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the place in which i’ll fit will not exist until i make it
🤙🏿@positivedeviancenyc

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“you gotta be the weird one" | on creating in the Pandemicene

(re)visiting our short doc from BREATH CONTROL, a masks-required (and provided) rap show on August 9, 2025 in Brooklyn, NYC hosted by @positivedeviancenyc

Featuring @drewempire_ + @samythist, @ivysole, @crashprez + @knowsthetime

artists shouldn’t have to choose between their health and their career.

you can help us build safer stages by sharing and backing our Kickstarter. Link in caption.

footage: @civilianworks
editing: @ivysole

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Pumpkin 2: Positive Deviance NYC 😷 🪩 🎃 @positivedeviancenyc (swipe to the end 👀)

Ever grateful to these organizers, to the folks working the events, all DJs, & the extremely kind people I've met along the way. It's never lost on me that a world can & does exist where I get to pull up to the safer function & be not only welcomed but celebrated for bringing a pumpkin 😂 if you're looking to support this kind of world too, check out the @positivedeviancenyc fundraiser & tap in as called. Another world is happening now!
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My pre-Halloween-week pumpkin order deadline is TODAY, SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, so reach out ASAP if you want a pumpkin delivered BEFORE Oct. 25. Otherwise I've got a few more slots to deliver during the week of Halloween! They bring massive joy. A dude on the sidewalk on the way over was elated 🥲😂

And if you have a future fall gathering that you'd like a pumpkin for, I'm down to make it happen so long as pumpkins are available! See my pinned post for more info.
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And: stickers are $0-$3 each sliding scale 😘 love to anyone who got one on the dancefloor

Music by @drewempire_
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Gratitude to all supporters & all who get joy from these pumpkin efforts! Autumnal abundance to all 🍂💛🎃

#CustomCarvedPumpkin #Pumpkin #PumpkinArt #PumpkinArtist #NYArtist

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🫶🏿🫶🏽warm up* for saturator.
ready to spin ready to twirl
10/10 from 2-10 PM
Brooklyn, NYC and streaming worldwide

*hauling clean air equipment across Brooklyn

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🥲THANK YOU!

We can’t wait to celebrate with all of you this Saturday!

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We launched at midnight and are over 1/3 of the way towards our first goal. Our hearts are full!

A profound and deep sense of gratitude for all of you who have been following and supporting this work. When we hit our goal, it will be because of you.

And a huge shout to @civilianworks for film and video editing support, and being an invaluable member of the team since the start.

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see you in the future 😘

10/10 from 2 until 10
brooklyn, nyc

space is limited.
kn95+ masks required + provided.

Duckie Casanova is a Bronx-bred filmmaker, poet, and open format DJ with roots in Chicago. He was raised on classic hiphop and disco with deep ties to film/tv and pop culture. Duckie uses poetry as spells to set sonic scenes, breathes life into new worlds as he takes the crowd on a journey through time and space. Whether it’s cosmic disco and jazz, leftfield new wave punk, or deep, sultry house and seductive vogue beats, Duckie Casanova uses sound to promote the all encompassing nature of black music across the diaspora. Sampling is ancestral veneration and dance music is a channel for body-mind healing. Let the liberating sounds of Duckie Casanova be the elixir for your soul.

@sapphicfaggot is a DJ, sound artist, and fourth-generation Brooklynite with a long career history in Berlin. Mars’ sound is defined by propulsive, sensual and syncopated beats integrated in referential complexity with a playing style that is always fully improvised. Mars’ open format high-energy sets feature long blends of house, R&B, kuduro, hard drum, mahraganat, deconstructed club, industrial, baile funk, and the unexpected. Former resident and core crew of Berlin’s legendary monthly club night BODYSNATCH (2011-2023), Mars is creator & host of Edge Case, an experimental club focused radio show on Maker Park Radio every other Friday at noon.

ashtro’s sound consists of relevant amplitudes that are characteristic of his poetic and musical identity - as a DJ he aspires to create channels for these amplitudes to pass directly from his soul to space with seldom variation in pitch. Within spaces to come, expect deep and slutty house, dreamy and glitchy R&B, afro-Caribbean riddim, and other various blacktronik sounds that have shaped and will shape the afrofuture. He is a regular guest on Edge Case at Maker Park Radio, where his poetic and rhythmic articulations have been both broadcast and archived for replay.

michael aka @mic_wave aka Flames Baldwin aka Dispositive Motion. sounds from the global south.

@positivedeviancenyc

let’s have a little commotion for the sound sele

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🫀✨Saturday 10/10
📍SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN
⏰ 2PM-10PM

saturator is eight hours of nonstop club style sets from four underground NYC DJs.

In an homage to uniquely New Yorkian rave culture, DJs duckie casanova, Mars Dietz a.k.a. Sapphic F████, ashtroboi, and Michael Thomas will bring you on a deep dive through a bricolage of bass-forward genres.

saturator celebrates the launch of Positive Deviance’s campaign to sustain the next chapter of public-health forward clean-air cultural programming.

* saturator takes place in a wheelchair-accessible warehouse garage space and theater stripped down to bare walls on the industrial south Brooklyn waterfront.

* Phone lenses will be stickered at the door with a no phones on the dancefloor policy.

*spectacle << sweat.

* situated in the Pandemicene - masks are required at all times inside the venue, with SIP valves available for drinking. Multiple HEPA purifiers will be running.

* A hybrid format for audio only remote attendance.

*capacity cap at the venue frees up space for movement and keeps the crowd committed.

* Refreshments will be available but also BYO hydration 💦

* Reentry freely permitted all day

🎟️ link in bio for tickets

This event is co-produced and co-visioned by @positivedeviancenyc and Mars Dietz.

Flyers by Mars Dietz

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Edge Case 006 is today from 4-6PM EST, with an off-cycle show to lead you into your Friday evening. We’re hanging today with Mr. @mic_wave of @positivedeviancenyc, playing some music and having a chat - tune in at makerparkradio.nyc 🧚‍♂️

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We’re building a home.

Almost one year ago, Positive Deviance NYC began with a simple refusal: we would not accept that participating in public life had to mean giving up access and care.

14 events.
700+ attendees.

Concerts, dance parties, listening sessions, author talks, game nights: every gathering was mask-positive.

Every event taught us that folks want to

dance
learn
celebrate
create
organize
work
rest
and be together

— without explaining why clean air matters or apologizing for wearing a mask.

But we also learned how hard this is without a home of our own.

Every single event means rebuilding from scratch: finding an accessible venue, negotiating health protocols, hauling HEPA purifiers and Far-UVC equipment, and trying to build access into rooms that were never designed with us in mind.

So as we reach our one year anniversary, we’re exploring something permanent:

a COVID-conscious space of our own -
right here in NYC.

A space with:

HEPA filtration and Far-UVC built into the room from day 1.

Where high-quality masks are the norm.

A home and social club for classes, co-working, art, nightlife, family programming, and rest.

A place folks can host their own events without reinventing clean-air protocols.

A worker-owned cooperative rooted in care.

As we approach funders and grant makers, we’d like to show them how needed these spaces are.

That’s where we’d appreciate your help.

Tell us what a COVID-conscious space in NYC would make possible - for you, your family, your art, your health, your career.

A few sentences is plenty.

And if one of our gatherings ever brought you joy, relief, or connection, we’d love to hear that too.

This year showed us we’re already building the future we need.

We’re excited about the road ahead.

With love,

Michael + Marcel
@mic_wave + @marcelrosasalas
Positive Deviance NYC

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📡Whether you’re an old pro or getting back into it, here’s a quick refresher on some masking best practices (gold chain optional).

1) Pre-molding the nose bridge with both hands.

2) Adjusting the respirator so that it fits snug above the nose and below the chin.

3) Checking the seal by taking a few breaths and blowing out to make sure no air leaks.

We require and provide high quality respirators at all our events including this Sunday 4/12 at @gabriela90.nyc featuring all vinyl sets by @koolboblove and @djtaranyc

Additional clean air support courtesy of Far UVC, CO2 monitoring, ventilation, and portable HEPA air purifiers.

Link in bio for 🎟️

🎶 excerpt from a @djtaranyc set

🖼️ by @juanfernandozeah

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✨Masked Baddies✨Uptown getting ‘fits off… Unbelievable amount of motion in the building.

From SOUL FOOD, a masks-required + provided concert on November 23, 2025 featuring @imanithecowboy, @ivysole, and @blackfolksdontswim

Clean Air courtesy of @positivedeviancenyc Far UV, large space air purifiers, and NAAT testing for performers.

📸: @_gogito
🖼️: @bronxlandia

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