Queen Street Magic Boat stimulates radical possibility both in content and in form.
It’s a living gallery, residency + gathering space, fern garden, theatre, stained-glass studio, and SCUBA diving school. A hub for creative people of all ages who have an embodied experience of institutional oppression, Queen Boat supports a mycorrhizal network of communities that intersect in various movements, identities, visions, and media forms create new worlds in real time.Queen Street Magic Boat’s lead organizer is Catherine Edgerton (they / she / he / Ed). Edgerton refracts images through multimedia collage and kaleidoscopic play to interrogate notions of sanity in the US. Building in layers, in books, and in community, Edgerton re-binds myths of “good” mental health in the context of white supremacy culture in the US. In expansion of this work, Edgerton invites lens-shifting through stained glass kaleidoscopes and oceanic immersion, juxtaposing the mundane with play to create surreal visions of patterns and light. Ed is accountable to Gallery of the Streets and a circle of local advisors.
