SKOL Festival: September 5th 2026 program
SKOL FESTIVAL
Place du Village: 1114 Rue Sainte-Catherine E
29.08 · 05.09 · 12.10
On August 29, September 5, and October 12, the SKOL Festival brings together, at the Place du Village, queer artists working in contemporary art who invite the public to create, exchange, and discover their practices through participatory workshops and performances.
We would like to thank the Ville-Marie borough, as well as the SDC Village for its support and the Village Allies Brigade.
Saturday, September 5th, 2026, from 10am-6pm
Artists: Rose H. · Le Lin · Isabela Markus · Mes Pants de Queer, with aliixx et juanpi · Quang Hai Nguyen and Wener Zhang · Aziliz Peaudecerf · Kasey Pocius
Program:
10am to 11am: AZILIZ PEAUDECERF
Listening Session: On the Bus
In English, French transcripts available
Come discover, in a preview listening, the podcast On the Bus, which retraces a day spent in a yellow school bus touring emblematic sites of Montreal’s social and queer struggles. As you listen, the queer history of the city is recalled through anecdotes both intimate and collective. The listening session will be followed by a discussion period with the creators of the project.
This podcast was created as part of the Summer Institute in Oral History at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS).
Biography
Aziliz Peaudecerf is a documentary podcast producer working in French, Breton, and English. For several years, she has been documenting the stories of minoritized communities (queer, disabled, linguistic minorities…). Originally from Brittany, she currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, where she is completing a master’s degree in communication, with a research-creation concentration in experimental media at UQAM. Her research-creation project aims to document practices of mutual aid and collective care within crip/disabled communities. It engages with a dual questioning of how to care for protagonists’ testimonies within documentary podcasting. Alongside this, she produces podcast series for various media outlets and podcast studios (Ouest-France, RECréation, La Clameur, Heklev Podkast…). She also facilitates radio workshops for a variety of audiences (children, teenagers, adults…).
11am to 12pm: KASEY POCIUS
Workshop: Queer Ecologies of Algorithmic Listening — Soundwalk and Sonic Activation
Open to all: 15 participants, Bilingual
Kasey Pocius proposes an outdoor public sound intervention combining guided listening and algorithmic activation. The project explores a queer listening to the living world, drawing from recordings made at Place du Village and its surroundings, notably since 2018 and on the day of the event. After a brief introduction, the audience will follow listening prompts focused on plants, infrastructure, voices, traffic, animal presences, and imperceptible sounds. Some performative recordings may be made using microphones, a recorder, and a geophone. The sounds collected will then be analyzed, fragmented, and reorganized through simple algorithmic processes, then diffused in stereo or with a light multichannel setup. Glitches, errors, and misrecognized fragments will become spaces of queer potentiality.
Biography
Kasey Pocius is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal with a fluid gender identity. They are trained in viola and piano and work with multimedia software as part of live electronic performances. Their practice focuses on sound spatialization and its application in collective improvisation contexts. Their work has been presented at numerous festivals and conferences internationally. They are a part-time professor at Concordia University and a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL), as well as the Groupe de recherche sur la médiatisation du son (GRMS).
12pm to 1pm: ROSE H.
Participative workshop: Whispers
In French
For a pause within urban life, Rose H. offers fragments written on love, queerness, and the margins. The space unfolds into islands where the audience is invited to sit for an intimate reading. Each island carries its own instruction: sometimes she reads herself, sometimes she invites someone to read one of her texts, sometimes the reading is performed as a two-voice duet.
Biography
Rose H. is a Black, queer, borderline woman who stands at the intersection of several fractures — colonial, gendered, and medical. She explores writing and literary performance both as an anthology and a manifesto, juxtaposing her texts with those of others who think through the Black body, madness, joyful marginality, queerness, love, and space.
1pm to 2:30pm: LE LIN
Workshop: Cyanotype in the Village
Open to all: 15 participants, Bilingual
Bring your own objects to print in the sun! Cyanotype in the Village, facilitated by artist Le Lin, is a hands-on cyanotype workshop. Using personal objects alongside natural materials collected on-site, participants will create unique camera-less photographs on pre-coated 4×6″ cyanotype paper. Arranged compositions are exposed to sunlight for just a few minutes before being developed in water, revealing vibrant blue prints. Along the way, participants will experience simple cyanotype techniques and explore the relationship between light, found objects, and image-making. Participants are invited to bring leaves, vines, strings, lace-like items, flat objects that produce nice shadows. No prior printmaking experience is required, and all cyanotype materials are provided.
Biography
林樂 Le Lin is a trans Teochew-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke, Montréal and 東京 / Tokyo. Most of his recent works have been silk-screen or risograph-printed artist books, always pushing the boundaries of traditional books. Le received his BFA at Concordia University in 2021, specializing in Design and Printmaking. He worked at Hand Saw Press, a DIY risograph printing shop in Tokyo, Japan. He currently resides in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal and is the Risograph Coordinator at Atelier Circulaire, where he helps artists create prints and zines, and teaches risograph and bookbinding class.
1:30pm to 3pm: QUANG HAI NGUYEN and WENER ZHANG
Papermaking workshop
Open to all: 15 participants, Bilingual
Join Wener & Hai on September 5 for an intimate afternoon papermaking workshop!
Using recycled paper and other found materials, this hands-on workshop invites participants to explore paper as a way of connecting our bodies with our surrounding environment. Together, we hope to move beyond visual representations of personal experiences and instead, experiment with how memories can be evoked through other sensory experiences—such as touch and smell. Centered on curiosity, patience, and care, the papermaking workshop focuses on documentation of different seasonal cycles, material experimentations and imperfections: how memories are traced, held, and carried through time.
Biographies
Quang Hai Nguyen (they/them) is a visual artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their practice examines different forms of absences that take shape in different daily lived experiences of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through different lens-based mediums, their visual storytelling revisits, reflects and materializes issues of migration, invisible labour and collective memory. They earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, and their works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the 5th edition of ARTCH, the 27th Festival Accès Asie, and the annual exhibition at FOFA Gallery.
Wener Zhang is an artist working between Zhengzhou, China, and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, who is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Arts with a Minor in Art Education at Concordia University. Her practice spans painting, drawing, installation, and fiber-based processes. She explores how intimate memories and experiences of migration are embedded within physical objects, tactile materials, and acts of making. She is interested in how growers, makers, materials, and environments collectively participate in the transformation of a work.
Biographies
Mes Pants de Queer is a space co-founded in 2021 by Antoine Vogler and Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez. A bookstore for used books and self-published works, the project foregrounds works by, for, and about LGBTQ2SAI+ communities. Alongside its bookstore activities, Mes Pants de Queer operates as a space for presenting art. In 2025, the duo launched Festival TRUXX, an event dedicated to LGBTQ2SAI+ performing arts, visual arts, and literature.
Antoine Vogler works in photography and installation, while Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice currently centres on writing. Together, they develop projects concerned with LGBTQ2SAI+ communities and the ways their histories continue to be written and passed on through the bodies and experiences of the present.
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand is a Montreal-based artist working primarily in drawing and sculpture. She has been organizing shows and exhibitions at Centre du Rat since 2016. Her work has been exhibited in Toronto, New York, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Lima, and Poundmaker. She has also been making music since 2018, under the names La Cucurucha and aliixx.
Juan Pablo Hernández Gutiérrez is a Montreal-based artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. He works in painting, sculpture, and music production.
3pm to 5pm: MES PANTS DE QUEER
Contest Ma peau de queer, body-ody-ody
Contest: My Queer Body, Body-Ody-Ody
Following in the tradition of professional bodybuilding competitions, Mes Pants de Queer offers a queer take on this art form, which celebrates the nature of the body through a refined aesthetic. The idea is to make the art of bodybuilding more accessible without detaching it from its spectacular setting, as defined by the rules of bodybuilding competitions. The queer body will be celebrated in its natural state—even when sculpted—and within its environment, the Village.
Biographies
Mes Pants de Queer is a space co-founded in 2021 by Antoine Vogler and Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez. A bookstore for used books and self-published works, the project foregrounds works by, for, and about LGBTQ2SAI+ communities. Alongside its bookstore activities, Mes Pants de Queer operates as a space for presenting art. In 2025, the duo launched Festival TRUXX, an event dedicated to LGBTQ2SAI+ performing arts, visual arts, and literature.
Antoine Vogler works in photography and installation, while Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice currently centres on writing. Together, they develop projects concerned with LGBTQ2SAI+ communities and the ways their histories continue to be written and passed on through the bodies and experiences of the present.
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand is a Montreal-based artist working primarily in drawing and sculpture. She has been organizing shows and exhibitions at Centre du Rat since 2016. Her work has been exhibited in Toronto, New York, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Lima, and Poundmaker. She has also been making music since 2018, under the names La Cucurucha and aliixx.
Juan Pablo Hernández Gutiérrez is a Montreal-based artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. He works in painting, sculpture, and music production.
5pm to 6pm: ISABELA MARKUS
Queer Salsa Workshop
Open to all: 25 participants
En anglais / In English
Salsa emerged as a symbol of Nuyorican pride, and it has since become an emblem of pan-Latinism. From personal experience and what I’ve heard from friends and acquaintances, dancing salsa helps many immigrants feel in community with other Latinx people in Canada. Additionally, partnering in salsa breaks the distance we typically keep from others in a playful, safe setting, and many find joy in participating. Unfortunately, it is not always safe for everyone. Salsa dancing is typically a very gendered space. It is expected that men will take on the role of “leader,” and women that of “follower.” Queer socials propose detaching the leading and following roles from gender, making either role available to anyone.
This event will include a reflection on the dance’s history and queer Latinx spaces in Montreal, a beginner friendly salsa class, and a dance party where you can test your new skills.
