Tending and Tenderness: Care and Communion Between Pandemics
Watch online at TQFF.ca. ASL available.
In this roundtable, creatives and community workers share gestures and practices of personal and communal care in the face of multiple pandemics. Facilitated by Beau Gomez, this event encapsulates tenderness sustained within a community of artists living with, creating works about, and fostering discourse around HIV/AIDS in relation to cross-navigating COVID and other varying waves of epidemic outbreaks. Through storytelling and presentation of works, it centers perspectives on what it means to sustain oneself in negotiating with HIV realities today, while reconciling with renewed forms of prescriptiveness and hypervigilance. This gathering welcomes dialogue on what it means for us, in solitude and community, to sustain a circle of relations anchored in resilience and radical hospitality.