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

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