Queer Pride & Prejudice: Diasporic Belongings Through Artmaking

For many queer migrant people, hiding who they truly are can become a necessary part of survival. Being fully seen can affect family, safety, community, and the fragile belonging a person has fought to keep. Over time, the self can become something managed in public and only fully recognized in private, until art becomes the place where the whole person is finally allowed to appear.

In this lecture, Julius Poncelet Manapul will speak about how his art practice became a way to recover the parts of himself that the world made difficult to live openly. His talk will move through queer migrant life, the pressure to belong on terms set by others, and the role art can play when a person is trying to imagine a future without self-erasure.

By the end, guests will have a clearer understanding of how art can become more than expression. It can become a way of surviving shame, reclaiming self-worth, and imagining a life where belonging does not require hiding who you are.

Julius Poncelet Manapul is a queer migrant Filipinx artist, educator, and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. His work has been shown at galleries and festivals including A Space Gallery, John B. Aird Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto World Pride, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, and Toronto Queer Film Festival. You can see more of his art at .

Agenda

6:00 PM doors open. Guests are welcome to arrive early, order drinks, meet other attendees, and grab the best seats before the lecture begins.

7:00 PM lecture begins, followed by Q&A.

8:15 PM wrap up, 1:1 with the lecturer, drinks, and conversation. Guests are welcome to order another round.

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