Performers in our 2011/12 Season

June 7, 2012 Sachiko Murakami is the author of the poetry collections The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Award, and Rebuild (Talonbooks 2011). Rebuild's online iteration is ProjectRebuild.ca, an online collaborative poetry project. She lives in Toronto where she is Poetry Editor for Insomniac Press and teaches poetry workshops through the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. This event was made possible with financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.

June 7, 2012

Sachiko Murakami is the author of the poetry collections The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Award, and Rebuild (Talonbooks 2011). Rebuild's online iteration is ProjectRebuild.ca, an online collaborative poetry project. She lives in Toronto where she is Poetry Editor for Insomniac Press and teaches poetry workshops through the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.

This event was made possible with financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.

May 12, 2012 MINTON , the world's leading sound-singing choral conductor, leads local participants in Ottawa's premiere Feral Choir . "Anyone who can breathe is capable of producing sounds that give a positive aesthetic contribution to the human condition," says Phil MINTON . He'll prove his point by training local participants and conducting Ottawa's Feral Choir in performance. “For over twenty years, with Feral Choir, MINTON has been helping people’s inner voice to break free!” An historically significant innovator of vocal technique, singer Phil Minton has contributed to transformative musical projects in jazz (Mike Westbrook Band), rock-in-opposition (News from Babel, Roof), and avant-garde cabaret (his duo with Veryan Weston). He has pioneered many extended techniques for voice, and stands as one of the world’s most original vocalists.

May 12, 2012

MINTON, the world's leading sound-singing choral conductor, leads local participants in Ottawa's premiere Feral Choir. "Anyone who can breathe is capable of producing sounds that give a positive aesthetic contribution to the human condition," says Phil MINTON. He'll prove his point by training local participants and conducting Ottawa'sFeral Choir in performance.

“For over twenty years, with Feral Choir, MINTON has been helping people’s inner voice to break free!”

An historically significant innovator of vocal technique, singer Phil Minton has contributed to transformative musical projects in jazz (Mike Westbrook Band), rock-in-opposition (News from Babel, Roof), and avant-garde cabaret (his duo with Veryan Weston). He has pioneered many extended techniques for voice, and stands as one of the world’s most original vocalists.

May 11, 2012 W. Mark Sutherland ( www.wmarksutherland.com ) is a Canadian intermedia artist. His aesthetic practice is a hybrid that pivots on the creation of work blurring the borders between poetry, visual art, music and performance art. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Musicworks magazine ( www.musicworks.ca ) and editorial correspondent for Rampike magazine ( www.uwindsor.ca/rampike ) . A selection of recent gallery exhibitions that featured Sutherland's work includes Scratch , The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada (2005), Poetische Positionen II , Kasseler Kunstverien, Kassel, Germany (2006), Viaggio nella parola , Cassa di Risparmio, La Spezia, Italy (2007), Videobardo Festival of International Video Poetry , Museo Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain (2008), Lotta Poetica Fondazione Berardelli, Brescia, Italy (2009), and Linguagens Visuais na Poetica Internacional , Gallery S.E.S.C. Bento Gonçalves, Brazil (2010). A brief selection of Sutherland's recent public performances includes THEWORDMUSIC Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (2006), Voice ++ Festival , Victoria, BC, Canada (2007), Yuxtaposiciones Festival , Madrid, Spain (2008), 3durch3 , Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) and 100 Jahre Konkrete Kunst , Art Rehau, Rehau, Germany (2010). A B Series acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

May 11, 2012

W. Mark Sutherland (www.wmarksutherland.com) is a Canadian intermedia artist. His aesthetic practice is a hybrid that pivots on the creation of work blurring the borders between poetry, visual art, music and performance art. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Musicworksmagazine (www.musicworks.ca) and editorial correspondent for Rampike magazine (www.uwindsor.ca/rampike). A selection of recent gallery exhibitions that featured Sutherland's work includes Scratch, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada (2005), Poetische Positionen II, Kasseler Kunstverien, Kassel, Germany (2006), Viaggio nella parola, Cassa di Risparmio, La Spezia, Italy (2007), Videobardo Festival of International Video Poetry, Museo Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain (2008), Lotta Poetica Fondazione Berardelli, Brescia, Italy (2009), and Linguagens Visuais na Poetica Internacional, Gallery S.E.S.C. Bento Gonçalves, Brazil (2010). A brief selection of Sutherland's recent public performances includesTHEWORDMUSIC Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (2006), Voice ++ Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada (2007), Yuxtaposiciones Festival, Madrid, Spain (2008),3durch3, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) and 100 Jahre Konkrete Kunst, Art Rehau, Rehau, Germany (2010).

A B Series acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.