ADAB (T4T LUV NRG), Ryan Bunao, Bianca AE Mack, Haevyn, Cay Horiuchi, Adam Lucero, Jack Malstrom, Jen Tam, Samantha Pollock, Ava Douglas, Baby Timm, Coco Madrid, Laura Anne Whitley, Nikki Nicole, Nzinga Valentine, and more. 

(Portland, OR) 

UwU & Friends

ACCESS NOTES

This event will feature immersive AV experiences with multiple video projections.

DESCRIPTION

​​UwU & Friends is a multidisciplinary event series showcasing underground dance music created by, and for, Portland’s Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Trans/Gender-nonconforming community.

Through collaboration, music, site-specific video projection, installation, and art, we showcase established and emerging DJs and artists to explore a new type of party—a queer utopia. With the dancefloor as the center, we aim to rejuvenate our community by creating safe, healing spaces featuring art, music, and dance.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

​​UwU Collective is a Portland-based artist collective organizing underground events with an aim to uplift our Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) and Trans/Gender non-conforming (T/GNC) community. We are a collective of eight members and over 30 collaborators. We are multidisciplinary artists whose practices include DJing, performance, sound, digital, video, and installation art. Together, we share values and visions imagining and exercising an empathetic world in which we can thrive and celebrate one another through underground music and multidisciplinary art practices.

 UwU honors and contributes to the legacy of our queer BIPOC ancestors who have paved the way for one another and those to come next against all odds. We are here today to imagine our version of the future—creating intentional space for joy, healing, and hope through music, collaboration, experimentation, empathy for one another, and the drive to create a better world.