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SKIM and Maiden China get personal in YOU AND I ≠ WE
June 15, 2023By: C Icart, Humour Editor “Do you like living in Vancouver?” That’s the first question Maiden China (Kendell Yan’s drag persona) asks her co-star SKIM (Romi Kim’s drag persona) during their show YOU AND I ≠ WE as part of the rEvolver Festival at The Cultch. What follows is a long answer reflecting on what it means to be a racialized settler on unceded, unsurrendered xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. But how did I get here? Well, the first time I fell in love with SKIM was during Pride last year. Their moving drag performance to the…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 31–June 6
May 31, 2021By: Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate rEvolver Festival | Online | May 19–June 6 | FREE with registration Presented by Upintheair Theatre, the rEvolver Festival features Vancouver artists in workshops, play readings, and more. The festival schedule and brochure are available…
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House of Rice: In Rice-olation illuminates the intersectional and political scope of digital drag
July 17, 2020By: Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate Intrigued by the idea of digital drag, I saw House of Rice: In Rice-olation on June 27 as part of rEvolver’s online performance festival, e-Volver. The rEvolver Festival is a theatre and performing arts festival…
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Shimmering with Julie Hammond and Other Inland Empires
May 18, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Julie Hammond is a Vancouver artist whose practice focuses on place and identity. She recently completed her MFA in Contemporary Arts at SFU in 2017, and her grad project is being mounted again this week…
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