House for the Holidays
Cozy up in Brooklyn or light your fireplace at home for a night of holiday cheer. Keepsake House all-stars Alex Petti and Elizabeth & the Catapult join co-founder Jasmine Jang and new Artists in Residence Adeline Um, Azhar Bande-Ali, Emily McNally, Kacia Flórez, Katherine Gan, and Paula Croxson to raise money for 2024 Keepsake House shows and kick off your holiday season with love and laughter.
Note: This is a fundraiser supporting the 2024 Keepsake House Artists in Residence and season of shows. Donations during the show are encouraged but not required.
Doors: 6:30pm ET
Tickets:
*In-person: FREE with $15+ food/beverage
Online video (live & recorded): FREE on our Youtube page
— 2024 Artists in Residence —
The 2024 Artists in Residence, left to right: Adeline Um, Paula Croxson, Emily McNally, Azhar Bande-Ali, Kacia Flórez, & Katherine Gan.
Adeline Um (she/her)
Adeline Um is a Korean American songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, where she started her music journey as a Berklee City Music scholar. She is passionate about Asian American representation and visibility within the Western entertainment industry while also providing a soft landing for vulnerability and conversations regarding mental health within her music. Adeline has been recognized by BBC Scotland, BBC Introducing, The Rolling Stone India, UKSC, and Amazing Radio and is currently working at Berklee College of Music. Her favorite hobbies include going for coffee with friends, hiking, and spending time with family.
Adeline is a 2024 Artist in Residence and this is her very first Keepsake House show!
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Azhar Bande-Ali (he/him)
Azhar is an Indian-American storyteller from Atlanta who believes that great stories wrap vulnerability with humor like sushi or, as he calls them, a stushi. His stories tackle the core of our shared human struggle - self worth, identity, hope, and suffering - in search of meaning. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner and a Moth Showcase performer. As a writer, he’s worked on Rob McElhenney’s Adimverse. In his free time you can find him strolling through Central Park listening to podcasts about the technique of writing. Ask him about the time an essay he wrote about Michelle Obama landed him the best surprise ever.
Azhar has previously performed in the Keepsake House show From Story to Song (October 2023) and is a 2024 Artist in Residence.
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Emily McNally (she/they)
Emily McNally is creating the soundtrack for the lovelorn and anxious with their genre-fluid, DIY folk pop music. With vulnerable lyricism, Emily confronts her own naivete and yearning in layers of lush vocals. They hope to share a time capsule of life's emotional whirlwinds in order to ease the sense of loneliness in others (and herself). Emily currently freelances full time as a singer/songwriter, taking commissions on sites like Fiverr.
Emily has previously performed in the Keepsake House show Found Family and is a 2024 Artist in Residence.
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Kacia Flórez (she/her)
Kacia Flórez is a Colombian-Ecuadorian Queens native singer/songwriter, whose music is inspired by folkloric rhythms from her country of origin. From an early age, Kacia’s father taught her how to play and interpret a diverse amount of Latin American genres from the most renowned artists of his time, including Julio Jaramillo’s classic “Bolero, Vales and Pasillos” to Andean superstars Los Kjarkas with their Caporal hits. Kacia has performed for the Ecuadorian American Cultural Center, The Queens Museum, The Museum of Human Achievement, and has been involved with ongoing community work through Queens-based art collective Kaleidospace. Today you can check out her newest release “Kacia Flórez - Vol. 1,” an EP honoring her Andean roots, on all streaming platforms.
Su nuevo álbum, Kacia Flórez - Vol.1 está inspirado en el género Andino cual define a la artista de manera auténtica. Cada cancion en su EP demuestra pequeños fragmentos de lo que significa ser una mujer andina enamorada de su cultura. Ella espera que tú el oyente puedas también sentir el corazón de Los Andes en casa pista y conocer un poco de lo que define a Kacia con el sueno de revivir el folklor.
Kacia has previously performed in the Keepsake House show Women of the House and is a 2024 Artist in Residence.
Katherine Gan (they/them)
Katherine Gan is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY with a focus on poetry and film photography. They also have experience with mediums like film, printmaking, and digital art. Katherine seeks to center queer and trans people of color in their work, particularly with a focus on intimacy and care.
Their art has been supported through fellowships and scholarships from Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Project, Poets House, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Their super 8 film "Friday in Flushing" screened at MoMA through MONO NO AWARE.
Katherine graduated from Duke University in May 2022 as Robertson Scholar and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow with a B.A. in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and a minor in History. They won the 2022 Honor’s Thesis Distinction Prize for their 134-page thesis "Excavating the Afterlives of Empire through Asian/American Women’s Aesthetics & Poetry."
Katherine is a 2024 Artist in Residence and this is their very first Keepsake House show!
Paula Croxson (she/her)
Paula Croxson is a science communicator, neuroscientist and storyteller who is passionate about bringing together science and the arts. She moved to New York from the UK in 2010 with dreams of becoming a professor and researcher, but after discovering the power of storytelling she completely changed direction to focus on making science accessible to everyone. She is a senior producer for The Story Collider, and her stories and performances have been featured in podcasts, videos and around New York City in science shows, nerd shows and storytelling shows alike. She is also a musician, playing flute in two indie rock bands, and a long distance open-water swimmer.
Paula is a 2024 Artist in Residence and this is her very first Keepsake House show!
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— With Special Guests —
Keepsake all-stars, left to right: Elizabeth & the Catapult, Alex Petti, & Jasmine Jang.
Alex Petti (he/him)
Alex Petti is a Lebanese Irish-Catholic writer from Massachusetts who grew up as a pop punk rocker. Though his dreams of headlining Warped Tour have ended, the energy of the genre still infuses his music. He writes musical theater shows in the genres of punk, folk and rock, and is the front man of good thoughts, his NYC based rock band. Alex is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, a composer in the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a 2022 Participant in the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and a proud Dad to his cat, Sonia.
Alex has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows A Keepsake Christmas, Foresight, Outside the Lines, Sounds of the Invisible, and From Story to Song (October 2023) and was a 2023 Artist in Residence.
Read our interview with Alex.
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Elizabeth & the Catapult (she/her)
Years of performing in New York City clubs and touring internationally have honed a natural ability that brings Elizabeth Ziman’s colorful imagination, smart lyrics and catchy melodies to life––a testament to why this singer/songwriter, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is often found collaborating––most recently with Sara Bareilles on Apple TV's "Little Voice" and with Paul Brill on award winning documentaries. Elizabeth and the Catapult's fifth studio album, “sincerely, e,” was born out of a need during the pandemic shutdown to cope with the breakdown of communication. It was recorded in her living room during quarantine and is her first fully self-produced album.
Elizabeth previously performed in the Keepsake House show Sounds of the Invisible.
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Jasmine Jang (she/her)
Jasmine Jang is a born and raised New York City-based singer/songwriter and the co-founder of Keepsake House. She is the artist of one full-length album and three EPs, the latest of which, “In Circles Now,” was released October 2022. Her songs have been described as genuine and ethereal, making their way onto Spotify editorial playlists including Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds: Indie. Her love and excitement for live music extends from the close-knit, conversational exchange between an artist and her audience, which she hopes she can fulfill not only with her own work, but with the community of artists at Keepsake House.
In addition to co-founding Keepsake House, Jasmine has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows From Story to Song (2021), Jay Miners: In Betweens Album Release Show, Show Yourself, A Keepsake Christmas, Mosaic Mind, and Women of the House.