BRUJAS Anti-Prom Announces Line-up - Young M.A., La Gooney Chonga, Killavesi, Tabby Waker, Slim Poppins & More

Autonomous, anti-capitalist, gender self-determining collective BRUJAS-who build revolutionary political coalition through youth culture, and express community through skateboarding, art, and political organizing-will be in residence at Performance Space New York from May 25-June 9, with their project, Training Facility. Red Bull Music Festival New York will co-present the third annual BRUJAS Anti-Prom as the kick off event. Today, the line-up has been revealed and will feature Young M.A., La Gooney Chonga, Killavesi, Tabby Waker, Slim Poppins, Sly C, Gods Wisdom, No Intimate, Gnarianna, Flex Lang and Cofaxx.

BRUJAS began as a group of friends pushing back against white and male-dominated skate culture, and has turned into an active movement against spaces steeped in traditions of bias and oppression. With forays into events and streetwear, the latter of which has been celebrated by major institutions and designers alike, BRUJAS's core remains political and grassroots. Through a pilot streetwear project, titled 1971, they raised awareness during a nationally coordinated prison strike and created a legal fund for community members affected by the prison system. Anti-Prom, meanwhile, is a mash-up of drag balls, streetwear parties, and queer NYC nightlife that creates a safe space for non-binary gender expression through fashion and dance-and for new, young, "non-dude" musicians to perform.

BRUJAS co-founder, Arianna Gil says, "We're taking the good things about prom-inviting somebody you really like, dressing up, getting together with people you're close with from the last four years, setting up time for a ritual. But it's with a 'non-binary, non-hetero, non-institutional tone.' We're taking an institution as strong as prom and flipping it. We want it to kick up the influence of counter culture, proliferate the Anti-Prom and have them happen all over America. The big link is Performance Space New York being this home of exactly what this Anti-Prom is about, which is performing your best, queerest, freest, self. All the early performance artists of the East Village who came out of PS122, these are the Anti-Prom muses."

Tickets for Anti-Prom, which takes place at Performance Space New York (150 1st Avenue 4th floor, New York, NY 10009), can be found via Red Bull Music Festival. Anti-Prom is 18+. In a nod to Americana traditions, Anti-Prom will feature a ban on social media

About BRUJAS

BRUJAS is a political organization led by New York born and raised kids. We produce hot political propaganda in the form of streetwear apparel (hoodies, shirts, and more), organize our communities to proliferate our central values "f 12", "fire to the prisons", "fight gentrification" through creative programming, throw banger club and house parties, and promote healing. Our inspirations include the Rainbow Coalition (the multiracial coalition made up of members of the Young Lords, Black Panthers, and the Young Patriots in Chicago in the late 60s), Young M.A., Assata Shakur & Silvia Federici.

About Red Bull Music

Red Bull Music unites 20 years of initiatives in music. It is a program that celebrates music, its culture and the transformative minds behind it. With multiple festivals, music education workshops, collaborations with artists and thousands of initiatives, Red Bull Music supports artists and local music communities around the world.

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