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Join us for the annual STUDIO ARTS Fall Festival on Thursday, December 8th from 7pm-8:30pm in the Frick Fine Arts Building Cloisters and Auditorium. This pop-up exhibition and screening will Featuring Pitt Studio Arts and the Creators Collective student animations, videos, sculptures, paintings, photography, printmaking, drawings, and installations.

http://www.failsafe.live/

This fourth edition of Fail-Safe will create a dialogue about performance between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh comprises two evenings of new and in-progress performance works by interdisciplinary musicians, performance artists, and dancers from these two cities. On both evenings, visiting artists will be preceded by a lineup of Pittsburgh-based artists whose practices share affinities.

On November 11th, Los Angeles-based artists Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye present a new experimental performance work from their series Rites of Matrilineal Dissent. The digitally mediated performance takes audiences through a journey of failure and discovery, of new selves and new bodies, and new forms of love and kinship. Pittsburgh artists include Caroline Yoo, Goofy Toof, London Williams, and MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery.

On November 12th, visiting artist duo Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak) will present their cathartic music performance combining DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Pittsburgh artists include Swampwalk, Samira Mendoza + The Universe Online, and Davine Byon. The performances will be followed by a dance party hosted by Formosa (Jellyfish).

Please be advised: these performances will explore the topic of sexuality and some may include nudity.

This event is co-organized between Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, with financial support from the The National Endowment for the Arts, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts.

https://kelly-strayhorn.org/suitelife/

Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) is honoring our namesakes, 20th century entertainment legends, Billy Strayhorn and Gene Kelly at our 15th annual benefit concert Suite Life, Saturday, November 26, 2022!

Building on John Shannon’s 2021 reinvention of Suite Life, Kelly Strayhorn Theater invites you to experience the music of composer Billy Strayhorn and the imagery of performer Gene Kelly. Under the stage direction of Monteze Freeland (Co-Artistic Director of City Theatre) and musical direction of Akron-based Theron Brown, vocalists Anita Levels (a Pittsburgh favorite) with Kelsey Robinson and Treasure Treasure (Dance & vocals), James Johnson III (Drums), Jordan McBride (Bass), Reggie Watkins (Trombone), and John Shannon (Guitar) himself will have the audience swooning through an unmissable evening. With media design by artist Scott Andrew and lighting design by Jonathan Bucci Productions, Suite Life 2022 promises to carry the East End tradition with sizzling atmosphere.

TQ Live! presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more. This eighth installment of the annual performance series features artists and performers from the many LGBTQIA+ communities in the Pittsburgh region. Hosted by Joseph Hall, this year’s lineup includes performances by Yves (NYC), MICHIYAYA Dance, Corrine Jasmin, Soft Boy, Juiced up Joey, Flamming Creatures, Victoria L Van-Cartier, Manny Dibiachi, and Mara Bailey of “THE EXCLUSIVE HOUSE of MAKAVELI SHAKUR” (from HBO’s Legendary) with guest performer Jahmara ‘Tinky’ Younger, along with visuals by VJ ASS TROLL, and a dance party featuring HUNY. TQ Live! 2022 is produced by Scott Andrew, Joseph Hall, Suzie Silver, and sarah huny young, and is co-presented by Carnegie Museum of Art.

Food truck and bar on-site!

TICKETS: https://cmoa.org/event/tq-live-2022/

CO-PRESENTED PROGRAM
Co-presented programs at Carnegie Museum of Art support artists and organizations with physical space and program resources. These mutually supportive relationships create shared audiences, expand programmatic offerings and contribute to the rich cultural ecology of the region.

SUPPORT
TQ Live! 2022 is supported by the Opportunity Fund, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series, and The Center for Arts in Society. TQ Live’s Projections are sponsored and supported by the Video and Media Design Graduate program at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama.

Featuring @the_yvesdropper @corrinewho @mx.softboy @mannydibiachi @official_marabailey @ickyvickypgh huny young] @_juicedupjoey @michiyayadance with Flamming Creatures and VJ Ass Troll.

Organized by @suzie.silver huny young] @josephdanielhall and @fagnelly

And made possible by the Opportunity Fund, Carnegie Museum of Art] @studioforcreativeinquiry @cmu.vmd

https://kelly-strayhorn.org/houseparty/

House Party shakes the foundation of KST’s legacy fundraiser, Full Bloom, by injecting the sheen of a high art soirée à la The Met Gala meets the theatrics of Studio 54. The Instagram worthy VIP reception is hosted by performance artists and takes place in an immersive art installation filling the theater with a seductive glow, with a lobby video installation by featured video artist Scott Andrew. The dance party promises to revive the spirit of KST’s signature summer celebration while supporting a season of diverse arts offerings in East Liberty. Be sure to bring your looks!

I shot and edited an interactive video for Gesture of Devotion from the album Twenty Twenty by Congregation of Drones, in addition to creating some of their promotional videos and photos for the album.  It’s live now on Every Possible Recording Twitch channel.

The video was co-directed by Scott Andrew and Jesse Stiles with choreography by Jesse Factor, featuring dancers Aloria Adams and Theodore Bliss. In the Twitch chat window you can enter a variety of commands that control the flow of time resulting in endlessly mutating harmonic, metric, and choreographic structures.

Congregation of Drones  – Twenty Twenty is available now!

We are excited to announce that TQ Live! will be back at the CMoA on September 10th, 2022 thanks to the generous support of the Opportunity Fund! Check out this amazing list of organizations that they are supporting in our region!

Thursday, June 16
10:30pm

Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0-20

RSVP NOW!

Following KST’s encore presentation of Lyam B. Gabel’s the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table for the occasion of the national Theater Communications Group conference, Pittsburgh’s annual queer performance celebration TQ Live! takes over the KST lobby to close out the evening with a satellite event! Organized by Scott Andrew there will be sizzling performances from SUPA’ NxC, Remy Black, and Jesse Factor while the burgh’s favorite DJ HUNY spins the beats. Also check out huny’s photo exhibition PEACHES on view in the KST Lobby throughout the evening.

https://kelly-strayhorn.org/events/tqlive-with-remi-black-supa-nxc-and-huny/

I’m excited to share the new interactive music video for Gesture of Devotion, the first single from @jts3k forthcoming album with violinist/composer @paulinekimharris as @congregationofdrones The video was co-directed by @fagnelly and @jts3k, and is live now on Twitch.tv. We worked with choreographer @jessefactor and two stunning dancers, Aloria Adams and Theodore Bliss, to create this endlessly evolving audiovisual experience.Check it out: twitch.tv/everypossiblerecording

I’m excited to be assisting Angela Washko at RuPaul’s DragCon 2022 in LA as we promote Workhorse Queen.  Streaming now in the United States via rental on Amazon Prime, AppleTV, Vudu, Roku and others, and coming to Starz on June 1st.