Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival 2023: Saturday Night Vibes

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Cost: Free
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Agenda:
5:45 PM Theatre doors open
5:55 PM Land acknowledgement and opening words from host
6:00 PM Fairything
6:30 PM Pickle Spears with Son of a Butch and Ultra Violet Estradiol
7:00 PM Hampton
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM Final words from host

THEATRE AND DANCE AFTERNOON HOST:
Laura Fukumoto (she/her) is a poet, theatre artist, person about town. She settled in so-called Vancouver almost 15 years ago (?!) from the Toronto area, and is committed to loving this city and all her neighbours. Laura gets paid to talk a lot, and you may have heard her hosting the annual Powell Street Festival’s annual Sumo Wrestling tournament, facilitating panels, or loudly talking about her other odd jobs (TA, fabric wizard, governance coordinator, potter, director, organizer of a one-time-only Spiritual Pizza Festival, dog-walker, costumer, etc). Recent poetry events include Main St. Car Free Day, Queer Arts Festival, Rehearsal Sessions at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Powell Street Festival, Vines, and Verses Festival of Words. Laura writes about queerness+mycology, her Japanese Canadian heritage, and our hopeful futures.

PERFORMER:
Alex K. Masse, AKA Fairything, is a synthy, sapphic, singer-songwriter solo act (and probable changeling) making tunes to watch the sky to. Music is a longtime love of theirs, and they’ve been everywhere from Broadway Records crossovers to online multimedia collectives, from Vancouver Pride to working with the incomparable Penelope Scott. Much of their musical inspiration comes from In Love With A Ghost, The Scary Jokes, Tikkle Me, and the video games & cartoons they grew up on. These influences shine through in their unique melodies, poetic lyricism, and the dreamy, synthy sounds of their Suzuki Omnichord. When not making music, Alex is probably writing, working on their degree, or spreading magic in the local arts scene. They’re also a neurodivergent nonbinary lesbian, which greatly affects their process.

PERFORMER:
Pickle Spears (he/him) is a newcomer to the “Vancouver” drag scene. He is a self described drag clown that loves to be campy and creative in his performances. Pickle is a transgender man that loves to break the barriers of what people think trans masculine people should look like, in and out of drag. You can catch Pickle Spears in any smoke pit at a drag show.
Joining Pickle will be 2 other local drag artists, Ultra Violet Estradiol and Son of A Butch, to bring you the ultimate gender euphoria showcase.
Ultraviolet Estradiol (she/her), the purple drag clown princess, a costume designer with a love for a classic ballad.
Son of a Butch (he/him) is a Drag King first, and a Drag Monster second. He is the beauty in gore, and the sexiness in butch.

He debuted last year, has since competed in VNDS, and gone to participate in the Austin International Drag Festival.
He comes from the depths of your desires, the shadowed corners of your mind, and the hollowed cavities of your chest. Son of a Butch will tell you a story, and give you a glimpse of what it means, for him, to be Butch.

PERFORMER:
Hampton (they/them) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and multidisciplinary artist who has been making music their entire life. Their voice has been described as a cross between Moses Sumney and Brittney Howard and their music is predominantly composed on a Loop pedal using whatever instruments (or objects!) they can find.
Their art is informed by their experiences living as a mixed, Black, trans, neurodivergent, disabled person and speaks to the oppressive violence enacted in our current colonial and capitalist social systems. The work is based in a constant critique of themselves, their community, and society at large.
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