Wishing Well Part 15: Markers

LEAVE YOUR MARK!!!

All night. Everywhere. Forever.

xLq is making a very special WISHING WELL for you…

We’re taking a field trip to the longest running queer theatre in the world: BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES. And we’re going ALL NIGHT because it’s NUIT BLANCHE baby!!

From 7pm until 7am, the BASEMENT of Buddies will be covered entirely in white paper. Grab some sharpies and write, draw, colour, design, create a giant group mural together.

WEAR WHITE CLOTHES that you are down to draw all over!

In the BATHROOMS, you are invited to actually deface the walls, floors and stalls of the bathroom. Raw, no paper. Give ‘em a makeover. Leave a love note, a missed connection, cast a spell, make a wish.

Leave your MARK on this herstoric building… forever.

Hosted by the iconic theatre drag pop-star duo xLq, with performances by three other nightlife creatures, and featuring EIGHT DJs playing hour-long sets, this WISHING WELL is going to be a very special one.

And it’s all 100% FREE!!!!!!!

Also at Buddies on this night:

IN THE CABARET: ballroom performances by FakeKnot and DJ’d by Karim Olen Ash

IN THE ANTECHAMBER: a new video installation by Vivek Shraya and Christopher Sherman

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WISHING WELL is a queer witchy danceparty ritual featuring pop-up performances, magic, markers, truth or dare, and wishes. A place for f@gs, freaks and friends to meet, play and hangout. This is a divine feminine space.

Look for the WISHING WELLS scattered about. Make a wish. Write your wish on the walls. All your wishes will come true.

hosted by

xLq

(STARLIGHT + Maddie)

performances + activations

BRAWK WARD (as HOWEN)

JONNIE LOMBARD

ISI BHAKHOMEN

djs

DJ DUCK DADDY

VALEROO

GRRLCRRSH

ESCOBUTT

MS. GOTHIC FISH

LOVEROSE

SOFIA FLY

MARNIGURL

lighting

STELLA

producing support

LIZ STAPLES

Saturday, October 5 until Sunday October 6

Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander Street

7pm until 7am

Installation opens at 7pm, DJs and performances begin at 11pm

FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

ALL NIGHT!!!

WISHING WELL is happening in the basement of Buddies, accessible by stairs or by elevator. The building is wheelchair accessible.

we are dancing in The Gathering Place, on the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Wendat

if anyone is making you uncomfortable at this party, tell xLq, or the Buddies Staff - we will take it seriously

mark your calendars

this is one for the books

we wish you well

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