Friday, August 12, 2022; 4–11pm // FREE
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Saturday, August 13, 2022; 4:30pm–1am // FREE
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Mask & proof of negative COVID test taken within 48 hours required for entry
The Multivrs is Illuminated collaborates with The Lab to present the 143rd Dimension festival spotlighting BIPOC artists across diasporas and genres. The festival centers the work of Queer and Trans BIPOC artists, although everyone is welcome to join this celebratory and immersive event creating a dimension where love reigns supreme.
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The Multivrs returns, August 12th and 13th, 2022, SF, CA (irl) and streamed through the digital void. Again, there is an expansion on the original theme. This time it’s the WORLD WIDE CULT OF LOVE (WWCL). WWCL acknowledges that capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and gender binaries are arms of the colonial cult of death. Through distraction, dividing us into hierarchies and exploitation they attempt to deny the power of our divinity. Our love, unity, and dynamic visions for a new world create a power beyond measure. The 143rd Dimension is an offering to the World Wide Cult of Love because every act we take to love ourselves, love one another, to redistribute wealth and resources and especially for Black and Brown people, to bring our creative visions to life is a revolutionary act.
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Enter the Portal. We are the hands that cut the cord. ✨✨ we are imagining and embodying the futures we exist in. Now more than ever is a time to channel and transcend pain, to celebrate our music, art, existence, livelihood. We are descendants and transformers of infinity. Our inheritance is freedom, our inheritance is joy, our inheritance is rage, our inheritance is love. Shine the light on the Multivrs within. BLACK BROWN INDIGENOUS TRANS QUEER POWER NOW!
Friday, August 12th @ The Lab
5:00 - 5:45 films
5:45 - 6:05 Maya Faith
6:05 - 6:25 Mind Mirage
6:25 - 6:45 Carmina
6:45 - 7:15 films
7:15 - 7:35 Maya Songbird
7:35 - 8:35 Kumafromtekken
8:35 - 8:55 OnyxDemonic
9:00 - 9:20 Mirrored Fatality
9:30 - 9:50 Sour Spirit
9:50 - 10:50 La Femme Papi
10:50 - 11:50 Cosmic Caz
Saturday, August 13 @ The Lab
4:00 - 4:20 Hermanitas
4:30 - 4:50 Xoan Luna
5:00 - 5:20 Mwauh Shell
5:30 - 5:50 YGSLRHSTFUT
6:00 - 6:40 Coquito Papi
6:40 - 7:00 FEAL
7:05 - 7:25 Keila Myles
7:25 - 7:45 Stash Marina
7:50 - 8:10 Las Sucias
8:10 - 9:00 DJ COCHINO
9:00 - 9:20 She-Nut
9:20 - 9:40 AMK / LBXX
9:40 - 10:00 Mal Flora
Sunday, August 14 @ TBD outdoor location in Oakland
3:00 - 3:30 Hausa
3:30 - 4:00 Slanted Square
4:00 - 4:20 Zero Charisma
4:30 - 4:50 Amina Shareef
4:50 - 5:20 Jordan Deal
5:20 - 5:40 India Sky
Keila Miles is an independent female artist/ producer from Hartford, Connecticut with a diverse catalog that includes R&B, Boom Bap, Reggae and Rock.
Based in Oakland, California, Amina Shareef Ali performs songs of love and struggle, of pain and wonder, of loss and redemption. Lyrics are set against a backdrop of music both traditional and modern, from folk to punk to country to jazz to rock and roll.
LBXX (pronounced Lunch Box) is an up and coming queer Bay Area artist. His gritty flow, mixed with fresh rhymes, adds something new to the scene. LBXX pulls from cultural roots that allow him to have a smooth flow and yet a powerful sound.
kumafromtekken is a DJ/ producer originally from Texas now based in California who has been djing for 8 years playin genres like baile funk, house,hip hop , jersey club and future beats, from coast to coast.
Maya Songbird, flamboyant songstress, sings of sex, love, and living the life regally through everyday expression, creating music that takes you on a journey through whimsical ambient sounds, across hints of house beats and trippy synthesized tunes and lyrics that sing to your soul.
Coquito Papi is a southwestern based dj who blends genres from all corners of the african diaspora, focusing on afro latin and caribbean sounds such as baile funk, dancehall, reggaeton, and dembow.
Southern seeds sown on Ohlone Land (so-called oakland) in 2019, Anna Cuevas' Mind Mirage sprouted summer 2020 as a transformation from shrinking oneself blooming into reclaiming autonomy in this world. In April 2022 Cuevas finished self-producing her debut Mind Mirage LP, which will release in early 2023.
Zero Charisma was formed from the lava of volcanoes, silk of a spider’s web, glisten of rainbow behind waterfalls, and snail trails after the rain.
mirrored fatality is an underground interdependent Kapampangan and South Asian xenotrans experimental and healing noise punk farmer duo sharing their rituals + altars. mirrored fatality creates their “cocoon webs'' combining multi-media art, anti-imperialist education, and healing justice practice spaces.
Music and riddum have always been apart of stash marina. They’ve been recording chill and real raps since pre-teen days. Stash has traveled, performed and directed visuals to reflect their life. Subsequently, the grief, rage, joy and transformations of their black ass indigenous journey.
My name is A.M.K which stands for Alien Mac Kitty. I make hyphy spiritual music to shift and uplift beings that are alike and unlike myself! Let’s Catch these vibes.
Sour Spirit is a 2-piece spectral organism constructed of distortion, ritual, violence, improvisation and catharsis. Our habitat is subterranean and our color is black.
Xoan (pronounced swan) Luna is an indigi queer war refugee from Nicaragua based in the bay area. He’s played music most of his life acquiring his inspirations from the spirit world, the animals, climbing trees, and all of nature combined. He hopes to one day see the fall of the fucked up us empire.
You Guys Suck Like Real Hard Shut the Fuck Up Thanks (YGSLRH STFUT) are a trans and gnc punk band. With three members, they spread words of empowerment and share the everyday struggles of living within the cistem.
Maya Genesis is performing songs from their solo album Plumb Fool; inspired by both genres of blues and punk rock. They are a non binary spirit who enjoys sharing their life knowledge through their fluid artistic expressions.
COCHINO is a big, queer AfroLatinx Aries bitch ready to spin hardcore, obscure samples, and voguey bops, not trying to let the bpm drop below 160. Atlanta based Multimedia Artist, Resident DJ for SFQPs Sweet Tea, Malware Cafe, traveling the South at events like Pansy and Adverse Fest.
LA FEMME PAPI is a genderqueer Latinx interdisciplinary artist, youth educator, and healing facilitator based in Yelamu, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land (aka San Francisco). Catch them spinning everything from classic cumbias to hyphy Bay Area bops.
MwauhShell Queer Punk Spreading Hope.
She-Nut is a lyrical love letter to a black woman’s backbone. This project is an anthem of negro noise, and it's never ending battle against white supremacy. At its foundation is gospel, a centerpiece of resistance and the power that resides in acapella hymns only accompanied by the marching of women's heels.
HAUSA is a punk garage band fronted by musician/poet Dovelie Lovelie, based in Los Angeles, CA.
Cosmic Caz is London based, multi-dimensional artist, audio and visual alchemist. Their sonic spells are fabricated with fast techno, industrial sonority, tribe tek hypnosis, uplifted with sentimental trance melodies, acid atmospheres and a radiance of psy vibrations.
FEAL Queer. Black. Brown. Based in Ramaytush Ohlone territory. Groove and Melody. East meets West.
Jagu4r (they/them) is a Miami-born, Georgia-raised artist, curator and DJ based in Atlanta, GA. Jagu4r loves to play it all in any BPM range; ballroom, club, hard-style, K-pop, acid techno, baile funk, happy hardcore, footwork, Jersey club, ghetto tech.
Onyx Demonic, an ethereal dystopian banshee shrieking the violence of the silenced truth, multimedia performance artist, producer, designer & black trans supremacist. A hood-sorcerer from the stolen lands of ameriKKKa, raised in South Central LA/Tongva & Tohono O’odham Territory, shapeshifts through different atmospheres of the known, unknown & everything that lies in between.
H3LLNAH out of New Orleans, LA, brings both their angels and demons to the decks to keep asses bouncing in delicious harmony. Known for their fun, fast paced sets blending the familiar with future and stylistically ranging from techno, house, ghetto, and a heavy sprinkling of Baltimore and Jersey club.
Las Sucias is the Avant-Tropical Noise duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman-Román. Through ritualistic and improvisatory manifestations involving electronics and bruja voices, they look to their Venezuelan and Puerto Rican roots, and the diaspora's cultural expression steeped in Afro-Caribbean and mestiza consciousness.
Shawna Shawnté is a queer DJ, musician and multimedia artist based in Tucson, AZ. Shawnté was blessed to spend 2005 - 2018 in Oakland and SF throwing underground parties. Their eclectic DJ mixes span genres with bliss and bass as the foundations. They love to curate spaces where music, fun, and freakiness, are exalted as revolutionary expressions of joy.
FinishHer Baby Blue is a genre-mashing DJ and alchemist. She is a weaver of the melodic and chaotic, warping together destruction and tranquility to create sonic soothing, unhinged healing, and whatever lies in between.
FIERA FERARI is the Bay Area’s cosmic party angel and a warrior of creative resistance with and for queer and trans artists in the margins. Beat by beat her highly charged sonic potions illuminate the dance floor with blends of sultry clubcore and luscious baile breaks.
Jordan Deal is a multidimensional energy worker and interdisciplinary artist currently based in Philadelphia. Their practice uses performance, sound, and image as a conduit between the interdimensional highways that connect ancestral and intuitive knowledge with worlds of thought, ideas, and senses.