NEW AGORA
\nJune \u2013 September
\nMorning to Sunset
\nAugust 13 | All Day
\nRain Date: August 14<\/p>\n
For our August event, New Agora is excited to collaborate with Dave\u2019s Lesbian Bar to present \u201cQueer Cafeteria,\u201d New York City\u2019s first LGBTQ+ food festival and market. Join us for a day celebrating queer hospitality, body nourishing homemade foods and soul nourishing performances. One year into its\u2019 mission to open a community center and music venue in Astoria, Dave\u2019s Lesbian Bar entertains the Queens and LGBTQ+ community with monthly pop-ups that are centered around amplifying queer creatives while giving back to the community. This event is supported by Queer Food Foundation and will also benefit The People\u2019s Bodega.\u00a0To donate and support the partnering organizations visit https:\/\/queercafeteria.eventbrite.com.<\/p>\n
Spend a full Saturday each month this summer exploring art and the outdoors with New Agora. Discover new creatives and perspectives with family-friendly workshops, conversations, tours, screenings, performance, music, and more!<\/p>\n
Image: Kade Jumper
\nSCHEDULE\u00a0
\nINFO PDF | MAP PDF<\/p>\n
9:30 am & 11:00 am \u2013 Yoga | Free, No Reservations required<\/p>\n
10:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm \u2013 Hellgate Farm Stand<\/p>\n
11:00 am \u2013 8:00 pm \u2013 Astoria Food Pantry Free Store<\/p>\n
The Astoria Food Pantry will be in the park to distribute free clothes, books, and essential items. Accepting donations of non-perishables and clean clothes to bring back to the pantry for distribution to our neighbors also. Information about the Astoria Food Pantry and associated projects (including Astoria Free Store, The Rolling Library, and The People\u2019s Bodega) will also be available on-site. Come say hello!<\/p>\n
12:00 \u00a0\u2013 5:00 pm \u2013 Community Organizations
\nThe Big Reuse, Blissville NYC,\u00a0Deep Routes, Practice Eros Nutrition,\u00a0Newfest, NYC Compost Project, Queer Food Foundation,\u00a0Raw Honey, Veggie Mijas, Western Queens Community Land Trust<\/p>\n
11:00 am \u2013 1:00pm \u2013 \u00a0Field Guide: Healing, Healing Senses, Healing Plants #2\u00a0\u2013 RSVP required<\/p>\n
12:00 \u2013 8:00 pm \u2013 Queer Food Market<\/p>\n
Stock your pantry with homemade goodies made by local queers!<\/p>\n
Market, Treats + Drinks:
\nBite!
\nBOYFRIEND co-op
\nDyke Beer \/ Chateau le Woof
\nGrassunderline
\nHellgate Farms
\nNightcore Kitchen
\nNueva Yolk
\nPWYC Pi\u00f1a Colada Pops
\nStar Mountain Bakery
\nTif’s Cakes
\nTREATS by Trent
\n12:00 \u2013 8:00 pm \u2013 Queer Cafeteria<\/p>\n
Socrates becomes your gay buffet for the day! Sample fine tastings from local queer chefs including fresh-made pasta courtesy of Astoria\u2019s own Puttana, sizzling meat and plant-based barbeque whipped up by chef Alex Koones of Babetown dinner parties, and caffeinated beverages curated by Boyfriend Co-op, Queens\u2019 up-and-coming coffee and cocktails cooperative and more<\/p>\n
Babe Productions
\nCOLESLAW VEGAN
\nFresco’s Cantina
\nJiggsawce Kitchen
\nKinky Taco Truck
\nPlanting Dreams
\nPuttana
\nSlutty Sammys
\nYeah Dawg!<\/p>\n
2:00 – 8:00 pm – Live Music and Performance Art<\/p>\n
See performance schedule below<\/p>\n
ALL DAY \u2013 The final weekend of\u00a0H\u00c9LIO OITICICA SUBTERRANEAN TROPIC\u00c1LIA PROJECTS: PN15 1971\/2022\u00a0
\nPERFORMANCES
\n1:45 pm \u2013 Welcome\/Official Kick-Off of the 1st Annual Queer Cafeteria
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
2:00 \u2013 2:45 pm \u2013 MONTE
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
With Caitlin Montclare,\u00a0Meghan Rose,\u00a0Ismael Baiz
\nFormed in 2018 by guitarist\/singer Caitlin Montclare, MONTE is a rare treat these days: a femme-fronted, no-frills hard rock trio, effortlessly blending elements of NYC hardcore, punk, and metal.
\n3:00 \u2013 3:45 pm \u2013Rest Ashore\u00a0\u00a0
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Erica Butts,\u00a0Alberto Chamorro
\nNorth New Jersey’s finest three piece Math Rock outfit from Hoboken inspired by lesbianism, cannibalism, hedonist indulgence, blood thirst and guitar riffage, rest ashore has evolved a new fusion of pop and progressive sound.<\/p>\n
3:45 \u2013 4:15 pm \u2013\u00a0House of Babylon: Vogue in the Park
\nLocation: H\u00e9lio Oiticica\u00a0Subterranean Tropic\u00e1lia Projects PN15: 1971\/2022<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Kelly Babylon,\u00a0Sissy Babylon,\u00a0Sophia Babylon,\u00a0Ginger Babylon,\u00a0Disco Babylon,\u00a0Proud Babylon
\nLegendary performers from queer nightlife stages turn the park into their catwalk for the afternoon. A dance style with origins in the 1960\u2019s Harlem Ballroom scene, the troupe will bring the recently popularized, 1980\u2019s style of house dancing, Vogue, to life with their spins, dips, and duckwalks through and around H\u00e9lio Oiticica\u2019s sculpture housed in the center of the park. 4:15 \u2013 5:00 pm \u2013 Lily Mao and The Resonaters
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Lily Mao,\u00a0Nate Jasensky,\u00a0Gabby Borges
\nBusking in the streets of New York by day and playing out in the city\u2019s vast DIY scene by night, garage rocker Lily Mao has hammered out a niche in Brooklyn\u2019s indie-rock community with her gritty recordings and vibrant stage personality. 5:15 \u2013 6:00 pm \u2013 m i c c a
\nLocation: Beginning at Maren Hassinger\u00a0Steel Bodies and convening at H\u00e9lio Oiticica\u00a0Subterranean Tropic\u00e1lia Projects PN15: 1971\/2022<\/p>\n
With m i c c a,\u00a0Hannah Lillevoy,\u00a0Tyisha Nedd,\u00a0Abigial Linnemeyer ,\u00a0Theo Armstrong
\nm i c c a is a non-binary Rockaway resident, performer, choreographer, and creator. Their performances highlight acts of endurance at site-specific installations, and encourage intimate gatherings around these visceral shared experiences. For today, m i c c a will work with four other artists to create a park-wide meditation on citrus, menstruation, and queer bodies, beginning with solos around Maren Hassinger\u2019s Steel Bodies and convening with group movement at the Oiticica structure. Please note: this performance includes chest nudity. 6:15 \u2013 7:00 pm \u2013 THEMME
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Kristin “Dave” Dausch,\u00a0Syry Mitchell,\u00a0Morgan Karabel,\u00a0Skyler Volpe,\u00a0Courtney Hargrove
\nEstablished in Astoria, Queens in 2021, THEMME serves up dreamy, shoe-gaze rock with steamy, storytelling lyrics that epitomize queer experiences of their generation. You\u2019re immediately drawn near by the compelling chemistry of these five friends, dance your way even closer to indulge in their energetic, full band harmonies and stay on your feet to hear the all too relatable story of passion and pain is powerfully told through their next number. 7:15 \u2013 8:00 pm \u2013 Daisy Grenade
\nLocation: North Gate Stage<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Dani Nigro,\u00a0Keaton Whittaker,\u00a0Pete Lazorcik,\u00a0Adrian Koch,\u00a0Erez Levin
\nTwo gorgeously damaged girlies make up the duo \u201cDaisy Grenade\u201d – a power-punk bubble grunge band that serves a punch with a glitter lip-glossed kiss on the side. It\u2019s the manic pixie dream tumblr girl aesthetic that started out for men but was reclaimed by the girls. It\u2019s an unapologetic Courtney Love on the Barbara Walters Show. And it\u2019s a great way to close out this perfect Saturday. You know?<\/p>\n
Celebrate with Dave\u2019s, musicians, singers and performers as they bring their own forms of queer art to life in the Park!<\/p>\n
ABOUT Dave\u2019s Lesbian Bar
\nOne year into their mission and very close to their goal of opening a brick and mortar space in Astoria, Queens, Dave\u2019s Lesbian Bar continues to host monthly events that center queer creatives and community care. As spaces made for and by women, trans and non-binary people of the LGBTQ+ family are dwindling across the city, these events build comradary and excitement around what will ultimately be a mutual aid center by day, a live music venue by night and Queens\u2019 only lesbian bar. Each event boasts a \u201ccute and nice\u201d crowd of all ages and backgrounds that come together in celebration of queer art, music, causes and life while fortifying friendships between long time neighbors and newcomers alike. Between the community support and the crowdfunding success of the last year, organizers are surveying potential spaces in the Astoria area as they continue raise funds and awareness for the mission. Check out more on their website and contribute on their GoFundMe.<\/p>\n
Learn more: www.daveslesbianbar.com , https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/daves-lesbian-bar<\/p>\n
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