Performances

In addition to presenting performances by international participants at the conference as part of our shift program, we look forward to offering PSi #16 participants opportunities to engage with important performance works by Canadian artists. These performances will be produced in partnership with FADO, Toronto’s non-profit artist-run centre for performance art, and Buddies in Bad Times, a venue with a strong history of investment in queer and community-based performance.

Performance Showcase at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (tickets are now available for purchase on the PSi 16 online registration system)
PSi 16 has teamed up with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre to bring to you two nights of experimental performance by some of Canada’s most exciting artists. Tickets for these performances are available for purchase through the PSi 16 online registration system until May 31, 2010. Please note that tickets for the Buddies showcase performances are limited and will sell out quickly, so we recommend that you purchase your tickets early!

Thursday June 10, 2010 Evening, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tullulah’s Cabaret:
A cabaret extravaganza featuring performance pieces by the Sasha Van Bon Bon and Kitty Neptune (of the Scandelles), Ryan G. Hinds, John Greyson, Fluffy Souffle and Fay Slift, Waawaate Fobister, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jess Dobkin and Lex Vaughn.

Friday June 11, 2010 Evening, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tullulah’s Cabaret
A double-bill with two of Toronto’s most celebrated performance artists. The two performances will be followed by The Keith Cole Experience, Buddies’ monthly variety show.

Nina Arsenault, I Was Barbie
After sixty cosmetic surgeries and procedures to remake her body, Nina Arsenault considers herself a queer artist and a queer art object. Her metamorphosis from an awkward man – who once resembled character actor Crispin Glover (Marty McFly’s dad in Back to the Future) – into a silicone bombshell has been the subject of numerous television programs, radio interviews, and print articles. http://ninaarsenault.com

d’bi.young, she
music by prymtym, dubnotic sound system featuring d’bi.young and prymtym
‘she’ is the first play in a new trilogy of biomyth-monodramas by d’bi.young entitled she raw now. a young black womban snew is enchanted with a pop icon. as her enchantment becomes obsession, what’s real is make-believe and lines of fantasy and reality are possibly permanently blurred. www.dbiyoung.net

Information about FADO performances coming soon!