ART CELEBRATION PRODUCTION
& CURATION
Angelic seeks out beauty, wonder, chaos, and alchemy of all space and time through celebration and community art co-creation. Angelic has organized, created, curated and produced over 500 events and programs.
Below are some of the most recent art celebration and curation work Angelic has manifested.
Queer at the Root
JCC MILES NADAL X TORONTO PRIDE, 2021
Queer At The Root is a virtual art exhibition featured 18 Jewish, queer and or trans artists across North America displayed at the Miles Nadal JCC in Toronto in collaboration with Jewish Queer Trans Vancouver curated by Angelic. The work in this exhibition is all equally sacred - whether photography, collage, painting, crafted by youth artists or older artists - it all lives side by side, in the multiplicity of Jewishness, of queerness, of transness, and the non-hierarchical way our beingness creates and interweaves with each other.
Queer at the Root beckons that we are always necessary to be witnessed, celebrated and understood in our multiplicity continuously. This exhibition features 18 artists, to affirm our life collectively. As in, together we become life itself. Here we are, creating to unsplit ourselves, to come back into our kin, to affirm we always were, in fact, here. At the deepest root, we express all of ourselves.
Balloons that Flame Exhibition and Showcases
ROUNDHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2021
Carrying the sounds of hundreds of ancestor poets, learning from pages, words, and the digging into a community of cycle disruptors, emancipators, visionaries – pen carriers desperate to free out the truth, a group of young poets began nurturing their craft over Webex with mentorship by Angelic and Anjalica Solomon.
Intrigued by balloons that flame, Balloons That Flame is an exhibition of a group of youth artists that have come together to celebrate their power as poets through the creative organizing efforts of Angelic. This diverse collective of intuitive and innovative multidisciplinary artists, just like a hot air balloon are on the rise... The workshop sessions cumulated in a a series of the collectives showcases and group anthology. Read about the process in Room Magazine.
We want to thank and acknowledge the generous support of Art Starts, the Roundhouse Community Centre, the Ignite Youth Festival, the League of Canadian Poets, and the Cultch, with whom this work was able to shine forth.
Queer Homelands
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MAY 2021
Queer Homelands welcomed all spell-casters, poetry architects, refuge-seekers, gender binary abolitionists, and those finding the words back to a sense of home within their queer body. Queer Homelands was an evening of poetic performance and conversation by non-binary Fillipinx artist Kimmortal, transgender Russian-Jewish poet Angelic Goldsky and first-generation Afro-Caribbean artist Alisha hosted by the Museum of Anthropology, curated by Angelic.
The artists performed and engaged in conversation on how queer children of refuge, diaspora, migration and/or exile can reclaim access to healing through the magic of language and performance.
Every Kind of Love
CHAN CENTRE, FEB 2020
Every Kind of Love featured performances from students and community artists that are dedicated to discussing and representing queer love, trans love, 2-Spirit love, Black love, Indigenous love, and radical-self love in mid February. Held in the Chan Centre for Performing Arts, performers were transported into a safer space, where their love is celebrated and honoured.
While traditional Valentine’s Day celebrations typically promote a kind of “love” which is not inclusive to all genders, sexualities, and experiences, Every Kind of Love is a space where artists and audience members to share their vulnerability. We welcomed a Valentine's Day in full spectrum. Angelic was the creative manager and leader of the event in February 2020.
ARTIVISM: A Festival of Creative Resistance
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2019 & 2020
ARTIVISM is a festival Angelic dreaming for students to get involved in creating, exhibiting, performing and sharing their own works of artistic activism throughout the UBC campus. The festival was 1-2 weeks long and held in the spaces of the Museum of Anthropology, Belkin Art Gallery, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Barnett Hall, Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre, Hatch Gallery, MAS and AHVA art gallery, where student-led dialogues, exhibits, art sales and performances were hosted. Angelic founded ARTIVISM and was the festival director in 2018 and 2019.
Equal & Empowered
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2019 & 2020
Awoken Word
Museum of anTHRopology, 2019
A joint effort between UBC Slam Poetry and the Museum of Anthropology, and curated by Angelic, Awoken Word was a collaborative spoken word show featuring Canada’s rising and established silver-tongued artists. Awoken Word was about honouring truths, stories and sharing intimate space. In November 2019, in the Haida House at the Museum of Anthropology there was a night of music, poetry and truth shared over a burning fire-pit.
UBC LGBTQQ2SIA+ Pride Festival
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 2019
Pride at UBC was celebration of Positive Space, and the diversity of our community. A celebration of the beauty of all sexual and gender identities. The 2SLGBTQQIA+ Community came out in bright colours, with drag, voguing, poetry, dancing, rap, and clowning. Angelic Goldsky was the artistic director of the UBC Pride Festival in 2018 and 2019.
For more recaps of events and stories about Angelic’s work as a community arts organizer, celebration producer and curator visit this page.