Toronto Arts Council Committees |
TAC committees augment
the work of TAC's Board of Directors and broaden and strengthen
TAC's community base. Committee members review grant applications
and make grant recommendations on applications from organizations
and collectives and advise the Board of Directors regarding
the needs of the arts community and on general policy matters.
Committee members serve a maximum three year term and terms
on each committee are staggered to ensure both continuity and
renewal. |
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Community Arts Committee
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Co-founder and director of Red Pepper Spectacle
Arts, an active community arts organization and storefront in
Kensington Market. Red Pepper produces the Kensington Market
Winter Carnival Festival of Lights and the Kensington
Market Harvest Festival. It also facilitates the Handmade
Theatre Workshop in schools across the GTA and in fly-in communities
in Ontario’s far north – collaboratively creating
community-based festivals and theatrics from conception to public
celebration. Red Pepper will hit the road in 2005 with ARTBUS,
a fully equipped mobile art studio. Andy is also a theatre designer
and has worked with such companies as VideoCabaret, the Centre
for Indigenous Theatre and da da kamera. |
Jayashri Deshmukh |
Jayashri Deshmukh is an architect with a special
interest in community design and development. She is also a
visual artist. Her interest in community has involved directing
Participatory Design Workshops involving the community in Architectural
Design in New York, Minneapolis, and Charlotte, 1995-2000; as
well as community workshops for “Revitalizing South Boulevard”,
Charlotte, 1996. She has designed a number of community and
educational buildings internationally. |
Kate Eccles |
Chief Creative Director of RCM’s Learning
Through the Arts program, a dynamic, arts-driven education
program providing teachers with creative tools to engage all
students in math, science language arts and social studies.
A writer and visual artist by training, Kate has held executive
positions in higher education, health care, and broadcasting.
She was the Assistant Dean and Chief Marketing Officer at the
University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where
she wrote about Integrative Thinking, and developed the Rotman
brand to become the leading business school franchise in Canada.
She was Director of Public Affairs and Executive Producer for
the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon for B.C.’s
Children’s Hospital, and also served as Director of Public
Affairs at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As a writer,
she has won more than 26 national awards for her work, and she
has taught writing and creativity workshops at Simon Fraser
University, University of British Columbia, Douglas College,
and Capilano College. |
Loree Lawrence |
Loree Lawrence is an artist, educator, and consultant
whose work with community-engaged art initiatives spans more
than 20 years. She is currently lead artist with The Gathering
Space, a community arts initiative in the Junction neighbourhood.
Past work includes involvement with Jumblies Theatre Bridge
of One Hair project in Etobicoke and her work with street-involved
youth when she was Theatre Director at KYTES (Kensington Youth
Theatre and Employment Skills). Loree also worked in Vancouver
as the Creative Director at Projections, a film and video mentorship
program for street-involved youth where she directed Leaky
Heaven Circus youth project which won a Jesse Award for
youth and community involvement. |
Brent Lawson |
Brent Lawson is an avid arts and community volunteer
(Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Jazz Society, North
York Harvest Food Bank); he currently works at Youth Without
Shelter. In his job, he has been involved with several arts
programs with homeless and disadvantaged youth. His own artistic
interests include theatre, jazz and experimental music, and
ceramic arts. |
Stacia Loft |
Stacia Loft is the program manager for the UMAYC
(Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centre) Program at the
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto. Before coming to the NCCT,
Stacia spent two years in the West Indies, as co-creator and
director of an indigenous youth-led organization in the Carib
Territory in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Prior to that she
worked as a court-worker in the Aboriginal Justice Program in
London, Ontario. |
Kevin Reigh |
Toronto based writer/performer committed to exploring
the connections between what is written, what is read, what
is heard and what is said. He currently hosts and performs in
Word, Sound & Power, a semi-regular showcase featuring
song, dance and spoken word that has featured artists such as
Layah Jane, Shugamai Johnson, Simply Speaking, Testament and
Blue Venus. Kevin has performed throughout the Toronto area,
including appearances at Harbourfront Centre’s Masala,
Mehndi, Masti festival, Vibrant Frequency, La Parole,
dance Immersion events, Creating For the Cure and Ankobea.
In 2001, with dancer Ingrid Abbott, Kevin co-founded the Tallawa
Arts project, an art-based collective that fuses spoken word
with dance and music for performance. Kevin’s work has
been included in T-Dot Griots: An anthology of Toronto’s
Black Storytellers (2004) and on Paranoid Jack’s
acclaimed album of electronic and house music The Last of
the Funky Cyborgs (2001) and he has been commissioned to
write original pieces of poetry for dance groups and presentations. |
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Dance Committee
Gerry Trentham
Chair |
Artist and educator. He is the founder and Artistic
Director of pounds per square inch performance, a company dedicated
to fostering environments that encourage and enhance artistic
endeavour. His major performance work integrates live dance,
theatre and music with video design. Mr. Trentham’s writing,
choreography and direction have developed to include the creation
of over 25 original works for the stage, including the epic
Cathedral. His most recent work, Autobiography:
Chapters One through Five, an international multi-media
collaboration, was produced at Premiere Dance Theatre and received
national critical acclaim. He has taught at York University
in both graduate and undergraduate theatre programs and is presently
Assistant Professor in the Performing Arts Department at SUNY
Buffalo State where he is Head of Voice and Movement. |
Katharine
Franklin |
born in North Bay and received her dance training
at the Quinte Ballet School in Belleville, the Mentor Program
at Ballet British Columbia, and as an Intern Dancer at Toronto
Dance Theatre. As an independent dance artist in Toronto she
has worked with Kate Alton, Tanya Crowder, Andrya Duff, Tina
Fushell, Hit and Run Productions, Kaeja d'Dance, Nancy Latham,
Lisa Lurie, Rose Marie MacGregor, Matjash Mrozewski, Yvonne
Ng and Jonathon Osborn. Kate is the co-founder of Ambitious
Enterprises, a collective committed to producing and promoting
the work of emerging dance artists, and the collective “first
things first”, with Kate Holden. Her work has been shown
at Series 8:08, Grooveform's Mishmash, At the Wrecking Ball
Series, and TILT sound+motion's 2006 Choreographic Workshop,
Bottom's Up. |
Michael Greyeyes |
Michael Greyeyes is a dancer, choreographer,
actor, director and educator who began his training and career
with the National Ballet of Canada. He later joined the company
of choreographer Eliot Feld in New York, where two roles were
created especially for him in the ballets Common Ground
and Bloom's Wake. Michael also danced many featured
roles in Mr. Feld’s most acclaimed works. With visual
artist Kent Monkman and theatre director Floyd Favel, he established
Tipiskaki Goroh, which produced two works, Child of 10,000
Years and Night Traveller. In 2006, Michael was
commissioned by Red Sky to create Shimmer, a new dance
theatre work, for the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Michael
has taught at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and is currently
on faculty in the York University Theatre Department. Michael
is Plains Cree from Saskatchewan. |
Lata Pada |
Originally from Bangalore, India, has made Canada
her home for over 40 years. She is the artistic director of
Sampradaya Dance Creations, a company dedicated to the classical
Indian dance form bharatanatyam and its interpretation of contemporary
themes. Her career spans a spectrum of performance and choreography,
nationally and internationally, as well as teaching, research
and development. She holds an MFA in Dance from York University.
She is a founding member of the South Asian Advisory Committee
at the Royal Ontario Museum; she also serves on the Board of
the Canadian Dance Assembly. She received the 2000 New Pioneers
Award. |
Junia Mason |
Junia Mason is a dancer, choreographer and educator,
and a founding member and performer with COBA, the Collective
of Black Artists. Most recently she has worked with South African
choreographer Vincent Matsoe, Casimiro Nhussi, artistic director
of NAfro Dance Productions in Winnipeg, and Bill Evans through
the Dance Teachers' Intensive at the State University of New
York. Junia has worked as a choreographer and performer with
numerous theatre companies, including Theatre Direct and Nightwood
Theatre. She has also worked as a community artist with marginalized
youth and adults in schools, shelters, community centres and
residential settings. |
Kathleen Rea |
A graduate of the National Ballet School and
has danced with Ballet Jörgen Canada, the National Ballet
of Canada and Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). In 2000, Kathleen
formed REAson d'être productions, an organization that
umbrellas her artistic endeavours. Kathleen's individuality
of expression stems from her varied background, which includes
ballet, modern, contact improvisation, and dance theatre and
is influenced by the multi-disciplinary techniques involved
in Expressive Arts. Kathleen has choreographed over 20 original
works for various organizations including Bravo Television Network,
Ballet Jörgen Canada, princess productions and Toronto
Dance Theatre. Kathleen's full-length ballet, The Velveteen
Rabbit, performed by Ballet Jorgen Canada, has been on
tour across North America for the past five years and currently,
her award winning film Lapinthrope is premiering at
numerous international film festivals. |
Jennifer Winchester |
Arts manager. Currently the Director of Operations
for new music presenter Soundstreams Canada, she previously
managed Toronto-based dance company, Kaeja d’Dance. She
is also currently serving as a project leader on the development
of a new online mentoring resource for arts professionals (Emerging
Arts Professionals - www.eapforum.com). Jennifer holds a B.A
in Theatre/English from St. Lawrence University in New York
and an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Toronto, where
she specialized in the role of volunteer boards in Canadian
Theatre. Past experience includes a variety of roles at theatres
across southern Ontario, including the Upper Canada Playhouse
at Morrisburg, Picton’s Regent Theatre, Kingston’s
Princess Court Theatre and the Weave Shed Arts Centre in Cornwall.
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Large Institutions Committee
Jini Stolk
Chair |
Founding Executive Director of Creative Trust,
Jini is an acknowledged leader in the arts and culture community
with senior management experience in a range of producing and
membership organizations. Previous positions include: Managing
Director of Toronto Dance Theatre, Executive Director of Toronto
Theatre Alliance, Associate Director of the Association of Canadian
Publishers and General Manager of Open Studio. She continues
her involvement in many community and cultural advocacy activities
and is President of the Board of Hum dance theatre and a director
of the 215 Centre for Social Innovation. She previously served
as President of Toronto Artscape and Six Stages Theatre Festival.
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Colleen Blake |
Colleen Blake is the Executive Director of the Shaw Festival.
Her extensive career in theatre includes an 18-year association
with the Stratford Festival in positions ranging from Stage
Manager through Production Manager and Director of Production
to six years as Producer. She also worked as Production Manager
of Young People’s Theatre and General Manager of the Bastion
Theatre Company in Victoria, B.C. Ms Blake has served on numerous
committees, including the Steering Committee of the Canadian
Arts Summit, advisory and assessment committees for the Ontario
Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, and the Arts in
Transition Task Force for the Canadian Conference of the Arts.
She is a past member of the Board of Professional Association
of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and she served as co-chair for the
PACT Negotiating Committee for the Canadian Theatre Agreement. |
| Heather
Clark |
Director of Marketing and Development for the
Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall. She also directed
the $13 million capital campaign for the Roy Thomson Hall Enhancement
Project 2002. Prior to joining Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall
in 1996, Heather was the Director of Marketing and Development
for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and from 1983 to 1986 the Manager
of Individual Giving for the Canadian Opera Company. She is
a sessional lecturer for the MBA Arts and Media Program at York
University’s Schulich School of Business and has taught
and consulted on arts management for University of Toronto,
University of Waterloo, Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and
Council for Business and the Arts, among other institutions. |
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Paul de Silva’s career has spanned radio and television
broadcasting, independent film and television production, journalism
and human rights. He is currently the Executive Director of
the International Council for Diversity in Film and Television.
Prior to that Paul was Vice President of Programming for Vision
TV / One - The Body Mind and Spirit Channel, where he was responsible
for commissioning over four hundred hours of programming including:
documentary, drama, and music programs both in Canada and internationally.
He was formerly Vision TV's Director of Programming and Director
of Independent Production. |
Cathy Smalley |
Catherine Smalley has worked as an arts manager, consultant,
facilitator, and project manager for almost 30 years. She has
worked with a wide variety of arts organizations, associations,
funding agencies, governments, and foundations and assignments
have included strategic planning, program evaluation, event
and program management, research projects, reports, and executive
search. Some of the positions she has held include Program Manager
of the Metcalf Foundation, General Manager of Young People’s
Theatre, founding Executive Director of the Toronto Theatre
Alliance, Executive Director of Theatre Ontario, and Executive
Director of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres.
Catherine is a founding member of Arts Consultants Canada. |
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Literary Committee
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Writer. A writer of fiction, film scripts and
visual-arts criticism, her first novel, The Electrical Field,
was a finalist for a slew of awards and won the 1999 Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan
Literary Award. In 1999 she spent three months working on her
second novel in Japan as a guest of The Japan Foundation and
One Hundred Million Hearts was published by Knopf Canada
in 2003. With Helen Lee, she co-edited an anthology of writings
on video artist Richard Fung Like Mangoes In July (Insomniac
Press, 2002). Advisor, Gendai Gallery, Nisei Legacy Project,
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Member, PEN
Canada and Writers’ Union of Canada. |
Louise Bak |
Poet, performance artist, sexual activist and
scholar. She is the author of emeighty (Letters), Gingko
Kitchen (Coach House Books) and Tulpa (Coach House
Books). She co-hosts Sex City (ciut 89.5 fm), Toronto's only
radio show that explores the relationships between sexuality
and culture. Louise co-hosts The Box, a Toronto-based literary
salon. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University
of Toronto in Cultural Studies and Women's Studies. |
Alana Wilcox |
Writer and editor. Currently the Editor-in-Chief
at Coach House Books, she is author of A Grammar of Endings
(The Mercury Press, 2000) and co-editor of UTOpia: Towards
a New Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in several magazines,
including Quarry, Tessera, Paragraph,
and Queen Street Quarterly. |
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Music Committee
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Composer. His music has been widely performed
both in Canada and abroad by such orchestras and ensembles as
the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, Esprit Orchestra,
Continuum, Arraymusic and the Warsaw National Philharmonic among
others. He won the 2003 Barlow International Competition for
an orchestral work. |
Gregory Oh
Co-Chair |
Pianist with graduate degrees from both University
of Toronto and University of Michigan. He is Artistic Director
of new music ensemble Toca Loca, plays with The Lollipop People,
teaches at the University of Toronto and performs with a wide
variety of ensembles across Canada. |
Karen Ages |
Musician (oboe/English horn) and music teacher.
She has been a member of Niagara Symphony since 1994 and is
a past member of Kekeli African Drum & Dance Ensemble and
Gamelan. Karen holds a Masters in Musicology from Eastman School
of Music and a BFA from York University. She currently works
for Wholenote Magazine, handling membership and event
advertising |
Parmela Attariwala |
Violinist/violist, performance artist and ethnomusicologist.
She specializes in contemporary, cross-cultural, improvised
and performance art music. Parmela has performed at the Distillery
Jazz Festival, the Museum of Civilization as part of the Arts
of Sound Series and has been featured in the series Collaborations:
A Chamber Arts Experience. Parmela is currently a PhD student
in Ethnomusicology at U of T. |
Dallas Bergen |
Dallas Bergen is founding Artistic Director of
Univox Choir Toronto, a community choir for young adults. Dallas
is also a professional singer with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale,
Canadian Chamber Choir and Director of Harbourfront Community
Chorus. |
David Olds |
General Manager of New Music Concerts, which
presents a series of new music concerts of Canadian and international
artists and also offers lectures, films, mixed media presentations,
forums and music theatre. David is a member of the Coalition
of New Music and Music Theatre Presenters. He is the assignment
and copy editor of WholeNote Magazine and a music consultant.
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Kevin Parnell |
Kevin Parnell is Co-Artistic Director of Wavelength
Music Arts Projects. Kevin, along with Ryan McLaren and founder
Jonathan Bunce, has helped provide a forum for Toronto’s
underground musical and artistic communities. Kevin also works
as creative consultant, writer and music segment producer on
the variety show King Kaboom on SUN TV. Kevin’s
own band, Loitering Heroes, released their first LP Beast
Alert! in late 2007. |
David Rudder |
David Rudder is a singer, musician and composer
working in calypso and soca traditions. He is credited with
being one of the main successes behind the growing popularity
of the music of calypso in Europe and North America. Rudder's
unprecedented rise to fame in 1986 has made him the subject
of music critics around the world - from New York to London
to Tokyo. He has been featured in International Magazines such
as Newsweek, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Total
Caribbean News, The Los Angeles Times and The Observer
and The Guardian from London. |
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Theatre Committee
Teresa Przybylski
Co-Chair
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Architect, theatre designer. Well-known as a
designer for opera, theatre, dance and film, her credits include
designs for Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Opera
Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Pacific Opera, Calgary
Opera, Young Peoples Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre,
Canadian Stage Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Blyth
Festival, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Columbus, Rhombus Media
and others. She teaches theatre design at York University. Member,
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Associated Designers of Canada.
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Ed Roy is a director, playwright,
dramaturge and actor who has worked extensively on stage, film
and TV. He has been the recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award
for directing, the Chalmers Award for playwrighting and two
Dora Awards for outstanding productions. Ed is currently the
Artistic Director of Topological Theatre, Company Dramaturge
and Associate Artist at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Director
of Training at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre and a guest
instructor at Humber College. His plays including Bang!
Boy Bang!, The Other Side of the Closet and Daredevil
are frequently produced in Canada and United States. |
Franco Boni |
Artistic Director of the Theatre Centre and has
been described by some as an inspired curator, who brings together
dancers, directors, designers, choreographers, film makers and
actors to create across disciplines. He was the Artistic Producer
of SummerWorks Festival and Rhubarb Festival Director at Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre from 2000-2004. He has worked with youth
and training programs at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tarragon
Theatre and Toronto District School Board. Awards include the
Harold Award and the Michael Lynch Award (2002) and the Ken
McDougall Award for emerging director (1995). Member of a number
of Boards of Directors, including Paprika Festival, Platform
9 and PACT. |
Dian Marie Bridge |
Playwright and director. Selected directing and
assistant directing credits include da Kink in my Hair
for Mirvish Productions, The Syringa Tree for CanStage,
The Piano Lesson for Obsidian Theatre, Many Colors
Make the Thunder King for Guthrie Theatre and productions
at 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival. She has been described as an
artist with a passion for storytelling that draws upon her experiences
growing up in Jamaica and Canada. She is a founding member of
both the Vancouver-based art collective 4Large heads and the
Toronto-based theatre and storytelling group Cric Crac Collective.
Her play, Appleway, was developed as part of Nightwood
Theatre’s Groundswell unit and produced at SummerWorks
2005. Dian Marie is currently working as an arts administrator
at the Playwrights Guild. |
Stephen Colella |
Stephen is a dramaturg who currently works at
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. Other companies he
has worked for in Toronto include: Alameda Theatre, Paprika
Festival, Soulpepper, Factory Theatre, and Canstage. He is a
member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America and
holds a Masters in Philosophy from Glasgow University, Scotland.
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Mallory Gilbert, C.M. |
One of Canada’s senior and most-respected
arts managers and one of the top arts administration mentors.
General Manager of Tarragon Theatre since 1978, she has announced
she will leave the position in July 2006. She was a founding
member of Creative Trust and currently serves as Treasurer on
their Board of Directors. She has received numerous awards,
including the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ Keith Kelly
Award for Cultural Leadership (2005), an honorary Life Membership
in PACT (2004) and the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Arts
Administration (1998). She is a member of the City of Toronto
Mayor’s Roundtable on Arts and Culture and the Advisory
Board of York University’s MBA Arts and Media program.
Previously she served as President of PACT (1989-1993), Vice-President
of the Toronto Theatre Alliance, and the advisory board of University
of Toronto’s Arts Administration Program. |
Camellia Koo |
Set and costume designer and installation artist.
Recent designs include work for Nightwood Theatre, Native Earth
Performing Arts, and Tarragon Theatre. Other collaborations
on over 40 productions include: fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre
Company, Cahoots Theatre Projects, bcurrent, Modern Times Theatre,
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Fujiwara Dance Inventions,
and The Shaw Festival. She is the recipient of three Dora Awards
and shared the 2006 Siminovitch Protégé Prize.
Camellia holds an MA for Centre Saint Martins College of Art
and Design (U.K.) |
Fides Krucker |
Fides Krucker is a founding member of and producer
for the interdisciplinary female collective, URGE. Their recent
work And by the way miss… was developed with
Theatre Direct and received a Dora award in 2005. Fides has
created other interdisciplinary works with her own company Good
Hair Productions these include The girl with no door on
her mouth (2002) and Yours to Break (2006). Fides’
innovative work with opera, dance, music and theatre artists
includes work with dance theatre company Jumpstart!, hologram
artist Mary Alton, writer/director Thom Sokoloski, and percussionist
Rick Sacks. NOW magazine named Krucker one of the top
10 theatre artists for 2002. Fides Krucker specializes in contemporary
vocal repertoire and is known for her performances of Canadian
composer R. Murray Schafer's works. She has also premiered new
operas by several dozen composers both at home and abroad and
is particularly interested in bringing extended vocal techniques
into the development of new work. |
ahdri zhina mandiela |
mandiela, widely know as a director and poet/performer,
has been working in the Canadian arts scene for nearly thirty
years. She has worked with Black Theatre Canada, Theatre Fountainhead,
CanStage, Young People’s Theatre and Black Theatre Workshop.
She is currently the artistic director of bcurrent, a company
that focuses on the development of new works through acclaimed
projects such as the rock.paper,sistahz - new works festival.
A multidisciplinary artist, mandiela is also known for her poetry,
dance choreography, and musical recordings. Recent independent
directing credits include: Cast Iron (Nightwood Theatre),
Two Can Play (Obsidian Theatre), and stori ya
(Hatch Festival). In 2006, mandiela received the George Luscombe
Award for her work in mentoring emerging artists and NOW Magazine
named her the #1 theatre artist in Toronto. |
Erin Shields |
Theatre artist working in collective creation,
multi-disciplinary collaboration, poetic monologue and traditional
theatre. She is a graduate of the Rose Bruford College of Speech
and Drama in London, England. In addition to her own creations,
she has worked with Small Wooden Shoe, Carousel Players, Theatre
Direct and Red Barn Theatre. In 2007, she was part of Tarragon
Theatre’s Playwright’s Unit. |
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Visual Arts/Media
Arts Committee
Danis
Goulet
Co-Chair |
Executive Director for imagineNATIVE Film + Media
Arts Festival, she brings with her significant experience in
film and media arts. Her short film spin has screened at several
festivals, including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and her
latest short film Divided By Zero premiered in 2006
at the Message Sticks Film Festival at the Sydney Opera House.
Prior to joining imagineNATIVE, she worked as a casting director
on numerous film productions, as well as for the National Aboriginal
Achievement Foundation. Danis is currently a member of the Board
of Directors for the Images Film Festival, a programming committee
member for the Worldwide Short Film Festival and an advisory
committee member for the Planet IndigenUS Festival. She is Métis,
originally from northern Saskatchewan, and now resides in Toronto. |
Jessica Wyman
Co-Chair |
Writer, curator, and art historian. Jessica Wyman
teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of
Art and Design. She has worked with artist-run organizations
YYZ Artists’ Outlet and Fuse magazine, with Active 18
Association, and has curated numerous exhibitions for commercial
and artist-run galleries. Her writing about contemporary art,
and most recently about art history and performativity, has
appeared in magazines and journals across North America and
in Europe, and her three-volume edited book, Pro Forma:
language/text/visual art was published in fall 2007. Wyman
received the 2004 Untitled Art Awards Emerging Curator Award
and was shortlisted that year in the category of Best Art Writing. |
Vicky Moufawad-Paul
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Video artist and the Programming & Exhibitions
Coordinator at A Space Gallery. As a Palestinian born in Lebanon,
she situates the personal in the political while exploring ideas
of home and the difficulty of return. Moufawad-Paul is the former
Executive Director of the Toronto Arab Film Festival, where
she was responsible for the curatorial vision of the festival,
which focused on issues of anti-colonial struggle, diaspora
and (mis)representation. She has presented her video work and
cultural race politics oriented research at numerous academic
conferences in Canada and the United States and has published
articles in Fuse Magazine and the Journal of Canadian Peace
Research. |
Jade Rude |
Toronto-based artist/designer who works in a
variety of media, examining the relationship between perception
and physical presence - exploring surface as it relates to shapes
and forms. She has attended post-secondary schools in Norway,
England, and received a BFA from the Alberta College of Art
and Design. She has been the Chair of YYZ Artist's Outlet in
Toronto and worked for various art establishments - directing,
curating and exhibition coordinating. She has exhibited in Canada,
the US and Europe. |
Eugenio Salas |
Media artist whose video work has been exhibited
in a number of festivals in Canada, United States, Mexico, Spain
and Italy. He has collaborated with Toronto and international
artists at WADE, a biennale installation and performance project
spread through the City of Toronto’s wading pools; with
Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña
at Toronto Free Gallery, and with Danish collective Morton Goll
& Nielsen at Mercer Union. Eugenio has also curated Latin
experimental video for the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival. |
Camille Turner |
Multi-disciplinary artist, curator and community
animator. Founding member of online artist-run centre Year Zero
One. Curatorial initiatives featured at Dak'art lab 2004, La
Biennale de l'art Africain contemporain (Senegal), Banff New
Media Institute, Museums on the Web, Galleries OnLine and Communautes
Virtuelles. Visiting artist at Interaktions-Labor (Germany)
and participant in Mongrel Collective's Container Project in
rural Jamaica. Miss Canadiana is one of her most provocative
performance projects: she portrays a beauty queen on a Red White
and Beautiful tour. Artist-in-residence at Central Neighbourhood
House, working with women from diverse cultures to lead digital
storytelling workshops. Board member, InterAccess Electronic
Media Centre. Past Board member, Canadian Film Centre and Black
Film and Video Network. |
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