ACES

ACES // Artists of Color Expo & Symposium is a BIPOC-led program produced by Shunpike that creates space for artists to be bold and create through experimentation and community intention. For this event we are featuring 6 artists.

Adrian Braxton

Adrian is a Seattle-based emcee passionate about community, music, and celebrating our city’s waterfront. Adrian works to bring warm crowd energy to uplift local voices and spaces. Can be seen at neighborhood shows and events, supporting grassroots arts, and creativity.

Cherubim

Daughters of Royalty Drill and Dance Ensemble

Daughters of Royalty Performances consist of high energy, jazz style dance,College style step, acrobatics, formations, and affirmations. Performances alsogive the members a chance to engage through public speaking and teachingopportunities.

About Daughters of Royalty Drill and Dance Ensemble

Daughters of Royalty Drill & Dance Ensemble was formed in June 2011 by SheriekaTrotter. The program allows youth to grow and interact with their communityperforming, mentoring, community service. Their mission is to provide the tools and create relationships that create change.

DJ Siempre Bruja

Siempre Bruja (they/them), a Mexican, queer, dancer, DJ, and community organizer who believes in the power of movement, sound, and pleasure activism to create spaces of liberation.

DJ TEB

Taylar Elizza Beth is an experimental, alt-hip-hop artist, vocalist, and DJ drawing on her background as a mixed-race, black femme artist to create multidimensional and empowering experiences through her music.

DJ Toya B

DJ Toya B (Toya Harris) is a Seattle based DJ from Tacoma, known for her eccentric transitions. Mixing and matching blends of various genres, from hip hop, to techno, nostalgic R&B and power-pop anthems, along with cutting edge club music. When Toya B is on the decks, get ready for an eclectic experience on the dance floor.

DJ 1ook

Nothing rehearsed and always spun from the heart, DJ 1ook’s sound selections are rooted in love for hip-hop, movement, fluidity, and exploration.

Friday Night Hip Hop

Friday Night Hip Hop curates high-energy showcases and training experiences that spotlight top talent, build community, and celebrate creativity. Rooted in passion, innovation, and movement, FNHH continues to elevate and unite the Northwest dance scene.

Khmer Amarak Performing Arts

Khmer Amarak Performing Arts is Khmer Community of Seattle King County (KCSKC)’s free all-ages, youth-focused traditional Khmer robam (dance) and pleng (music) program. Students learn traditional Khmer classical and folk dances and/or play traditional Khmer instruments.

Sohoyini West African Dance

Awal Alhassan and Sohoyini dance company is a dance company based in Seattle WA that offers a variety of dance classes, performances and workshops. With a focus on traditional and contemporary African dance styles, Sohoyini dance provides dance lessons and workshops for individuals who wants to explore the authentic culture of west African music and dance

Stefan Richmond

Stefan (he/they) is a Colorado-born, Seattle-based actor, movement artist, performer, and educator. A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Dance, they came to the Pacific Northwest through the Intiman Emerging Artist Program in 2016 and have since cultivated a multidisciplinary performance practice rooted in collaboration, embodiment, and ritual. Their work explores the intersections of physical space, language, memory, and the body’s instinctive movement patterns. Through performance, Stefan investigates how storytelling can function as a site of healing, reckoning, and collective witnessing. They are drawn to work that blurs the boundaries between dance, theater, and live art, asking how emotion lives in the body and how performance can transform a space into ceremony.

Sunshine from Polynesia

Sunshine from Polynesia has been a Seattle Polynesian dance school and performance group for more than 40 years. The founders, Lita and Coco Hoke started SFP in the early 1980’s. Our Ohana has lost our beloved Coco to cancer last September. We continue bringing the Aloha Spirit to everyone we meet, in Coco’s honor and memory.

The Resole 206

We are bringing the world of custom sneaker art to the waterfront in ways that all age levels can enjoy. No matter your artistic ability you are sure to leave this experience with something to cherish and your creativity unlocked.

About TDUB & The ReSole 206

Takiyah Ward is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on customized sneakers and wearable art. She’s dedicated over half of her life to the world of sneakers as art and recently turned that work into Seattles first sneaker care facility The Re-Sole 206. She brings over 6 years of art facilitation through her work with VMC and documentation through her work with Converge Media. All the worlds a canvas for her, Stay Creative!