Key Frames: Kiki

Name: Key Frames: Kiki
Start: 2025-02-13T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS, Canada, Nova Scotia B3J 1V9

Schedule

Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS, Canada, Nova Scotia B3J 1V9 | Halifax, NS

This African Heritage Month, Key Frames presents KIKI, a 2016 documentary film that explores the lives of LGBTQ+ youth-of-colour in New York City’s underground Ballroom scene. Following seven youths over four years, the film explores how challenges can be overcome through artistic exploration, producing a community scene that validates lived experiences and gender expressions.
“In New York City, LGBTQ youth-of-colour gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance-based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQ youth have formed an artistic activist subculture, named the Kiki Scene.” — http://www.kikimovie.com/synopsis
In anticipation of Séamus Gallagher’s solo exhibition – opening in February – and in celebration of African Heritage Month, this film celebrates the histories and present experiences of Black Queer communities, whose legacies continue to echo in contemporary artistic practices.