Vines 2021: Project Vines

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Vines is an arts organization and festival that is responsive to and nurturing of artists that are working toward land, water, and relational justice. We support underrepresented voices in developing their work. We bring imagination into everyday spaces by presenting work for free on “earthstages” – populated and natural public spaces in Vancouver and throughout the province.

6 PM | Look Building at 2 PM | ASL Interpretation
In partnership with Mx. Bukuru

No plastic leaves here: Project Vines is a fun community designed event riffing off of Project Runway. Participants will receive assistance from the monarchs of reuse and recycle. Nothing reduced about it! Performances will cap off the evening in an explosion of public queer reclamation.

The Challenge should you choose to accept it: Constructing the Future, Recycling the Past! Give it your best shot at the evening wear look of your dreams.

The tent will be open at 2 PM. Participants can come and use supplies to create the lewks of their dreams! Newspaper aplenty! Bottle caps will be busting! Have no idea where to start? Get some assistance from the recycled Monarch themselves, Skim.

Performances will start at 6 PM, with the runway in the middle. Enjoy dance, drag, and a final performance by the unparalleled Coven.

MX. BUKURU
Dominique Wakeland (they/them) was born on unceded Kwantlen Territory and graduated from Simon Fraser University in June 2019 with a BFA in Theatre Performance. They are a performer, dramaturge, director, and drag artist. Past credits include: Dramaturging “Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night”, (2018) Foot Faults in Foreplay“, (2017) and being the inaugural winner of Van Slam’s Drag Slam (2019). In 2019 they participated in the development and jury of the Vancouver Fringe’s ‘Fringe Forward Award’.

Dominique’s practice is fundamentally movement and text based with an emphasis on the politics we bring in our bodies and how that manifests into knowledge. From 2019 to 2020 they worked as an Assistant Choreographer/Assistant Director with MISCELLANEOUS Productions, an East Vancouver theatre company for at-risk and culturally diverse youth.

Dominique is a member of Diasporic Dynasty under their stage name, Mx. Bukuru. Their mission is simple, “To be the actualization of our ancestors, to usher in a new age of performance, and to welcome our diasporic siblings home.”

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THE COVEN
“The Coven” is a vogue collective comprised of three professional, queer artists from across the country. Ralph Escamillan (House of Gvasalia), Ross Wirtanen (RiaToss Productions) and Kevin Fraser (Immigrant Lessons) are all highly distinguished and versatile dancers / choreographers within their hometowns of Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON. With an innate passion for LGBTQ2IA+ arts and culture, the “unholy trinity” strive to cultivate the growing Canadian vogue and ballroom scene by hosting community dance classes, workshops and balls .Their macabre sense of theatre, editorial fashion and gender-bending style are woven into entertaining and educational live performances that elevate the expressive, underground dance style of Vogue.

SKIM
Skim also known as Romi Kim (they/them) is a second generation Korean interdisciplinary artist currently living on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Skim has exhibited their work in The Works Festival (Edmonton), Queer Asia (United Kingdom), in Seoul, South Korea, Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast, Canada. They have performed on various stages and venues in South Korea, Vietnam and Canada irl and online internationally. They often work within themes of exploring stories within their own queer and Korean identity in regards to language, emotion and affect, culture and various unquestioned histories. Skim is an active member of the House of Rice and currently a MFA grad student at the University of British Columbia
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