Whess Harman and Lacie Burning at Indigenous Brilliance
NOVEMBER 22 7-9:30 pm Massy Books 229 Georgia St, Vancouver
This event is FREE and wheelchair accesssible.

 Indigenous Brilliance is Room Magazine and Massy Books’ quarterly reading series dedicated to raising the voices of Indigenous women, Two-Spirit and queer writers, artists and storytellers. Featuring artists and poets from across Turtle Island, it is the result of different communities coming together with a shared vision of Indigenous resurgence.

Lacie Burning is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) multi-disciplinary artist and curator raised on Six Nations of the Grand River located in Southern Ontario. They work in photography, video, installation, and sculpture and will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a focus on Indigenous Art. Having come from a culturally and politically grounded upbringing, their work focuses on politics of Indigeneity and identity from a Haudenosaunee perspective.

Whess Harman (they/them pronouns) is a Carrier Wit’at/mixed race, trans (ftn) indigiqueer. They graduated from the emily carr university’s bachelor of fine arts program in 2014.
Their on-going work includes beading and DIY strategies around punk aesthetics creating the “Potlatch Punk” series; a collection of modified and embellished jackets that blend traditional materials with punk aesthetics to discuss urban Indigenous identity, resistance, visibility and understandings of wealth. Their poetry and text-based projects seek to explore the possibilities of reciprocal engagement in dialogue. They make zines about dating (badly), queer and trans identity, and are also sporadically writing and drawing a comic called cryboy about over-emoting spirits and queerness in a post-apocalyptic future.
They are currently a curatorial intern at grunt gallery and co-curated the Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities 2SQ/Indigiqueer Symposium with Kali Spitzer and are the de-facto editor of the Together Apart Zine.

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