Offerings Karen Finley Kashia Kancey Martita Abril

Doors open at 7:00 PM, and the show begins at 7:30 PM. Seating is first-come, first-served.

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Karen Finley is an artist, poet and performer. Born in Chicago she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her raw and transgressive performances have brought debate and controversy. Finley was one of the NEA 4 plaintiff's with the case before the Supreme Court, Finley v. NEA that challenged the decency provision in government grants to artists through the National Endowment for the Arts. Her performances and visual art have been presented internationally such as at The Barbican in London, Lincoln Center, The Steppenwolf, Museum of Modern Art, Bobino in Paris, and Art Basel amongst others. Finley is an ACLU ambassador. She is the author of ten books, including her most recent, COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco (City Lights 2025), Je n'étais pas censée être talentueuse: Écrits 1985-1994 (Éditions du Seuil 2025), Grabbing Pussy (OR Books 2018) and the 25th anniversary edition of Shock Treatment (City Lights 2015). A recipient of many awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is an Arts Professor in Art and Public Policy at New York University. Follow her on Instagram: @the_yam_mam

Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and dance-theater choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Kashia creates work surrounding themes of joy, nostalgia, feminine power, and identity through the black queer femme lens. Kashia has worked with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, Peter London Global Dance Company, Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, Urban Bush Women, and the Metropolitan Opera. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, Larry Keigwin, Valentina Bache, Cristina Moya-Palacios, and Symara Sarai. Kashia's work has been presented at The Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Sanctuary of the Arts, CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York Live Arts, and Ars Nova. Kashia has been a recipient of residencies such as the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency (2023), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Most recently, Kashia was recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” 2026 as a choreographer and performer. Currently based in Brooklyn, she is excited to continue making work where she can exist unapologetically and dream without any limits.

Martita Abril (Pichu) is from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with dance artists and companies including AUNTS, Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordevich, Tess Dworman, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nis