Michael Roberson talks health, ballroom, at SFU June 15 and 16
Following the international art consultant’s second Vancouver appearance is a vogue workshop by Ralph Escamillan (aka Posh Gvasalia Basquiat)
Michael Roberson.
NEW YORK CITY-based public-health practitioner Michael Roberson is an advocate, activist, artist, curator, and 2SLGBTQIA+ leader. The co-creator of the United States’ only Black Gay Research group and National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition, he is also an international art and politics consultant; a member of the international sound art collective entitled Ultra-red; a scholar in residence for the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy; and a recent TED Media Resident.
Roberson will visit Simon Fraser University to hold a seminar with Travis Salway from the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences as well as a public talk and voguing workshop with local performance artist Ralph Escamillan.
First up, on June 15 at 4 pm at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts is Arts, Health, & Liberation, a free public talk that will explore this question: “What can the Black Queer & Trans House/Ballroom movement teach us about public health intra-vention?” The sessions is presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative, and the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity.
On June 16, at 4 pm at the same location, it’s A Brief History of Ballroom, a free public talk that will explore the history of the house/ballroom community as a “BlackTrans-Womanist theological discourse, a freedom movement, and its spiritual formation responses to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression”. Following the talk, Ralph Escamillan (aka Posh Gvasalia Basquiat), founder of Van Vogue Jam, will break down the five basic vogue-femme elements: hands, catwalk, duckwalk, spin/dips, and floor. The event is presented by SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative
For more information, see https://events.sfu.ca/voce/all.
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