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June 2014

Co-Fusion

HΩLY JÅCKÅL (Holly Timpener and Jack Bride)
June 22, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
Theatre Centre / Artscape Youngplace

Co-Fusion centers on the bodies of the two performers—One male, one female. Slowly and gracefully, they enter the realm where the female becomes the male, the male the female. As inhabitants of these bodies, statuesque and exemplary, they invoke the androgynous into existence, becoming it momentarily before it once again slips into ether. Holly Timpener and Jack Bride work with Subtleties of Identity and Transcendence through installation and performance. Together, Holly and Jack venture to dissolve personal barriers, explore new…

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DJ Set

Simple Chemistry
June 22, 2014 @ 12:15 am
Theatre Centre

Electronic artist Simple Chemistry blends elements of techno, house & freestyle to create a sound reminiscent of the past with and entirely new momentum. He will be playing selections form his recently released debut album for Nuit Rose.

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Show Tunes & Beethoven Symphony No. 2

Counterpoint Community Orchestra
June 21, 2014 @ 11:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 12:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The program will include Show Tunes & Beethoven Symphony No. 2. Join the Counterpoint Community Orchestra, Toronto’s LGBTTIQQ2SA Orchestra in celebrating World Pride, and great music. Counterpoint Community Orchestra has been operating as a community orchestra in downtown Toronto for 30 years. Formed in 1984, it was the first lesbian/ gay/gay positive orchestra in Canada and in the world. Counterpoint is a full symphony orchestra, and the programming is drawn from Baroque through contemporary orchestral repertoire.

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The Light Parade, featuring The Cocoon Project

Joey Bruni
June 21, 2014 @ 10:00 pm
From Artscape Youngplace to Gladstone Hotel

The Cocoon Project helps to reignite a connection with nature and brings attention to the rapidly declining numbers of the monarch butterfly population. As people, we grow, experience and overcome obstacles, which are dealt with in different ways, kindred to elements of nature, much like the monarch butterflies. The light parade will depart Artscape Youngplace at 10PM and make its way to the Gladstone Hotel. Continuously inspired by his surroundings, which play a significant role in the work Joey creates,…

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Let Me Tell You That I Love You

Beau Coleman
June 21, 2014 @ 10:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Participants are led into a room where they will encounter the artist for an intimate one-on-one performance. After a period of silence and observation, the artist will tell the participant what she loves about them, with each statement being completely truthful, stemming out of the present experience of the encounter. Beau Coleman is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work has been performed and/or exhibited in North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. Previous creations include live art, spoken word, digital media,…

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Thank You Dance Party

Gladstone Hotel
June 21, 2014 @ 10:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gladstone Hotel

Join the artists, organizers and performers to dance the night away on the main floor of the Gladstone Hotel. Featuring John Simone’s large scale photos, Exploding Pink Inevitable. As a funding partner of Nuit Rose, the Gladstone Hotel is proud to host a thank you dance party in celebration.

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Unlimited Edition

Elizabeth Sweeney
June 21, 2014 @ 9:30 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 12:30 am
Artscape Youngplace

Unlimited Edition allows the audience to explore their own ability to create art, while it questions the process of art making itself. This interactive performance will originate an unlimited edition of soft, minimalist sculptures. Once the work is completed, the name of each collaborator is recorded, and each piece is numbered and documented. As creators of the piece, both artists share the credit and copyright of the resulting artwork. Elizabeth Sweeney is a visual artist, art gallery educator and curator…

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SIKA

SIKA – Jessica Valmé
June 21, 2014 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Gladstone Hotel

Born in Haiti, Jessica Valmé “SIKA” is a Montreal based musician-singer-songwriter. Her contemporary folk music is expressed in English, Haitian Créole or French. Through simple words, forward intentions, she translates silences and behaviours that sweat off human interactions. Efficient guitars with a peculiar voice tinted with soul that pulls the listener in close with intimate explorations.

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Banana/Bakergram

Natalie Wood
June 21, 2014 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Theatre Centre

Banana/Bakergram is a live multi-screen video performance drawing upon the experiences of and misrepresentations of Josephine Baker. This piece intends to encourage audience participation in the creation of alternative narratives to deep emotions in the audience and engages with the idea of the pain of assimilation and passing. Natalie Wood is a multimedia artist whose work is focused on counter-narratives that place black feminist and queer identities into broader historical narratives and aesthetic frameworks. She has participated in the AGO’s…

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PASS

Anthea Black & Mikiki
June 21, 2014 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
James Canning Garden

A performance that celebrates the legacy of this collective’s decade-long friendship as a leather dyke and drag queen. While this particular crossing of experience and identity is historically an oft-fraught dynamic, it has also been crucial to the survival of the community.Anthea is a Canadian artist, writer, and cultural worker. Mikiki is a performance artist, sexual health educator and community agent provocateur from Newfoundland. Both have a history of working together and problem solving as artists in a collaborative context.…

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Pulp Lounge

The Reading Salon
June 21, 2014 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

Pulp Lounge is Toronto’s queerest outdoor pop-up piano bar complete with celebrity entertainers. Come out to sing along with us or just sit there like a lump while we blow your mind! Using spoken word, freestyle, live performance, visual art and music The Reading Salon explores, challenges and sometimes entertains. Where words come to play.

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Rainbow 1.3 Kilometers

Morris Fox & Brian Schirk
June 21, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Walk from the Gladstone Hotel to The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The artists create a sidewalk chalk drawing of a rainbow, which total span recreates the 1.3km distance marched from Queen’s Park to 52 Division in connection to the demonstration after the police raids of Operation Soap in 1981. This rainbow will highlight areas between the Gladstone Hotel and The 519 Community Centre. The public is invited to join the walk, and to participate in the performance. Our art engages the energy trapped within objects or events of historical significance. Giving…

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Awkward Glamour Party

Mammalian Diving Reflex
June 21, 2014 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
The Theatre Centre

Come out to Awkward Glamour Party for a night of games, prizes, performances and of course, dancing. Be prepared for a night of fun and show off at the Catwalk with your smooth moves and killer looks. Glamour is a queer’s best friend, so show it off and celebrate World Pride Week. Founded in 1993, Mammalian Diving Reflex is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences.…

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Pachter Hall and the Moose Factory

Charles Pachter
June 21, 2014 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
22 Grange Avenue (take the Nuit Rose shuttle)

Join one of Canada’s best-loved painters, Charles Pachter, in his fabulous studio/home. A rare chance to see Charles’ treasured gay-themed paintings and prints. The artist will be present. One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Canada, and internationally. He has held solo…

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Tom Robinson WorldPride/NXNE Showcase

TX Productions
June 21, 2014 @ 8:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The Drake Hotel

In celebration of the first WorldPride celebrations in North America, the 20th anniversary of NXNE, and the inaugural edition of Nuit Rose, the three festivals have collaborated to present an intimate showcase with one of the first openly gay musicians to promote LGBT rights through his music, Tom Robinson (9pm). Also appearing: DJ Triple-X (8pm), WTCHS (10pm), Urvah Khan (11pm) and DJ D!ggy (midnight). TX Productions have been producing events in the Toronto area for more than 10 years, with…

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The Rosa Song

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
June 21, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Forty years after the release of Rosa von Praunheim’s ground-breaking 1971 film “It is not the homosexual who is perverse, rather the situation in which he lives”, a group of men assemble to review, rewrite and restage its legendary final scene. The Rosa Song combines dialogue from the original with challenging new ideas about gay male life in Germany and internationally, concluding with a musical manifesto that breathes new life into this 1970s classic. 10 minutes. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is…

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Legacy

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
June 21, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Cruising in an enchanted forest, a mirror-masked flâneur encounters a series of oracles, each with forgotten wisdom to impart to him through song. Borrowing the words and voices of gay elders from religious and mystical scholar Andrew Harvey to British essayist Quentin Crisp to founding Radical Faerie Harry Hay, Legacy weaves together a spiritual manifesto for queer men, reigniting a battle cry for personal and collective metamorphosis. 13 minutes. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is an artist and diarist. His work in…

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Colin Is My Real Name

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
June 21, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

The artist revisits Colin Campbell’s pioneering 1972 video True/False, which features Campbell alternately affirming and negating delicate statements about himself and his private life. Initially intended as a remake, the video instead summons Campbell’s voice to speak once more; a fragile, reversed palimpsest. Colin Is My Real Name was filmed at Mount Allison University, where True/False was originally produced. 6 minutes. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is an artist and diarist. His work in video, sound, and text contemplates the history of…

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The Common Ground

Phenomenon Theatrix
June 21, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Theatre Centre

Based on the lived experiences of youth with LGB-identified parents, The Common Ground is a 60-minute musical that explores the powerful voices, the unique perspective, and the beautiful stories of several Ontario youth. Founded by Ken McNeilly, Phenomenon Theatrix is a Toronto-based theatre company that writes and produces research-inspired musicals. Performances begin at 7:30pm and 11:00pm.

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Nuit Rose Art Bus

Nuit Rose
June 21, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Runs between The 519 Church St. Community Centre and the Gladstone Hotel

Featuring the Toronto Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – The Abbey of the Divine Wood TRIP ONE: East to West 7:30 - Departing the corner of Church and Gloucester (across from 519 Church Street) 7:45 - 22 Grange Avenue (Pachter Studio/Moose Factory) 8:00 - 230 Richmond Street West (OCADU) 8:15 - Arriving 180 Shaw Street (Artscape Youngplace) TRIP TWO: West to East 8:30 - Departing 180 Shaw Street (Artscape Youngplace) 8:45 - 22 Grange Avenue (Pachter Studio/Moose Factory) 9:00 - Arriving 519 Church Street TRIP THREE: East to West 9:15 - Departing the corner of Church and…

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What if Mrs. Ellen DeGeneres Was Finally Given The Late Night Show She Deserves?!

Ariel Len of Zoey’s Projects
June 21, 2014 @ 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Theatre Centre

A Reclaimed Drag/Dance Performance, tribute to television host Ellen DeGeneres which honors her influence in LGBT advocacy and her role in changing the way in which LGBT women are perceived in the television industry. With this piece, Len expresses her discomfort with the ‘men’s parade’ seen on late night TV, and references NBC’s failure in offering DeGeneres the coveted host position on The Tonight Show to succeed Jay Leno. Ariel Len is a Canadian filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, writer, multi-medium, visual…

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Marilyn Monroe: The Last Word is Mine

Ariel Len of Zoey’s Projects
June 21, 2014 @ 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Theatre Centre

This Reclaimed Drag/Dance Performance is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. The piece takes Monroe’s personal struggle and the abuse that she endured as a platform to make a commentary on violence against women worldwide. Len embodies Monroe, who is brought back from the death, modernized and empowered, and allows her a final word regarding her worth as a woman. Ariel Len is a Canadian filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, writer, multi-medium, visual and performance artist. She Founded Zoey’s Projects to create, produce…

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FeD, JOEL, OMAR and SEB

Nigel Nolan
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:30 am
Theatre Centre

FeD, JOEL, OMAR and SEB is an installation composed of paintings, drawings, chat-logs, client emails and installation photographs. Inspired by the lived experiences of FeD, JOEL, OMAR and SEB, the exhibition investigates the relationships and inherent complexities between artist, subject, patron and viewer. Nigel Nolan is a Canadian, Buenos Aires-based artist, working with installation and situation-specific scenarios. Nigel is interested in the space where art meets daily life and the lived experiences produced within this murky context. He has had…

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FIERCE

Sue Lloyd
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

FIERCE focuses on the struggle to find courage to continue. The artist’s strategy in this work is to visualize not the pain, but the inspiration to fight it. When creating these images, Lloyd moves them through the halves of her brain much like the blood moves through the heart. Sue Lloyd is a Toronto-based artist working with lens-based and hand-made images, using elements that are her own as well as other people’s. She is interested in visual imagery as text,…

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Walls Becoming Windows

Evan Tapper & Scott Sorli
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

This site-specific video installation asks the viewer to consider the accessibility and visibility of queer culture and establishments. In Toronto, most LGBTIQ community spaces, bars, restaurants, and shops have signs and large windows that face the street. Historically, these spaces were unmarked, windowless, isolated, and hidden; which remains the case in parts of Canada and around the world. Evan Tapper’s animation, video, installation, and performance work explores issues of identity and connection. Scott Sorli’s transdisciplinary architectural, art, and teaching practice…

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Pulse

Roxanne Luchak
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gladstone Hotel

Roxanne Luchak uses the architectural elements of the Gladstone Hotel’s exterior to projection map a collage of video imagery. Multiple layers of video projections cover the face of building with colourful cell division, blood vessels and the anatomy of the human heart, giving the illusion of a breathing organism. Roxanne Luchak is a multi-media video artist who lives and works in Toronto. For the past 10 years she has produced projection design for art shows, music events, art installations, and…

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Kiss Up

Pearl Van Geest
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Church St.

In the LGBTQ community, kissing as protest has a long history: from Queer Nation’s Kiss-Ins to today’s Russia, where people recently kissed to protest legislation that banned “homosexual propaganda.” Kiss Up participants will be invited to enter a tent on Church Street and kiss in front of a red-curtained backdrop. These impromptu make-out sessions will be captured on video and streamed live to two locations. Pearl Van Geest has been working with the kiss and the trace of the kiss…

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Other

Sonny Bean
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

I want to engage the audience in questions around different bodies and varying experiences of perception both internally and from the outside. This project plays with the invisibility of things, what we see and don’t see, or perhaps what we show/ don’t show and the discomfort of that. This piece also is an exploration around mental health along with what we define as beautiful or ugly or both. Trans artist Sonny Bean’s art explores the varying experiences that come with…

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Silence Of The Femmes

Ruben Llanillos
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Silence Of The Femmes is a trans QPOC compilation of traditional femme aesthetic and twisted DIY trash art. Using almost entirely recycled materials, Silence Of The Femmes cleanses clothes stained with makeup and hand sews them into various quilts. Quilts are framed in glossy hot pink vintage frames with femme tools like razor blades, mascara and lipstick wands, shaved Barbie heads, condoms, and cigarette butts. Ruben Llanillos is a trans femme QPOC artist. Their work embodies ‘traditional’ femme aesthetic with…

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Tryst Pic

Adam Moco
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Tryst Pic is a portrait project utilizing popular location-based “hookup” apps such as Grindr, Scruff and Hornet. This endeavour aims to repurpose the meaning of a random “hookup,” the photographer and subject in a non-sexual context through the art of portraiture. The “hookups” range from a few minutes to a few hours, all taking place within the subject’s personal space, using only natural and available light. Adam Moco, a Toronto-based freelance photographer. He has created a reputation for himself as…

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Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus

Rachelle Lee Smith
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

This photographic essay explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages fourteen to twenty-four, identifying as queer. Portraits are presented without judgment or stereotype by eliminating environmental influence with a stark white backdrop. This backdrop acts as a blank canvas, where each subject’s personal thoughts are handwritten onto the final photographic print. Rachelle Lee Smith an award-winning and internationally shown photographer based in Philadelphia, whose work in Speaking OUT: Queer…

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Exploding Pink Inevitable: Photos by John Simone

John Simone
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gladstone Hotel

Exploding Pink Inevitable: Photos by John Simone is an installation of 12 monumental photos of NYC celebrities and fabulous nobodies that chronicles the evolution of the avant-garde in New York nightlife.John Simone began providing Details magazine with nightlife photos in 1987. Michael Alig made Simone Chief Photographer for Project X Magazine in 1988. Simone was Xtra’s columnist Johnny Paparazzo (1995-2005). His work has been seen in 30 international magazines and exhibited in NYC and in Toronto.

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Rack and Pinion

Robert Donnelly
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

An interactive kinetic chair sculpture, under which seat is a metal phallus with a rack and pinion mechanism that runs along its shaft. This mechanism is connected to a circular crank on the side, and when turned, causes the phallus to lift up and down between the legs of the seated person. It’s manual operation, look and proportions suggest that it could be either a medieval torture device or a fun party gag. Robert Donnelly is a multidisciplinary artist practicing…

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ROYNATION: Neighbourly Advice

ROYNATION (Roy Mitchell, Ken Fraser, Sandy McCloud)
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gallerywest

ROYNATION, the internet radio show will be broadcasting throughout Nuit Rose from Gallerywest. Nuit Rose participating artists, attendees and anyone who is interested will be on the radio. During the broadcast, Fraser and Mitchell will be recreating their Nuit Blanche interactive performance, Neighbourly Advice, live and over the airwaves. Spin the Advice Wheel and you’ll get a piece of advice…usually good.ROYNATION is an internet radio show that focused on the art and politics of interest to a queer audience. Activists,…

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Hear, Feel The Rainbow: Sound & Visual experience Of The Power Inside The Rainbow.

Seamus James Butterly
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Rainbow Travel (449 Church St.)

This art installation breaks apart the colours of the rainbow and assigns them corresponding sound frequencies in order to demonstrate that both, light and sound are, in fact, vibrational. Now through this exhibit, one can experience the power of the two when married visually and audibly. Seamus James Butterly is a visual artist who works predominantly in mixed media including video and sound scale installations. Seamus studied film and photography at Ryerson University, and completed a masters degree in education…

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Icons and Demigods

Michael Venus – House of Venus
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

The Icons and Demigods series is an on-going project of pop and counter-culture images from the second half of the 20th century that have shaped artist and chameleon Michael Venus’ (and his drag alter ego Miss Cotton’s) work. Inspired by real life and fictional iconic characters, the Photographs serve as a time capsule that captures the essence of familiar imagery while dealing with issues of gender, sexuality, celebrity and more. Michael Venus is a Canadian artist, actor and producer. He…

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Painted Voices

Israel Vazquez & Eliud Cruz
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

These works address issues related to HIV/AIDS, sex-gender, LGBT rights and freedom of expression, as well as issues that have been impinging negatively in the lives of LGBT individuals and communities around the world such as; homophobia, heterosexism and hetero-normativity.Eliud & Israel are Mexican-Canadian artists based in Toronto. They both hold Bachelors degrees in fine arts from Mexican institutions. Eliud is also a graduate of OCADU. Eliud and Israel are committed to issues relevant to the LGBT community, which they…

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I Fuck Fat Hairy Dudes Because I Like Furry Round Things

Matt Hovey
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

This body of work offers a tender and intimate look into the life of the artist, who documents personal relationships, by photographing former and current lovers. Hovey collects the photos to remember their time together. This series is not about any of the men in particular, although Hovey is the common thread. Matt Hovey is a photographer originally from Vermont, USA. Hovey’s work explores different types of relationships: between the photographer and the model, to one’s self, nature, etc. Next…

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Say What You Mean

Christos Pantieras
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Artscape Youngplace

Social networking services have amplified the level of immediacy upon which we interact and court each other. True intent is, at times, buried among a pile of words. In his piece, Say What You Mean, Pantieras examines the sanctity of the written word and the fragile bonds of language. Christos Pantieras works in mixed media, installation, and sculpture. His recent relocation to Toronto from Ottawa, stemmed from his desire to pursue higher studies and to push the boundaries of his…

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Mme. Zsa Zsa, The $2 Psychic

Andrew Harwood
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
MOCCA Courtyard

Mme. Zsa Zsa, The $2 Psychic, is a series of performances by visual and performance artist Andrew Harwood. This work involves drag, glitter and “psychic readings”. The guests are suggested to give Mme. Zsa Zsa $2 and she will read them. Andrew Harwood is a Winnipeg-based artist, writer, curator and gallerist with a recent exhibition Séancé at Platform Centre for Photographic & Media Arts. He is past Director at Mercer Union, A Space Gallery and General manager of C Magazine…

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Translation Tessalation

Lishai & David Brame
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
CAMH Grounds

With an interest in creating art that highlights, celebrates and contests the category of “other,” this outdoor installation project, aims to explore the similar experiences of struggle, resistance and resilience of “othered” groups as a means of creating meaningful ally-ship. GraphicPoetics is a collaborative team that consists of Lishai, a leading and enigmatic poet and spoken word artist and David Brame, an educator, comic artist, and storyteller. Combining performance and the visual they tackle issues of race/identity, gender/intersectionality, violence and…

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The Cabinet of Queeriosities

Julius Poncelet Manapul
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Studio 386 (386 Ontario St.)

The Cabinet of Queeriosities consists of installation, sculpture, video projection, digital art, and mixed media works which interrogate the artist’s experiences of racialized queerness using visual vocabularies culled from Philippine culture, both colonial and Indigenous, gay pornography, and found everyday objects. Julius Poncelet Manapul was born in Manila, Philippines in 1980 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1990. He attained his Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2009 from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. He completed a one-year…

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The Fruit Machine

Michael Thompson ft. Roxxie Terrain
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The Fruit Machine is a queer reclaiming of the RCMP’s homosexuality testing device of the same name created in 1960’s Ottawa when the fear of communism was at a high. The original machine was designed to detect homosexuality in government workers with the intent to discharge them from their positions. Michael Thompson is a Toronto-based digital media professional specializing in interactive art and web development. His artwork incorporates elements of narrative, performance, and choreography into the technological world. Chanteuse extraordinaire Roxxie…

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VS

Tanya Read
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

Mr. Nobody is a black and white anthropomorphic cartoon animal. He is the star of Tanya Read’s latest animated short video, ‘VS’. Our unlikely hero experiences a confrontation with creatures/forces that are threatening to defeat him. Rather than engaging in a traditional ‘battle’, he remains stoic, attentive and somewhat bewildered. (World Premiere). Tanya created a character called Mr. Nobody in 1998 and since then her art practice has focused on projects featuring this character. When not spending time with Mr.…

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Excerpts from The Queer Story Archive 2014

Anna Malkin AKA Lulu Laru
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

A selection of pertinent segments from the first two years of collected stories at onmyplanet.ca. In recounting their personal stories, the subjects touch on a wide range of LGBTTIQQ2SA issues. Together these moments create an insightful collage of personal, political and spiritual experiences and transformations found across the queer community. Established in 2011, Onmyplanet.ca is a queer and trans positive, Canadian-based website that houses The Queer Story Archive; An ever-expanding collection of life experience stories on video and in text,…

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Illuminality

Shawn Dall
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The purpose of this project is to explore the versatile applications of lightboxes. Shawn explores different techniques that allow the work to be displayed in new and compelling ways. Shawn Dall is a Hamilton based artist who became interested in art when he was a child. Shawn works in a range of mediums including watercolour, new media, digital art, ink and chaos art.

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The Balloon Room

Sly Maria
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The Balloon Room is an interactive installation comprised of a sheer fabric covered structure, filled with approximately 1000 clear latex balloons. Participants are invited to enter the space, become submerged, and move through the balloons. Participants are encouraged to ‘leave a breath,’ to blow up one of these balloons and add it into the room. Sly Maria is a bisexual artist, photographer and burlesque performer based in Toronto. Whether working in two-dimensional, performance or interactive mediums, she strives to create…

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True North

ƒorte – The Toronto Men’s Chorus
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

ƒorte – The Toronto Men’s Chorus is proud to present True North our tribute to Canada as Toronto hosts WorldPride 2014! Join us for a concert that will bring out your True Patriot Love. Forte is a men’s chamber choir drawn from Toronto’s talented and diverse gay community. Under the leadership of Edward Connell, Forte performs classical, pop, Broadway, and contemporary songs. Forte stages annual holiday and spring concerts and a cabaret. The choir has toured and participated in community…

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Sounds of Your Soul

Florian Fructuoso & Guests
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
365 Dundas St. East

Taking place in a unique and charming loft, this performance is an emotional experience about loneliness in its various aspects and codes. Mixing different forms of arts such as dance, painting and music, the performers will take you in an intimate trip to your own vision of loneliness. Florian Fructuoso is a French choreographer/dancer. After performing for many years in France, he moved in New York, where he continued his training and created his first piece Turn On The Light.…

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Par Amour / Paramour

MOCCA | Nationa Gallery Of Cana
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
MOCCA

An intimate portrayal of gay male sexuality and beauty in the face of mortality is on view in Par amour / Paramour. From Stephen Andrews’ iconic Facsimile drawings that memorialize men lost to AIDS-related illnesses in the early 90s, to Robert Flack’s ornate depictions of the male body as a vessel of tantric power in response to his own diagnosis as HIV+, the exhibition features drawings, prints, photography, and an ambient audio soundtrack by Andrew Zealley that together etch a…

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Over the Rainbow: Seduction and Identity From the collection of Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex

MOCCA
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
MOCCA

Over the Rainbow acknowledges many of the familiar archetypes associated with queer culture – sexuality, camp, celebrity, rainbows – and looks beyond these to examine reciprocal ways that gay and mainstream representation have influenced each other, and in doing so have contributed to shaping aspects of our culture and of our identities over the last several decades. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art exhibits, researches, collects, and promotes innovative art by Canadian and international artists whose works engage and address…

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Generation of Queer: Robert Flack, John Greyson, Elisha Lim, Kiley May

Onsite [at] OCADU
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 12:00 am
Onsite [at] OCADU

Generations of Queer presents vital and compelling narratives through the works of four Toronto-based artists. “Storytelling becomes a political action in the work of all of the artists in Generations of Queer,” says curator Lisa Deanne Smith. Visitors are encouraged to tell their own stories on the Queer Pride Chronicles blog. Onsite [at] OCAD University’s mission is to draw from regional, national and international sources to create and host exhibitions, events and educational programs that inspire research as well as…

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Bending The Horizon

OCAD University
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 12:00 am
OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery 205 Richmond Street West

OCAD University is proud to present Bending the Horizon, an exhibition in celebration of the work, diversity and lives of OCADU’s LGBTQI2-S students, World Pride Toronto, and our collective future. Bending the Horizon includes the work of over 20 students and runs Thursday June 19th to Saturday June 28th. As Canada’s “university of the imagination”, OCADU will lead in art education and research, contributing significantly to the fields of art and design, as well as local and global cultural initiatives…

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Cunning Linguists

Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts

The Sex Offensive is an art exhibit featuring an international slate of artists whose work explores the politics of sex and gender. For Nuit Rose, Propeller has invited 6 Toronto writers who will read works that discuss sex and gender from a very personal perspective. “Cunning Linguists” will be an evening of titillating tales and luscious laughter. Throughout the evening guests are invited to engage the writers and the art. Propeller Centre is a member-run gallery supporting innovative, sustainable programming,…

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IN TRANSIT

WANT – Women’s Art Network of Toronto
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Scadding Court Community Centre 707 Dundas St. West

Located in the middle of Nuit Rose’s two official zones, this outdoor space is curated to represent a deconstructed pop-up nightclub reminiscent of Toronto in the 1980s and 1990′s, and explores the hidden space between physical, cultural, and temporal zones. The space is created by a series of pre-established shipping containers in public space. It is amenable to people passing through for a transitory diversion. WANT provides whole-life supports for women in the arts through an art gallery setting. As…

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Mad Queer Brain

Workman Arts Various Artists
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Queen St. W at Gordon Bell Rd.

The Pop-up Gallery will be transformed into a “mad queer brain” and will be a hub to showcase visual art, performance, poetry, music and multi-media installations by Workman Arts artists. Open from dusk until dawn, visitors to the space will be able to experience the artists’ interpretation of the inside of a mad queer brain. Workman Arts is a not-for-profit arts organization that provides training and exhibition opportunities for artists who have received services for mental health and addiction. Currently…

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That’s So Gay: On The Edge

Gladstone Hotel
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gladstone Hotel

That’s So Gay is a celebration of new projects created by LGBTTI2QQ artists about their experiences of disability, radicalization, class, and other intersectional experiences of identity. The show attempts to interrupt the idea of a singular queer community, and reimagines what it means to talk about our lived experiences as artists from a diversity of backgrounds. As a founding partner of Nuit Rose, The Gladstone’s doors will be open. Take a sneak a peek of the outstanding programming for World…

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10X10 Photography Project

Gladstone Hotel
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Gladstone Hotel

Now in its fourth year, 10X10 has become one of Toronto’s most anticipated annual visual art events during Pride. As a celebration of the Canadian queers in the arts, the 2014 exhibition during WorldPride presents an exciting opportunity to showcase the diversity, personality, and passion of our community on an international stage. The 10X10 Photography Project is an annual event and publication that celebrates queer Canadians in the arts. Portraits of 100 LGBTI Canadians in the arts by 10 queer…

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The Bus of Perpetual Joy

The Toronto Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – The Abbey of the Divine Wood
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 1:00 am
Nuit Rose Art Bus Route: 519 Church St. Community Centre – 22 Grange Avenue – Artscape Youngplace- Gladstone Hotel

The Toronto mission of the notorious Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence host an interactive theatre piece on the Nuit Rose shuttle bus running between the 519 Community Centre and the Gladstone Hotel. The Sisters will be leading sing-alongs, presiding over quizzes, taking naughty confessions, granting glitter blessings, relieving sexually transmitted guilt and generally running amok. The Toronto Sisters are a mission of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – a worldwide order of modern queer nuns who have taken vows to promulgate…

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The Drake Hotel and AGYU

Sean Rooney and Marlon Griffiths
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The Drake Hotel

Featuring balloon maestro Sean Rooney at the Drake Hotel, a custom balloon sculpture will be created on the facade of the hotel – much like his Nuit Blanche sculpture in 2011. Marlon Griffith, the Drake’s WorldPride artist-in-residence, will engage the Nuit Rose community in the “Powder Box” Project – decorating visitor’s necks with intricate stencils of imitation luxury brand logos using talcum powder, as a critique on the divide between the classes. The Drake Hotel is a cultural, entertainment and…

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Paul Petro Contemporary Art

June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Paul Petro Contemporary Art

The front window of Paul Petro Contemporary Art displays a remarkable work by the late Robert Flack, which mirror the larger exhibition held simultaneously at MOCCA.

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William Ashley China

June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
William Ashley China 55 Bloor Street West

An installation and performance in the vitrines of William Ashley China. Artists will hold a community potluck in the window on the night of Nuit Rose.

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Edward Day Gallery

June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
Edward Day Gallery

In honour of Nuit Rose, the Edward Day Gallery offers a slide show featuring the work of the it’s celebrated artists, on a large screen placed in the gallery’s Queen Street windows.

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La Nuit en Rose

Link Tong
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - June 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am
The 519 Church St. Community Centre

Roses symbolize Love and Beauty. Those themes are emphasized in “la Nuit en Rose” collection because handmade paper roses are used as the main medium. Each handmade rose in these art pieces represents our community’s unique and diverse individuals. On the other hand, each art piece is created by many handmade roses to convey peace and unity. Freelance Florist/Artist Link Tong has been making arts for charity foundations and public spaces since he came from Vietnam as a student in…

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Where the Trees Stood in Water

Bambitchell
June 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Gladstone Hotel

Where the Trees Stood in Water is a series of Cyanotype prints tracing the historic and contemporary transformations of Toronto’s Entertainment District. Each print is accompanied by an archival document, which forms a narrative connecting geography to stories of colonization, industrialization and the transient bodies of those affected by the remaking of Toronto’s landscape. Juxtaposing text and image, Where the Trees… pushes against the archival documentation of Toronto’s past and challenges the stories told about colonialism, labour and migration. With playful reproductions, Bambitchell invites…

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Expert Art Nailz

Humboldt Magnussen
June 21, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Church St.

Expert Art Nailz is a performance piece that invites audience members to get hand painted works of art in the form of manicure. While the brief exchange occurs, the manicurist, a talking watermelon, invites the audience to express their views and tastes on art. Expert Art Nailz allows the audience to have an interaction with an artist in a non-commercial environment, while it hopes to raise questions regarding performance arts. Humboldt Magnussen is an emerging artist from Saskatchewan, who recently…

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Legends of N.Y. Nitelife: Photos By John Simone

John Simone
June 21, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Buddies in Bad Times

This series is a retrospective of the celebrities and club kids that ruled the New York scene during the period 1987–1990. Simone has embraced, documented and participated in the brave metaphors expressed through style fetishes, which defy the confining categories of Post-war sexuality. John Simone began providing Details magazine with nightlife photos in 1987. Michael Alig made Simone Chief Photographer for Project X Magazine in 1988. Simone was Xtra’s columnist Johnny Paparazzo (1995-2005). His work has been seen in 30…

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