Venue: Chapelle des Hospitalières (251 avenue des Pins, Montréal, QC H2W 1R6) Date: October 8, 2026 Doors: 7:00 PM Music: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15 NOTAFLOF
Advance Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/mer-agatha-z-liz-lima-at-chapelle-des-hospitalieres
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1991814691516923
Produced by Innovations en Concert. Co-presented by Mardi Spaghetti and Smallscale Music.
Funded by Museond Fund for Creativity’s Trans and Non-Binary Creators Incubator.
An important new initiative dedicated to fostering emerging trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive artists, the Museond Incubator provides creators with seed funding and a platform through which ambitious interdisciplinary projects can take shape. Following its 2025 presentation of Gabo Champagne’s Yvern—a poetic fusion of music, theatre, and movement reflecting on the threatened disappearance of Quebec winter—the Incubator returns to Flux with a vibrant program spanning drag, experimental music, poetry, performance, and visual art.
The evening features as MC, the unforgettable Drag King Valentino – the king of seduction and sensuality, oscillating between masculine and gender-bending styles. Italian crooner, gothic rocker and dandy chique, Valentino navigates different modes of expression as himself or through his alter ego, Liz. Liz Lima performs as an experimental singer, improviser, clarinetist, and composer with an interdisciplinary approach that blends operatic singing, experimental rock, and noise, as well as bird sounds, with film, theater, dance and literature. Flux marks the first collaboration and fusing of Valentino and Liz.
The evening also features the first full-band appearance of Naomi McCarroll-Butler’s freak-folk drone project Mer Agatha. Joined by Lucas Huang (Hsien), Christelle Saint-Julien, Sam Shalabi, and Hélios Paradis, Mer Agatha presents a dreamlike suite of invented instruments, feedback loops, and original and traditional songs, voiced by three characters inhabiting a surreal technodystopia suspended between the distant past and an uncertain future.
Multidisciplinary artist, improviser, and poet Z performs a slowly evolving electronic drone composed in real time through active listening, as frequencies, frictions, undulations, gravities, and textures interact with the space and with one another. Z will also launch a new photographic zine: a poetic meditation on making a home in a strange and liminal place, moving through landscapes and languages, identities, love, longing, estrangement, and the ordinary pleasures of passing through.
This rental is made possible by the Cité-des-Hospitalières En Transition – a transitory occupation project based at the Cité-des-Hospitalières, a heritage building owned by the City of Montréal.