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CQ 2025: Queer Ancestry
Friends! We are SO excited to announce our 2025 Pride festival: Queer Ancestry. In this moment of turmoil and fear, not just for the LGBTQ+ community but for so many marginalized communities in America, we're proud to provide a safe space for people to gather and express themselves. CQ 2025: Queer Ancestry is a chance to learn from our musical forebears, but also an opportunity to consider what kind of ancestors WE hope to be for future generations of queer people. As always, events are either free or pay-what-you-wish - we want the whole queer community to have access to our work. Reach out here or at hello@chamberqueer.org if you have questions.
We can’t wait to see you there!
CQ 2025: Queer Ancestry is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature and administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, and through BAC’s Creative Equations Fund supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation. This program is additionally supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
String QUEERtet
Come celebrate Brooklyn Pride with CQ at our birthplace and favorite neighborhood queer bar, Branded Saloon! We’ll be jamming out al fresco for Open Streets; cofounder Jules Biber has assembled a rockstar string QUEERtet to perform everything from Corelli to Chappell Roan - plus we’re sure to have a few guest stars drop by too…
Free - no reservations required
Queer Artist/Author Mixer & Show-and-Tell
Join us for the third installment of our hit community series Show-and-Tell on our 2025 Pride Festival! We’re delighted to be partnering with Hive Mind Books this time around - they’re a queer bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick with a vibrant community of authors and art lovers, and we’re so grateful to them for hosting us. Bring your big & small ideas, your curiosity, or just your cute self to meet some new friends and future collaborators - it’s sure to be an afternoon teeming with positive vibes and bad-ass queer art. Fill out this form if you know you want to perform or share something (approx. 5-7 minutes long, please!) with the class, or if you prefer to listen, feel free to just show up. Let's chill, chat, and celebrate our brilliant LGBTQ+ colleagues and friends!
Free admission - REGISTER TO PERFORM HERE
Wear Yellow Proudly: Memoirs of a Gaysian
Memoirs of a Gaysian explores the unique stories and perspectives of Queer-Asian artists. Too often, queerness and Asian identity are compartmentalized—same-sex marriage remains inaccessible in many Asian countries, and traditional family values have long silenced LGBTQ+ voices within the community. Highlighting works by queer and Asian composers and librettists, singers Spencer Britten and Chuanyuan Liu and pianist Jeremy Chan juxtapose songs and arias from the standard repertoire with music by living composers. The beautiful union of queer and Asian identities in composer Dylan Trấn’s song cycle Ba, a setting of poetry by Ocean Vuong, intermingles with pieces by Brian C. Armbrust, Huang Ruo, Alice Ping Yee Ho, and more.
Tickets $10-40 - PURCHASE HERE
Only This Room: An Immersive Performance
Only This Room is an immersive, site-specific evening of music and performance collaboratively devised by an intergenerational cohort of queer artists: international composer and performance artist Anthony R. Green, acclaimed yangqin player Mantawoman (Silk Road Ensemble), singer and harpist Ruth Cunningham (Anonymous 4), marimbist and cultural activist Steph Davis, and ChamberQUEER cofounder and soprano Danielle Buonaiuto Co-conceived with award-winning composers inti figgis-vizueta and Eve Beglarian,Only This Room weaves together words and music of queer ancestors past and present, imagining new ways to create a shared genealogy and manifest a vision for the future.
Tickets are $35 or Pay-What-You-Can - PURCHASE HERE
Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing
Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing is a ritual about water, about time, about absence, about queer ancestors who have been lost and who we commit to remember. It is a ritual of blessing and complicity, of coming together, of mixing. The performance invites you to remember, reflect, and repeat this ritual, always concluding in tight embrace. Conceived by Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Sophie Seita, and Naomi Woo for Sembrando Humedad in Mexico City, it has now been reimagined as a nomadic performance-workshop that incorporates post-ritual art therapy, offered by Dani Minuskin, as a space for intentional artmaking to reflect, process, and integrate as a group.
Tributaries was conceived under the auspices of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a project initiated in 2020 by Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo that transplants, reroots, and propagates a queer, feminist gardening society founded by 12th century mystic and musician Hildegard von Bingen, and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
In this ritual, we will be using water as an archive and material for gathering, for invocation. We therefore invite you to bring:
a small bottle/jar/vial of water from a body of water near your home (a river, the sea, a pond, a canal).
a queer ancestor/spirit who was lost to the waters, this particular water, or the water of time and attention, or a queer ancestor who can serve as a guide to navigate the waters.
Free Admission - RESERVE HERE
BaroQUEER: Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
A celebration of radical love for Pride, Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay features CQ cofounders Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, and Brian Mummert alongside early music virtuosi Keats Dieffenbach, Rafa Prendergast, and Peter Lim performing music by Hildegard von Bingen, Astor Piazzolla, Barbara Strozzi, and more. Join us amongst the Rubens and Rembrandts (name that Rufus Wainwright song that will also appear on the show…) for an explosion of queer joy!
Free with Museum admission - no reservations required
BaroQUEER: Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
A celebration of radical love for Pride, Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay features CQ cofounders Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, and Brian Mummert alongside early music virtuosi Keats Dieffenbach, Rafa Prendergast, and Peter Lim performing music by Hildegard von Bingen, Astor Piazzolla, Barbara Strozzi, and more. Join us amongst the Rubens and Rembrandts (name that Rufus Wainwright song that will also appear on the show…) for an explosion of queer joy!
Free with Museum admission - no reservations required
BaroQUEER: Historically Informed
CQ 2025: Queer Ancestry OPENING NIGHT!!
NB: this concert is SOLD OUT. We will have a stand-by line beginning at 7 PM on the eve of the concert; if ticketed patrons have not arrived by 7:25 PM, we will begin releasing seats to the standby line at that time.
The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed, presented by Carnegie Hall Citywide. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.
BaroQUEER: Historically Informed
A Very Special Boston Pre-Pride Performance!
The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Wish - RESERVE HERE
The Rhythm Method: Resistance Strategies
What does resistance sound like? Co-presented by The Rhythm Method and ChamberQUEER, this program gives voice to queer liberation struggles and radicalism, journeying through a whirlwind of anger, fear, unbridled joy, and resilience.
The premiere of “Glitter, Shards of Rain” by Cristiano Melli connects the 1969 Stonewall riots to the composer’s lived experience of growing up gay in Brazil. Abi Prían-Gallardo’s new work, “Barracas,” responds to the traumatic lesbophobic murders of three women in Buenos Aires in May of 2024. Works by Leah Asher and Erica Navarro stretch to emotional extremities. Finally, Hannah Kendall’s “How ruin nested…” responds to the tragic homophobic murders of two men in their Dallas, TX home in 2011. We met Abi & Erica through our Open Submission process, and can't wait for The Rhythm Method to share their music with you!
Free Admission - RESERVE HERE