Base Residency Entry Point: Stasia Coup/Artie Thomas (WA)

Base Residency Entry Point: Stasia Coup/Artie Thomas Saturday, May 16, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Live Performance at 7:30 PM Tickets: $0, $10, $25, and $50. Stasia/Artie’s Entry Point intends to grapple with one of the weightiest questions of her life: whether or not to have a child. She invites you to spend an evening quietly exploring an altar-like installation of mementos, audio recordings, and writings, culminating in an intimate live performance from the artist. Come see what gets created as Stasia is pulled between hope, grief, longing, fear, uncertainty, and the potential death of her artistic career. Masks will be required. About Stasia Coup/Artie Thomas Stasia Coup is the drag persona of transmasculine performance artist Artie Thomas. Stasia hails from Seattle's notoriously weird drag scene, where she has been performing for many years in venues ranging from dive bars to curated black box theaters. Her work has been featured throughout Seattle in local drag shows, and she is perhaps best known as a co-producer and cast member of the experimental drag/art show Glory Hole. Stasia is the winner of the 2026 Residency at Betty Wetter's beloved drag show TUSH, has been showcased in On the Boards' Performance Lab, as a choreographer in Velocity's Bridge Project, as a guest resident for the Drama Tops' BASE residency Off the Lead, and as a featured artist in Velocity's 2024 Next Fest NW: Total Chaos. About the Base Residency The Base Residency program is an artist-curated program that provides resident artists with 24/7 access to Base for two weeks of development, self-challenge, and experimentation. The 2025-2026 program supports three Seattle-based artists/duos and three artists/duos outside the greater Seattle area with a suite of resources, including unrestricted space, technical, marketing, and administrative support, a financial stipend, and travel and housing for out-of-town artists. Each residency wraps with an Entry Point, a public event that invites the community into Base to witness and connect with the resident artists. The 2025-2026 program was curated by Parisa Ghaderi, Joseph Hernandez, and Keyes Wiley. Since 2016, more than 35 artists have completed Base Residencies as the program continues to evolve and grow within a national context. Meet Base Residency Alumni here. Accessibility + Directions Base is an ADA-compliant, accessible space on the ground floor, with all-gender and wheelchair-accessible restrooms. More on accessibility at Base here. Support for Base Flourish is a three-year fundraising campaign leveraging community support to grow and expand in response to local, regional, and national demand. Flourish is generating $300,000 over three years to support three areas of growth: increased artist residencies, a more robust staff, and new, community-facing programs. Learn more about Flourish here. Free and reduced-cost access is supported by 4Culture.