April 19th & 20th, the Dreaming is [Trans]cendent Festival takes over Garden, where 5 Black Trans Disabled Artists build an immersive world of visual art and performance. Come explore, feel and [Trans]cend! Featuring: Venus Kii Thomas, Déjà Pascale, Mondo Millions, edxi and Famehodiɛ Ɔkyeame!

If you are already a member of Garden, register for the festival here!

If you are not a member of Garden, register for the festival by Friday April 18th here!

Check back here after March 25th for the full schedule!

Accessibility: Find Garden's accessibility guide here. ASL will be provided.

Schedule

Saturday, April 19th

Opening Reception 12pm-2pm PST // Come learn about Garden's Art + Tech Fellowship, get an Orientation to using Gather for new folks, Explore Garden.

Exhibits & Performances 3pm-7pm PST // Opening performance starts at 3pm PST, exhibits unlocked for wandering shortly after.

3pm PST Venus Kii Thomas Performance

4pm PST Famehodiɛ Ɔkyeame & edxi Installations Open

5pm PST Mondo Millions & Déjà Pascale Installations Open

6pm PST All Installations Open

Sunday, April 20th

All Installations Open to Wander 9am-1pm PST

Talk with the Artists! 1pm-3pm PST // Meet the artists!

Closing 3:30pm-4:30pm PST // Shared grounding and final thoughts.

Artist Bios

Venus Kii Thomas (xe/xym) is a queer Black trans femme writer, multidimensional artist, creativity doula-in-formation, reiki practitioner, and abolitionist. Xyr work explores dreaming, identity, liberation, and memory, weaving together storytelling and syncretic spiritual practices to envision free futures across multiple mediums. Through ritual, reclamation, and imagination, xe seeks to disrupt oppressive narratives and cultivate spaces for collective healing and self-determination. Xyr creative practice is a testament to the power of transformation, honoring both ancestral wisdom and emergent possibilities. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Venus now lives and actively radicalizes in Baltimore, Maryland, where xe nurtures art, land, and an orange cat named Mozeet.

Déjà Pascale is a movement and performing artist, writer and educator. She adores speculative fiction, coming of age stories, and everything arcane and esoteric. A wordsmith and poet, Déjà believes in service, reciprocity, kinship, and sorority above all else. Her creative work, social commentary, and critical analysis around storytelling and pop culture is featured at patreon.com/thedejaspeaks.

Mondo Vaden (He/They) is a DeafBlackTrans Intersectional Librarian, artist, and activist. He performs as drag king Mondo Millions, working to bring Deaf/DisabledQueer Visibility to all via The Black Violet Revue, a BlackQueerDisabled virtual variety show. His research passion for 10+ years has been analyzing the world through a creative intersectional lens, noting how it can be actionably applied to create greater support and wellbeing for all who are multi-marginalized in society, and how we can be nourished to thrive.

edxi is a neurodivergent, Black, Blackfeet descended(non enrolled), trans Pinay, writer, multi-media artist & cultural critic. Her work entails political education while providing material support to historically targeted and colonized communities. Through her combined paintings/illustrations, video, poetry, musical performance artistry and anti-colonial perspective her cultural work challenges systems of domination and their oppression. You can support her artistry at patreon.com/bettsurevolt

Famehodiɛ Ɔkyeame is a displaced trans, queer, and nonbinary Ghanaian creative. A child of the Akyem-Akan people, they use narrative art as a tool of protest against the colonial erasure, criminalization, othering, and pathologization of Trans Ghanaian peoples.

Until next our avatars meet,

🪻J Mase

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