Sabrina Chap brings you this works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting-edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness.
The March edition of DEADLINE will feature:
Sara Lyons – theatre performance
Damien Luxe – performance art
Robert Hyers – essay
Hans Rasch- ...
Sabrina Chap brings you this works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting-edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness.
The March edition of DEADLINE will feature:
Sara Lyons – theatre performance
Damien Luxe – performance art
Robert Hyers – essay
Hans Rasch- dance
Jes Fang - visual art
Sara Lyons is a Brooklyn-based director, feminist performance maker, and teaching artist. Her work has been presented in NYC at Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE Arts, Culture Project, Cherry Lane, Dixon Place, Ars Nova, and more, and is a teaching artist for Opening Act NY, Abrons Arts Center, and other organizations. She is an alum of the EMERGENYC program at NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and DirectorsLabChicago. BA, UW-Madison, and this fall she will begin her MFA as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. More at @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vd3d3LnNhcmEtbHlvbnMuY29tLzo6:www.sara-lyons.com]!
Hans Rasch is a graphic artist, printmaker, designer, and dancer from Miami, FL. He has exhibited and performed during Art Basel Miami Beach, at Fountain Art Fair, ArteAmericas, The Miami Science Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Tallahassee, and numerous galleries in Miami, FL and Tallahasse, FL. He holds and MFA from Florida State University with a focus in Printmaking and Dance. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where he is the director a visual and performing arts after school enrichment program, and runs his own boutique style design firm: American Witch Studio. You can see more of his work at @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vd3d3LkhvbmV5LWJlYS5jb20vOjo=:www.Honey-bea.com], @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBzXGEvL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vQW1lcmljYW5XaXRjaFN0dWRpbzo6:www.facebook.com/AmericanWitchStudio], and can follow him on instagram @Le_Sylph
Robert Hyers is a regular visiting fiction writer at River Pretty Writers Retreat. His short fiction is forthcoming in Jonathon and has appeared in The Summerset Review and 3:AM Magazine. Two of his short stories were finalists in Saints and Sinners Festival's Short Fiction Contests and published in the festivals' corresponding anthologies.
Damien Luxe is a queer femme liberationist artist, digital -technologist, and community organizer living in Brooklyn. She is an Organizer and Performing Arts Curator for a project she co-founded, Heels on Wheels, which curates both the working-class-led, multi-racial queer-femme performance art traveling show, ‘Glitter Roadshow,’ as well as the NYC-based monthly event, Opentoe Peepshow, which has produced radical, punk community-driven events across the country. Her videos have played across the world, and she likes to be on two wheels. www.damienluxe.com
Interested in presenting your work in a future installment of Deadline? Fill out the form!
Artists of any kind are encouraged to submit.
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Check out this article on the August edition of Deadline in Next Magazine: “BGSQD’s Deadline Gives Queer Artists Room To Create And Grow” by Chris Hernandez
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