Faculty of Art
LONG LIVE KINGS: Special Presentation – Drag Performances, Screening, and Talkback featuring SKIM
The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) is thrilled to invite you to LONG LIVE KINGS, a special presentation featuring drag performances, screening and a talkback with SKIM, on November 16, 2025 at 3pm!
A celebration of the power of Drag King creativity and worldmaking, this event features SKIM, an interdisciplinary artist, drag performer and director of Long Live Kings, a web series created by and starring the Drag Kings of so-called Vancouver, BC exploring drag, gender, acts of play, and queer community! Featuring the incredible work of drag kings as entertainers who bring art, comedy, and glamour to the stage and who challenge our understandings of gender and patriarchy, Long Live Kings is also a powerful love letter to the local King community, Kings around the world, and queer & trans people everywhere.
Join us for screenings of select episodes of Love Live Kings, as well as drag performances by and a talkback with SKIM. The event also features Theo Rhetical and Velvet Ryder as guest opening performers!
This special presentation is a feature event of “Browning Asian Canada”, a public research and engagement series convened by Dr. JP Catungal, Co-Director of UBC ACRE. This event is made possible with the generous support from UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Public Humanities Hub; Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies; and the Pop Culture Cluster.
Bio: 김새로미, Romi Kim or SKIM in drag is a nonbinary, trans masc, second-generation Korean interdisciplinary artist, drag king, filmmaker, and founder of King Sized, Vancouver’s largest Drag King-focused show. Kim challenges the mainstream narratives through giving space and visibility to trans and racialized identities. Kim holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia (2022). They have screened their video work at Seoul Indie-Ani Festival (2019), Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival (2023) Polygon Art Gallery, SUM gallery and Vines Festival. Their work aims to think through affective belonging and placemaking as potential avenues for creating meaningful connections.
