Photo by Belle Ancell as part of the Vancouver Pride Society #ChooseYourPride campaign.
When was the last time you re-called yourself? You did not allow others to (mis)identify you As. You became only yourself, your one sacred being.
Outside of the binary, we are in co-creation of infinite possibility.
b.1998 (pisces sun, aquarius rising, aries moon)
Born on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations Unsurrendered Land
queer homelands
Inherited survivor of Soviet Jewish will (see: Otkaznik)
Transcestor in progress
Deliverer outside of gendered borders (see: Zakaznik)
purpose in life (In PROGRESS)
Driven by Divine Will/Play while undoing the supremacy of all things, including god
Excavating what was once buried in silence
photo credit: Phoebe Telfar for CITR Discorder Feature of Tiny Tricycle Poets (2021)
Overview of Work
angelic goldsky (t[he]y) is a poet. & a poetry excavator, queer and trans transformative educator, queer arts facilitator, clown-alchemist play advocate, gender binary abolitionist, celebration producer, truth expressions facilitator, magical historian, jewish-russian-kid who hates taxidermies and loves timelessness.
Academia
Master of Arts in Arts Politics
New York UNIVERSITY, department of art and public policy
Mastery of understanding a transnational world that must contend with issues around race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, and religion. Courses examined histories of political frameworks in the arts, as well as contemporary advocacy strategies and tactics for change. Together we asked, “How do we make the world anew?” Critical Theoretical Queer, Gender, Race & other Social Justice frameworks of understanding the uses of Art and Public Policy for transformation.
Lectures delivered: Visionary Social Media Organizing at Cinevolution Media Arts Digital Carnival (2021), Goggle Images and Transing the Internet at Capilano University (2021)
Bachelor of Media Studies, Minor in Political Science
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Developed foundational understanding in the relationships of power, oppression and media through inter-disciplinary uses of critical theory, semiology, political theory, and culture studies. Topics explored included: surveillance capitalism, algorithmic oppression, ethics of data, misrepresentations within information systems.
Lectures delivered: (mis)Representations of TV NewsBroadcasts perpetuating Rape Culture at the Liu Institute (2020), Goggle Images and Digital Justice at TEDxUBC (2020)
Poetry
Un[Naming]/Trans
pUBLISHED IN FRONTIER MAGAZINE, 2021
pUBLISHED IN THE GAZE, 2020
To Whom It May Concern
pUBLISHED IN camas Magazine, 2020
CinEPOEM WINNER OF Wellness Challenge hosted by Adobe Project 1324 and Born This Way FoundatioN, 2018
Poetry Education & Leadership
Poetry In Voice Educator (in schools across Canada)
From 2020 - Present
Creative City Spark Grant Recipient for Art Starts Youth Poetry Program Creation
2020, 2021
Roundhouse Community Centre Poet in Residence
2021
350+ Workshops led in Arts Organization across Turtle Island & Europe
from 2017 - present
Queer & Trans Nurturance Culture Building
Transforming Rape Culture to Nurturance Culture delivered for The University for Peace (UPEACE)
The UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE, Costa rica, 2021
Queer and Transgender Nurturance Culture Building in Music Education for The Sarah McLachlan School of Music
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Vancouver, 2021
Creative BC Interactive Fund Grant Recipient to Produce the Transgender Expressions Haven
VISIT THE PROJECT HERE, Vancouver, 2021
Celebration Production & Art Curation
JCC Miles Nadal x Toronto pride, 2021
Balloons that Flame Exhibition and Showcases
Roundhouse community centre, 2021
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MAY 2021
Every Kind of Love
CHAN CENTRE, FEB 2020
ARTIVISM: A Festival of Creative Resistance
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2020-2021
Awoken Word
Museum of anthropology, november 2019
UBC LGBTQQ2SIA+ Pride Festival
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 2019
Photo by Belle Ancell as part of the Vancouver Pride Society #ChooseYourPride campaign.
IN COLLECTIVE WISDOM
academic
Studio for Media Activism at Ryerson University, member
COMMUNITY ADVOCACY
Jewish Queer Trans Vancouver, artistic director
How Art Works, City of Richmond Art Strategy, development team
formerly a part of: Everybody Is In (child of DTES Response Centre)
performance & art
cuerpo, tiny tricycle poets, the angelicuss, flaming balloon collective
formerly a part of: ubc slam poetry team, vancouver youth poetry slam team, the jellybeans
Angelic Goldsky seeks to speak/celebrate/play/ educate/communicate the Truth- the most gruelling, ugly, bleeding, resilience broken open once again - unhaunted, sweet and slimy, uncomfortable and the most alive, Truth. Angelic Goldsky is a poet, as in they seek to only exist in the space of the poetic. The poetic is beyond all hierarchy, it abolishes all supremacies, it is a direct entry of the highest expression of all oppression seeks to bury in silence.
Angelic Goldsky believes the idea of the metaphor was created to separate the Truth from the Magical. Emotions are Higher Knowledge. And Energy is not a Metaphor.
Through the Recognition of oppression, violence, and hatred that has been cloaked as the Norm and/or Impossible to Change, and the Willpower to Transform through imperfect and courageous action - Angelic Goldsky believes the world can be shed of all its false identity, and we can all truly witness each other in an empathy so radical, it transcends us.