Our Little Bake Sale
About This Event
Our Little Bake Sale at Little Island assembles a cross-disciplinary lineup including Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ahya Simone, Ghetto Gastro, Gwen Jean, Kevin Aviance, Nita Aviance, Julio Torres, Anysia Kym, Qween Jean, and Tama Gucci. The program pairs Salvant's lyric-focused jazz and classical work with Ahya Simone's harp-based practice and Julio Torres's vallenato songwriting, while Ghetto Gastro brings collective food-and-performance work and DJs including Kevin and Nita Aviance, Tama Gucci, and Anysia Kym foreground club timing and live synthesis.
About The Sporkful: The Great Yogurt Feud
At Little Island, *The Sporkful: The Great Yogurt Feud* brings the podcast’s reporting style onto a New York stage, treating a food-world dispute as a window into identity, taste, and who gets to define “authentic.” The live format keeps the investigation public and social, with Justin Vivian Bond, Tama Gucci, Nita Aviance, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Qween Jean shaping the story’s tone and friction. In a city where culinary arguments often track power and belonging, the piece makes a plain point: what sounds like trivia can map real cultural stakes.
About the Artists
Tama Gucci
Tama Gucci is a New York City–based DJ and producer whose sets move between club rhythms and pop-leaning electronics. At Little Island, Gucci has shared the bill with Justin Vivian Bond and Nita Aviance, and has appeared in programs alongside countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Nita Aviance
Nita Aviance is a New York–based DJ and producer whose work moves between electronic club music and performance-rooted disciplines, drawing on experience as a dancer, percussionist, and vocalist. She is part of the Carry Nation with Will Automagic, and collaborates through projects including BOOKWRMZ, Brooklyn Is Burning, and the production team Pyramide.
Qween Jean
Qween Jean is a New York City–based Rock/Pop artist who has performed at the Knitting Factory. On local bills, Jean has shared lineups with BUFFY’S DIRTY THIRTY, MTHR TRSA, AMYGDALA, Didi Opulence, Maya Margarita, Reed Rushes, Kate Williams, and ARCHANGEL.
Gwen Jean
Gwen Jean is a New York City–based performer who appears on bills that move between club culture and contemporary classical presentation, including Little Island. She has shared stages with artists such as Justin Vivian Bond, DJs and producers Nita Aviance and Tama Gucci, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, placing her work in conversation with both downtown performance and opera-informed programming.
Anysia Kym
Anysia Kym is a New York City–based electronic and rock/pop artist whose work moves between live synthesis, rhythm programming, and song-driven structures. She has appeared at Pioneer Works, including the World Dweller program alongside Giggs, Junglepussy, 454, and dj blackpower.
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a French-American singer, songwriter, and composer whose work moves between jazz repertoire and classical collaborations. She is known for performances in English and French, and she has also recorded in Occitan and Haitian Kreyòl.