Nakai presents Popcorn Galaxies

Perfect Strangers

A face to face encounter with a perfect stranger who you may otherwise never meet.

Perfect Strangers is an uncommon walking tour led by Vancouver artists June Fukumura and Keely O’Brien.

June 16-18
Friday-Sunday
at 3pm and 7pm / $20
Downtown Whitehorse – meeting place to be announced

It’s a quirky theatrical ice-breaker that asks: how can people start as strangers and become friends? How do real life relationships form in the age where so much of our human connection is mediated by technology?

Audience members who have never met are paired up and embark on a walking journey through the neighbourhood. The pairs are guided through a series of questions and conversation topics which become increasingly intimate.

Created by: June Fukumura and Keely O’Brien
With collaborators: Cindy Mochizuki, Sophia Wolfe, and Daniel O’Shea

Presented at: Edmonton Found Festival 2022, rEvolver Festival 2019, Richmond Culture Days 2018

Created and presented with support from Boca del Lupo Space Residency, Branscombe House Residency, Richmond Culture Days, BC Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Whitehorse photos from Perfect Strangers
by Erik Pinkerton Photography

Throughout the journey, pairs record moments of their experience on Post-It notes which are posted as they walk, forming a miniature guerilla art-installation for other passers-by and animating the landscape with a fleeting archive of transforming relationships.

Perfect Strangers Post-It Archive:
Click here to view the many strangers who have met during this show.