{"id":15650,"date":"2022-08-03T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:05:07","slug":"queer-performance-camp-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/queer-performance-camp-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Performance Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 1 &#8211; 18, 2023&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A collaboration between Studio 303,<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/\"><b> MAI (Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels)<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lachapelle.org\/en\"><b> La Chapelle Sc\u00e8nes Contemporaines<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Queer Performance Camp aims to create new ways to connect, grow and build community, while supporting the development of queer artists through workshops, gatherings and shows. Intentionally nestled into the dead of winter, QPC brings love, light, and queer self-care to a cold and dark time of year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our guest curators are once again <strong>Justin de Luna<\/strong> and <strong>Winnie Ho<\/strong>, who are offering their first ever <em>in-person<\/em> edition of QPC!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the support of the Caisse Desjardins de la Culture and the Festival TransAm\u00e9riques, as part of FTA Respirations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" id=\"gathering\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">GATHERINGS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Price :<\/strong> $20 (or a little extra, in solidarity) &#8211; Includes access to all the gatherings *<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2606<\/strong> <a href=\"#buy\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Buy your pass below<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;or <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/fr-CA\/ticketing\/82d39307-18b8-4ed1-a89c-64dc7aaf8eaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to open the form in a new tab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2606 Click on each event<\/strong> for details!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#karaoke\"><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Opening Party: Karaoke + Puzzles <\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<br><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Friday, February 3rd \u2013 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"#temple\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Temple for Queers<\/span><\/a> <br><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Saturday, February 11th \u2013 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"#writes\"><strong>No One Writes Alone<\/strong><\/a><br><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">February 13 to 16th \u2013 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"#queerperf\"><strong>Queerness in Performance, table talks<\/strong><\/a><br><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Friday, February 17th \u2013 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"#wisdom\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Queer Wisdom<\/span><\/a><br><\/strong><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: revert;\">CANCELLED &#8211; Saturday, February 18th \u2013 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"#residency\">Queer Collective Residency *<\/a><br><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Not open to the public<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" id=\"workshops\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #f458c5;\"><strong>PRO WORKSHOPS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>B.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Solomon :<\/strong> Ancient Awakenings and Technologies<br>Jan.&nbsp;30 to Feb. 3, 2023&nbsp;<span id=\"more-18341\"><\/span>\u2013 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.&nbsp;<br><strong><span style=\"color: #f458c5;\"><a style=\"color: #f458c5;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/brian-solomon\/\">Descr<span style=\"color: #f458c5;\">ip<\/span>tion + Price + Registration &gt;<\/a><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Dharmoo<\/strong>: Vocal Exploration<br>Feb. 6 to 10, 2023&nbsp;<span id=\"more-17794\"><\/span>\u2013 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.<br><strong><span style=\"color: #f458c5;\"><a style=\"color: #f458c5;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/gabriel-dharmoo-vocal-exploration\/\">Description + Price + Registration &gt;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aisha Sasha John<\/strong> : Waters<strong><br><\/strong>Feb.&nbsp;13 to 17, 2023<span id=\"more-18334\"><\/span>&nbsp;\u2013 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.<br><span style=\"color: #f458c5;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #f458c5;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/aisha-sasha-john-the-miracle\/\">Description + Price + Registration &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\">SHOWS<br><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>FATHERMOTHER (Kezia Waters &amp; Jordan Brown)<\/strong>&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>BLACK MOON<\/em><br>Feb. 1 + 2, 2023 \u2013 7:30 p.m. @ La Chapelle<br><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #15b5f2;\" href=\"https:\/\/lachapelle.org\/en\/schedule\/black-moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vivek Shraya<\/strong>&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>How to Fail as a Popstar<\/em><br>Feb. 6 + 7 + 8, 2023 \u2013 7:30 p.m. @ La Chapelle<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lachapelle.org\/en\/schedule\/how-to-fail-as-a-popstar-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivo Dimchev&nbsp;<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>HALAL<br><\/em>Feb. 6 + 7, 2023 \u2013 7:30 p.m. @ MAI<br><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #15b5f2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/halal-ivo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>HercuSleaze<\/strong>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<strong>Bijuriya +<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Manny Dingo + Miami Minx + Phoenix Inana + Uncle Marly + Ad\u2019horrible + Jaqq Strapp + La Roseline + Kajol + Korra AnarchKey :&nbsp;<\/strong><em>the queerdo love cabaret<br><\/em>Feb. 16, 2023&nbsp; \u2013 8 p.m. @ MAI<br><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #15b5f2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/queerdo-love-cabaret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bijuriya<\/strong>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<strong>BiG SiSSY :&nbsp;<\/strong><em>cosmic drag-pop double feature<br><\/em>Feb. 17, 2023&nbsp; \u2013 8 p.m. @ MAI<br><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #15b5f2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/bijuriya-big-sissy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mother Raven Louboutin&nbsp;<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>The Future Lovers Kiki Ball<br><\/em>Feb. 16, 2023&nbsp; \u2013 9:30 p.m. @ MAI<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/future-lovers-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\">Details + tickets &gt;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"karaoke\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Opening Party: Karaoke + Puzzles <\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;| <em><strong>Friday, February 3rd \u2013 7 p.m. to 10 p.m<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are invited to an evening of Karaoke + Puzzles. Join us for a cozy and exciting evening! A bar and snacks will be available. Arrive before 9 p.m., as building&#8217;s doors (Le Belgo) will be closed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A place to gather. A poem.<\/p>\n<p>To love.<\/p>\n<p>Rihanna once said,<br>We Found Love in a Hopeless place.<\/p>\n<p>She also said,<br>Shine Bright like a Diamond. <br>Though I think technically Sia wrote that one.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we could swing from the Chandelier?<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, I don\u2019t like that one.<br>My favourite is Titanium.<\/p>\n<p>You shoot me down, but I won\u2019t fall.<br>I am titanium.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Titanium.<br>Not lithium, like in your battery.<\/p>\n<p>How much battery life do you have?<\/p>\n<p>Are you reading this on your phone?<br>What are your socials?<\/p>\n<p>This is a real social network.<\/p>\n<p>Add me as a friend?<br>Do you follow me?<br>I, I follow. I follow you. Deep sea baby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Are we rolling in the deep yet?<\/p>\n<p>I find solace in Adele\u2019s new song Easy on Me.<br>Maybe Xavier Dolan might make an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Why are there so many love songs?<\/p>\n<p>And to love.<br>To break bread.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe to Eat&#8230;Pray&#8230;Love?<\/p>\n<p>No, this isn\u2019t a Julia Roberts movie.<br>Though maybe this is a novel about finding yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps an audiobook?<br>No&#8230;a podcast.<br>One that you would listen to in the tub.<\/p>\n<p>Listen.<br>[silence]<\/p>\n<p>Listen like the Beyonc\u00e9 ballad.<br>&#8230;the one from the Dreamgirls movie.<\/p>\n<p>Yes friends. <br>Let\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever, wherever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"temple\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Temple for Q<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ueer<\/span>s <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">| <\/span><\/span><em><strong>Saturday, February 11th \u2013 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An event structured with facilitations throughout the day. Each facilitation offering a container for queers and queer artists to move through a physical experience, both individually and together, inspired by a spiritual lens and\/or practice from an invited guest initiator. The artists are encouraged to weave their own practices, reflections, and curiosities into the fabric of the experience, centering their personal interests, desires, pleasures, and joys, however queer or traditional they may be, as an offering of a frame or conduit for participants to pass through as individuals and through being together in space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working themes: activities related to the ideas of hope\/meditative states\/transformations\/transmitting (allowing something to pass from person to person or space), whether for the personal, the artistic and\/or the spiritual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2606 <strong>10:30 a.m. |<\/strong> Come early, grab a hot drink, chat stretch !<\/p>\n\n<p><b> \u2606 11 a.m. &#8211; 12:45 p.m. |<i> Queer Theatre for the Sacred\u2026 Manual devotion edition <\/i>| Lari Jalbert &amp; Naomi Moon <\/b> [read more] <\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Down &amp; dirty, hands on devotion, requiring your creative force to materialize those spiritual processes and invisible things.&nbsp; Come ready (willing) to construct something (un)holy, invent\/conjure\/costume the sacred beings, and choreograph the devotions. The power of bad queer art compels you!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lari Jalbert<\/strong> is an art school dropout based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke so called montreal, a trans witch, multidisciplinary artist, french canadian settler and filmmaker. They focus on intuitive work, researching what can&#8217;t yet be put in words and the translation from somatic experience to image, to sound, puppets and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Naomi Moon<\/strong> is a queer, mixed race artist and facilitator living in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\u2026 hanging at the edges with experimental theatre, sound, movement, puppets, drawing, thinking etc. They are devoted to re-tuning the personal to the collective, and the conceptual to the sensual. Their practices are woven from embodiment, imagination, improvisation, and the role of the witness. They hate writing bios, but love having conversations\/dances ~ come say hi.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>[\/read]<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u2606 <strong>12:45 p.m. &#8211; 1:30 p.m. | <\/strong>Lunch break !<\/p>\n\n<p><b> \u2606 1:30 p.m. &#8211; 2:30 p.m. |<i> Reflective Scores Toward a Third <\/i>| Melek &amp; Miranda <\/b> [read more]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whenever a pair exists, there is always an implied third: the relationship between. through voice, breath, writing, and talking we will listen for the place that connects. this session is a collaboration between melek in tounes, and miranda in tiohti\u00e0:ke\/montreal; two facilitators that meet in long-distance experimentation through games, questions, voice memos &amp; songs<br><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Miranda Gee Jones<\/strong> is an artist based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal, with a training background in devised physical theatre. She is always folding other things into her performance practice: contemporary dance forms, vocal music, radio art, listening practices, and foundry. Her work is collaborative, and often features game-like structures, scores, and performative objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Melek<\/strong> is a third culture kid of Tunisian-Canadian descent that grew up across 6 continents and speaks fluent English, French and Spanish. Their artistic forms of facilitation and event creation pulls together learnings from many places, schools &amp; disciplines (including astrology, divinatory forms, non-violent communication &amp; meditation).<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>[\/read]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><b> \u2606 2:45 p.m. &#8211; 3:45 p.m. | <i>Tapping in <\/i>| Cosmique Tea aka Toni Fowler <\/b> [read more]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sacred space for transformative individual and collective healing, self-awareness, experimentation and JOY. <em>Cosmique Tea<\/em> invites you to explore new horizons real and imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Accessibility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We might have medium level music playing, there may contain an element of movement but if people are less mobile adaptations will be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Toni-Anne Fowler<\/strong> (she\/they) is a Cosmique Care Practitioner based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montr\u00e9al). Toni aka Tea co-creates sacred safer-spaces for youth and adults to connect, release and receive care that is intentional, transformative and liberating.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>[\/read]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><b> \u2606 4:00 p.m. &#8211; 5:00 p.m. |<i> Ancestral YUM <\/i>| Jessica Lieu  <\/b> [read more]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants will be tapping into and honouring their innermost desires through a guided somatic ritual of ancestral pleasures using meditation, breath, voice, journalling and fruit eating.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Jess<\/em> (she\/her) is a queer somatic sex educator based out of Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal who nerds on pleasure, desire and consent. Through workshops and one on one sessions, she guides people to notice, trust and express their desires through body based explorations. Jess celebrates aliveness in sensorial ritual and play. Her trauma informed, nature based practice supports folks in reclaiming their unique experience of pleasure as a portal to personal and collective transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>[\/read]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"writes\"\/>\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">No One Writes Alone<\/span> <\/strong>| <em><strong>February 13 to 16th \u2013 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.<br><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is winter, and the writer has been getting stuck. The writer has been trying to write while alone, unmoving, in a small room. The writer is forgetting how to move the words from the interior to the exterior. The writer is forgetting how to move between rooms, and between texts. The writer needs other people in order to begin again, differently.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his queer sci fi epic, Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany writes: \u201cYou meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city&#8230;you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn&#8217;t even know were there. Everything changes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>No One Writes Alone<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> invites visitors into the writer\u2019s tiny city of queer texts, in an attempt to bringing newness into the writing space. Participants will interact with a selection of books from the writer\u2019s own library, facilitated by a series of writing prompts. The prompts aim to encourage movement\u2014physically within the space of gallery, as well as between the provided texts, and between the participants and the texts. Anyone can participate by perusing the books, or responding to the prompts, or generating their own prompts, or leaving their writing in the space, or taking their writing home with them. Books, prompts, and various writing materials will be provided in the space, along with the writer. Participants are welcome to chat with the writer, who will be present, of course, attempting to write.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facilitated by <strong>H<b> Felix Chau Bradley, <\/b><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a writer and editor, living in Tiohti\u00e0:ke(Montreal). They are the author of the short story collection <em>Personal Attention Roleplay<\/em>, and the poetry chapbook <em>Automatic Object Lessons<\/em>. They are an editor at <em>This Magazine<\/em> and <em>Le Sigh<\/em>, and the host of <em>Strange Futures<\/em>, a speculative fiction book club.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"queerperf\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Queerness in Performance, a Round Table <\/strong><\/span>| <em><strong>February 17th \u2013 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.&nbsp;<br><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our hope for this event is to investigate queerness in performance. What is queer art? And who can name their work as queer? We\u2019ve been cooking up this event in light of our reflections on the current art economy. Seeing queerness and queer-identity being reduced as a \u2018trend\u2019 or a sort-of social commodity, a currency in which to name one\u2019s work as queer, one can gain a kind-of capitalistic value. This has become a troubling issue for us hence the creation of this event. We hope that it can serve as a host for queer artists to have these conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The set-up: several different tables spread out around the studio, each with an instigator and a question\/reflection\/opinion that they might have re: queer performance. The conversations will be fluid, open-format but contained or motivated by the instigators activation. Conversations can be in your preferred language. And guests have agency over choosing which conversations they would like to listen in on or participate in.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our instigators are : <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Arnaud Rochefort-Allie, Dani Carter, Aisha Sasha John<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Toppings<\/strong>.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"wisdom\"\/>\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">CANCELLED &#8211; Queer Wisdom<\/span> <\/strong>| <strong><em>Saturday, February 18th \u2013 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.<br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Unfortunately this event was cancelled &#8211; hope you can use the time for some self care &lt;3<br><\/em><br>What came before, what\u2019s happening now, and what\u2019s coming next.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking the shape of an intergenerational conversation between two queer artists, <em>Queer Wisdom<\/em> places itself at the intersection of linear material time and the nonlinearity of wisdom. <em>Queer Wisdom<\/em> will host oral storytelling and the sharing of transgenerational insight; all in the name of hope and resilience for queers at large. <strong>Po B.K. Lomami<\/strong> will be hosting this conversation with <strong>Deanna Bowen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This activity is supported by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\" id=\"residency\"\/>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Queer Collective R<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">esi<\/span>dency <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">|<\/span><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Not open to the public&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><br><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studio 303 invites four local queer artists into its space for a collective residency. Coming together as individuals or as their own small-scale collectives, invitees are prompted to work in proximity to one another, treating the studio as a coworking space. There is no requirement for collaboration amongst the artists, however Studio 303 welcomes their respective practices to coexist in a shared, communal environment. Our hope is to provide fertile grounds for fruitful exchange and the emergence of new working relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resident artists are : <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Joliz Dela Pena<\/strong>, <strong>Mycelium<\/strong>, <strong>Dani Carter<\/strong>, and <strong>Kuntiana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#96d502;color:#96d502\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column index is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<h3><a href=\"#gathering\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">GATHERINGS<\/span><\/a><br><a href=\"#workshops\"><span style=\"color: #f458c5;\">PRO WORKSHOPS<\/span><\/a><br><a href=\"#workshops\"><span style=\"color: #15b5f2;\">SHOWS<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/accessibility-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>STUDIO 303\u2019S ACCESSIBILITY &gt;<\/strong><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/category\/classes\/professionnal-level\/#actuel-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PRO WORKSHOPS &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1 &#8211; 18, 2023&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-presenting","category-queer-performance-camp"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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