EVENTS

Disregard the date above. All events from 2017. 

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Lovecraft Bar NYC
Wednesday December 6th, 2017
$5 donations will go to Freedom Ladder to help end depression

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Bronx Noise
Saturday April 29th, 2017
Performing songs from her new EP

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Quartervida EP Release & Birthday Party
Thursday March 23rd, 2017
Performing and Hosting
Get tickets here!

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The illest: Illustration Art Showcase
Wednesday March 23rd, 2016
Featured Singer
Event details 

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Stories of The Dominican Diaspora
Saturday November 7th, 2015
Performing It’s Paradise & From Experience

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The Illest: Illustration Art Showcase
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Paintings from her Monstrous Espirituales Series

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Curl Fest 2015
Saturday, August 29th, 2015
As part of the FearlessLeon team

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Bronx Noise
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
Singer
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The Illest: Illustration Art Show
Thursday July 23rd, 2015
Featured Singer
For more info check it out on the Afropunk site.
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Soul Tribe Sessions
Sunday, March 7th, 2015
Sunday, April 12th, 2015
Sunday June 28th, 2015
Sunday, August 30th, 2015
Interior Designer | Co-organizer

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The Grind
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
Painter

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Pave: Project Artist Voices Entrepreneurs
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Guest Speaker

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offbeat
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Singer | Songwriter

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Clash House
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Featured Poet

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  Our adult bodies are vehicles for our childhood dreams

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Perspective

” I can draw, I’m creative!!” Says the payroll accountant. She continues, ” I took a quiz that would determine which career would be best for me. Do you know what the answer was?? Payroll Accountant!!” At that moment, not from sheer coincidence or irony, but from such a deep sadness and fear for our future as a whole, I began to laugh hysterically. At that moment she insisted on telling me that everyone of her friends can’t help but laugh either. Are her friends just as frightened as I am? I do not think that anyone is prepared to face the truth that lies behind the hard work. The sad truth that it may not pay off. That all our lives we work for something that we think might bring “happiness,” when in fact the only thing that we are working for is survival, such as the animals in the wild. That the entire time, I have envied the animals in the wild for having one thing to care for. Survival.
For one, I have never known happiness without work. Maybe happiness is just a figment of our imagination. Maybe there are a few whose sole purpose in life is to survive. I do believe that I was put on this earth to do better, however I also believe that I might be one of the few who live with simple purpose rather than with satisfaction.
In life as a human being, perception is everything. My perception of the world is an unfair and bleak one. One where promises are always broken and what you work for is nothing compared to what you will actually be getting. My perceptions of the world is in a constant struggle from what I see to what I believe. I see unfairness, but I believe in my heart in the energy that the world is putting out and taking in and I believe there is a balance. I believe this deep in my heart. This belief is what will keep me going if I find myself having to choose between life or death. However for this belief I have no proof.
Life hasn’t given me any reason to believe what I do about the world. Yet I still do…. strongly. Is this what you call hope? However I think that this belief is not strong enough, If ever I do find myself with heavy eyelids and someone that loves me dearly hovering over me telling me that I have to keep fighting, that I have to stay awake if I want to survive. To stay strong and awake so that I can survive with resilience. I, at this moment wouldn’t know if I would choose to keep my eyes open through the struggle or to close them in peace.
Would I close my eyes and let it be or would I fight? Will there be any fight left in me? If I do choose to fight through the pain will I do so for myself or for others? Will my grandiose self of self keep me alive, because in my heart I believe that I have a purpose in this world and I cannot deprive it of me? What will I choose? I thought I would know the answer to this question…. I thought I knew.
I thought I knew a lot of things. I thought that those above me were there because they have worked harder. Because they are simply smarter than I. I thought that those above me where there, because there is simply something about them that has given them that throne. The fact is that those above me are there due to 25% hard work, 25% intelligence and 50% luck.
I have never had much luck. I do not know if it is perpetual. If it is because my parents did a shitty job at making me feel lucky as a child so therefore I have no luck. Was I born without it? Is my perception of the world wrong. Does the world give a fuck?
Is hard work something that (as crazy as it sounds) you have to work on in order to become more resilient? Or is it like a battery? Will I one day run out. Does everyone get the same hard work battery life span? How long is mine? Am I, at the age of 23 done?
I come back upstairs from my smoke break with the payroll accountant who is also 23, and resume to answering e-mails. At that moment I realize that it is not so much about what you CAN do, but what the world allows you to do.

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Black and White

To be an animal. That has been my dream. Before I am confined to white matted walls and hands tied around myself I would like to revert back to or better yet evolve into a reptile. Maybe the way humans view survival is not evolution at all. Maybe conciseness is just another thing that we are slowly beginning to shed. Much like gills were to fish when they were evolving into monkeys. That might be the reason why many people have become more violent. Maybe violence is evolution. That is the way in which humans have been able to respond to grey areas in life. Grey areas are the gills to a soon to be mammal. White and black are solutions, grey areas are always problems. They are unlike other problems, these are problems that linger.. they eat away at the soul, at our conscience. They cause sleepless nights. Sleepless nights in it itself is useless. Therefore so is guilt. Guilt is useless, unless you want to bring down those with a high moral compass. Then guilt is your weapon. Yet again, violence is always a weapon that gets results. To revert back to my statement about reptiles and their superiority or animals in the wild in general. They know the meaning of life. Animals in the wild, reproduce, eat and survive. We view it as a harsh life when first watching animal documentaries, but the more you watch the more you accept and learn about life in general. A cheetah doesn’t shop for clothes or worry about a store making target money or if their son is gay and the government wont pay for their sons sex change . A cheetah finds food and eats it. Then it sleeps and works for its survival and fucks in between. It does not hope for change or have restless nights because it felt guilty that it ate a goat. So my wish is to be an animal. I think that’s most of our wishes. Isn’t that the reason why people take drugs? To stop the thinking process? We want to badly to be like them. We envy them. But however long we dance into the night, how many drugs we take to ease the pain of our existence, how many clothes we buy and how many people we fuck… we can’t get rid of our conscience. War might be horrible, but to the men who understand how important it is for us to mentally survive, it is essential. And it’s not the political outcomes of war that is essential, it is the act of war. You take away our right to battle and you take away our humanity. Post traumatic stress disorder is just a glitch in our evolutionary process as humans. It is guilt. To understand and be ready for battle physically and mentally alone is filling. One does not have to kill in order to get their essential nutrients as humans. One only has to adapt and understand that the meaning of life is physical survival and one day you will be tested on how you are willing to survive physically. Yet we worry so much about the deterioration of our brains and souls rather than just being alive. We worry about our mental state. Crazy is an illusion. There is no such thing. Crazy isn’t running around yelling obscenities. Crazy is going about your daily life and not knowing the true meaning of it. Survival. That is crazy. I wish to be a cheetah. But only the truly rich have the right to evolve. Only the truly rich have the right to choose whether they want to live in the confides of the many shades of gray that the rest of us are stuck in or if they want the black or the white. To be an animal, that is my dream. To see the world in black and white at least one last time before all I am forced to see is the white padded walls that surround me. As a baby I knew that the world did not make sense. In adolescence we think we know the world. And as an adult if wise you will again know that the world doesn’t make sense and there is no sense in you trying to make sense of it.
That is why we love children and animals. They bring perspective. They remind you to take the prism off your eyes and the original light and shadows that surround you. So if anyone ask me what I wish to do in my future. I now know what to say…