QAM Readings with 2018-19 Queer|Art Fellows Xandra Nur Clark and Candystore + friends
Please note: This event is for adults and older teens (17+).
A reading of new work, in conjunction with the presentation of a new zine, 'Love, in its Time.'
Xandra Nur Clark (she/they) is a queer Indian-American actor, writer, documentarian, musician, performance-maker, and all-around storyteller. Raised in a mixed-race, mixed-religious family, she is passionate about making work that investigates multiplicity, ambiguity, and the boundaries of understanding between self and other.
Currently, she is a 2018-19 Queer|Art Fellow in Performance, a member of The Bats Company at The Flea, a company member of Poetic Theater Productions, a vocalist in the folk music group Ukrainian Village Voices, co-leader of Colt Coeur’s theater education initiative, and a performer and experience designer with immersive performance company Odyssey Works. She has several writing projects in the works, including her documentary solo show about nonmonogamy, Polylogues, which has had two sold-out workshop runs at Dixon Place (Feb 2019) and The Tank (Nov-Dec 2018).
Select NYC acting credits include at EST, The Lark (Noor Theatre), BAM (development), The Flea, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center (Colt Coeur), The Wild Project, The Chain Theatre, The Connelly Theater, and the cell. Her own performance pieces have been featured at venues including The Flea, Dixon Place, The Tank, Judson Church, Weeksville Heritage Center, Queer Abstract, Theaterlab, Caveat, The Bowery Electric, Five Myles, and Brooklyn College; and have been funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Community Foundation, and a Stanford Alumni Arts Grant. She won the 2013 General Oliver P. Smith Award for Local Reporting from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and was a 2018 Semi-Finalist for the Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm.
BA with Honors in Theater, MA in Journalism: Stanford University. Additional training: Anna Deavere Smith, Amy Freed, and Scott Freeman.
Candystore (@agaywhitemale) will perform work from their newly self-published chapbook, Hi Angels.
Candystore is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and performer from San Jose, CA. She-he is a 2018-2019 Queer | Art fellow and resident with Shandaken: Governor's Island. Shimher writing and art have been published in PAPER Magazine, Riot of Perfume, Precog Mag, Phile Magazine, RFD, and others. Candystore has performed around New York City, most notably at MoMA PS1, though it was only in the book store. Candystore also performs every time she-he uses a public restroom. LOL. She-he loves dick and lives in Brooklyn, NY in a pink room.
Please note: This event is for adults and older teens (17+).
A reading of new work, in conjunction with the presentation of a new zine, 'Love, in its Time.'
Xandra Nur Clark (she/they) is a queer Indian-American actor, writer, documentarian, musician, performance-maker, and all-around storyteller. Raised in a mixed-race, mixed-religious family, she is passionate about making work that investigates multiplicity, ambiguity, and the boundaries of understanding between self and other.
Currently, she is a 2018-19 Queer|Art Fellow in Performance, a member of The Bats Company at The Flea, a company member of Poetic Theater Productions, a vocalist in the folk music group Ukrainian Village Voices, co-leader of Colt Coeur’s theater education initiative, and a performer and experience designer with immersive performance company Odyssey Works. She has several writing projects in the works, including her documentary solo show about nonmonogamy, Polylogues, which has had two sold-out workshop runs at Dixon Place (Feb 2019) and The Tank (Nov-Dec 2018).
Select NYC acting credits include at EST, The Lark (Noor Theatre), BAM (development), The Flea, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center (Colt Coeur), The Wild Project, The Chain Theatre, The Connelly Theater, and the cell. Her own performance pieces have been featured at venues including The Flea, Dixon Place, The Tank, Judson Church, Weeksville Heritage Center, Queer Abstract, Theaterlab, Caveat, The Bowery Electric, Five Myles, and Brooklyn College; and have been funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Community Foundation, and a Stanford Alumni Arts Grant. She won the 2013 General Oliver P. Smith Award for Local Reporting from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and was a 2018 Semi-Finalist for the Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm.
BA with Honors in Theater, MA in Journalism: Stanford University. Additional training: Anna Deavere Smith, Amy Freed, and Scott Freeman.
Candystore (@agaywhitemale) will perform work from their newly self-published chapbook, Hi Angels.
Candystore is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and performer from San Jose, CA. She-he is a 2018-2019 Queer | Art fellow and resident with Shandaken: Governor's Island. Shimher writing and art have been published in PAPER Magazine, Riot of Perfume, Precog Mag, Phile Magazine, RFD, and others. Candystore has performed around New York City, most notably at MoMA PS1, though it was only in the book store. Candystore also performs every time she-he uses a public restroom. LOL. She-he loves dick and lives in Brooklyn, NY in a pink room.