New York Live Arts' Live Ideas Closing Party to Include The Homobiles, Cristy C. Road, Macy Rodman and More!

Punk musician Lynn Breedlove and the Homobiles perform at the Ostara Ball, a Tea Dance and Closing Party for Mx'd Messages, New York Live Arts 2017 Live Ideas festival. Also on the program are punk rock musician Cristy C. Road, Macy Rodman and DJ Horrorchata. The party is hosted by The Dauphine of Bushwick.

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Live Ideas is an annual interdisciplinary humanities festival presented by New York Live Arts. For the 2017 edition, Mx'd Messages, trans-genre artist Mx Justin VivIan Bond curated a series examining the idea of a world without binaries.Past festivals have included The World of Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, This Time!, S K Y - Force and Wisdom in America Today, curated by Laurie Anderson, and MENA/Future-Cultural Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

ARTIST BIOS
Queer punk band from San Francisco, The Homobiles, rocks songs about cars and babes, crimes and change, featuring Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8), Stephen Joy Ashley, Ed Varga Fureigh, Corrie Bennet Varga, and Mya Byrne.

Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer and musician. In early 2006, Road released her first illustrated novel, Indestructible (Microcosm Publishing), a 96-page narrative about high school and later in 2007 a collection of postcards entitled Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick (Microcosm Publishing). In 2008, she released Bad Babits (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated story about healing from an abusive relationship; lastly, in 2013, her most recent book, Spit and Passion (Feminist Press, 2012), is a coming-out memoir about Cuban identity, discovering Green Day and survivng in the closet. She's currently working on the Next World Tarot Card Deck and writing punk rock music.

Macy Rodman is a N.Y.C. based recording artist and producer whose debut EP HELP was released in February 2016. Macy's work contains elements of Pop, Punk, and Dance/Electronic music and deals with such topics as nightlife, misandry, and her trans experience. In 2015, Macy released "Lazy Girl" as the first single from HELP along with a video directed by Josef Kraska. "Lazy Girl" has been featured in Vice and in ArtForum in which pop producer Sophie named Macy as one of their favorites acts of 2015. Rodman follows up HELP with her first full length LP The Lake due out in April 2017 with electronic label Sweat Equity.

Horrorchata
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Horrorchata is a drag queen, event producer, fashion icon and DJ living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of Be Cute, Brooklyn's biggest underground queer dance party, and Razor 5000, a themed performance party that travels around the country, and is the co-founder of Bushwig Festival, the only drag festival in Brooklyn. Horrorchata has DJ'd parties across the United States and Europe, including the legendary Tranny Olympics in London, captivating audiences around the world. She was named one of the top 100 most influential people in Brooklyn Magazine and previously won "Drag Queen of the Year" at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards.

Tyler Ashley, The Dauphine of Bushwick, is a nightlife personality, performer and promoter based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The Dauphine started and hosts a monthly party called BABY TEA at Wise Men bar in NYC, which has raised nearly $10k for LGBTQI youth over the course of two trans advocacy fundraisers.