B.C. films about a diasporic Japanese woman’s return home and East Vancouver drag queens fared remarkably well.
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival will present Starwalker, which revolves around an Indigiqueer, Two-Spirit callboy named Star.
Payette, co-founder of the Transform Festival, says that this show is about the legalities of land, but it’s paired with identity issues.
According to TRANSFORM co-curator Corey Payette, the event encourages collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
Payette, a member of the Mattagami First Nation with French Canadian and Irish ancestry, says it has a contemporary musical-theatre sound.
According to the Cultch, it enabled Payette to investigate a part of himself that he hasn’t had as much time to focus on in his other works
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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