Fantasy Picnic 

The Complete Rites & Rituals of Spring Awakening.

June 12 at 7 PM MDT

Online

$15 or by donation

A Mile Zero Dance Salon curated by performance & video artist and queer community health activist Mikiki.

The transitional time of Spring is historically associated with renewal, rebirth, and change. More recently, spring is linked in our consciousness with the founding of the TRC, the Arab and Maple Springs.

Plant material has decomposed to bring its richness to the next generation of seedlings, kombucha scobys and sourdough starters keep our bodies connected to processes of fermentation, bio-chemical changes and our own guts.

This is a time for us to celebrate and reinvent but also - in this moment of frisson with covid still present and lockdowns opening and closing - how do we drop down into our bodies to push our physicality, frivolity and fierceness up and into the world.

Curator Bio

Mikiki is a performance & video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. They attended NSCAD and Concordia before returning to St. John's to work as Programming Coordinator at Eastern Edge Gallery. They later moved to Mohkinstsis/Calgary to work as Director of TRUCK Gallery. Their work has been presented throughout Canada and internationally in self-produced interventions, artist-run centres and public galleries.

Their identity as a queer artist & activist has necessitated a porous boundary between what is labelled art-making, or activism versus ‘being’ in the world. Mikiki has worked as a Sexuality Educator in Mohkinstsis/Calgary's public schools, a Bathhouse Attendant in sâskwatôn/Saskatoon, Drag Queen Karaoke Hostess in St. John's. Mikiki has worked in various capacities in the Gay Men's Health, HIV & Harm Reduction responses in Kitche Zibi/Ottawa, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto. Mikiki is irregularly found hosting their Golden Girls screening and queer cultural studies lecture series Rose Beef.