Angelic Goldsky

Angelic Goldsky is a multi-disciplinary artist immersed in the uses of spoken word, media art, music, and magic for transmuting complex trauma into rhythm, release, and ultimately, permanent liberation. Grounded in poetry and truth-telling, their work intentionally transcends discipline and medium, fostering exploration beyond binaries with playfulness and ritual. Formerly the Poet in Residence at the Roundhouse Community Centre (2021), Angelic was shortlisted for the Canadian League of Poets Canadian Spoken Word Award (2024) and represented Canada in the LGBTQ+ showcase at the World Poetry Championship in Brussels (2022). They have performed and shared their cine-poems internationally and across Turtle Island alongside fellow clowns, members of the LGBTQ+ community, low femme priestesses, rabbis, and politicians. Angelic served as an Artist in Residence at the Factory Media Centre (Hamilton, Ontario, 2023), the TD Public Programs and Learning Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto, Ontario, 2022-2023), and the Performing the Jewish Archives Fellow at Concordia University (2022, in collaboration with the Canadian Jewish Archives). Currently, they are dedicated to the not-for-profit organization they co-founded, Transgender Expressions Haven (@thehaven.lgbt), fostering a cyber utopic digital universe and organizing queer celebration productions. Their collaborative work, Trancestor.ai, along with their involvement in co-producing the first transgender international virtual art gallery, and other media art pieces such as goggleimages.ca and AppleShell, interrogates methods of transforming algorithmic oppression into algorithmic spiritual justice through poetry, form, and queer aesthetic. On their journey to becoming a Somatic EMDR practitioner, Angelic reflects through embodied uses of media and technology for queer and trans healing. They hold an MA in Arts Politics from NYU and an undergraduate degree in Media Studies from UBC, where they founded the Artivism Festival of Creative Resistance.

Angelic Goldsky (they/t(he)m) is a poet, transformative educator and queer arts producer. With a deep love of spoken word, performance, and all forms of expressions - Angelic seeks to build networks of sustainability which empower the most silenced forms of truth to feel safe to come forth. They have been leading workshops, sessions and advisory sessions on trans-gender nurturance culture for the past three years in arts organizations, institutions and schools. Most recently at the University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica and at the Sarah Mclachlan School of Music in Vancouver. Moving with the notion of Recognize to Transform through Expression, they have curated and produced arts events promoting consent, nurturance, and queer and trans safety including Queer Homelands at the Museum of Anthropology, Every Kind of Love at the Chan Centre, and the UBC LGBTQQ2SIA+ Pride Festival. They are the founder of the soon to be debuted Transgender Expressions Haven - a virtual art centre for transgender creative genius celebration supported by Creative BC. They have performed poetry all across North America and Europe at venues including the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, the Lila Queer Arts Festival in Switzerland and UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial. They have been published in many journals including Sad Magazine, Frontier Poetry and Camas, as well as serve on the editorial board of the Room Magazine. They hold a MA in Arts Politics from New York University where they built the base of the theoretical components of understanding of system-building outside of oppression and violence, and towards envisioning healing justice through art.