Karmaklubb* x Black Box teater Foyer Party

Welcome to a gathering celebrating this weeks’ McKenzie Wark extravaganza as well as the shows at Black Box teater: Wet Mess’ “TESTO“ and p0rn0t0pia collective’s “foXXY boXXY”! DJs: Brødskive (NOR) and ALPHADIVA (NOR) + special guest MadMonkey (ESP) from p0rn0t0pia collective crew playing live, as well as presence by Her Highnesses Ryona Crystal (BRA) and Frida Marida (LEB). For sure flowers, ambience, warmth, and a disco ball, too.

The event is FREE and open from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. The venue is accessible. Please reach out if you have any further questions or concerns regarding the events, and we will do our best to assist and solve. ID in the bar: 18.

BIOS

● Karmaklubb* is a nomadic and autonomous queer platform for critical reflection, visibility, and celebration. It creates ever-evolving spaces for joy, conversation, and community through club nights, performances, talks, screenings, concerts, drag, and shared meals — gatherings that nurture both body and mind. Since its founding in 2018, Karmaklubb* has realised more than 350 projects and collaborations across art, culture, nightlife, and activism in Norway and internationally. It also runs IGWTLI, a publishing and research platform dedicated to queer thinking and pleasure, producing essays, letters, podcasts, and experimental written encounters. Moving between institutions and underground spaces, Karmaklubb* continues to explore new ways of hosting, sharing, and celebrating, grounded in curiosity, collectivity, and critical joy.

● Brødskive aka Jens Martin Hartvedt Arvesen is a dancer and multidisciplinary artist working across Drag, Dance, and DJing. They began their Drag career in 2013 with Princessilicious and have helped develop numerous projects for Oslo’s queer and drag community, including Karmaklubb*, Oslo Drag Festival, and QCC – Queer Community Club. Through initiatives like Draglaboratoriet and teaching at OsloMet, they continue to expand and share drag knowledge. Since 2020, Brødskive has also been active as a DJ and booker, playing across Oslo’s underground and queer scenes with QCC, Karmaklubb*, Det Gode Selskab, and many others. Their sound blends alternative 80s disco, hypnotic techno, jungle/dnb, dub, and singalong classics. Jens Martin holds a BA in Jazz Dance and an MA in Dance with pedagogical training from KHiO.

● ALPHADIVA is a Norwegian queer and nonbinary DJ who gathers the greatest divas and alphas from across genres to give you an unforgettable confidence boost and kickstart your inner revolution. They play at clubs and festivals both internationally and across Norway, including Trænafestivalen, Oslo Drag Festival, and Oslo Pride, among others. “Growing up different, queer, and trans in a small town, music became my liberation — the space where I could truly and fully be myself. A place to feel safe, but also to find the strength and courage to live authentically. As ALPHADIVA, I want to share that space with others – playfully mixing rhythms and genres, songs and decades. Much like my experience with gender, it ebbs and flows. My only requirements are deep bass, attitude, and irresistible rhythms. Music and dance have the power to heal and empower across communities and cultures. That’s why I welcome all of you, exactly as you are, to our dancefloor.”

● Frida Marida is a Lebanese trans-disciplinary performing artist who seamlessly blends music, wearable costumes, and conceptual choreography. As a singer, songwriter, and speaker, she passionately addresses queer issues and human rights, creating performances that inspire and provoke thought. Introducing Middle Eastern music – which is Frida’s strength – into famous international songs is the main aesthetic direction of Frida’s art while dealing with discrimination, racism, and homophobia. In the Arabic language, Frida means ‘special’, and Marida means ‘sick’. Frida’s story is a lesson to share about body shaming, feeling inferior, emotional abuse, and inequality. By performing her own interpretation of famous international songs, Frida shares her stories and transforms them into useful real-life examples to solve her and others’ problems. The single Not A Camel (2023) tackles micro-aggression that a lover of a minority background lives in the Norwegian society, and recently Frida released Fri da Nipple (September 2025) about freeing the nipple and equality.

● Ryona Crystal is a Brazilian Queen, she is also the producer and the Latin spice of DragCore. As a performer, she works to try to impress us with her professional production and passionate performances. And she uses the stage to deliver important messages such as against racism and homophobia. She has been doing shows all over Norway, including Oslo Pride and Stavanger Pride and many other Pride shows. She is very grateful for how the Norwegian Cultural Scene has welcomed her.

● MadMonkey aka Pako Serrano crafts industrial, glitchy, and dark soundscapes built on polyrhythms, shifting textures, and broken cadences. Since 2006, he has toured internationally as composer and saxophonist with the contemporary trash jazz group Alfie Ryner. In 2022, he co-founded Blast, an electro-Arab music duo with Queer Falafel (Anthony Kmeid). MadMonkey also composes for theatre, circus, and contemporary dance, collaborating with companies such as La Fabrique des petites Utopies, Pipototal, Attention Fragile, p0rn0t0pia collective, PhonoPhobia, and CHAO.s. His work merges intensity, experimentation, and raw emotion – constantly expanding the borders of rhythm and noise.