NUIT ROSE 2018: Unbound
NUIT ROSE returned for its fifth annual festival of queer art and performance. Taking the theme of Unbound, the festival featured art that crosses borders, both real and imagined. The festival took place on June 16th with programming across Toronto neighbourhoods West Queen West and the Church-Wellesley Village.
Featured Artists
An Dy – Accelerated Love
Addae Nurse – Futurism
Çifel Hüseyin – The Parts
Emily Norry – Queeries Into History
EmmaRose MacDonald – The Words We Have: Queer Poetry
Francisco De la Barra – Voyage
India d’Scarlett – Melt
Jeffery Byrd – Proving Ground
Jessica Sallay-Carrington – Promiscuous
Jezabeth “Roca” Gonzalez – Una Coleccion de Himnos Sin Sonidos (A Collection of Hymns Without Sound)
Jr. – Dream
Kamille & Nic – On Met le Feu et Après on Fait la Fête! (Let’s Set Fire and Then We Party!)
Karice Mitchell – Pink Matter
Kean O’Brien – Beyond Subjectivity
Maximilian Suillerot – The Colors of Omission
Pearl Van Geest – Between Protest and Parade
RT Collective – In Your Pocket: Unbound
Sydney Southam – That’s Why I Like It
The Smiling Collective – The Smiling Room
Watsamon Tri-yasakda – 7465
Featured Performers
Adam McMaster – The Journey
Charlena Russell – Sound-Activated Light Suit, Performance & Video Shoot
Counterpoint Community Orchestra – Performance
Fühm – Grave
Gailey Road Productions – Out at School
Luyos MC – We Who Dare
MAGT – REFLEXION
Mark Sepic – Junkestra Petting Zoo and Concert
Raining Productions – Fire
Shakeil Rollock – PHISH
Shanika Maria – Performance
Testing Ground – ich liebe dich (ich liebe dich nicht) [i love you (i do not love you)]
Partner Exhibitions
10×10 Photography Project – 8th Edition
Glory Hole Gallery – Bound
Hall of Justice: 2SLGBTQ Activist Poster Series
LoveisLoveisLove – Love Lives on Church
That’s So Gay – TSG: Say My Name
Various Artists – Escondidos No More!
Independent Artists
Alexi Pedneault – Identity
Alexis Bulman – Jump and Slap
Carly Whitmore & Caitlynn Fairbarns – 2 Watch Space Grrls Go Bi
Caylen Dort – Moonflower
Damian Siqueiros – The Song of Men
Jay Ginsherman & Edgar Baculi – Addressing the Surface
Joey Bruni – Signs of Changed Times
Kellyann Henderson – Bike Your Chronicles
Kiera Sitzer – Send Nudes pt. 2
Kyle Yip – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
Lawrence Rutherford – Halloween All the Time
Maria Abbruzzese – I Became Unbound
Marnie McFadden – Bikinis not included.
Michael Reece – Police Celebrate Getting Away With Murder
Michael Rennick – Reclaimed Geometry
Mikey Anderson – Q-Craftivism
Olga Guse – Video Art Installation
Pamela Dodds – Ebb, a suite of linocut prints
Parow Pictures (Lorraine Parow) – Wimmin Rising’ Planting Positive Words
POSI VIBEZ – Postcard Station
Sarah Hunter – Up the Down Staircase
Shira Spector – Red Rock Baby Candy: Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, my Dad’s Cancer & Me (Excerpt)
Sue Lloyd – Fierce Queens
Terry Gambarotto – Agon
We Other Sons – Black Men Loving: Meditations on Intimacy
Independent Performers
Dark Lady – TV Series in Development
Inamorata Dance Collective – Sola
Kwasi Shade – We Will Be Sky
Michael Caldwell – Two/Fan
THE POINT – Points Unbound
Sarah Jaworski – I Came Here to Prey