
PAPI JUICE Nonstop: 1OO1O, Ariel Zetina b2b Introspekt, SLINK, TAYHANA, Zaida Zane + more
Nowadays
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New York
Saturday, May 2 at 10 pm EDT
Serves Food
Outdoor Patio
Lounge
Concert Venue
Bar
Open Format
Saturday, May 2 at 10 pm EDT
Serves Food
Outdoor Patio
Lounge
Concert Venue
Bar
Open Format
Details
Description
In the thirteen iconic years since its establishment by DJs Oscar Nñ, Adam R, and visual artist Mohammed Fayaz, New York’s inimitable Papi Juice collective has become both an irrefutable city staple and an indispensable driving force actively shaping the trajectory of queer-, trans-, and BIPOC-affirming art, music, and nightlife culture both locally and abroad. A Papi Juice party exists as an adventurous, joyous, and undeniably sexy reflection of both the community and the queerness it works to amplify, a fact that will doubtlessly be on full display (for 24 hours in a row!) at their second Nonstop takeover. Papi Juice has tapped an impressively wide spread of global QTBIPOC talent to guide a marathon journey across the vast and increasingly eclectic landscape of contemporary queer club sounds and selectors attuned to the collective’s steadfast mission.
Kicking things off with energetic flair, New York’s Verdigris brings a bubbling flirtiness to the decks that thoughtfully complements the romantic effervescence that exemplifies Atlanta DJ/producer Zaida Zane’s sound, as demonstrated by releases on Night Slugs, Nervous Records, and Clasico. Guadalajara DJ/producer 1OO1O rounds out the evening with the rambunctiously open-format sensibility that drives his idiosyncratic sets to incorporate everything from techno and electro to dembow, salsa, and beyond, always aimed at the outer reaches of left-of-left club music.
As the sun rises, things heat up on the dancefloor with a bombastic b2b from NYC’s Princess Peggie and Chicago’s Sydfalls, DJs both known for their uniquely intrepid, high-energy approaches to the sounds shaping and moving their contemporary local underground queer scenes. The same could be said for Argentinian-born, CDMX-based DJ, producer, N.A.A.F.I. affiliate, and Rosalía collaborator TAYHANA, whose formative work establishing the South American Club Latinx underground has both informed and propelled not only her mixing style but also her ascent to international acclaim, bringing her fearless, unapologetically Latinx perspective to the world stage, with appearances at Primavera Sound (ES), Lollapalooza (ARG), Mutek (USA), and Unsound (POL).
Papi Juice co-founding residents Oscar Nñ and Adam R hold down the floor through the afternoon, representing and rejuvenating their hometown crowd by spinning sets that oscillate effortlessly between local and global queer urban club sounds, demonstrating exactly why Papi Juice has become such an integral and irresistible part of the New York queer club ecosystem.
Taking a turn toward the deep, the daring, and the unexpected, the party’s final arc firmly embraces the bold, the weird, and the relentlessly experimental with two fresh, crucial pairings. First up, a sunset b2b from two essential New York-based artists specializing in slippery, subterranean bass-washed beat-science, SLINK members K Wata and rrao, whose sets always deliver inventive polyrhythmic precision with crisp, hypnotic focus.
Taking it home in the final stretch, Chicago’s Ariel Zetina, longtime Smartbar resident and multi-hyphenate diva of the international queer underground, brings her cross-culturally adventurous archival sensibility and ebullient genre-bending edge toe-to-toe with Nowadays resident Introspekt’s sultry, provocative, pan-Afrofuturistic take on bi-coastal bass-driven genres from dubstep to UK garage, Baltimore club, and beyond, in what’s sure to be a massive collaboration that perfectly illustrates the potential unlocked by Papi Juice’s overarching goal: create the space to unite dynamic QTBIPOC club voices and bodies in motion, and, simply, see what happens.
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RSVP is $15 before 11pm.
An RSVP is good for one person. If you're bringing friends, please have them RSVP here as well.
We stop taking RSVPs at 6pm on the day of the party. In order to receive the RSVP discount, you must be at the ticket desk by the cutoff time and not just in line. It's wise to arrive early to make sure you're not standing in line when the time comes.
An RSVP does not guarantee entry. Sometimes parties do sell out, so if you want to be sure you'll get in, it's best to grab a ticket in advance.
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Entry is at the discretion of our door staff. Online purchases are limited to four tickets maximum per person. If tickets are sold out here, we always hold a good amount at the door. We will do our best to admit those without tickets but entrance is not guaranteed.
Nonstop tickets are divided by entry time. You must arrive during the hours listed on your ticket. For example, if you buy a "10PM–4AM" ticket, you must get here between 10pm and 4am.
After you've arrived during your designated time window, you can stay as long as you'd like, so long as you abide by our safer space policy (more on that below). You're also welcome to come and go as you please. Re-entry is based on capacity and is not guaranteed.
Violence, non-consensual touching, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ageist or other discriminatory language, and leering are not allowed within our walls or in our back yard. If someone says or does something to make you feel uncomfortable while you’re here, let us know.
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Accessibility:
The wheelchair entrance to our indoor space is in the driveway, which is the access point most commonly used to enter Nowadays. During parties the driveway gate is locked, so please ask staff at the street entrance for assistance with entry.
All of our bathrooms are gender-neutral. There is one accessible stall indoors. Just ask any Nowadays staff member for the key, and they can show you the way. During parties, seating is available both on and off the dance floor. While we don’t have a dedicated quiet space indoors during parties, the booths next to coat check are a little quieter, and the deck and back yard a little quieter than that. Most nighttime parties include the use of strobe lights and water based haze.

