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PERFORMANCE | TOUR DATES: TORONTO, ON ~ author reading TORONTO, ON ~ author reading TORONTO, ON ~ performance VANCOUVER, BC ~ author reading THUNDER BAY, ON ~ feature performance EDMONTON , AL ~ feature performance VICTORIA , BC ~ feature performance REGINA , BC ~ feature performance 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 I, 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. The exhibition will run at the Fisher (120 St. George St.) from June 9 through August 29, 2008. Collection and exhibition curated by Don McLeod, Scott Rayter, and Maureen FitzGerald. PANOPTICON | TORONTO PRODUCTION June 13 and June 14 @ 8 pm and June 15 matinee @2pm, 2008 After the smash success of 2007’s GenderWear: Is It Fashionable to Be Me Yet, 2006’s Euphoria, and 2005's Binary City, the Gender Play Project is back with a new theatre work exploring the limitations and joys of being both inside and outside of institutionalized gender. 519 COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECT Red Dress Productions is proud to lead a large-scale community-based mosaic project with Toronto’s one and only 519 Community Centre, launching in fall 2008. For more information visit 519’s website at www.the519.org WORKSHOPS Anna designs and facilitates custom workshops independently, and with various organizations. All workshops listed (here and on the Bookings & Workshops page) are offered as daylong or weekend intensives, and as four or six-week courses. To inquire about upcoming workshops (they’re not all posted) email Anna Camilleri at reddressproductions@gmail.com CREATIVE LICENSE Creative License is a four-week workshop environment designed to encourage word/text exploration in a supportive group setting. The emphasis is on mining our imaginations, experimenting with voice and form, and generating new writings. Based in a series of facilitated writing exploratory exercises and group dialogue, this intensive is designed to offer participants tools for entering the writing realm with curiosity, and creative license. Creative License is for writers, and for those who wish to write. Inquiries and registration at Toronto Women's Bookstore BLUE SHOES Memoir writing can be an overwhelming task. Where to start? Where to stop? How to shape the story? The past hangs over us in a thousand shimmering fragments, defying us to bring form to it. Blue Shoes is a six-week writing intensive designed to explore pathways into working with life experience and seemingly random memory—like those patent leather blue shoes in your mother’s closet that you coveted but weren’t allowed to touch. Based in facilitated exercises in a supportive group setting, participants will generate new writings working with memoir elements including the first-person voice, image and details, characterization, irony, conflict, narrative arc, and plot. We will also look at ethical and practical concerns such as working with emotionally charged material, managing the inner critic, working with personal truth and disputed events, documentation versus story, and transforming personal experience into distilled narrative that reveals the complexity of the human condition. Blue Shoes on Tuesdays in October: 7, 14, 21 and 28, and in November:
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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