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We’re so excited for our Together on the Precipice festival lineup! Weekend One is full of amazing collaborators and community music making: Friday 6/5 | 7:30pm | @mitu580 Siren Songs Sculptor @jeremymartinstudio and Aqueeressence Duo @danielschreinermusic & @yoshisounds join @chamberqueer in Siren Songs - a concert celebrating the primordial queerness of the ocean and its creatures. Featuring Martin’s installed and wearable sculptures, two world premieres, choreography by @kobe.courtney , and more, this concert affirms that broad spectrums of sexuality and gender are natural and have existed for millions of years – a fact worth highlighting and preserving in the face of today’s dire threats to both queer people and the environment. Saturday 6/6 | 2-5pm | Garfield Tot Lot, Prospect Park Sightreading Party Join us for this CQ classic - co-hosted this year by @gummunq MJ Kwan! Bring your instrument and scores/parts for your favorite pieces, and we’ll shred some chamber music all together. Saturday 6/6 | 7:30pm | @mitu580 Collaborative Songwriting Circle Songwriters of all experience levels are invited to this songwriting-focused twist on our Show-and-Tell series, led by @gaiamusiccollective . Gather to play songwriting games, share caring feedback, and explore collaborative songwriting with @sofia.campoamor . Bring an instrument, an original song, or just yourself! Sunday 6/7 | 4:00pm | @mitu580 AFTERMATH As the effects of the climate crisis reveal themselves more each year, how do we process such overwhelming loss? First, we accept what is, and we grieve. Then, we gather our resources to find ways to thrive together in the face of adversity. Featuring two world premieres by @che.ali.music and @daniellejagelskimusic , AFTERMATH is your chance to get angry about the systems that are harming our planet - and then imagine ways to heal together. . Tickets have sliding scale options and are available on our website at the ⛓️‍💥 in bio!

🏔️ ChamberQUEER presents our 8th annual Pride Festival: Together on the Precipice 🏔️ . There are seven events over two weekends, featuring world-class artists, community music-making, world premieres, and family-friendly experiences. This year we’re diving into an issue that affects us all: the climate crisis. . The fights for climate justice and queer liberation are inextricable. Systemic problems of resource use, biodiversity, and migration are intertwined with the queer community’s fights for equity, sexual & gender expression, and safety from persecution. Queer people are uniquely positioned to lead the fight for climate justice: LGBTQ+ organizers have been transforming fear and grief into collective, targeted action for a century. . How should we confront the urgent struggle for a liberated future on this planet at this precarious moment? We say: Together . . 🎨 poster design by the incredible @levihastingsart

Weekend Two of Together on the Precipice features three venues across two boroughs and inspiring, site specific performances that celebrate NYC’s history and natural beauty. Thursday 6/11 | 6-9pm | @themorganlibrary Morgan After Hours Celebrate Pride with a vibrant evening honoring queer voices in art and literature. Enjoy live music provided by @bmumstagram and @maxhammondpiano of @chamberqueer , artmaking, dancing, drinks, and art set against the Morgan’s iconic Gilded Age glamour. Discover books and manuscripts by LGBTQ+ creators in the Historic Library, dive into the avant-garde world of photographer Peter Hujar in the exhibition Hujar:Contact, and explore the art collection of poet John Ashbery in Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection. Dance, draw, and meet new friends in an evening of joy and celebration. Morgan After Hours is open to ages 21 and up. Suggested dress: Fabulous fashion. Saturday 6/13 | 4-7 | @historicgreenwood Vibrant Ground Spend an afternoon among the trees, crypts and wildlife of Green-Wood Cemetery with @chamberqueer . After perusing a pop-up market of queer vendors offering sustainable wares, set out on your journey through this leafy sanctuary in the midst of NYC. Led by a musical tour guide, you’ll visit sound installations by : @thessiamachado @seahorsehair and @elizabethkatehk @alexislamb26 You can join in the music or just listen deeply. Come be delighted, provoked, and refreshed by the blending and blurring of music and the natural soundworld. Sunday 6/14 | 6:30pm | @seaportmuseum The End of the World and You Ahoy, friends! Join our merry band of queers on board the tall ship Wavertree for The End of the World and You: the definitive how-to guide for surviving... no, thriving in our new life at sea. In this hands-on, community-centered workshop designed for novice seafarers, we’ll use folk music led by Big Stubborn Boy & @alkemiemusic , gay merriment, and more to build the skills we’ll need to escape our sinking city. Let’s (figuratively) set sail into 2086 with preparedness and pride! . Tickets have sliding scale options and are available on our website at the ⛓️‍💥 in bio!

We’re not an emotional support group. We want SOLUTIONS for TRANS ARTISTS to GET EQUITY ‼️ Join us on Sunday, May 24 on Zoom for the second meeting of a new monthly community gathering for trans performing artists. Led by Katherine Goforth @g0furtherr , Dorian Block, Teiya Kasahara @teiyakasahara , and in collaboration with @ChamberQUEER and @AmplifiedOpera , these meetings will be a space for trans artists to share mutual support, exchange knowledge, and work together on the challenges particular to the trans performing artist community. Our initial goal is to find solutions to transphobia and trans exclusion, with a focus on issues relevant to careers in the performing arts. Topics will include self-producing, navigating casting practices and career trajectory. Meetings will have both structured and unstructured time. Participants will have the opportunity to share their personal experiences and needs with the group. Future sessions will include guest speakers, listening sessions, and formats shaped by what participants need. Privacy/Information Use: We will send an email with a brief summary of each gathering and include any relevant information or links to keep you connected and informed. The content of the meeting will not be fed to AI. Your privacy will always be respected: this will be the only use of your email address. All trans performing artists are welcome. If you’re not sure you’re a performing artist, register and come anyway. Feel free to email [email protected] with questions. STAGE: Solutions for Trans Artists to Get Equity! Sunday, May 24, 2026 (approx. 2 hours) 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 8 pm CET 🔗 Link to register in bio ☝️ #TransArtists #TransVisibility #TransCommunity #QueerArts #MutualAid

Come hang out with me at @hivemindbookstore tonight at 7 w/ @thedennemichele and @yeehawyaz AND/OR @sageusa Edie Windsor in midtown at 3:30! W @singforyourseniors @missy.music.therapist @makaylammcdonald @biberoni I miss my friends!! And we are gonna have fun!

Get the @yeehawyaz experience TOMORROW 4/30 at 7 PM @hivemindbookstore ✨Queer tiny desk vibes ✨ 📚Queer lit rockstar @thedennemichele launches her paperback WHEN THE HARVEST COMES 👯 @goodhelpdanielle hosts a cozy chat. Food, drinks, book signing, queer art and great company. Come see us at the best lil bookstore in BK! 🔗 In bio

Looking back fondly at co-founder Danielle's last visit to SAGE Edie Windsor with Sing for your Seniors! Join us THIS THURSDAY at 3:30 with CQ artists Jules Biber, MaKayla McDonald, and Missy Fogarty along with Danielle. Everyone is welcome, bring your friends! We'll have a gay time! 🎶🌈 📸: @anggielainezph

✨ Event Announcement ✨ Thursday April 30 7pm Hive Mind Books 219 Irving Avenue, Bushwick Join ChamberQUEER and Hive Mind Books for Resonance: A Conversation and Live Performance with novelist Denne Michele Norris and experimental artist Yaz Lancaster. We’ll be celebrating the paperback release of Denne’s acclaimed debut novel, When The Harvest Comes, in which a young Black gay classical musician, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex. ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ Norris will appear in conversation with Yaz Lancaster, experimental artist, composer, and violinist, about the power of music to help us better understand ourselves. Lancaster will perform original music at the event Following the conversation, Norris will sign copies of her book. This event is free and open to the public, with a $15 suggested donation to support the performing artist. Ticket link in bio. We’re so happy to once again work with our friends at ChamberQUEER, an organization that highlights LGBTQ+ voices in contemporary & historical music and reimagines the classical concert experience as a radically inclusive gathering space & musical community for the 21st century. ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ 🎻 ✨ Hive Mind Books Queer Bookstore & Coffee Shop 219 Irving Avenue Bushwick (L) Dekalb (M/L) Myrtle-Wyckoff (M) Knickerbocker

Looking forward to playing at @expressnewark tonight with these amazing folks 🎶✨ @chamberqueer @goodhelpdanielle @biberoni @theoespy and I are excited to present Clara Schumann’s iconic (and oft-neglected) piano trio; chamber works/songs by Eve Beglarian, Jessie Montgomery, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Annika Socolofsky; and some early to mid 20th-century gems by Amy Beach, Adele Maddison, and Margaret Bonds. #Repost @expressnewark … Step into a reimagined salon for the 21st century with an immersive event that blurs the boundaries between performer and audience. Monday April 20th 2026 at 6:00 PM Join ChamberQUEER for a one-night-only transformation of Express Newark’s Drawing Room into a vibrant, inclusive salon space for the 21st century. Inspired by historic “withdrawing rooms” as sites of intimacy, reflection, and intellectual exchange, this immersive event reimagines the classical concert as a radically welcoming gathering. Blurring the boundaries between performer and audience, the evening invites you to move freely, listen deeply, and engage with music in a setting where the art studio meets the comfort and energy of a shared living room. Rooted in the idea of social sculpture, art shaped through collective participation, this is a concert experience where your presence is part of the work. The program centers the voices of women and non-binary composers across time, tracing a lineage from the 19th-century salon to today’s evolving “salon culture.” At the heart of the evening is Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, a powerful and expressive work that highlights her enduring brilliance. Surrounding this centerpiece are intimate chamber works by composers including Jessie Montgomery, Eve Beglarian, and Margaret Bonds. Together, these works create a rich, intergenerational dialogue that reclaims and amplifies voices historically excluded from the classical canon. This performance is part of the Cultural Programming Grant and hosted by Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark. Free event registration: http://bit.ly/4thgzZD

🌸 Our most packed spring schedule ever! 🌸 👯‍♀️ April 9 online with @boulangerinitiative monthly WIkithon! Dashboard open through April 16. Transform the historical record on key queer women composers through history! 🎻 April 20 @expressnewark - join us in a 19th-century drawing room to explore the connections between the radical queer organizing spaces we know and love, and the salon culture governed by women in the 19th century. Free! ☀️ April 25 @artservefla - CQ takes the salon on the road! Presented by @genvasorg during Pride in Progress 2026, in partnership with @stonewallarchive . Free! ✊ April 26 online - STAGE first meeting! Solutions for Trans Artists to Get Equity is for trans performing artists to organize, share knowledge, and build better, more prosperous futures . Register in advance! 🌈 April 30 @sageusa - CQ and @singforyourseniors present an hour of tunes and good company at Edie Windsor in midtown Manhattan. Open and free to the public! 📚 April 30 @hivemindbookstore - CQ celebrates the paperback release of WHEN THE HARVEST COMES by @thedennemichele with an evening of music by @yeehawyaz and a conversation moderated by @goodhelpdanielle . Free, books and snacks for sale, and Denne will sign books! ✨SAVE THE DATES✨ for our Pride festival - June 5-7 and 13-14! 🔗 in bio to RSVP, we can’t wait to see you!

We’re not an emotional support group. We want SOLUTIONS for TRANS ARTISTS to GET EQUITY ‼️ Join us on Sunday, April 26 on Zoom for the first meeting of a new monthly community gathering for trans performing artists. Led by Katherine Goforth @g0furtherr , Dorian Block, Teiya Kasahara @teiyakasahara , and in collaboration with @ChamberQUEER and @AmplifiedOpera , these meetings will be a space for trans artists to share mutual support, exchange knowledge, and work together on the challenges particular to the trans performing artist community. Our initial goal is to find solutions to transphobia and trans exclusion, with a focus on issues relevant to careers in the performing arts. Topics will include self-producing, navigating casting practices and career trajectory. Meetings will have both structured and unstructured time. Participants will have the opportunity to share their personal experiences and needs with the group. Future sessions will include guest speakers, listening sessions, and formats shaped by what participants need. Privacy/Information Use: We will send an email with a brief summary of each gathering and include any relevant information or links to keep you connected and informed. The content of the meeting will not be fed to AI. Your privacy will always be respected: this will be the only use of your email address. All trans performing artists are welcome. If you’re not sure you’re a performing artist, register and come anyway. Feel free to email [email protected] with questions. STAGE: Solutions for Trans Artists to Get Equity! Sunday, April 26, 2026 (approx. 2 hours) 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 8 pm CET 🔗 Link to register in bio ☝️ #TransArtists #TransVisibility #TransCommunity #QueerArts #MutualAid

Step into a reimagined salon for the 21st century with an immersive event that blurs the boundaries between performer and audience. Monday, April 20th, 2026 at 6:00 PM, Join ChamberQUEER for a one-night-only transformation of Express Newark’s Drawing Room into a vibrant, inclusive salon space for the 21st century. Inspired by historic “withdrawing rooms” as sites of intimacy, reflection, and intellectual exchange, this immersive event reimagines the classical concert as a radically welcoming gathering. Blurring the boundaries between performer and audience, the evening invites you to move freely, listen deeply, and engage with music in a setting where the art studio meets the comfort and energy of a shared living room. Rooted in the idea of social sculpture, art shaped through collective participation, this is a concert experience where your presence is part of the work. The program centers the voices of women and non-binary composers across time, tracing a lineage from the 19th-century salon to today’s evolving “salon culture.” At the heart of the evening is Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, a powerful and expressive work that highlights her enduring brilliance. Surrounding this centerpiece are intimate chamber works by composers including Jessie Montgomery, Eve Beglarian, Stephanie Leotsakos, Jennifer Higdon, and Margaret Bonds. Together, these works create a rich, intergenerational dialogue that reclaims and amplifies voices historically excluded from the classical canon. In the spirit of salon culture as a space of political and creative empowerment, ChamberQUEER “queers” traditional concert norms by dismantling rigid etiquette, rethinking dress codes, and inviting audiences to engage on their own terms. Whether you sit, stand, wander, or reflect, you are part of a shared experience that is intimate, dynamic, and deeply human. This is more than a concert, it’s a reimagining of what music can be: participatory, expansive, and rooted in community. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP at the link in bio.