Caracoles is a beginner level, 3 day music production workshop for qtbipoc (queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour), prioritizing trans women/femmes of colour. Participants don’t need prior experience. 6 spots are available, and participants will receive a healthy honorarium for attendance. The honorarium is intended to help reduce the systemic barriers to income that qtbipoc face, and create space for participants to learn and create while being compensated.
Applications for Caracoles 2023 are now closed.
Thank you for your interest <3
To contact us about the workshops, email us at info@caracoles.ca
Intro to DJing with Reylinn
Intro to Audio with Soloman Chiniquay and Kwiigay iiwaans
Intro to Synths with Kimit Sekhon and nina yañez
Peer Support with Christie Ma
Open Studio with Kwiigay iiwaans, nina yañez and Kimit Sekhon.
Open Studio with Kwiigay iiwaans, nina yañez and Kimit Sekhon.
On Sunday October 22nd facilitators will give hands on intro’s to each topic. Each facilitator will have their own station with equipment, and participants will get hands on experience and instruction on two of their chosen topics. Allowing participants to try out different techniques and discover what interests them. Participants will then be welcome to return on October 23rd and 24th to freely explore and record with the equipment.
Caracoles takes place at 825 pacific st. The space is wheelchair accessible, and an accessibility audit will be posted soon. We can arrange for transportation to and from the venue for all participants. Masks will be provided and are mandated due to rising covid levels (we wanna keep everyone safe). Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Reylinn is a Vancouver based DJ, radio host, audio/visual artist and technician. They’re a founding member of Acceleration Radio, an open format FM radio, live stream and events collective with a focus on audio/visual experimentation.
Kimit Sekhon is a multimedia artist, electronic musician and DJ based in the Hasting-Sunrise neighbourhood of Vancouver. Their work has been influenced by the experience of growing up as a queer second generation immigrant in the suburban sprawl of Surrey. Their physical works include hand folded modular origami polyhedrons which are paired with live projector visuals, lighting rigs and interactive sound modules. Their sound traverses the history of House and Techno while reaching for the future of fast paced deconstructed club music. Kimit is the founder of Terrestrial FM, an underground electronic music show on Vancouver’s Co-operative Radio CFRO 100.5 FM every Friday night from nine to midnight. They are currently the Outreach Co-ordinator at Co-op radio and hold a Radio Arts Diploma from BCIT. Kimit is a co founder of Acceleration Arts Collective, a group dedicated to uplifting marginalized people through music, dance and community.
Kwiigay iiwaans is a queer disabled multidisciplinary artist from the Haida, Squamish, and Musqueam nations. They explore decolonial 2SQTIBIPOC futurisms through mediums of electronic music, illustration, formline design, beadwork, and animation. They are a committed language learner of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim and X̱aad kíl, the Squamish and Haida languages. They live and work in X̱epx̱ápay̓ay, Vancouver, BC.
Christie is a counsellor and art therapist who is in the process of completing their training at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. They are a non-binary, queer, and multiethnic Hong Kong-Canadian settler living on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish,) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Christie grew up in Hong Kong, and has lived in the UK and US as well.
Christie’s healing philosophy envisions global and collective liberation from systems of oppression. As a visual and performance artist, they engage the arts as a way to access and tangibly contend with trauma, feelings, and experiences held in our bodies. They seek to integrate somatic movement, expressive arts and body-mind work into their practice to safely explore taking up space on one’s own terms.
Christie is passionate about anti-oppressive and decolonial care work for neurodivergent QTIBIPoC, diasporic/displaced folx, and survivors of violence. They practice through an intersectional and transnational feminist lens and incorporate trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and person-centred approaches. They have experience working with themes of identity, trauma, anxiety, depression, survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence, and suicidal ideation.
Christie enjoys strength and mobility training, forests by the ocean, cooking without recipes, and dancing to moody music playlists. They seek to connect with you where you are at, and offer a collaborative therapeutic experience that honors your ways of knowing.
Nina Yañez is an artist living on stolen squamish, musqueum, and tsleil-waututh, territories. Her artwork includes: drawing, sounds, building electronics, making code, building software, and making music. Nina’s art-making practice and her own healing from colonial and cis society work in tandem. Nina is mestiza, trans and chronically ill, but don’t spread it around because she’s trying not to get killed out here. Nina went to school on Treaty 7 territory, at Alberta College of Art and Design before it was normal for people to work with electronics and art (she’s older than she looks) and her teachers pressured her to move to big art centres (like berlin) after she graduated. Instead she transitioned (that’s a speed run of her life story tho but w/e). She used to teach coding, printmaking, and 3d printing at a non-profit that she co-founded, but that’s a sad story so don’t ask about it. Nina’s presence is unquestionably that of a low femme cybergoth, protective of her energy, but generous with her wisdom for the right people. She is incredibly intuitive and a wealth of expertise and wisdom if you’re quiet enough to listen.
We would like to gratefully acknowledge our funders: