seeley quest
Canada - Nova Scotia
sie/hir
Image 1: seeley stands at a microphone in a cafe with chalkboard in view behind. A white androgynous person with short hair, sie holds a laptop to read from into the mic. taken by Rachel McCrum, permission granted.
Image 2: seeley leans with smile toward camera, in a closer frame showing from torso up. With a sleeveless collared shirt, one arm stretches out high from hir shoulder. A red handkerchief is tied in an x under the collar. Sie has glamourous silver makeup around hir eyes, like a starchild. It's dim and hir appearance is hard to see, as the space is only lit from behind with a dark rosy light. It's a sultry performance atmosphere.
Image 3: a headshot with white background; seeley wears open collared shirts, faces diagonally but looks at the camera with slight smile. The light is soft and shows hir light beard and full moustache.
Contact
seeley quest is a trans environmentalist, working in literary and body-based composition, curation and facilitation. Sie presented in the San Francisco Bay Area 2001-14, including with Sins Invalid 2007-15. In Montreal since 2017, hir playscript “Crooked” is in At the Intersection of Disability and Drama, and first game narrative debuted for Canada’s National AccessAbility Week 2020. Hir work featured with Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival (book) 2021. Sie inaugurated a poetry and prose workshop for disabled writers 2021 with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, a “Queer Disabled Joy” movement workshop for Studio 303’s 2021 Queer Performance Camp, and has pieces in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, and Canadian Theatre Review. Seeking disabled collaborators for hir script “Modeling,” it will have a reading in Vancouver’s 2022 rEvolver Festival. With mixed class, gender, and medicalized experiences since childhood, sie loves co-learning and social action. Not on social media, more’s at https://questletters.net/.
Areas of Interest:
- Performing Arts
- Community Arts
- Curatorial Arts
- Photography / Film
- Installation / Sculpture
- Craft
- Literary Arts
- Music
- Sound Art
- Dance / Movement Arts
- Digital Arts and Media
- Graphic and Web Design
- Podcasting / Storytelling
- Video Production
Roles:
- Practicing artist or maker
- Trained professional service provider or consultant
- Community member
- Researcher
- Instructor
- Activist / ally
Expertise:
- Audio Description
- Relaxed Performance
- Consulting
- Research
- Design thinking
- Event Planning
- Communications
- Policy Development
- Environmental or Organizational Audits
- Facilitation
- Active Listening
- Personal Support
- Advisory Support
Identifies with:
- Disabled
- Mad
- Neurodiverse
- Survivor
- LGBTQ2SIA+
- Queer
- Feminist