CRUSH ON LACE
A LACE Valentine’s Extravaganza
February 14, 2026, 7–10 PM
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Cash bar / Limited free parking available on site
Purchase sliding scale tickets HERE. All proceeds benefit LACE programs.
Special performance by San Cha
Speed Tarot Readings by Sanyu Estelle and Edgar Fabián Frías
Custom Poems by Monica Salazar
Music by El Keamo
Erotic films curated by Pau Pescador
LACE’s infamous Valentine’s Day fundraiser is back! Join us at CRUSH ON LACE at the Philosophical Research Society, and let loose with your Valentine’s date and friends with music, dancing, libations, and giveaways!
CRUSH ON LACE features a special performance by Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and performance artist San Cha. The night will culminate with a dance party extravaganza with a DJ set from multimedia NeoCumbia artist El Keamo.
Schedule
7:00 PM: Doors open, DJ set 1 (PRS Courtyard), Film Screening (PRS Auditorium)
8:00 PM: San Cha (PRS Auditorium)
8:25 PM: Giveaways and cake cutting (PRS Auditorium)
9:00 PM: DJ set 2 (PRS Courtyard), Film Screening (PRS Auditorium)
About Our Special Guests
San Cha is an LA-based, Mexican-American artist exploring themes of identity, power, and liberation. Through albums, stage shows, and film/video, her music blends rancheras, electronics, cumbia, and pop. Her multidisciplinary performance practice spans DIY and drag, queer nightlife and club culture, and experimental opera. Her work has been supported by NPN, Performance Space NY, Getty, LACMA, Red Bull, LAPP, CA Arts Council, Ballroom Marfa, Denniston Hill, PICA, On the Boards, REDCAT, MACLA, KQED, and more.
Sanyu Estelle is a Soothsayer, artist and writer who has been published by The New York Times, Row House Publishing, and Red Wheel/Weiser. Her work revolves around the subjects of ontology, sociology, history, and criminology as she explores the intersection of culture, politics, and spirituality. With 11+ years as a professional reader and existential advisor, she is sought out for giving clients “the reading they need, not necessarily the reading they want.” Known as The Word Witch for approaching divination through a lens that combines linguistic precision with intuitive insight, Sanyu combines 15+ years of Daoist practice and 12+ years in Ifa tradition with grounding advice that honors self-guided wisdom and practical application, while challenging limiting beliefs and ineffectual narratives.
Edgar Fabián Frías is a boundary-defying multidisciplinary artist, educator, and brujx based in Los Angeles, holding degrees in Psychology, Studio Art, and an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. Drawing on their Wixárika lineage and informed by post-internet, queer, and glitch aesthetics, Frías creates immersive works that interlace technology, spirituality, and collective healing, deliberately unsettling conventional categories. Their practice investigates resilience and radical imagination through Indigenous Futurism, queer/trans cosmologies, and data justice, crafting portals that function as spells, maps, and mirrors. Through these works, Frías invites re-enchantment while conjuring futures grounded in justice, care, and magic.
El Keamo is the alias of Alfredo González-Martínez, a first-generation Mexican-American multimedia artist from Reseda, California. With an innovative blend of cumbia sonidera, tribal, house, and acid genres, El Keamo’s Neocumbia project is a modern interpretation of traditional Latin rhythms fused with electronic synthesis, creating a unique sound that is both familiar and boldly avant-garde.
Pau S. Pescador is a contemporary trans fem nonbinary artist who works in film, photography, and performance that lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Select exhibitions and screenings include: UV Estudios, Buenos Aires; Biquini Wax, Mexico City, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; LADRÓNgalería, Mexico City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Main Museum, Los Angeles, The Pit, Glendale; 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica; ; Coastal/Borders, Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at Angels Gate Cultural Center; and Human Resources, Los Angeles.
Monica Salazar is a Los Angeles Native and fourth-generation Chicana. She is a published author of the poetry book, Wisdom Looks Good and soon to be published For the Girls. She is a curator, a facilitator of poetry workshops; a business owner and founder of Typaway Poetry. She has been awarded by the United States House of Representatives with a Certificate of Recognition applauding her achievements as a business owner and artist in service of her beloved Los Angeles community.
Support
CRUSH ON LACE is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks to our friends at the Philosophical Research Society for their support while LACE’s Hollywood gallery is under renovation.
