photo courtesy Shontina Vernon

photo by Tim Summers

Performance artist Peter Dee presents a solo comedy centered on gay hookup culture and the alternate realities created with technology. The hero takes us on an uncomfortable and hilarious journey through the supposedly anonymous world of Grindr, complete with alter-egos, amazing props, and other surprises.

photo by Tim Summers

Sleep Nod is a dance project creating original works of performance and dance-film, helmed by choreographer and artist Dylan Ward. The new work, Sophia, features four talented dancers moving around themes of magic, an ancient, gnostic myth, and its possible author.

photo by Ben Didier

Vanessa Goodman is a Vancouver BC-based dance artist who creates independently as Action at a Distance and works extensively as a performer and dancer. In her NWNW Festival debut she creates a solo, Container – a direct reference to her body as a container of identity and an inherited cultural past.