Mile 25: Bett Williams, Trulee Hall, and Tolliver
Oct. 19, 2025 | 6PM
$20 suggested donation — or pay what you wish!
River Sessions : “Kiki’ing with the River”
Kiki’ing with the River is an outdoor, artist-guided series along the Paayme Paxaayt (aka the LA River) that celebrates queer resilience and community activism through social sculptures and creative engagement. Each session highlights regional LGBTQIA2S+ artists and Indigenous culture bearers, featuring performances, sound, and multimedia installations that explore the balance between nature, control, and liberation. Co-curated by Tiffany Naiman and Juan Silverio, the series amplifies the voices of diverse and resilient queer communities.
About the artists
Trulee Hall - Artist, filmmaker, musician. Hall’s richly textured practice spans video, painting, sculpture, sound, dance, and immersive installation, routinely employing diverse technical skills gleaned from her prior work in various creative industries. She is drawn to materials that reference the body, the earth, and organic structures, blurring the boundary between natural and artificial, growth and construction.
Hall began working in performance, music and video as an adolescent and developed a complex practice involving immersive sets, elaborate costumes, puppetry, claymation, CGI and sound. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations integrate with and inform facets of her videos and soundtracks in an overarching practice. Her choreographed videos of non-narrative, surreal, feminist/erotic, philosophical and symbolic systems employ a fiercely playful sense of humor, a patient appreciation for the mundane, and a love of the absurd.
Tolliver is a Chicago-born funk singer, journalist, and DJ drawn to the humor in every story, the dance floor, and the best BBQ spot in every city. He's written for Reuters, produced videos for LA Times, TOMS shoes, and OutTV, and has performed on the Late Late Show. He’s also the musical director and DJ on NPR's The Middle. Tolliver is also the founder and executive producer of Exotic Fruits Fest, an annual music and film event that benefits local nonprofits.
Bett Williams is a literary writer and psychedelic explorer, and the author of The Wild Kindness; A Psilocybin Odyssey (Dottir Press Fall, 2020), a memoir about growing mushrooms in the high desert of New Mexico. Her other works include The Wrestling Party and Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin’s Press), which was named as one of the Ten Best Young Adult Queer Novels by Vogue Magazine. She has written for several publications including DoubleBlind, OUT Magazine, Flaunt, Lucid News and Lenny Letter.