Friday, March 28th | 6-7PM
Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave. N, Hamilton)
Please join us for a FREE workshop on reading (and learning) tarot, and conversations about the internet circa the early 2000s, living online, and “interfacing” with the dead*◌ੈ✩‧₊˚ with Billie Raphael, our current &NOW Artist-in-Residence!
If you can, please bring your own tarot deck! If not, no worries, decks will be provided. This workshop is free to attend, but spots are limited! Please complete the RSVP form below to register:
About the Artist
billie raphael is a queer Filipino multidisciplinary artist. Their practice explores the spectacle of ritual acts and the articulation of meaning through the repetitions of social performance, often injecting queer indulgences into strict constructions of being. They complicate dogmatic narratives through the act of queering as a form of disrupting its “hetero”-genous (homogenous) modalities, imbuing esotericism and weirdness into authoritarian ideological systems in order to dismantle colonial social performances of gender and sexuality. Their work takes inspiration from the plush, the soft, the sexual, the internet of the early 2000s, drag, magical girls, and Catholicism. Their work has been featured in publications including FeatureCreep (2024) and Class Favourite Magazine (2025), as well as being exhibited at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2022, 2023), The Textile Museum of Canada (2024), and UKAIProjects (2024).
About the Residency
Our &NOW Production Residency and Scholarship is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at Factory Media Centre to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.