Saturday, April 20, 2024
8:00 - 9:30 p.m. • Theatre Rehearsal Studio, Performing Arts & Humanities Building 

With support from the Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies.

TRAXXX: Black Queer Nightlife in High Fidelity, featuring madison moore, Kristy la rAt and lighting by Artemis, is an invitation for you to come and catch the beat. Black queer dance floors have always served something else — a vibrant and vibrating antidote to the here and now. The most important clubs in Black queer nightlife history, from The Warehouse (Chicago) to Paradise Garage (New York) were known for serving ovah beats, guiding clubbers eager to ride waveforms to other dimensions. What do these frequencies of Black queerness make possible? The performance will include a conversation with artist and DJ Kristy la rAt and lighting by Artemis. 

madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. madison (any pronouns)  holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale and has previously held positions in the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, Virginia Commonwealth University, The New School, the University of Richmond and King’s College London, and has also been a visiting guest artist in the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He is broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the five alarm fire of everyday life. His first book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance. They are currently working on a second book project, HOW TO GET YOUR (NIGHT) LIFE (under contract, Yale University Press), focused on Black queer nightlife as a method of living.

This event is open to all UMBC community members including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Light refreshments will be provided at 7:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building Atrium for attendees who RSVP on myUMBC.

Need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Email us at i3b@umbc.edu

UMBC's Student Events Board collected interested students, groups and performers all last week to bring the most talented students to the Quadmania Festival Day Stage! 

This poll will be open from 11:00 AM on Friday, March 31 to 5:00 PM Monday April 3.

The top polled performers will be offered the opportunity to perform during Quadmania Festival Day on April 22 so please vote for the people that you want to see!

Please view the performer's work at the links provided below and then visit the bottom of this page to vote for your favorite artist in the poll.  

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Remmyshove

SoundCloud.com/remmyshove

The artist wants you to know: "My newer music cranks."

Korean Dance Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADQ4Yj109Y

Retriever Bhangra

Island Gyalz and Yaad Boyz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuxGZjEBBrE

This group wants you to know: "This is not the same exact dance we will be performing for our Quadmania performance.  We chose this video to give you all an idea of the type of dance we do."

P.O.E.T.

https://youtu.be/4mowO3G7dx8

P.O.E.T. - Tiimmy Turner Remix

Persian Student Association Dance Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIxV4VlS__E

PSA Kordi Dance

DJ Sole

This artist wants you to know: "This is a video from me at Big Crazy Fun Night.  Enjoy some mixing.  The festival will be even more lit than this."

Gurleen Kaur Ahuja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYleA24ahI

This artist wants you to know: "I recorded and composed this song "Challenge the Darkness" in 2015 and I sold it on iTunes, Google Play, apple music and other outlets in order to raise money for the organization Students Helping Honduras. This organization works to provide a sustainable education system within Honduras to eliminate poverty and violence."

Flower Avenue

https://vimeo.com/210168656

UMBeatsClub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwqnv4jRhnI

Pearson Newsome

Pramuk (Prom-uk)

https://youtu.be/ZVg-2gux8wk

Ride by 21 Pilots (Cover by Pramuk Mohanlal-Vargas)

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