Ukrainian Folk Dance Party with The Kubasonics
Date: Jun 4
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
Where: Level 3 Atrium
Put on your dancing shoes and join Kubasonics for a Ukrainian folk dance party! Participants will learn traditional social dances at this live music fun family-friendly event.
No dance experience needed!
Cost: $12 per person, 10% discount for Rooms Members.
About the Performers:
Kubasonics are arguably Newfoundland and Labrador's finest Ukrainian band. This award winning group combines top-flight musicianship spiced with quirky humour, a dizzying array of exotic traditional instruments, and an eclectic high-energy stage show. They have also delighted audiences with their folk dance and musical instruments workshops at festivals across Canada. Their entertaining mix of traditional Eastern European dance grooves and unexpected splashes of hybrid musicality is an experience not soon to be forgotten.
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How do place, identity, and art intersect, and what do their points of intersection tell us about this place we call home?
In this talk, Rhea Rollmann will explore the significance of queer and trans art in Atlantic Canada with particular emphasis on the work of Erica Rutherford as well as iterations of queer and trans art in NL. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.
About the Presenter:
Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John's, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She is a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and she is Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John's.