Venus Fest Day 02: Donna Come Home, Honeydrip & Juliana Huxtable
Venus Fest is turning 10 this year!
With our yearly programming, join us for a night of community, music, and dancing on Saturday September 19 from 9 PM. Register now to reserve your spots.
Sounds from: Donna Come Home, Honeydrip & Juliana Huxtable at the Allan Garden Palm House.
+ Live ASL Interpretation by Phoenix The Fire
+ Live Visuals by Tara Morris
+ Visual Art by Aedan Corey
+ Interactive Installation by Christina Dovolis
+ Market by Kabuté & Friends, in Collaboration w/ Friends of Allan Gardens
www.venusfest.net
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DONNA COME HOME (Yves Al-sharifi) is a DJ, producer, and electronic music art project that abjects the persona of the lost and vulnerable woman in between heavy synths and noise. Discovered in broken hyperlinks, she sings in whispers and whines.
In her work, Donna moves beyond sensation, weaving music through lost website remnants and interactive performance art, placing the audience as voyeurs peaking into messy diary entries. In always being seen, articulated through different angles, she becomes blurred, objectified and simplified. Donna Come Home is as much of a plea for autonomy as it shares and revels in its own suffering.
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HONEYDRIP is a Montreal-based producer, DJ, live artist, and speaker builder. Deeply inspired by Dub, Reggae, and Dancehall, her work is rooted in sound system culture and its power to connect communities through sound. In 2025, she founded MORPH, a sound system collective dedicated to teaching, uplifting, and empowering women and queer people through hands-on workshops, mentorship, and skill-sharing in both the technical and creative sides of sound system building. Through MORPH, Honeydrip works to reclaim technical spaces and expand who gets to shape the future of sound culture.
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JULIANA HUXTABLE Using the structures of music as mediums in her multi-media universe, Juliana Huxtable is a DJ and musician singular in her approach. Where her visual art and poetry navigate the complexification of desire in a life increasingly mediated by technology, her music utilizes the sounds of technology itself to construct parallel realities to be inhabited and embodied in rhythm and harmonic tableaux. Her sets skillfully deploy the notion of sampling and re-blogging as DJ strategies, ecstatically mixing an array of influences that frolic at the boundary of genre- intuition and experimentation. At once an assertion of freedom and an ode to the evolutionary structure of electronic music subcultures, she aspires to the sublime in what can often only be described as witchcraft behind the decks; seance from the stage.