AFK | Party

Opening Party: ESCOBUTT

April 10, 2025

9:00PM – 11:59PM EDT

Location

Gallery TPW

170 Helens Ave Toronto ON M6H 4A1

Ramp access, accessible ground-floor washroom, and clear, unobstructed pathways within the gallery. Please note that there are no automatic doors at the entrance or washroom and no designated accessible parking nearby.

For a map of Gallery TPW, click here

COVID-19 Policy

Images Festival is committed to providing an accessible festival and continues to work to reduce barriers to participation at our events. This year, we are implementing a COVID-19 policy to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for all, and to prioritize the participation of people who are disability-identified, immunocompromised, or part of an otherwise vulnerable group.

The following guidelines will be in place: Self-Assessment: We ask that staff and participants screen themselves for COVID-19 before visiting the exhibition.

Please join us for our opening dance party featuring ESCOBUTT on the decks!

ESCOBUTT is a Colombian born artist, DJ, cultural manager, booker and promoter based in Tkaronto, “Canada”. Their artistic focus is the exploration of gender, satire and entertainment as catalysts that question capitalist systems and sensationalism in identity-constructing media.

ESCO likes to play music that reflects their mood and nostalgia. Their DJ sets are usually a mix of Electronic Cumbia, Neo-Guaracha, Dembow, Latin Club, Jersey, Alternative, Downtempo, RKT, Jungle, Pop edits and their personal vinyl collection. They operate Lewdline, a music forward event series focused on increasing QTBIPOC+ visibility in “Toronto” and abroad. They also mentor emerging DJs at Estrelar Sound.

They have performed at Shift Radio and N10AS in Montreal, Radio28 and Radio Nopal in Mexico, Boiler Room in Toronto and more. Their music has been released via Kumbia Net (MEX), Club Felinas (COL), Santa Sede (ARG) and Caballito Netlabel (ESP). They have shared stage with Amantes de Futuro, Orihuela MSS, Turbo Sonidero, Entrañas, Nino Brown, Young Teesh, Bambii, Myst Milano, Jaijiu, Sofia Fly, J0ya and WOST.

Presented With:

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all.

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us.

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.