Disabled-queer-led non-profit Cuéntame curates the debut edition of Ecstatica, a new late-night DJ series at National Sawdust. Expect immersive sound, radical inclusion, and a dancefloor designed for every body. Featuring selectors from Cuéntame's DJ Cohort including starlybri, DJ L, pinkting and CVNTEMPT. This is nightlife reimagined. Late night. Loud love. No barriers.
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In February 2026, in partnership with the Brooklyn Art Exchange, launched its groundbreaking 8‑month DJ cohort for disabled‑queer participants, a free program designed to open doors into a nightlife world that has long been inaccessible. Guided by professional DJs representing a range of styles, experiences, and technical approaches and supported by Cuéntame's unique blend of event‑organizing expertise and occupational‑therapy practice this cohort offers adaptable, participant‑centered training for music lovers who have historically been excluded from the booth.
The initiative aims to reshape the landscape of NYC nightlife by introducing 12 new disabled‑queer DJs whose presence and artistry will bring fresh joy and visibility to the dance floor. Each participant will debut their work during Cuéntame's inaugural queer‑disabled performing arts and nightlife festival, Entangled, in November 2026.
ABOUT CUÉNTAME
Founded in 2016 by siblings Ryan and Connor Roach, Cuéntame is a queer and disabled arts organization creating new ways for people to gather, make art, dance, and build community. Cuéntame disrupts mainstream narratives of disability through storytelling, media projects, and access-centered events. Their work brings queer and disabled artists and audiences together while treating accessibility as an essential part of the creative experience.
Cuéntame has produced films, performances, community events, and access centered nightlife experiences, and recently completed a nine month free DJ cohort in partnership with Brooklyn Art Exchange, supporting queer and disabled DJs as they develop their skills and enter the nightlife community. Across all of their work, Cuéntame is interested in what becomes possible when accessibility is at the center of art and nightlife.
ABOUT MAKEMAKE
makemake debuts this year as National Sawdust’s annual festival inviting artists to imagine futures - making, remixing, rethinking.
Named after the dwarf planet that reshaped how we define a world, and the Rapa Nui creator deity of fertility - makemake is about generating new forms: of art, of access, of community.This is a festival that celebrates imagination, and the radical invitation to ratify accessibility by design, not as an afterthought. This is a festival that centers the belief that care is crucial, and that equity is essential. This is a festival for everyone, but especially for those who want to shape what comes next. Expect immersive performances, evolving technologies, ecstatic raves, late night conversations, and unexpected collisions between artists, technologists, activists, and communities. Rooted in disability-led design and imagination, this is a space where access is a creative engine reshaping how we gather, sense, and move together. Through a lens of tech optimism, we explore how emerging tools can expand agency, deepen connection, and unlock new forms of expression. Expect spaces designed for care, curiosity, and connection. Expect to move, to question, to co-create.
ABOUT STARLYBRI
starlybri (she/fae) is a Black Puerto Rican DJ, livecode VJ, zine maker and event organizer from the Bronx. She spins BIPOC centered hyperpop, femme rap, and early 2000s techno and pop classics. Faer event work is focused on collaborative artmaking & mutual aid with fellow queer disabled BIPOC. @starlyartstudio on instagram
ABOUT DJ L
DJ L (she/they) is a multimedia artist based out of Jersey City. She loves Pokemon, vampires, sobriety, orange soda, and her pet hamster, Boss. @ela.hoU
ABOUT PINKTING
As a queeribbean selecta from Jamaica, Queens, I think of music as an opportunity to tell a powerful story of the past, present and future. I craft sonic narratives that center Black people of marginalized identities and create space for us to move our bodies in joyful and freeing ways. @dj.pinkting
ABOUT CVNTEMPT
Inspired by her first ball at The Safe Space in Barbados, cvntempt selects tracks that channel her Bronx spirit: queer and feminine, angsty and Antillean, eclectic and thoroughly hood. Her mixes are best accompanied by a sultry catwalk, a sturdy jack, and a reverence for all things Black. cvntempt spins tracks that invite the meek to practice magic & might through the swing of their hips. @feel.cvtempt