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  EVENTS

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RE–FEST 2022

Short Performances 3.18

Virtual Venue & Livestream
Friday, March 18, 2022
8pm ET / 5pm PT
Free / Donations Welcome

TICKETS

Join us for an evening of short performances curated by Yo-Yo Lin and NAVEL followed by a set by DJ heyLove*. The evening will take place in the Re–Fest virtual venue, a custom built 3D environment that features a virtual gallery of video art installed by DigiAna Group, a collaborative drawing room, and a performance space. The performances will also be livestreamed on the CultureHub watch page.

Performances include: Jose Richard Aviles (Callejera), Anna Gichan (Snippets of Everything is a Speaker), Joselia Rebekah Hughes (Masque On: Claudia’s Chance), and Yo-Yo Lin (pain portal).

Accessibility:

Virtual Venue | Access coordinators will be present in the Virtual Venue and live captions will be available via chat.

Zoom Access Room | Audio descriptions will be available in the Zoom support room as well as live automatic transcription for spoken portions. RSVP for the full Zoom info.

Livestream | To watch the performances as a 2D stream, visit the CultureHub watch page. Automatic captions will be available there to toggle on or off.

Please contact access@culturehub.org for any access questions or further needs.

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8:00pm–9:00pm ET
Performances by Jose Richard Aviles (NAVEL), Anna Gichan, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, and Yo-Yo Lin

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9:00pm–9:45pm ET
Music by DJ heyLove*

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A note on performances by Anna Gichan and Joselia Rebekah Hughes curated by interdisciplinary artist Yo-Yo Lin:

“This selection of performances navigates the glitchiness that exists within the process of “being together again”– the lags, the stumbles, the imperfect motions of way-finding into the unknown, towards one another. In the midst of mass uncertainty, one thing is certain: togetherness no longer exists as it once was, but has transformed into something entirely different. What do we need to navigate this new togetherness? How do we get there? I look to brilliant friends in my disability community to show me the way. Perhaps this time calls for lots and lots of mirrors, a highly questionable fortune-teller, a bodily manifestation of social anxiety, or some siiiiick, sick animations. Perhaps it calls for humor, access magic, and a hint of healing. These performances find a spaciousness in tender dissonance, refusing what it means to function or perform, and re-imagines togetherness as ever-shifting and on-going– a process of shared becoming.”

— Yo-Yo Lin

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NAVEL is a Test Site for Kinship. We share space, tools, and resources with artists and cultural workers to nourish kinful and regenerative creative ecologies. Through incubation, partnerships, and events, we co-create experimental spaces in Los Angeles and beyond which imagine and build a more just and collaborative world.

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Jose Richard Aviles is a multimedia artist, Urban Planner, and Social Worker based out of Los Angeles. As a former organizer, and a current artist, Aviles is interested in the intersections between space and justice, laughter and resistance, and the magic of the stage. Currently, Aviles is promoting their first published collection of poems, Semilla and developing a new poetry EP, "La Carta Que Nunca Envie" , an homage to Juan Gabriel and the countless lovers that are hidden in the lyrics. "Lo que se ve no se pregunta" -Juan Gabriel

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Anna Gichan (she/her) is an east coast dancer and choreographer who uses movement as a means for cultivating relationships with the self, others, and the world around her. She is interested in sensory gains and deprivations which reflects her experiences as a deaf/hoh woman.

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Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a disabled writer, artist, editor, and Caribbean-American living in the Bronx. She is a 2021 Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellow. Joselia’s work can be spotted in Apogee Journal, Blackflash Magazine, Ocean State Review, Ars Nova, The Poetry Project: Poems and Texts, ICA at VCU, MoMA, and elsewhere. Her book, Blackable: A Nopem, is forthcoming on Inpatient Press.

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Image Description: A close up of a 3D blueprint rendering the performance stage in Re-Fest’s virtual performance space. Yellow and white grid lines extend and intersect at many angles across the graphic.