Performance: Khawal, le privilège de la beauté
Performance
Sunday 20 September
13:45 - 14:30
Price: Gratuit - Gratis - Free
Language: French
Location: Piscine
with
Nour Symon & Pak Yan Lau
Presentations
A unique musical performance, first collaboration between author Nour Symon and multi-instrumentalist Pak Yan Lau
In "Khawal, le privilège de la beauté", poems, letters, narrative, essay, and musical scores intertwine. Nour Symon questions these intersections, pays homage to chosen families, shares millennia-old Egyptian recipes, and offers a glimpse of her complexity like drawers of treasure-trinkets wide open.
Je suis un·e slutty queen trans fèm égypto-québécois·e neurodivergent·e polyamoureux·se et pansexuel·le. Avant de quitter le Québec pour l’Égypte, j’étais en deuil et je craignais la disparition de la beauté. Tout a changé quand j’ai visité ce pays que j’étais si pressé·e de rencontrer depuis la prise de conscience de mes origines. Je ne suis peut-être plus la même personne maintenant. Et pourtant, je suis toujours un·e slutty queen trans fèm égypto-québécois·e neurodivergent·e polyamoureux·se et pansexuel·le, effrayé·e par la disparition de la beauté, et en deuil.
Our speakers
Nour Symon
The Egyptian-Quebecois artist Nour Symon presents lyrical, noise-based, and intimate works driven by a desire to highlight the complexity of the interactions between her identities—queer, migrant, and in love with the sounds of the world. Her artistic practice is guided by a passionate convergence of visual arts, concert music, and poetry. Her poetry collection *L’amour des oiseaux moches* (2020) was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Awards and the Émile-Nelligan Prize. Her books, *خول Khawal ou le privilège de la beauté* and *Doux rêves, belles personnes*, were recently published by Éditions du Noroît and Dent-de-lion.