Queer Performance Camp 2022

Temple for Queers is an offering of frames or conduits for participants to pass through as individuals, and through being together in space.

The invited artists are encouraged to weave their own practices, reflections, and curiosities into the fabric of a facilitated spiritual experience, centering their personal interests, desires, pleasures, and joys, however queer or traditional they may be. 

Low-key participation is invited, with an invitation to witness, to engage in gentle movements and interact with hanging ice prayer ties. Activating voice is also invited, with space for group voicing and personal expression.

Victoria Hunt and Moe Clark come together to form Weather Beings. As 2Spirit Indigenous artists, we assert our position to reclaim, restore and re/matriate feminine and queer knowledge into our cultural and creative practices. Akin to call & response, we call backwards into the future from our present position in a reciprocal imagining. Using body weather (BW) practice, movement + vocal improvisation, and têwêhikan (drum) song, we examine intersections of our cosmologies and whakapapa/ wahkohtowin (kinships) in Te Reo Maori and nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree) languages.  

We learn and embody protocols in order to question and transform the binaries they often impose. We reinstate our bodies as agents for change in creative ceremonies that ritualize remembering. Our 2S/ Indigiqueer futures live in our ability to wake up from forced-amnesia through resurgent practices of embodied transmission.

âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis / Nêhiyaw / Norwegian / French / British) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She fuses together vocal improvisation with multilingual lyricism to create meaning that is rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory and embodied knowledge. Award-winning artist, her last solo album “Within” toured internationally and her video poem “nitahkôtan” won best Indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. Her work has appeared the world over, including the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK). www.moeclark.ca

Victoria Hunt (ia/she/they)
Iwi/Tribes: Ohomairangi, Te Arawa, Rongowhaakata, Kahungunu, Irish, English, Finnish. 
Born on uncededYugambeh Country, Surfers Paradise, Australia
Victoria traverses the visual and performing arts as a dancer, choreographer, director, photographer and filmmaker. Her work is liminal and reinstates the power of Indigenous creativity within the politics of Rematriation – inserting the body into frameworks of power, for future ancestors. Central to this is Whakapapa (kinship/genealogies), Mana Atua Wahine  (feminine/tapu/energy), Body Weather and IndigiQueer revitalization within creation practices. Her work is a gradual binding of intimate collaboration between artists, elders and communities. She is a founding member of De Quincey Co., Australia’s leading Body Weather dance company. Her award-winning works have toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. 

Gabe Calderón (they/them, kiin/wiin) is nij-manidowag, ayakwew, puion & îhkwew (two spirit/trans), queer and Mi’kmaq/L’nu, Algonquin/Omamiwinini, Scottish and French Canadian thriving with disAbilities and neurodivergence. They currently live in Treaty 6 territory’s Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) as an author,  poet, mixed media artist, activist and educator. Gabe has achieved several literary and poetry awards, namely a Lambda Literary Award 2021, an Indigenous Arts and Stories from the Governor General’s Awards in 2019 and 2nd place at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Work 2019. Gabe’s debut novel: Màgòdiz will be released October 2022, the first three chapters are found in “Andwànikàdjigan” in the anthology: Love After the End published by Arsenal Pulp Press. You can find Gabe on Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok: @nishingabe or on their website: www.mokinanconsulting.com.

Lenore Claire Herrem is a multi-disciplinary artist from Saskatoon based in Tio’Tia:Ke/Montreal. She has training in theatre performance from the University of Saskatchewan, and currently works in a variety of digital formats including animation, webseries, portraiture, and graphic design. Precious Puppies is a current focus in particular, encompassing an animated series, clothing brand, zines, stickers, and other hand-crafted merchandise. The series began as experimental mini episodes in 2018, and the second full season of the show is currently in production. The Sandy Bridges Show is another multi-faceted project of Lenore’s, produced as both a web series and live event. Sandy Bridges has been an alter-ego of hers since 2009- emcee, stand up comedienne, lifestyle coach, and more. Lenore is also a community events organizer, and co-founded Taking What We Need in 2015, which is a grassroots fundraising and community organization for Montreal’s low-income transfeminine community. Most recently, Lenore was production dramaturg and played “Katie” in the original work “Fruitcake” in Saskatoon with 25th St Theatre.

Lois Weaver is an artist, activist, facilitator, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Lois is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow for 2016-19. She was awarded the WOW Women in Creative Industries ‘Fighting the Good Fight’ award in 2018. In 2019 she was awarded an International Chair at Artec Paris 8 University at the National Institute for the History of Art, Paris, and the Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement Hawking Award for Developed Understanding of Public Engagement.
Her work hinges on visibility, challenging convention, and public engagement. http://www.split-britches.com/lois

Temple for Queers is an offering of frames or conduits for participants to pass through as individuals, and through being together in space.

The invited artists are encouraged to weave their own practices, reflections, and curiosities into the fabric of a facilitated spiritual experience, centring their personal interests, desires, pleasures, and joys, however queer or traditional they may be. 

Details coming soon – in the meantime, contact us with any questions or concerns.

​​Toni-Anne Fowler (she/they) is a Youth and Cosmique Care Practitioner based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Toni aka Tea co-creates sacred safer-spaces for youth and adults to connect, release and receive care that is intentional, transformative and liberating.