KIN. Screening & Social

Join us at Libby Leshgold Gallery for the West Coast premiere of KIN., a five-part web series created by Jas Morgan, Theo Cuthand, Arielle Twist and Justin Ducharme. This series is an honest and comedic exploration of the urban queer and trans indigenous experience centered around a group of friends and their social media engrossed lives.  
 
Starring Ta’kaiya Blaney, Aalayna, Waawaate Fobister, Adrienne Huard, Kelsey Wavey and Aya Clappis. 

Before the screening there will be a social hour with a DJ set by DJAMA.  
 
Presented as part of Research As… with Justin Ducharme.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.