Celestial Queer: Film Screening and Conversation
Join us for a Pride season screening of Celestial Queer: The Life, Work and Wonder of James MacSwain, a film that documents the life and work of James MacSwain, a queer artist whose work brings together humour, politics, beauty, imagination, and queer visibility. Equal parts art project, history lesson, and whimsy, this film offers a portrait of an artist who defied convention for a life lived on his own terms. Directors Eryn Foster and Sue Johnson spent a decade checking in with the witty, erudite MacSwain as he moved about his life in north end Halifax, returned to his tiny rural hometown of Amherst, Nova Scotia — where he grew up, unable to pass for straight, in the 1950s — and discussed his lifelong, wildly inventive art practice. The playful, queer work is cut out, glued together, an
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