About this Performance
Brooklyn’s favorite nightlife stars make their grand return to Little Island for six more of their signature evening parties, with a slate of featured guests. Every Friday night, Little Island visitors will get to experience the group that has changed the face of nightlife in New York City with their fabled DJ sets and all-night dance parties.
Creative Credits
Anysia Kym
Vocalist
Bronx-born producer, drummer, and singer Anysia Kym makes music sounds like the contents of a kaleidoscope diffusing through a pool of honey. Across a handful of EPs and her critically-acclaimed 2024 album Truest, Anysia crafts arrangements that seamlessly merge electronic glitch, experimental R&B melodies, UK jungle beats, and soul samples to create a sound both meandering and knotty, melodic yet propulsive. On her latest project, Purity, she collaborated with producer Tony Seltzer, who has similarly far-reaching taste to her own. He has worked with everyone from New York rappers MIKE and Princess Nokia to psych-folk artist Eartheater. What unifies Kym’s disparate influences is an emotional throughline rather than just a sonic one. Kym describes herself as an unabashed lover girl, and a shimmering sense of desire runs through the music she makes. Purity is her most emotive and affecting project to date. The record is a collection of 12 heady, static-y songs about the perilous process of learning how to love: on tracks like “Speedrun,” Kym watches a relationship disintegrate and leans into the chaos of its unravelling. But by the time she gets to the outro, “Do 4 U,” her lyrics radiate devotion. It’s a project about acknowledging that love can be perilous and fruitless, witnessing your own romantic shortcomings, and still choosing to fall headfirst into the gravitational pull of another person.
Papi Juice
Curator
Papi Juice is an art collective that aims to affirm and celebrate the lives of queer and trans people of color. Structured around curated events, Papi Juice lives at the intersection of art, music, fashion, and nightlife. Since its inception in 2013, the collective has been changing the face of nightlife in New York City and beyond with intentional platforms for artists of color including panels, artist residencies, performances, and, of course, fabled DJ sets and all night parties. Papi Juice has featured artists and DJs such as: Addison Rae, Frank Ocean, Helado Negro, Juliana Huxtable, Kelsey Lu, MikeQ, and Yaeji. Papi Juice has also partnered with institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, Creative Time, Lincoln Center, MoMA PS1, Planned Parenthood, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and partners like A24, Ace Hotel, Calvin Klein, Coach, HBO, H&M, Ray-Ban, and Resident Advisor.
Wildblur
Lighting Designer
Bio to come.