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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
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:
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