We're taking it back with this one and celebrating all of what we've become. We posed this question during our panel discussion "What does your utopia look like?" The responses were left the room torn to pieces in the wake of such brilliance responses echoed, resulting in a roar from us and the crowd. So this party represent a continuation of that conversation . This is what utopia feels like to us. Being with yall.
MASISI is a party birthed out of the imaginations of black queer artists based in Miami, FL. Our mission is to serve as a channel to share the art, life, and lineage of Black Queer folks from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora to America.
With work ranging across mediums such as film, performance, events, music, visual art, spoken word and essays, we seek to uplift and support our collective efforts by creating safe spaces to nourish the mind, body and spirit of Black Queer folks worldwide.
Andre Soul a.k.a. Baba Ka was born in Newark, NJ. An innate percussionist, Andre mom always surrounded him with various styles of music and an array of percussive instruments. Andre's very first performance was at the age of 4, where he played percussion accompaniment with his olders brothers high school glee club. Music has always been a driving force and continues to guide and elevate Andre. Raised RBG and cultivated by greats such as Imamu Imiri Baraka, Mtume and his parents Andre has always possessed an affinity for his culture and his people. His purpose is to inspire all he comes in contact with to be better for yourself and your race. The House of Soul is a movement and a clan of creatives that has come together to uplift and elevate our creativity unto excellence. We are a proud family of indigos that practice the universal laws of existence. Ka! Andre Soul is also the founder and CEO of EYE URBAN TV,
Kerry Burnett is Caribbean-American DJ and producer. Born in the heart of New York City, Kerry’s electronic sets have made him a nightlife staple.
He is best known for his genre- nonconforming performance style that leave no sound off limits.
Kerry is set to release his debut electronic EP, a journey of sounds entitled ‘Black Eye’ in spring of 2023.
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Kumi James aka BAE BAE a Los Angeles based DJ, producer, community organizer and multidisciplinary artist. As a Los Angeles native, she has risen to prominence within LA's underground music scene for organizing innovative spaces to foster collaboration and community, including the notorious LA underground party HOOD RAVE.
London-based Congolese artist Cõvco is a fundamental thread through the fabric of London’s underground art scene. Cutting her teeth as a polymathic DJ notorious for cutting between genres with chaotic abandon, her early NTS shows saw her developing a style that chopped bleeding edge experimental club sounds in with rap, r&b and film scores, all the while drawing from a rich tradition of regional African music.
Yeshimabeit “Yeshi” Milner is the Founder & CEO of Data for Black Lives. She has worked since she was 17 as a movement builder, technologist and data scientist. She started Data for Black Lives because for too long she straddled the worlds of data and organizing and was determined to break down the silos to harness the power of data to make change in the lives of Black people. In five years Data for Black Lives has changed the conversation around big data & technology across the US and globally.
Yeshi has received much recognition for her work. She is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and in 2019 became a Forbes Under 30 social entrepreneur. In 2020 she received a New York Times Good Tech Award for Data for Black Lives’s COVID- 19 database, and in 2021 was awarded the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, which recognizes leaders under 40 who have made significant contributions to politics and public service.
