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VERB FRAU TV Season 5: Episode 8 with Mikiki

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Mikiki talks about combining/balancing his caregiver role as community health provider & and advocate with his role as a performance artist; then, Mikiki opens up and shares his purse for his desktop performance.

VERB FRAU TV Season 5: The 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (2016) was created by the following artists:

Technical Assistance and Camera: Golboo Amani
Second Camera: Manolo Lugo, Sarah Sheard
Editing: Moira Simpson, Sarah Sheard, Jade Chen, Margaret Dragu

Theme Song: “Return of the Lemming Shepherds”
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons:
By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Extro Music: Sarah Sheard

7a*11d Collective
DWI (Dragu Worker International)
VIVO

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Mikiki talks about combining/balancing his caregiver role as community health provider & and advocate with his role as a performance artist; then, Mikiki opens up and shares his purse for his desktop performance.

VERB FRAU TV Season 5: The 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (2016) was created by the following artists:

Technical Assistance and Camera: Golboo Amani
Second Camera: Manolo Lugo, Sarah Sheard
Editing: Moira Simpson, Sarah Sheard, Jade Chen, Margaret Dragu

Theme Song: “Return of the Lemming Shepherds”
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons:
By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Extro Music: Sarah Sheard

7a*11d Collective
DWI (Dragu Worker International)
VIVO

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Venue Accessibility

VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.

Wheelchair/Walker Access

A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.

Washrooms

There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.

To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.

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Mikiki is a performance and video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland, Canada.
They attended NSCAD and Concordia before returning to St. John's to work as Programming Coordinator at Eastern Edge Gallery and later to Mohkinstsis/Calgary to work as the Director of TRUCK Gallery. Their work has been presented throughout Canada and internationally in self-produced interventions, artist-run centres, performance art festivals and public galleries.

Their identity as an artist is informed and intrinsically linked to their history of work as a sexual health educator and harm reduction worker. Mikiki’s creative themes often address safety and responsibility, disclosure and self-determination, community building and reckoning with trauma and loss.

Mikiki has worked as a Sexuality Educator in Mohkinstsis/Calgary's public schools, a Bathhouse Attendant in sâskwatôn/Saskatoon, & Drag Queen Karaoke Hostess in St. John's. Mikiki has worked in numerous capacities in the gay men's health and HIV response both nationally/internationally and as well in Kitche Zibi/Ottawa, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto, co-developing and implementing the first sexual health promotion programming specifically for gay men living with AIDS and/or HIV in Canada.
Recently Mikiki’s work focused on Harm Reduction outreach & agency staff training, and conducting HIV testing. As well, Mikiki sat on numerous national, provincial and local boards, committees and research projects, like CAS, the Canadian AIDS Society; CTAC, the Canadian Treatment Action Council for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C; the Bad Date Coalition and the CHIME study. The CHIME study involved PLWHIV as standardized patients in training medical students to deliver HIV rapid testing and reduce HIV stigma. With CHIME, Mikiki was a member of the research team, the Research Assistant training team, a standardized patient research participant as well as an external HIV testing preceptor. Mikiki was an inaugural member of Beyond LIVING’s Life Force, providing strategic direction for international HIV/AIDS advocacy in concert with the three global PLHIV networks GNP+/ICW/Y+.

Mikiki divides their time between Tkaronto and Utrecht and is now dedicated to their art practice full time when not hosting their Golden Girls screening & queer cultural studies lecture series Rose Beef.

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Margaret Dragu aka Verb Woman, aka Lady Justice, is a renowned interdisciplinary performance artist living and working in Vancouver. She returns to NSL&G to present material from her ongoing How To Be Old How To Guide series, taking on thoughts and issues to do with aging, culture and society. 3 videos will be screened: Get Devices, Get Rolling and Get Group-y.

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