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With numerous books, CDs, performance, and video works to their individual credit, “cultural agitator and fab femme (NOW)” Anna Camilleri, “natural-born storyteller (Globe and Mail)” Ivan E. Coyote, and “musical genius (Xtra)” Lyndell Montgomery recently started talking about resurrecting the magical collaboration that Taste This was. For the premiere of So The Story Goes—an original interdisciplinary performance—they’ll be joined by Leslie Peters whose video works have screened internationally from Buenos Aries to Australia. A lot has changed since Taste This exploded onto the cultural scene, but the issues that the early collective inhabited continue to be relevant—questions of gender, sexuality, desire, culture, class, rural versus city life, and kinship. Home stories. Queer tales. True, except when they’re not. Stories that swell and implode the spaces between cultural institutions and queer landscapes; between female and male; between tightly produced performance and kitchen table talk. 1 PERFORMANCE ONLY | Sunday August 2, 2009 “Their (Taste This) rigorous exploration of gender and sexuality opened up strange new worlds posing enough threat to shut down all the arts funding in Alberta.” “Boys Like Her speaks eloquently of the need for civil rights for all of us . . . ” Pride in Art Festival and Swell gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. GHENT, BELGIUM ~ Author Reading and Panel Discussion KINGSTON, ON ~ Guest Lecture and Writing Workshop BURNABY, B.C. ~ Author Reading and Talk VANCOUVER, B.C.
VANCOUVER, B.C. ~ author reading TORONTO, ON ~ author reading TORONTO, ON ~ author reading
WORKSHOPS Anna designs and facilitates custom workshops independently, and for various organizations. All workshops listed are offered as daylong or weekend intensives, and as four or six-week workshops; for full workshop descriptions click on the Bookings & Workshops tab. To inquire about upcoming workshops email Anna Camilleri at reddressproductions@gmail.com STORY LAB for QUEERS | Vancouver STORY LAB | Toronto BLUE SHOES | Toronto CREATIVE LICENSE: WRITING BOOTCAMP FOR QUEERS | Toronto STORY LAB | Toronto CANADIAN QUEER LIT COLLECTION AND EXHIBITION! Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This (Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, Zoe T. Eakle, and Lyndell Montgomery) and Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, co-edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri), have been selected for inclusion in the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Books Library Queer Canadian Literature Collection and Exhibition—139 titles in total. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE A group of trans, queer, and gender questioning work collaboratively with director/dramaturge Tristan R. Whiston, writer/performer Anna Camilleri, choreographer/dancer Kathleen Rea, and project coordinator LeeAndra Miller to create an original theatre work based in their exploration of gender identity. Presented by Central Toronto Youth Services, the Gender Play Project has been running annually since 2004, and has mounted four professional productions. CHFT COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECT Unveiling & Reception | Toronto Many children and elders joined together over several months to create the St. Lawrence Co-ops Community Mosaic. Please join us in celebration of this new public artwork led by mosaic artist Anna Camilleri with co-lead artist Tristan R. Whiston (Red Dress Productions). The St. Lawrence Co-ops Community Mosaic, a project of the Co-op Housing Federation of Toronto in partnership with Red Dress Productions, has been made possible thanks to the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, St. Lawrence Community Recreation Centre, and OWN Co-operative. Information: 519 COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECT Red Dress Productions is proud to lead a large-scale community-based mosaic project with Toronto’s 519 Community Centre, launching in spring 2009. For more information visit 519’s website at www.the519.org ACCLAIM FOR RED LIGHT, LAMBDA FINALIST Red Light , like all of Camilleri's books, a brave and bold and in-your-face, a brazen mix of passionate intelligence and striking sexuality with the power to stir one's inner rebel. Herizons Fans of Camilleri's book I Am a Red Dress will appreciate this stunning visual volume that sheds new light on what the titular image means. Because of the multi-genre crossover, Red Light doesn't feel like your average feminist collection but more like being in room of vibrant souls. Vancouver Review ACCLAIM FOR I AM A RED DRESS “It (I Am a Red Dress) is a melodious and haunting red siren of text culled from Camilleri’s own life, which unravels the complexly woven threads of love, silence and betrayal through which she, her mother and her grandmother are bound. Evocatively written through the lushly rouged and split lip of poetry, Camilleri deftly “remakes language, profane, and delicate,” and writes herself loudly and vividly from the gaps cloaked by and within the red dress.” — Herizons Magazine “Cultural agitator . . . Camilleri’s a terrific writer, in control of some emotionally charged prose.” — NOW magazine "Camilleri's prose is potent, fresh, and imbued with powerful imagery. This lady in red has an important message to share." — Quill & Quire “It’s usually honesty that leaves the most distinct mark on artwork of art, or, in this case, literature. And while there is plenty of honesty in I Am a Red Dress, another singular adjective nudges the psyche of those reading this book: brave. Camilleri allows truth to conspicuously and carefully seep through the pages of her work without appearing leaky or uncomfortable. This control is what’s most striking in Camilleri’s newest venture. . . she reveals herself and her family with grace and remarkable charge. I Am a Red Dress is exceptionally strong in will, humanity, and bravery.” — Broken Pencil “Anna Camilleri is a powerful writer with a gripping story. We definitely need to hear more from her.” — The Globe and Mail
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