Image: A non-binary Black person, in a leather jacket, is peering upwards out of a large multi-paned window, in a light filled, brick walled room.

Photo 📷 Molly Gazay

*

Click below to connect.

*

Image: An Essence magazine page from 2013: a smiling Black aerialist in a gold leotard is suspended on a black fabric. They are centered on the white page. The article is on the left, and the title, "Dare To Be Different" is aligned right, along the fabrics tail.

Kiebpoli M. Calnek

Pronouns: They / Them / Theirs / Kiebpoli

I’m a trans-masculine, gender-expansive queer Black creative, born and raised in Lenapehoking/ New York City.

Through Europe and the United States, I've generated nuanced performances and artistic direction seeped in poetic, somatic elements.

We focus on narratives and collaborations that reflect the cultural fluidity of Blackness, queerness, and the mental health industrial complex, through relationships interwoven with spirituality, socio-historical issues, and current events.

Our social enterprise, Black*Acrobat, produces interdisciplinary programming sharing stories of, for, and with fringe communities, celebrating authentic visions and a spectrum of viewpoints through research, access, and cooperation.


We’re grateful for the generous funding and support from Elizabeth Streb, Astraea Foundation, Asian Arts Initiative, and The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, SAG-AFTRA, and Actors’ Equity Association.​