Join us in the STUDIO at 5:30 PM on March 26th for a performance by transdisciplinary artist Mobéy Lola Irizarry.

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker in the realms of Salsa, Bomba, and transdisciplinary performance.

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (elle/ella) es une trabajadore cultural cuir trabajando en las disciplinas de la salsa, la bomba, y el performance transdisciplinario.

They will perform a solo set featuring congas, maracas, voice, and electronics. This event is presented by Associate Professor of Musicology, Dr. Alexis Woloshyn and Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Felipe Gomez.

Bio:

Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a Citizen of the Chickasaw nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid.

Lola is the Creative Director of Conguere for Las Marquitas, NYC’s Queer and Trans Salsa Band. They play in the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and the latin rock group Avatareden. They compose for Samora La Perdida’s “Spanglish Sh!t” Musical and are an alumnus of Emergenyc. Lola is quoted in Rolling Stone saying, “I want to abolish patriarchy in Salsa…This is our duty to our lineage.”

Irizarry has performed with such artists and ensembles as Gladstone Deluxe, Samira Mendoza, George Emilio Sanches, Aani Kisslinger, combo Chimbita, Bombayo, Chant Down, Carolina Oliveros, Bulla en el Barrio, Machiran, Yaissa Jimenez, Justine Lee Hooper, and many others. They have performed and presented original work at Lincoln Center, Abrons Arts Center, The Shed, The Denver Art Museum, The “Sovereign Futures” Conference, and many other venues across the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Cuba.