Brown. By the age of 18, He released his first mixtape titled “ Success is Revenge.” To this day, Controverse has been cosigned by Jack Thriller and Tax Stone, and worked with “Sisterhood of Hip-Hop” stars, Nyemiah Supreme and Siya. Known for his flourishing gritty beats and slick rhymes, Controverse is and emcee who doesn’t hold a punch

ELOSI

https://soundcloud.com/elositho

Elosi is a QPOC DJ based in Brooklyn. In her mixes you'll hear sounds from all over the world, such as rasterinha, baile funk, dancehall, dembow and much more. The ability to blend and find similarities between varying genres is essential to her work as she navigates through a broad range of eclectic music. In this process of exploring global club sounds, she is passionate about the possibilities of sonically exploring themes of empowerment, queerness, and feminism.Her most current project TRUUU is a monthly QTPOC & GNC centered dance party that raises funds for gender justice.

DJ D0UZE

https://soundcloud.com/dyani_douze

Dyani Douze is a Brooklyn-based DJ and multimedia artist working in sound art, music production, film editing, film distribution and curatorial projects. She has presented her work at Red Bull Music Academy Festival, Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum, AFROPUNK AFTER DARK, and ALL GOLD Listening Room at MoMa PS1, among other programs. As a member of the New Negress Film Society, Dyani has most recently presented her films at Anthology Film Archives, Indiana University Cinema, Made in NY Media Center, South Dallas Cultural Center, and Cooper Union as part of a series presented by Black Radical Imagination. She is also the co-creator of MAMI, an exhibition programming series that began at Knockdown Center in August of 2016.

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For four weeks, Sweety’s will be hosting a series of parties and events at Beverly’s in the Lower East Side. We will be discussing/kikiiiing/chatting about nightlife, the nighttime and its role in our lives as people of color. Join us every Saturday, October 14 - Nov 4th for DJs, performers and conversations on what it means to have a stake in the night.

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✨ Join us for dinner on Tuesday with Adobo-Fish-Sauce! ✨ A Puerto Rican and a Cambodian walk into a kitchen. The kitchen is your heart. The food is made with food. The food is sometimes poems. Either way you are fed. Adobo-Fish-Sauce is an active choice to celebrate in the face of bitterness. It is responding to “Go back to where you come from!” by bringing where they come from right to you. The show fuses spoken word, cooking, music, crying and laughing to create a one of a kind experience that can’t be found in any restaurant or open mic. About Adobo-Fish-Sauce Noun. An artist project comprised of Anthony Febo and Ricky Orng, a Puerto Rican and Cambodian duo that continuously practices discovery, healing, and self preservation through their relationship with food, culture, and heartbreak. Verb. An interactive multicultural cooking show using spoken word as a vital ingredient to create recipes for celebrations

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On September 23 Sweety's teamed up with Teatro LATEA to bring Jay Boogie for the release of his latest mixtape entitled "Jesus Loves Me Too" in concert. The event featured guest performer Jamal Lewis and musical accompaniment by Young Jimmy, Shariq, Kayne Prexise and Gusto.  -----------~-----------~----------

JESUS LOVES ME TOO

Describing Jesus Loves Me Too as his clap back to all negative judgement passed on him and his retaliation against religious norms. Living proof that he has support from a higher being to express himself as he pleases regardless of how Christians, Catholics, Jehovahs Witnesses or any person who believes in god may feel about him. The sounds of JLMT punch homophobia right in the stomach with very candid and literal lyrical content. On songs like “So Happy” produced by MDLW, Boogie stands up to reclaim his energy from those who have tried to put a hex on it or deprive him from his happiness. This is Boogies second mixtape after My H.O.E., JLMT is released independently by Jay Boogie with the help and love of Jesus. https://soundcloud.com/jayboogala/sets/jesus-loves-me-too

JAY BOOGIE Born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn with Dominican and Colombian roots - Hip-Hop has been Boogie’s medium of expression for the past 4 years. With an album and a mix-tape under his belt, he has independently toured across American and Northern Europe, proudly celebrating his sexuality and his cultural background. Boogie has managed to organically cultivate an audience through his intellect and self awareness. Often described as “Flamboyantly Rugged” Jay Boogie does not have a problem being both the Beauty and The Beast of his generation with aspirations of spreading the unapologetic attitude around the globe and the ghettos across the universe. http://www.joelnewyork.com/ TEATRO LATEA Teatro LATEA (Latin American Theater Experiment Associates) is a theater production company, which for over 30 years has run its own performance/rehearsal space in The Clemente located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Since its inception LATEA has opened its doors to a multitude of performers, artists and theater companies to forge theatrical experiences in this 76 seat experimental space. The mission of LATEA involves promoting multicultural theater and developing underrepresented audiences while presenting a variety of theatrical works with a Latino emphasis http://www.teatrolatea.org/

Photo credits to Travis Gumbs + Christopher Sonny Martinez

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Sweety’s Radio: Edicion Especial culminates with an exhibition showcasing the individual work of Sweety’s members. A group of friends and collaborators that came together to address the lack of spaces explicitly for black and brown artists, Sweety’s developed and continues to provide a platform for queer artists of color. In this final exhibition, the four members–Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz, Julia Mata, Bryan Rodriguez Cambana, Eduardo Restrepo Castaño–display recent work in a variety of media, including video, photography, textiles, and painting that explore personal histories through an understanding of time, horror, and mood. Having been active for nearly four years, the members have imminently been affected by their collective work, visible in their own practice/s.

This project is the fifth, and final, installment of Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial, on view through July 30, 2017.

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Elia Alba’s installation for Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial will include three videos, Unruhe, Se Revela, Se Devela and Gigglers, all made between 2001 and 2010. These works show Alba’s manipulation of reality as fantasy and vice versa, always within a societal framework informing this dynamic. In Unruhe, Alba focuses on this German word, meaning unrest, to compose a dream-like scenario, using Super 8 and video, during which dolls are aggressively handled as they float on and move through the water. Se Revela, Se Devela expresses the idea of unmasking as a cultural practice that both contains and sustains the face. Gigglers, filmed on IslaMorada, examines fractured identities and adolescence through the laughter, play and the undeterred stare of four young girls wearing masks and wigs, floating in the ocean.

This project is the fourth installment of Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial, on view through July 30, 2017.

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ELIA ALBA was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1962. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in 1994 and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Those include The Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Science Museum, London; ITAU Cultural Institute, Sao Paolo; National Museum of Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid and the 10th Havana Biennial. She is also recipient of numerous awards and residencies, for example, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence Program in 1999; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Crafts 2002 and Photography 2008; Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2002 and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2002 and 2008; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Program, 2009 and LMCC Process Space 2016; Recess Analog, 2012. Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, Lowe Art Museum to name a few. For the past five years, she has been working on a publication/event series title “The Supper Club”, currently supported by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The 8th Floor. The project brings together artists, scholars, and performers through portraiture, food, and dialogue to examine race and culture. A solo show on The Supper Club is forthcoming fall 2017 at The 8th Floor.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary Emanuel Xavier’s self-published chapbook Pier Queen, a poetic manifesto about his personal experiences coming of age as a former street hustler, drug dealer/addict, homeless youth and survivor of child abuse. To celebrate this LGBTQ Latinx and POC milestone, Rebel Satori Press has reissued the book with brand new cover art featuring a photograph by Richard Renaldi that captures the spirit and defiance of the Christopher Street West Side Highway piers. As part of Sweety’s Radio: Edicion Especialwe will be honoring the anniversary of this chapbook with an exhibition and reception. On Friday, July 14, Xavier will be joined by percussionist Joyce Jones to recreate the spirit of late 90s poetry readings from the book Pier Queen in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of this landmark collection by a former homeless pier queen who went on to become one of the most significant voices of the LGBT and Latinx poetry movements.

Drawn from Xavier’s personal archives as well as artists in conversation with his work, the exhibition spans several bodies of work from throughout Xavier’s career; from videos, event flyers, fan notes (from Walter Mercado, Parker Posey, Penny Arcade), memorabilia from that era as well as photographs by Richard Renaldi and artwork by Gabriel Garcia Roman.

On Wednesday July 12 from 6-8pm, we will host “Realness & Rhythms,” a throwback to one of the very first spoken word poetry series for LGBTQ people of color held in NYC at A Different Light Bookstore by Emanuel in the mid 90s. Held in honor of Emanuel’s practice as organizer, he and Sweety’s member Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz brought together the poets Nancy Mercado, Andres Chulisi Rodriguez, Khalin Vasquez & Freaky Haiku, who will each have 15 minutes on the mic.

On Friday, July 14 from 6-8pm, a reception will be held featuring a reading by Emanuel Xavier joined by percussionist Joyce Jones to recreate the spirit of late 90s poetry readings, and followed by an interview hosted by Sweety’s member Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz.

This project is the third installment of Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial, on view through July 30, 2017.

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Emanuel Xavier is one of the most significant voices to emerge from New York. He is the author of the poetry collections Radiance, Nefarious, If Jesus Were Gay & other poems, Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA, Pier Queen and the novel, Christ Like as well as the spoken word/music collaboration album, Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, which inspired a choreographed dance presentation and a music video. He has been featured on HBO’s Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, spoken at The United Nations and was a Bushwick TEDx speaker. A foreign documentary about innovative poets from around the world is soon to debut as part of the Edinburgh Film Festival.

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Join US on a cute Brooklyn rooftop for a selection of films featuring black and brown artists exploring family portraiture, narratives, perspective and self image. Followed by a talkback with filmmakers. Organized as part of BUFU's Watch with US.

July 3 Screening and talkback with filmmakers

MY GRANDMOTHER'S CLOWNS grant strudwick is a multi-disciplinary artist from Washington, D.C. My Grandmother's Clowns is a short film documenting Dr. Bette Catoe Strudwick's (the artist's grandmother) magnificent collection of black clowns; highlighting the objectified and embodied relationship between the clown figure and the experience of black life in America. The project was shot on 16mm film using a Bolex H16 Reflex Film Camera. PEDRO NAVAJA Bryan Rodriguez Cambana Bryan Rodriguez Cambana is an interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working between Lima, Peru and New York City. Super 8 Film/Performance Callao, Peru 2011-ongoing "Pedro Navaja" is the second film of La Mar Brava trilogy, a set of 15-25 minute films taking a hybrid approach to the lives of a group of people living in Callao, Peru. Callao is a port city which served as a trade and exchange quarter of enslaved African people during early european occupation. All three films cast members of the filmmaker's immediate and extended family as protagonists, who participate in developing situations stemming from actualities and fictional dilemmas reminiscent of what they find cinematic in novelas and Hollywood action movies. GRANDMA Andrew Mui Andrew is a filmmaker from Boston currently based in Hong Kong with a concentration in directing and cinematography. "Somewhere between Wong Kar Wai's early films and Chantal Akerman's D'est lives a filmmaker who has made a film about his grandmother, but he also made a film about filmmaking and about what's important to us and how the people in our lives leave their indelible mark on us. Through its slow, beautiful and meditative shots, Grandma weaves the conceptual and the personal into a fragile sculpture about family, life and what it means to make art." - Synopsis by B.C.C. July 17 Screening and talkback with filmmakers

PARA GREGORIO Cristobal Guerra is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Juan, PR. Based in Brookyn, working on film, video , photography and text to communicate experience and build new spaces. A short documentary following Gregorio Guerra. Boricua immigrant living in Queens, eldest uncle to the filmmaker , a small window into a few days of his life dealing with an impending change in his health and the memories and decisions that come with it. LA AURORA eduardo restrepo castaño works across visual mediums, from the intersection of gender flow-eeh-dity and diasporic feelings, to manifest a tangible and relentless presence in education, culture, and the day to day. La Aurora is the name of the house where my family, Socorro and Javier, have lived for over 30 years - atop a hill in Chinchiná, Colombia. A short docu-portrait of the pace, habits, chisme, and memories that this location hosts. SERÁS LIBRE Vianca Lugo is a multi-disciplinary artist and third generation Puerto Rican American born in the Lower East Side of New York City. Serás Libre is the first in a series of short films that deal with feelings of diaspora and desire for freedom from colonial occupation - set to the poetry and prose of Carmen Boneet, the artist's great grandmother.  BUFU's "US" A FOUR WEEK LEAD UP OF PROGRAMING BUILDING TOWARDS A GATHERING: SHARING STRATEGIES, RESOURCES, SKILLS BETWEEN/ON COLLECTIVES. FOCUSING ON HOW WE BUILD TOGETHER THROUGH ORGANIZING, HEALING, NIGHTLIFE, ART, ETC.

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Raul grew up between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and his drawings often reference the landscape, buildings, and characters from his childhood. Raul’s work on Lowriders in Space is done completely in ballpoint pen, a decision to reference his first tools as a young artist, often making fan art of comic book characters. For this interactive exhibition at Cuchifritos, Raul’s original illustrations from the “Lowriders” series will be installed in allusion to newsstand vendors’ displays in Ciudad Juarez, along with a wall that will be available for visitors to the gallery to draw characters from the series or create their own.

This project is the second installment of Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial, on view through July 30, 2017.

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Raul the Third is an award winning illustrator and artist from El Paso, Texas. He is the 2017 winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for his work on the critically acclaimed children’s book series Lowriders in Space from Chronicle Books which he co-created with author Cathy Camper. Lowriders in Space follows three friends Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria who work in an auto body show and have dreams of entering a car competition. They find creative solutions to build a lowrider, and the journey takes them outside of the planet’s atmosphere.

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Sweety’s Radio is a live talk-show/installation project developed by Sweety’s – a curatorial initiative conceived by artists Julia Mata, Bryan Rodriguez Cambana, Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz, and Eduardo Restrepo Castaño that since 2013, works on seeking out spaces and producing events dedicated to the labor of black and brown artists.

At Cuchifritos, the collective will host Edición Especial, a special iteration of Sweety’s Radio that focuses on Spanish-speaking cultural producers, as a means to bridge the conversations taking place amongst black and brown (Spanish-speaking) communities in and outside of the U.S. From June 27th through July 30th Sweety’s programming will consist of weekly interviews featuring four invited artists whose work will take over the Cuchifritos space for each week, culminating in a collaborative installation by the four members of Sweety’s.

In response to the local community surrounding Cuchifritos and Essex Street Market, as well as the history of the Lower East Side as Loisaida, and the curators’ personal investment as immigrants and first generation, Sweety’s brings together four artists: Cecilia Gentili, Emanuel Xavier, Raul Gonzalez III, Elia Alba.

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Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial kicks off with the work of Cecilia Gentili. In an exhibition that brings together images, objects, and oral herstories that collectively speak of the impact of Gentili’s work as a mentor and muse, as well as the importance of community and agency in the documentation of trans-femme realities. The installation includes selections from an ongoing photo essay made in collaboration with artist Serena Jara, and wearable garments made by Gogo Graham for Cecilia. Bridging the works are videos of Gentili’s storytelling, a practice that she has harvested as a tool for healing and instigating dialogue, and which informs her work as a counselor to other trans individuals seeking guidance.

This project is the first installment of Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial, on view through July 30, 2017.

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Cecilia Gentili, originally from Argentina, worked at the LGBT Center, Apicha CHC and currently serves as the Director of Public Affairs at GMHC. She was a contributor to Trans Bodies Trans Selves and is a board member at Translatina Network. That’s for work. For fun, she acts sometimes and loves doing storytelling events where she talks about her life experiences and she cooks amazing brunches for her friends on the weekends. She is very passionate about advocating for her community, and mostly for transgender women with a Latino background, sex work history, drug use and incarceration history.

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Sweety’s Radio is a live talk-show/installation project developed by Sweety’s – a curatorial initiative conceived by artists Julia Mata, Bryan Rodriguez Cambana, Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz, and Eduardo Restrepo Castaño that since 2013, works on seeking out spaces and producing events dedicated to the labor of black and brown artists.

At Cuchifritos, the collective will host Edición Especial, a special iteration of Sweety’s Radio that focuses on Spanish-speaking cultural producers, as a means to bridge the conversations taking place amongst black and brown (Spanish-speaking) communities in and outside of the U.S. From June 27th through July 30th Sweety’s programming will consist of weekly interviews featuring four invited artists whose work will take over the Cuchifritos space for each week, culminating in a collaborative installation by the four members of Sweety’s.

In response to the local community surrounding Cuchifritos and Essex Street Market, as well as the history of the Lower East Side as Loisaida, and the curators’ personal investment as immigrants and first generation, Sweety’s brings together four artists: Cecilia Gentili, Emanuel Xavier, Raul Gonzalez III, Elia Alba.

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For the 4th episode of Season 2, we are bringing a NYC LEGEND to our stage, **EL OSCAR SANCHEZ** 🎧  🌃  🌐 Brooklyn born and raised, Oscar Sanchez is a man of many hats: Graphic designer. Creative director. DJ & Party promoter. He's an NYC nightlife vet, now in his tenth year of rocking the downtown scene, with his famed 1992 party tapping into '90s nostalgia way head of the curve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music provided by DJ Elosi 🔥 Show starts at 8pm with music following the interview +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thank you to our partners ❤ @Ode to Babel & "For True" on Know-Wave for giving us a space and broadcasting our show! *ODE TO BABEL* 772 Dean Street (between Underhill & Washington Avenue) Brooklyn, NY 11238 Ode to Babel is a cool low-key chill cocktail bar and lounge in crown heights brooklyn. We provide a platform for local and/or independent creatives to showcase their art- whether in the form of film, music, mixed media, and performance- its the perfect spot for a chill vibe- no pretense- no posing- all love. DJ Elosi - Ash Smith Elosi is a photo editor and DJ based in Brooklyn. In her mixes you'll hear sounds from all over the world such as rasterinha, baile funk, dancehall, dembow and much more. Through these genres, she often sonically explores themes of empowerment, queerness, and feminism. >>>>>>>>>https://soundcloud.com/elositho 

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TRAP TALK RADIO / RAP EM UP / ROSA DE TODO / PORQPINK 

We had the honor of linking up with the teens from La Casa Experimental in Bushwick to chat about our work and recent project Sweety’s Radio. During the workshop teens came up with topics, radio show titles, and backgrounds for their own.

Listen to their podcasts:

ROSA DE TODO - PORQPINK?  Featuring: Emilia, DJ Pink Juice, Jeffrey + Sebastian

Trap Talk Radio - RAP EM UP Featuring: Andrea, Fable, Vertigo, + DJ YOUNGPUP

Special thanks to the people behind La Casa Experimental - Stephanie Orentas, Emma Colón, and Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle - for the invitation!

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Sweety’s Radio Presenta: Maroon World

For this episode of Sweety’s Radio we had the honor to sit down and chat with Cynthia and Travis of Maroon World! An exploration of art, fashion, and culture from a distinctly POC perspective, MAROON WORLD, founded by Travis Gumbs, photographer one half of Creative Agency Street Etiquette, and Cynthia Cervantes, formerly Special Projects at Comme des Garcons and Dover Street Market, is an editorially driven, photo bi-annual that focuses on providing a series of ruminations on life from the perspective of POC communities. MAROON WORLD seeks to challenge assumptions, and draw attention to the struggles and celebrations that unify people of color. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music provided by DJ Elosi  Show starts at 7:30 with music following the interview ALL AGES !! Suggested donation $5-10 ~ No one will be turned away for lack of funds +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thank you to our partners ❤ Selena Gallery & "For True" on know-wave for giving us a space and broadcasting our show! Listen to the episode HERE.  Selena Gallery 37 Troutman st. #3, Brooklyn Selena is an artist run space co-foundedu by Anjuli Rathod and Olivia Swider. >>>>>>>>http://www.selenagallery.co/Selena-1 DJ Elosi Elosi is a photo editor and DJ based in Brooklyn. In her mixes you'll hear sounds from all over the world such as rasterinha, baile funk, dancehall, dembow and much more. Through these genres, she often sonically explores themes of empowerment, queerness, and feminism. >>>>>>>>>https://soundcloud.com/elositho