DAY: The Beach at Fisherman’s Path, Fire Island Pines – 2 PM – 8 PM (Saturday, July 27)

H. Sinno with Ethan Philbrick
nasa4nasa curated by Adam HajYahia
Papi Juice
Star Amerasu

NIGHT: Reflections, 73 Bay Walk, Fire Island Pines – 11 PM – 6 AM (Sunday, July 28)

Jesus Hilario Reyes
TYGAPAW
Sterling Juan Diaz
curated by Sydney Fishman

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2024 FESTIVAL ARTISTS:

Hamed Sinno is a composer, writer, performer, and social justice advocate. Their research explores vocalities as sites of political negotiation. H writes, and lectures about popular culture as engaged practice. They have been the lyricist and front-person for Mashrou Leila since 2008, agitating conversations around representation, free speech, and sexual freedoms in the Middle East. H has a BFA from the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, and an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College. Their debut full-length opera, Westerly Breath, was in development at The Industry Los Angeles, and opened at the New York Met Museum in January 2024.Their solo debut, Poems of Consumption, explores the overlaps of consumerism, mental illness, and environmental crisis. Poems of Consumption debuted at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023.

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nasa4nasa is a dance collective based in Cairo co-founded by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma AbdelSalam in 2016. nasa4nasa uses static imagery to research notions of form, aesthetic and value. nasa4nasa uses chance, and repetition to examine failure, affect, vanity, boredom. nasa4nasa seeks to foreshadow alternative spaces as occupied stages nasa4nasa is housed in social media, to actively interact with and sometimes interject with daily virtual mass consumption. nasa4nasa can be taken lightly or seriously, it is meant to do both. nasa4nasa does not seek to find meaning in everything it does. nasa4nasa fucks with dance.

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Papi Juice is an art collective that aims to affirm and celebrate the lives of queer and trans people of color. Structured around their cultural events, Papi Juice lives at the intersection of art, music, and nightlife. Since Papi Juice’s inception in 2013, the collective has been changing the face of nightlife in New York City and beyond with intentional platforms for artists of color including panels, workshops, artist residencies, performances, and, of course, fabled DJ sets and all night parties. Papi Juice has featured artists like: Princess Nokia, MikeQ, Kindness, Juliana Huxtable, Asmara, Helado Negro, and Bbymutha. Papi Juice has also partnered with institutions like: The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, El Museo del Barrio, Creative Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Toronto Pride, Red Bull Music Academy, and many more.

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Star Amerasu is a writer, composer,director, DJ and performer who released music under the moniker Ah-Mer-Ah-Su. At 21, her initial work was composing the score for Major! A documentary film, showcasing the life of transgender revolutionary and Stonewall rioter, Miss Major. Upon release her debut album “Star” was voted by Billboard critics as top 20 LGBT albums of 2018.  In spring of 2023, She collaborated with director Aimee Hoffman to create a visual poem titled “I guess” as part of OUTFEST 2023 artist-in-residence program, the film screened at the festival, and debuted Star as a writer. Summer 2024 Star’s film ‘After Hours’ has it’s world premiere at Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, Star’s first film which she directed, wrote and scored.

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Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, (San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an antidisciplinary artist with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who is currently pursuing their MFA at Yale University. While situating their practice at the crossroads of sonic performance, land installation, and expanded cinema, their iterative works examine carnival and rave culture throughout the West; to take on a remedial approach to the effects of ‘destierro’.Destierro is an untranslatable Spanish term that is most akin to being ‘torn from the land’. They’ve contextualized the term to traverse towards ideas of Black and Queer fugitivy. Interwoven in the midst of these notions is a concern for the im/possibility of the Black Body and the failure of mechanical optics.

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TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist, producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent the better part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic music diaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much as it is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them an indispensable figure in Brooklyn’s electronic music scene. Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of color through their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of their broader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black, queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist’s work. Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black Trans Lives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only as a skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, they are known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservation and Black communal joy.

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Sterling Juan Diaz has an instinctive feel for groove. Born in New York City & raised between there & the Dominican Republic, he was captivated by the percussive rhythms of hip-hop & latin music from a young age, fostering a diverse musical passion. Once he taught himself to DJ, his eclectic taste & skill quickly gained attention in New York City’s queer nightlife, becoming a staple at parties like Nowadays Nonstop, Papi Juice, & BASEMENT’s resident party FIST. His sets range from chest-rumbling bass wubs to euphoric house keys, showcasing the rich heritage of the underground while exploring the depths of sound through the rhythmic threads of his Dominican roots. Sterling Juan Diaz has not only crafted a unique musical identity but also stands as a beacon of collaboration & community building.