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May 2012

Saturday May 19, 2012
UPROOTED AGAIN book launch - National Nikkei Heritage Centre

Wednesday May 23, 2012
The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

Wednesday May 23, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Audreys Books

Thursday May 24, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Pages

Saturday May 26, 2012
Ghosts of Violence - Sharon Pollock - Bluma Appel Theatre

June 2012

Tuesday June 5, 2012
B.Someday Presents Suburban Motel in June - Walking Fish Theatre

Wednesday June 20, 2012
Wanderlust - Morris Panych - Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Tuesday June 26, 2012
The Best Brothers - Daniel MacIvor - Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Thursday June 28, 2012
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award - Presented to Daphne Marlatt

July 2012

Thursday July 5, 2012
Twisted Poets Literary Salon - bill bissett - Prophouse Cafe

Thursday July 19, 2012
Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival - 2012

Thursday July 26, 2012
Schoolhouse - Leanna Brodie - Stone Fence Theatre

August 2012

Monday August 20, 2012
KlezKanada Poetry Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion - Adeena Karasick

September 2012

Tuesday September 18, 2012
Chickens - Lucia Frangione - Chemainus Theatre

October 2012

Thursday October 11, 2012
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Sagebrush Theatre

November 2012

Saturday November 3, 2012
Tom and the Coyote - Michel Marc Bouchard - Factory Theatre

January 2013

Tuesday January 15, 2013
Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box - Great Canadian Theatre Company

Friday January 25, 2013
Leave of Absence - Lucia Frangione - Pacific Theatre

February 2013

Tuesday February 26, 2013
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - Wendy Lill - Neptune Theatre

March 2013

Thursday March 14, 2013
Dead Metaphor - George F. Walker - Factory Theatre

April 2013

Thursday April 4, 2013
My Turquoise Years - M.A.C. Farrant - Arts Club Theatre

Tuesday April 30, 2013
Le Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main - Théatre du Nouveau Monde

Posted: Saturday May 19, 2012

UPROOTED AGAIN book launch - National Nikkei Heritage Centre

UPROOTED AGAIN book launch

Saturday, May 19, 2012
3:00-5:00pm
Book Launch

National Nikkei Heritage Centre
6688 Southoaks Crescent
Burnaby BC

Uprooted Again: Japanese Canadians Move to Japan After World War II

By Tatsuo Kage, translated by Kathleen Chisato Merken

Join the author Tatsuo Kage; John Price, Professor at the University of Victoria; Roy Miki, retired professor at Simon Fraser University; Grace Eiko Thomson, Former President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians; Thekla Lit, President of BC ALPHA (Association for Learning & Preserving the History of WWII in Asia), with many other friends and survivors of the 1946 expulsion who will also be in attendance. Copies of the book will be available at the event, and refreshments will be served.

Uprooted Again: Japanese Canadians Move to Japan After World War II is an English-language version of Nikkei Canada-jin No Tsuiho published by Akashi Shoten in 1998. More than a translation, the Japanese text has been re-configured by Tatsuo Kage in collaboration with the translator, Kathleen Merken, for a North American audience already familiar with the situation of the B.C. coastal Japanese Canadian communities during World War II.

In 1945, before the end of World War II, the Canadian government offered to “repatriate” ethnic Japanese to Japan after the war ended, even Canadian-born British subjects. Although signing up for the move was voluntary, many felt pressured to agree. In 1946, fully a year after the end of the war, some 4,000 Japanese Canadians travelled by ship to a Japan devastated by war – an action that violated international law at the time.

The story of those who moved to Japan after the war has hardly been told in English. Basing his work on interviews with 25 men and women, most of whom were teenagers in internment camps during the war, Tatsuo Kage writes of their struggles to survive and adapt in post-war Japan.

This event is co-sponsored by the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association Human Rights Committee.

Visit the National Nikkei Heritage Centre website for more information.

Posted: Wednesday May 23, 2012

Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Audreys Books

Talon Poetry Night with poets

Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli

Wednesday, May 23 at 7:00 pm

Audreys Books
10702 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, AB

Join Talonbooks poets: Weyman Chan (Alberta), Colin Browne (BC) and Daniel Zomparelli (BC) for readings from their new collections, Chinese Blue, The Properties, and Davie Street Translations.

Visit the website for Audreys Books for more information.

Posted: Wednesday May 23, 2012

The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

Wed May 23, 2012

7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.

75 mins

North York Central Library Auditorium
5120 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario

Crossing the Continent

Join us for a very special evening with Quebec icon Michel Tremblay and his English language translator, Sheila Fischman. Weaving two linguistic solitudes into one whole cloth is a daunting task — one which is shared by Fischman, the translator, and Nana, the book’s protagonist. Nana crosses the geographic solitudes at a time when crossing the continent was perilous in either official language.

Visit the Toronto Public Library website for more information.

Posted: Thursday May 24, 2012

Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Pages

Talon Poetry Night with poets

Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli

Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 PM

Upstairs at Pages

Pages on Kensington,
1135 Kensington Rd. NW
Calgary, AB

Join Talonbooks poets: Weyman Chan (Alberta), Colin Browne (BC) and Daniel Zomparelli (BC) for readings from their new collections, Chinese Blue, The Properties, and Davie Street Translations.

Visit the website for Pages on Kensington for more information.

Posted: Saturday May 26, 2012

Ghosts of Violence - Sharon Pollock - Bluma Appel Theatre

Ghosts of Violence

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

Bluma Appel Theatre
27 Front Street East
Toronto, ON

May 26, 2012 – 7:30pm

buy tickets

$99, $69, $29

Student prices – $59, $45, $29

A landmark production, conceived and choreographed by company Artistic Director and choreographer Igor Dobrovolskiy, the ballet is the result of a creative collaboration between Dobrovolskiy and Canadian theatre icon Sharon Pollock. Dobrovolskiy is one of Canada’s most prolific choreographers and his work is presented through-out Europe and the United States. A showcase for the artistry and versatility of the critically acclaimed dancers of the company, Ghosts of Violence is an emotionally charged work inspired by the lives of women who have lost their lives at the hands of an intimate partner. It is an innovative and poignant call for awareness, understanding and action. Through evocative lighting, theatre, music and multi-media, the ballet captures the memory of these silent victims and tells stories of their struggles, their hopes, their joys and our loss..

Age Suitability: 14+

Visit the Saint Lawrence Centre for the Arts website for more information.

Posted: Tuesday June 5, 2012

B.Someday Presents Suburban Motel in June - Walking Fish Theatre

B.Someday Presents Suburban Motel in June

June 5-30, 2012

Walking Fish Theatre
2509 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

2 plays in rep from Suburban Motel cycle by George F. Walker

Where can you find sex, crime, depravity, tv addiction, murder, Russian mobsters, chicanery, bafoonery and pornography all in one room? Suburban Motel, of course!
Featuring Loretta Lorie is beautiful, young, pregnant.and alone. What will she do to survive, and how will she get rid of these two bozos who adore her, and by the way, what does that Russian Girl want?

The End of Civilization Meet Henry. He’s unemployed, and pissed about it. And his wife Lily, who may try the oldest profession as her new job. Now somebody’s calling in bomb threats to all the places that won’t hire Henry, and detectives come snooping. But wait, one of them knows Lily only too well….

See it first at Walking Fish Theatre!

Tickets: $20.00

Pay-what-you-can Wednesdays!

Visit the b.someday website for more information.

Posted: Wednesday June 20, 2012

Wanderlust - Morris Panych - Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Wanderlust

Book by Morris Panych
Music by Marek Norman

Based on the poems of Robert Service
With additional lyrics by Morris Panych
Directed by Morris Panych

WORLD PREMIÈRE

Tom Patterson Theatre
111 Lakeside Drive (close to downtown, by the Avon river).
Stratford, Ontario

June 20 to September 28, 2012
Opens July 11

About the Musical

As he moils away at his ledgers, bank clerk and aspiring poet Robert Service dreams of romance and escape to a new life of adventure in the gold rush of the Great North. But the object of his affection, his pretty co-worker Louise, is already engaged – and her fiancé has the makings of a dangerous man.

Visit the Stratford Shakespeare Festival website for more information.

Posted: Tuesday June 26, 2012

The Best Brothers - Daniel MacIvor - Stratford Shakespeare Festival

The Best Brothers

By Daniel MacIvor
Directed by Dean Gabourie

WORLD PREMIÈRE

Studio Theatre
34 George Street East
Stratford, Ontario

June 26 to September 16
Opens July 12

About the Play

Ardith “Bunny” Best has just died in an accident, leaving her sons Hamilton and Kyle to mourn in their very different ways. As each struggles to understand the other, the brothers begin to see more deeply into themselves and the unconventional woman who gave them birth.

Visit the Stratford Shakespeare Festival website for more information.

Posted: Thursday June 28, 2012

George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award - Presented to Daphne Marlatt

George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award

19th Annual
GEORGE WOODCOCK
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia

Presented to Daphne Marlatt

The Public is invited to attend this FREE event at:

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Alice MacKay Room
June 28, 2012
6:30 pm

To mark the 100th anniversary of George Woodcock’s birth, the event will feature short readings or remarks by George Fetherling, Jerry Zaslove, Stephen Collis, Wayde Compton, Maria (Gladys) Hindmarch and Ryan Andrew Murphy.

Posted: Thursday July 5, 2012

Twisted Poets Literary Salon - bill bissett - Prophouse Cafe

Pandora’s Collective Presents
TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON

July 5th, 2012

bill bissett and Susan Cormier

Share in an evening of literary surprises while wrapped in a warm and encouraging environment. Connect, read and enjoy. In the spirit of Vancouver all are welcome.
Suggested Donation: $5.00 at the door.

Hosts: Bonnie Nish, Daniela Elza and Timothy Shay

Time: 7pm-10pm
Location: The Prophouse Cafe
1636 Venables Ave @ Commercial
Vancouver, BC

Posted: Thursday July 19, 2012

Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival - 2012

Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival

Here is the 2012 lineup for the July 19-22 Readers & Writers Festival:

Carmen Aguirre
Tzeporah Berman
Daniel Francis
Steven Galloway
Lorna Goodison
Grant Lawrence
Mark Leiren-Young
Garry Thomas Morse
Nikki Tate
Timothy Taylor
Audrey Thomas

Check out the Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival web page for updates throughout the year about the upcoming festival!

Posted: Thursday July 26, 2012

Schoolhouse - Leanna Brodie - Stone Fence Theatre

Schoolhouse, by Leanna Brodie, celebrates schooling in the old days.

In 2012, its 10th season, Stone Fence Theatre is doing something new: an inspiring play that celebrates the one-room schoolhouse era and the teachers who worked so hard to help their students succeed. Schoolhouse, by Leanna Brodie, is a play that everyone who attended one of the old schools will appreciate.

Schoolhouse is not a musical play, but it features lively music by Peter Brown, with Stone Fence Theatre Producer Ish Theilheimer and The March Kids. The premiere is July 26, with two Early Bird Special performances on July 17 and 19.

The show will be performed as supper theatre, with a traditional Ottawa Valley roast beef dinner, in summer July 26, Aug 1, 9, 16, and Saturdays in Fall: September 29, October 13, 20 and 27. The Early Bird Specials do not include supper. All shows are at the Eagle’s Nest at the Eganville Community Centre, 178 Jane St., Eganville, ON.

Supper theatre tickets cost $42 for adults and $30 for youth under 18. Early Bird tickets $22.00. HST is added to all prices.

Visit the Stone Fence Theatre website for more information.

Posted: Monday August 20, 2012

KlezKanada Poetry Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion - Adeena Karasick

August 20-26, 2012

KlezKanada is pleased to present our inaugural summer poetry program in the Laurentians: the “KlezKanada Poetry Retreat (Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion)”, North America’s first Jewish poetry intensive retreat. The poetry seminar will be led by Minister of Semiotic Turbulence, Canadian poet and professor Adeena Karasick, as well as Chief of the Discordant Talmudic Crisis, poet and performer Jake Marmer.

Poetry’s greatest moments have often been measured by its proximity to music. And so, this year, KlezKanada – legendary festival of Jewish music and culture – is inviting poets world-wide to join the festivities at a week-long writing retreat. Two daily workshop sessions will explore the poetic tradition and anti-tradition across the three millennia of Jewish discourse, with a special focus on the avant-garde and otherwise contemporary work. We’ll look at the ecstatic tradition of poetry-prophecy; Talmud and its dialectic-semiotic heritage; practice of Darshening; Uncreative Writing; Kabbalistic language experiments; Concrete Poetry; Jazz/Klezmer Poetry; Yiddish voices; Modernists – and much more. There will be one-on-one time with the faculty and encounters with internationally celebrated poets, musicians, artists, and academics. Poets will be encouraged to draw inspiration from the numerous concerts, and to collaborate with musicians, dancers, painters and other participating artists, to attend lectures, Yiddish classes, sing, dance, celebrate. Held in the beautiful mountain settings in the heart of the Canadian Laurentians.

Although the program will be presented in English, writers working in other languages (French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, etc.) would also be enriched by this rare opportunity of being immersed in so many dialectical possibilities for expression. Celebrating the cacophonous lilt of the Diaspora, we will work with you to incorporate a multilingual approach to text, and engage in an experimental poetics that will borrow from the habits and lexicons, tropes and musicality – a true carnival of cultural and linguistic poesis! Additionally, we’ll encourage all writers to explore and deepen their connection to Yiddish – through our lectures, language courses, singing sessions – and to incorporate Yiddish’s imagery and cadences into their work.

One of the strengths of KlezKanda is our inter-disciplinary philosophy; music, dance, theater, visual arts and Yiddishkayt are all taught, practiced, woven together and complement each other. Our Poetry Initiative will be defined by both its unique Jewish identity and its close connection to music and the other arts.

Visit the KlezKanada Poetry Retreat website for more information.

Posted: Tuesday September 18, 2012

Chickens - Lucia Frangione - Chemainus Theatre

Chickens
by Lucia Frangione

September 21 to October 27, 2012

Chemainus Theatre
9737 Chemainus Road
Chemainus, BC

RURAL MUSICAL COMEDY
To escape money woes, a farmer raises exotic chickens while his wife struggles to keep their farm afloat. Out in the chicken coop, roosters and hens mirror the couple’s life.

Visit the Chemainus Theatre website for more information.

Posted: Thursday October 11, 2012

Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Sagebrush Theatre

Where the Blood Mixes
By Kevin Loring

Starring Lorne Cardinal & Craig Lauzon
October 11 to 20, 2012

Sagebrush Theatre
1300 9th Avenue
Kamloops, BC

An award-winning story about loss and redemption. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People.

Posted: Saturday November 3, 2012

Tom and the Coyote - Michel Marc Bouchard - Factory Theatre

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PREMIERE

Tom and the Coyote

Written by Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Directed by Eda Holmes

November 3 – December 2, 2012

MAINSPACE THEATRE
Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (Adelaide Street entrance)
Toronto, Ontario

Tom’s lover has died. At the family farm, a mother, a brother, a lover and a friend mourn – the collision of grief, lust and lies shatters the lives they have been living.

Previews November 3 – 7, opens November 8

Michel Marc Bouchard is one of the most nationally and internationally acclaimed Canadian artists and is the author of more than 20 plays which have earned him numerous awards in Quebec, across Canada and worldwide, including the Governor General’s, Soiree de Masques, Dora Mavor Moore, and Chalmers awards. Bouchard is an Officer of the Order of Canada. This is the third English language premiere of Bouchard’s work to be produced at Factory Theatre.

Visit the Factory Theatre website for more information.

Posted: Tuesday January 15, 2013

Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box - Great Canadian Theatre Company

Blue Box

Written and performed by Carmen Aguirre

Directed by Brian Quirt

A Nightswimming Production

January 15, 2013 – February 03, 2013

Great Canadian Theatre Company
1233 Wellington St. West (at the corner of Holland Ave)
Ottawa, Ontario

Carmen Aguirre returns to GCTC with the full production of her smash hit from the 2012 undercurrents festival. Blue Box investigates Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life as an underground revolutionary in Chile. It’s a story of terror, romance, and abandon that takes us from the dangerous mountain passes of Chile to the perilous roller coasters of Hollywood; from an ardent love affair with a TV star, to a passionate love for a revolution that strove to change an entire nation. Carmen’s memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, won the 2012 CBC Canada Reads competition.

Posted: Friday January 25, 2013

Leave of Absence - Lucia Frangione - Pacific Theatre

Leave of Absence
by Lucia Frangione

Jan 25-Feb 16, 2013

Pacific Theatre‎
1440 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC

WORLD PREMIERE!

A searing drama of bigotry and transcendence in a small prairie town. World premiere from the author of Espresso. Directed by Morris Ertman (My Name is Asher Lev, Shadowlands)

Visit the Pacific Theatre website for more information.

Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2013

The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - Wendy Lill - Neptune Theatre

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum
by Wendy Lill

February 26 to March 17, 2013

Neptune Theatre (Fountain Hall)
1593 Argyle Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Wendy Lill’s award-winning stage play takes a compassionate look at the joyful, heart-scalding story of Margaret MacNeil and her rebellious love for Neil Currie, a miner by trade and a bagpiper for the joy of it.  Set against the darkness and disasters of the coal mines of 1940’s Cape Breton, this vivid drama bears witness to the impact of the region’s major industry, and its shocking conclusion leaves audiences gasping.  Don’t miss this remarkable Nova Scotia story that began as a Sheldon Currie novel and was later adapted into the 1996 film, Margaret’s Museum.  This production is directed by Mary Vingoe.

Visit the Neptune Theatre website for more information.

Posted: Thursday March 14, 2013

Dead Metaphor - George F. Walker - Factory Theatre

Dead Metaphor

Written & Directed by George F. Walker
March 9 – April 7, 2013

MAINSPACE THEATRE
Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (Adelaide Street entrance)
Toronto, Ontario

Dean is back from Afghanistan, out-of-work as a sniper and looking to transfer his job skills. A darkly hilarious story about just what we will do to and for our families.

Previews March 9 – 13, opens March 14

George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific, widely produced and published playwrights. His prizes and awards include nine Chalmers, five Doras, and three Governor General’s. He has also written extensively for television and radio. Walker is the recipient of the Order of Canada. Many of George F. Walker’s have premiered at Factory Theatre over the last 40 years, most recently And So It Goes in 2010.

For more information, visit the Factory Theatre website.

Posted: Thursday April 4, 2013

My Turquoise Years - M.A.C. Farrant - Arts Club Theatre

My Turquoise Years

By M.A.C Farrant

April 4 – May 4, 2013

Arts Club Theatre
Granville Island Stage
1585 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC

Memoir of a Canadian girlhood

Based on Farrant’s memoir of her fourteenth summer, My Turquoise Years is a comic coming-of-age story set in 1960, a time of postwar optimism, when plastic reigned and the colour turquoise was the height of chic. Marion, raised by Aunt Elsie in sleepy Cordova Bay, has grown up hearing tales of her glamorous, globe-trotting mother, Nancy. Just as Marion is blossoming into womanhood, Nancy suddenly announces a visit to Canada, throwing everyone into a tizzy.

Visit the web site for more information.

Posted: Tuesday April 30, 2013

Le Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main - Théatre du Nouveau Monde

Le Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main
DU 30 AVRIL AU 25 MAI, 2013

d’après Sainte Carmen de la Main
de Michel Tremblay

Théatre du Nouveau Monde
84, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Montréal (Québec)

Livret, paroles et mise en scène René Richard Cyr
Musique Daniel Bélanger

Tout dans la puissante fable de Carmen appelle la fusion du théâtre, de la musique et du chant. René Richard Cyr et Daniel Bélanger, le duo qui a transfiguré Les Belles-Soeurs, déploie dans sa totale envergure cette oeuvre magistrale où Michel Tremblay embrasse à la fois le quotidien et le mythique, les ténèbres et la lumière. Car Sainte Carmen de la Main entraîne dans un irrésistible mouvement épique son incandescente héroïne, ses petits malfrats et son choeur bigarré de prostituées et de travestis.

Pour raconter l’histoire de cette chanteuse qui mourra pour avoir décidé de libérer la Main en chantant l es misères et les grandeurs de ceux qui y ont échoué, il fallait une distribution à la hauteur de ces personnages entrés depuis déjà longtemps dans la mythologie québécoise : Gloria, la vieille star déchue de la bossa nova ; Maurice, le roi de la Main, aussi charmeur que dangereux ; l’inquiétant et visqueux Tooth Pick ; Bec-de-lièvre, la timide lesbienne au coeur ardent et la radieuse Carmen, reine du western, dont le retour embrase la Main comme le soleil de juin et qui prendra la voix et les traits de la bouleversante et sensuelle Maude Guérin.

Une production Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Spectra musique, Les Francofolies de Montréal, B14 Productions.

Visitez Théâtre du Nouveau Monde

Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon

A Conversation with Martine Desjardins

A Conversation with Martine Desjardins about her novel Maleficium:

Maleficium is a shift for me, because I have left that realm to venture a little more toward the unreal. Thus the main female character has physical attributes that make her appear foreign, almost monstrous and alien. She has a harelip, but is also described as having a long tail, vulvar stamens, perfumed earwax, thorns growing from her scalp; she is seen carrying a larva in her navel, shedding tortoiseshell tears, extracting iridescent oil from her skin.

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Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon

The Long Goodbye: A Review of Morris Panych's Vigil

Morris Panych’s Vigil is reviewed by James MacKillop:

Once playwright Panych has won us over with the audacity of his concept, Kemp’s outrageous lack of compassion, he has given himself the problem of making this increasingly interesting for nearly two hours. Ratcheting up the zingers works for a start: “I’m concerned about your health these past few days: It seems to be improving.” This escalates until Kemp introduces a do-it-yourself suicide machine, with a lethal brick and an electrocutionist’s helmet.

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Wednesday May 9, 2012 in Meta-Talon

Do You Pass the Empathy Test for Conceptual Writing?

Does Adeena Karasick consider herself a “conceptual” writer? Here is her response:

So, in asking “Do you consider yourself a Conceptual Poet”, one has to ask – where do the aesthetics begin and the friendships end? How do you continuously (contiguously) belong without belonging in an ever-widening circle of language, production, filiation, power and desire.

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Monday May 7, 2012 in Meta-Talon

“Living the Border” with Guillermo Verdecchia

Steve Fisher interviews Guillermo Verdecchia about returning to Fronteras Americanas:

It’s a deeply Canadian play, and while I think it makes sense in other places—you could take this play to Mexico, or Argentina, or anywhere, because these borders and bi-cultural negotiations take place all over the world—it’s of ongoing interest to Canadians. It’s another way of looking at our nation; there are plays that have been produced in Canada that hold up an image that I don’t believe ever existed, but we like to think did…

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