Sunday May 11 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Xin Ni is a multidisciplinary artist whose art practice explores sex, gender and politics through humor. She transforms the ready-made objects, and plays with her body to make objects, performance and social intervention pieces. "My work is my reaction to my surroundings. I encounter myself in the World."

Hideo Sekino was born in Tokyo, Japan. After learning different styles of shakuhachi playing, in 1986 he joined the Komuso Kenkyu-kai (monks of emptiness), a research organization on Komuso monks and their shakuhachi music. He has been performing honkyoku pieces since then in both Japan and the United States. Besides his involvement in the tradition of Komuso music, he has been active in collaboration with performing arts such as Modern Dance, Butoh, Flamenco, Performance Artists and Noh dances.

Charlotte Richardson-Deppe is a queer feminist artist working between performance and soft sculpture. Her work considers how people relate to one another, abstracting and exaggerating these connections through performance and wearables. She has completed residencies at VisArts, Montgomery College, Stamp Gallery, and the Torpedo Factory Arts Center and shown work at MOCA Taipei, Auckland Pride Festival, NextNow Fest, Culture Lab LIC, StableArts, Rhizome DC, Source Theatre, VisArts, Phaze 2 Gallery, NE Sculpture, Maryland Art Place, and more. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches drawing, sculpture, and photography as a Lecturer in the Department of Art.

Emi Kawashima (she/they) is a mover, grower, and maker based in DC. They explore movement and other mediums with a constantly changing body and mind. Inspired by nature, relationships, mental health, and everyday situations, she has been experimenting with plant dyed shibori fiber in their work. Emi gets their hands dirty as a garden manager at the Washington Youth Garden while finding ways to share space and collaborate with other creative folks.