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DJ Anjali presents a screening of Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham)’s debut film, Bhaji on the Beach. Prior to the screening, Anjali will spin a retro 80’s & 90’s UK Desi set. Tickets $15. Doors & DJ set 6:30PM, Film 7PM.

1993. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Runtime: 101 minutes. Rated R. The debut feature from director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Perfect Snogging) and screenwriter Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, Anita and Me and Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee) focuses on the various experiences of a group of British Indian women. A group from the Saheli Asian Women’s Group take a day-trip to Blackpool. Included in this group are: Ginder (Kim Vithana), a victim of an abusive relationship who is refusing to stand by her man (much to the chagrin of her elders); Hashida (Sarita Khajura), an unmarried teenage mum-to-be who is shunned by the same elders for her interracial relationship; and Asha (Lalita Ahmed), a respectable shop assistant who escapes into a fantasy world from her drab day-to-day existence when she is charmed by a local playboy thespian. Also along for the day are a middle-class Bombay woman dripping with over-the-top glamor, and a couple of boy-crazy teenage girls.

GOODFOOT

2845 SE Stark St. Portland, Ore.

9PM – 2AM

$12 advance & at the door

21& over only (with proper ID)

Anjali & The Kid with special guest DJ Diana

Diana Suarez is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer born to Chinese and Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, California. With over a decade of experience as a DJ, they have developed a deep love and appreciation for all genres of music. From pulsating beats to soulful melodies, Diana understands the power of music to connect people from diverse backgrounds and create unforgettable moments.

Take the sultry vibe of the Latin American Tropics, combine with the rhythm of India (“Taal”) and stir into TROPITAAL! A Desi Latine Soundclash where the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America go head to head in an all-night dance-off of epic proportions. Resident DJs Anjali & The Incredible Kid combine their deep passions and deep crates from across the spectrum of Latin, Caribbean & South Asian vibes. (Bhangra, Dembow, Future Filmi, Reggaeton, Funk carioca, Moombahton, Electro Cumbia, Tribal Guarachero, Desi Rap, Latin Trap, Dancehall, Chutney, Bollywood, Desi Bass, Brega & Diaspora party classics.)

“One of Portland’s favorite dance nights is making its return. Hosted by stalwart DJs Anjali and the Incredible Kid, Tropitaal mixes club music from India and South America—everything from urban desi to trap and reggaeton.” Willamette Week 8/11/2021 “For seven years now, DJ Anjali & The Kid have been commandeering the Tropitaal Desi-Latino Soundclash to the delight of knowing Portland audiences.” Portland Mercury 5/16/2020

“DJ Anjali & The Kid have been a staple of Portland, Oregon’s club scene for almost two decades, creating spaces for DJs and dancers to enjoy an international mélange of music ranging from bhangra to reggaeton.” Remezcla 12/26/18

Join us for a special Portland’5 Department of Community and Culture takeover with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid featuring The Gulabi Gang Dancers. DJ Set 5PM. Dance lessons and performances 6PM, dance party til 8PM.

This event is FREE & ALL AGES. Free All ages welcome. Seating is available on a first come, first-served basis. Tables are reserved for food and beverage patrons.

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Join us at the grand opening of Asha where we will be spinning vintage international jams on vinyl.

Asha
28 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR 97232

Saturday, June 29th
9pm – 12 am
21 and over only.
No cover.

Happy Pride 2024!! We are hosting a Sunday evening tea dance that centers Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) folks.

We honor the QTBIPOC folks who came before us — our radical ancestors who fought to be seen and heard. And free to love.

We honor the rich diversity of people within the QTBIPOC community.

We invite QTBIPOC folks of all backgrounds & identities to come party with us.

We also welcome allies.

We expect everyone to contribute to a fun and respectful party.

We will not tolerate any form of prejudice or discrimination, such as biphobia, fatphobia, or transphobia.

Sunday, July 21st

HOLOCENE 1001 SE Morrison Street, Portland, Ore.

7-11PM

21+ w/ proper ID

$12 Adv (limited tickets)

$15 Adv & Day of Show

Bring extra $$ to support local pop ups 🌹Chaiwallah PDX & Flowers for Palestine. 🌹

Chaiwallah PDX is a small batch desi pop-up run by Sarena. Her recipes have taken years to perfect because they taste like she remembers… created with the flavors she grew up with, away from, and returned to.

Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian artist and cultural worker, born and raised on the traditional lands of the chinook and many others. She works with individuals, communities, and the land to reclaim our rite to sacred spaces, through land tending, world building, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness. The flowers are her deepest ally, and main medium. She works between the land, as a regenerative flower farmer, and community as florist, event designer, and installation artist. She is currently costuarding the black Oregon land trust, and director of Arts and Culture with The Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine. She started the Flowers for Palestine mutual aid project in October in Portland. Flowers for Palestine is a Portland led, mutual aid project that has continuously gathered community in fundraising efforts directly supporting Palestinian Portlanders aiding their family in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocide.

Performances by Blossom Drearie (& surprise guests)

Dance party with DJ Anjali and Lapaushi

🌹🌹🌹Global Bass, Dembow, Bollywood, Cumbia, Hiphop, Bhangra & Reggaeton 🌹🌹🌹

Co-hosted by PDX Queer Asian Social Meetup

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Blossom Drearie is a trans Filipina drag goddess with a penchant for vintage fashion, divine femininity, and liberation. She’s passionate about building community on and off the dance floor and is beyond proud to call Portland home. She is also the co-host of Portland’s longest running queer party, Blow Pony.

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DJ Anjali is dance floor instigator who’s been bringing the noise since 2000. She co-hosts several of Portland’s longest running parties (Andaz & TROPITAAL!) and has long worked to promote the future sounds of the Desi diaspora within the larger Global Bass movement. She moves between two styles of performance, from behind the decks as a DJ to the front of the stage as a dancer, all the while exploring her own identity and using the dance floor as a place to build solidarity. She’s been a guest DJ at Basement Bhangra (NYC) and NonStop Bhangra (SF) too many times to count. Over the decades she’s played many Queer parties from Vancouver, BC, to Seattle & Portland and is now a regular guest at Queer Desi parties in the Bay Area.

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Inés Paulina Ramírez- aka Lapaushi- was born in Ecuador. She is a Portland based multidisciplinary artist and DJ. She grew up dancing to classical cumbias on cassette at her family’s parties in the Andes mountains.⁣ When she was in her twenties she moved to Mexico City where she became immersed in Sonidero culture. Her work as a DJ and visual artist combine her creative tools to manifest and celebrate cultural identity. Her sets highlights the music that brings the sounds of the Latinx/Indigenous/Caribbean/African diaspora to the dance clubs, and the spaces interested in upraise and celebrate the joy of BIPOC communities through music and art. Her mixers are usually a playful collage between dembow, cumbia, house, techno, reggaeton, hip hop and global music. Her selections come from years of traveling, collecting and sharing music from various regions of Latin America that explore Indigenous memory and African roots while incorporating contemporary electronic beats. You can hear her mixes and playlists on soundcloud.com/lapaushi and find her on Instagram @lapaushi.

She is also part of The Latinxs Dj Collective Noche Libre, Pdx-OR.

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PDX Queer Asian Social Meetup hosts monthly shared spaces for queer Asians in the

Portland metro area to connect socially and relationally. Valerie, Reema, and Eric –

the current organizing team – hold community, belonging, and social justice at the core.

They actively connect, collaborate, and build solidarity with people who have diverse identities within our queer Asian community as well as with other QTBIPOC communities.

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“Queer’ not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but ‘queer’ as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”

― bell hooks

The world’s longest-running Desi dance party is a Portland original, a transportive experience that has enraptured feverishly dancing Portland crowds since 2002 🌹

** ANDAZ 22nd Anniversary with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid **

Portland’s Original Bhangra, Bollywood & Desi Bass Dance Party

Saturday, July 6th, 2024

GOODFOOT
2845 SE Stark St. Portland, Ore.
9PM-2AM
$12 advance & at the door

21+ only w/ proper ID

Featuring a Desi dance lesson from DJ Anjali.

“Known for fusing heart-quaking electronic with bhangra—a genre with roots in the traditional folk music of the northern Indian state of Punjab—and the soundtracks of Bollywood films, DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid’s dance floor sites are sweaty, glorious chaos.” – Portland Mercury 4/18/2020

“Their long-standing Andaz party has become legendary” – Willamette Week 6/5/19

“Whether it’s the Desi-Latino Soundclash: Tropitaal, the Bhangra Bollywood dance party: ANDAZ, or her annual NYE rager, Anjali is the premier Portland dance DJ.” – Eleven PDX 4/8/19

“Andaz, the longest-running bhangra and Bollywood dance party in the world (and one of the wildest opportunities to shake your bum in Portland).” – Portland Mercury 7/27/18