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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

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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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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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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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“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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