Ready to party at HERE? Get in your fishiest finery, dive deep, and dance the night away at BIOLUMINESCENCE. Bounce to Brazilian beats by @fernandogregorio___ , enjoy an open bar and tons of dessert, and try to win funky and fabulous raffle prizes! Make sure to dress to impress - the one and only @machinedazzle is judging our costume contest. Only $50 at the link in our bio.
June 1st, 8:30-close!
Our DIVE Gala Avant Guardian Award Honoree is Former HERE Artist and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient Heather Christian!
Awarded the MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of music, theater, and storytelling, Heather Christian embodies the spirit of artistic exploration. Her compositions invite audiences to navigate emotional currents and discover hidden resonances that open new worlds of possibility and wonder.
Tickets for the gala are SOLD OUT, but you can still celebrate Heather with us at the BIOLUMINESCENCE Gala After Party, or by donating at the link in our bio. Help HERE dive ever deeper into the fantastical, futuristic, fun, and fearless.
Our DIVE Gala HEREmanitarian Award Honoree is HERE Board Chair Jennifer Suh Whitfield.
Jennifer’s visionary leadership has guided HERE Arts Center through shifting waters, as she champions deep relationships and fosters partnerships that reach far beyond NYC. Her dedication to nurturing HERE's community mirrors the gala’s theme: she constantly encourages everyone around her to dive deeper, surfacing unspoken ideas and dreams that enrich our cultural ecosystem.
Tickets for the gala are SOLD OUT, but you can still celebrate Jennifer with us at the BIOLUMINESCENCE Gala After Party, or by donating at the link in our bio. Help HERE dive ever deeper into the fantastical, futuristic, fun, and fearless.
📣 The Cast of faggy faafi Cairo boy
Set between Cairo and Purgatory, faggy faafi Cairo boy explores the space between living and whatever the hell comes next, between daddy issues and Daddy issues, between the city that never sleeps and the city that never even blinks. Mohammad (Shakkour), the prodigal, closeted son, returns to Cairo, and to his father (Obeid), whose body is rapidly failing. Distanced from his NYC boyfriend (Powell), Mohammad reunites with an old Cairo flame (Nazari-Robati), who now has a life of his own. And who’s to judge him, besides that angry little angel (W.B.) in the corner of the hospital room?
Cast:
Hassan Nazari-Robati - @hnrhasaninsta
Anton Obeid - @obeidanton
Jakeem Powell - @jakeemdpowell
Jae W.B. - @thejaewb
George Shakkour - @george.on.insta
Casting By Peter Dunn - @yourboypetey
Written By Bazeed
Directed By Shadi Ghaheri
🗓️: June 17 - 20
📍HERE Arts Center
🎟️: Avail NOW at the Link in Bio!
National Queer Theater is the official theater partner of NYC Pride. The festival is supported by generous funders, including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Distracted Globe Foundation. The festival is a co-production with HERE Arts Center
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We are so grateful to @sydneyea for encouraging us to make ASL interpretation available pre-show this Friday 5/15 at @herearts . In addition to our standard supertitles, we hope this makes the performance that night more accessible to the Deaf community.
📣 The Cast of Syrian Soap!
E. Zaalan writes and stars in SYRIAN SOAP with Tallie Medel Directing for Criminal Queerness Festival, Original direction & Dramaturgy by Natasha Mercado. More Below:
A sixty-minute absurd ancestral intervention inspired by Syrian soap operas and set in an intergalactic bathhouse, SYRIAN SOAP invites you to eat, pray, and bathe with E. Zaalan’s bumptious, mustachioed ancestor and find out if you are your ancestor’s wildest dreams—or worst nightmare. The Ancestor has notes! Receive channeled advice, poetry, and a surprise visit from a traditional Syrian bathroom slipper (which may or may not be a metaphor for life under fascism). Beneath the silliness and suds, Syrian Soap is a love letter to revolution and exile, an invitation to unlock joy and self-expression in a world on fire. And a reminder: your healing goes back seven generations—but so do your f*ck-ups!
Starring:
E. Zaalan - @edib_onlyfans
📅: June 24 - June 27th
📌: HERE Arts Center
🎟️ avail in bio!
National Queer Theater is the official theater partner of NYC Pride. The festival is supported by generous funders, including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Distracted Globe Foundation. The festival is a co-production with HERE Arts Center
Art Illustration By @dumptruck.jpg
Not sure what to wear to our June 1st BIOLUMINESCENCE Gala After Party? Your options are as wild and wonderful as the seabed itself! Whether you want to let your freak flag fly, turn out your fanciest formalwear, or keep it simple in an LBD, if you’re fishing for compliments, we know where you can catch ‘em. Tickets on sale at the link in our bio - the party’s on 6/1 from 8:30 til the building shuts down!
