December 16th, 2018 (Artist Talk @ 2pm; Workshop to follow talk after a short break)

Brad Jones is a Two-Spirit Anishinaabe interdisciplinary artist whose work examines and critiques notions of colonialism, sexuality and gender. Their work is embodied as the drag persona Jennifer Dafuque. Utilizing drag as an access point, performances become the embodiment of lived experiences that seek to present contemporary queer Indigenous experiences.

THE WORKSHOP

The workshop is kind of an intro to drag and will involve discussion around gender, gender expression, and examining what it means to perform gender including deconstructing and histories around this style of performance and explore what drag teaches us about ourselves when we begin to push ideas of what gender is and has to be.