Valentine's W/ Community Service

COMMUNITY SERVICE @ LOSO ZNORTHY RAFAEL XJ Friday, February 14th Doors: 8pm DJ Sets: 9pm - 2am 2727 W. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23220 21+ CS::::: COMMUNITY SERVICE was an underground queer nightclub that would bring together the queer community through parties, mutual aid, and support to local grassroot efforts. The space was able to be open every weekend for an entire year and it flourished into the premier spot to rave in Richmond. Founded in 2024 the club lead its programming with a focus on black, trans, and queer talent from all over the United States — even international artists as well. With the club setup in an old auto body shop, the sounds would range from Techno, House, Trance, Club, Jungle, Rap and more. The space also collaborated with local collectives and local artists by opening up the club to showcase their talent. The ethos of the space was to build and support the underground queer nightlife in Richmond by creating a safer space for everyone to freely express themselves — to demonstrate that it’s possible to create and inspire others through dance music. That it’s possible for you to build on what is already there. Today, the space no longer exists. COMMUNITY SERVICE is now a party series ran together by locals Lucid and RAFAEL. ZNORTHY::::: Znorthy is a DJ who was born and raised in Washington, DC. Growing up they were introduced to electronic music via their older sister who was a raver in DC during the first decade of the 2000s. When Znorthy got older, they used racing video game soundtracks as a gateway to building their own electronic music library. When they got to high school, they became heavily entrenched in the emerging hip-hop scene in DC at the time. Znorthy got some of their first nightlife experiences at warehouse rap shows. Around this time, they got their first bookings playing hip-hop and future club at various art shows in the DC area. As time progressed their DJ career continued off and on as they lived in New York for college. However, they began to take DJ-ing more seriously once they graduated in 2020 and as they rediscovered their love for dance music. Since then, they’ve joined 140.plus, Fwb_dc, Xunt and GhettoWitchez as a resident dj for those three collectives and can be found playing and organizing parties the DC area.