Toronto Arts Council Committees
COMMUNITY ARTS | DANCE | LARGE INSTITUTIONS | LITERARY | MUSIC | THEATRE | VISUAL ARTS/MEDIA ARTS
Community Arts Committee
Ruth Howard, Chair Artist who creates large-scale arts and theatre projects with urban communities. She is the Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre, a company she founded in 2001. Her education includes the National Theatre School of Canada (Design), University of Toronto (BA Honours), Eastbourne College of Art & Design. Jumblies Theatre is a multi-disciplinary arts organization that has pioneered the use of art in community setting.
Mahlikah Awe:ri(pronounced mah-lie-kah ah-why-ree) Oralist and practicing cultural artist, of AfriCanadian/Mohawk/Mi’kmak heritage, from Toronto, Canada with Nova Scotian roots. In 1993, she became a youth theatre arts instructor with the Fresh Arts Summer Employment Program. From 1994-99 she traveled as a solo spoken-word artist at various performance venues, cultural events and community radio stations across Canada and the Caribbean. In 1997 she became the first oral artist to receive the Chawkers/Frontier Award for Excellence in Writing and Publishing. In 1998 Mahlikah Awe:ri and Ancestral Ties 2 De Drum began partnering with the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning through the Arts Program, and has become an integral part of MAP (Media Arts Project). She has extensive experience as a community-based artist working with children, teens, and adults.
Anna Camilleri Multidisciplinary artist. Founding Artistic Co-Director of Red Dress Productions, a company that creates and disseminates original multi-discipline performance/theatre works, and community-based/public artworks. As a community artist working in both literature/performance and visual arts (mosaic), Anna vests herself in multi-voice, process and anti-oppression rooted work that welcomes non-artists and also recognizes the vibrancy of collaborative/collective creation works. As a community artist working in large-scale mosaics, which are also public art works, Anna is particularly interested in the interaction between community narratives in urban public spaces, and how this disrupts privatization of public spaces.
Rob Howarth For the past twenty years Rob has worked in and with and number of Toronto’s non-profit community organizations. He is currently the Executive Director of the Toronto Neighbourhood Centres, an association of thirty-two multi-service community agencies located across the city. Through this work and his varied community research, facilitation and mobilization activities Rob has helped to articulate the opportunities and challenges facing Toronto's non-profit community sector, and has advocated for related reforms. He is particularly interested in the various ways in which community members may be supported to play a central role in creating a more equitable and inclusive society.
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 Ormsby has been dancing in Jamaica, Canada, and the United States for over twenty years. He also holds a degree in Mass Communications and Political Science from York University. Kevin is a dancer with Ballet Creole, teaches in the Professional Training Program and is the company’s Marketing/Outreach Coordinator.
Alia Toor is an artist and media educator who completed her MA at Columbia University and holds a Graduate Diploma in Arts Education from Concordia University. Her art explores how text and images inform our understanding of beauty, language, spirituality, belonging and security. She presents a dialogue in which to examine, disseminate and transform understandings of Islam and culture through installation, photography and textiles. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in Toronto, the University of Sydney in Australia, the Artwallah Festival in Los Angeles, the Toronto Alternative Art Fair, Harbourfront Centre and the Regent Park Film Festival.
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.
Nova Bhattacharya has trained with some of bharatanatyam’s most esteemed teachers, including Menaka Thakkar, Kalanidhi Narayan and Kitappa Pillai. For eleven years she toured with Menaka Thakkar & Company as a soloist and company member. Since embarking on an independent career she has appeared with a number of companies while building an extensive body of work including her own choreography and commissions from Peggy Baker, Dana Gingras, Mika Kurosawa, José Navas and Laurence Lemieux. Her choreography has been commissioned by the Canada Dance Festival, DanceWorks, Dusk Dances, Toronto Dance Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Projects, and Theatre Direct Canada. In 2008 she established Ipsita Nova Dance Projects; the company’s productions have been presented across Canada and in Germany and Japan. An impassioned advocate for dance, Bhattacharya is currently the Treasurer of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (Ontario) and serves on the Advisory Committee of the South Asian Dance Alliance.
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.
Kate Holden Member of Dancemakers and Co-Artistic director of firstthingsfirst productions. Graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and Etobicoke School of the Arts. As an independent dance artist, Kate has interpreted the works of many esteemed Canadian choreographers including Peggy Baker, Robert Desrosiers, David Earle, James Kudelka, Andrea Nann and Yvonne Ng. She danced with the Danny Grossman Dance Company for two seasons. In 2005, she was the winner of Le Grand Prix de l’Excellence and Le Coup de Coeur at the Mondor Challenge in Trois-Rivières Quebec for her interpretation of Roberto Campanella’s Flotsam and Jetsam. Kate is a past member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists board of directors.
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.
Keiko Ninomiya grew up in Japan and studied in England at the London Studio Centre and the London Contemporary Dance School and in Toronto at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Since graduation, she has appeared in works by CORPUS, Hiroshi K. Miyamoto, Masumi Sato, William Yong, Matjash Mrozewski, Mari Osanai, Lincoln Shand and Denise Fujiwara. Keiko has showcased her own choreographic work at various venues including fFIDA and the CanAsian Dance Festival. She founded the Yuragi Dance Project and is the co-founder of AKA, ZUKE, and Green Tea, a collective of Japanese contemporary dancers in Toronto. In 2008 Keiko was invited to choreograph for Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa and premiered her first solo piece Fly in Aomori, Japan. She has taught such diverse forms as creative movement, hip hop and modern dance in both Canada and Japan.
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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.
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.
Cathryn Gregor Chief Operating Officer of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She was the Director of Transition Planning at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, responsible for the capital renovation completed in 2006. She spent ten years at the Canadian Opera Company, first as Director of Music Administration and then as Administrative Director for the entire company. She has also worked for Tapestry New Opera, Soundstreams Canada, Opera Atelier, 1989 International Choral Festival, Bach 300 Festival, and Music Toronto. She is chair of the board of directors for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre and a board member of the Regent Park School of Music Foundation.
Mervon Mehta is Executive Director, Performing Arts, The Royal Conservatory. Mehta began his career as an actor, appearing on stage in Toronto and Chicago as well as in film and television. In 1994 he accepted a programming position at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, one of America’s oldest and most musically diverse outdoor festivals, and by 2001 had served as both Director of Programming and Director of Production. In February 2002 he joined the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, where he has served as Vice President of Programming and Education. He returned to Toronto in 2009 to lead the opening of Koerner Hall for The Royal Conservatory.
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Literary Committee
Kerri Sakamoto, Chair 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.
Maureen Hynes Poet and editor. Maureen Hynes has published two books of poetry, Rough Skin (Wolsak and Wynn 1996) and Harm’s Way (Brick Books 2001), and is working on a third. She has twice been selected for the Banff Writers’ Studio and a selection of her poems was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Literary Award. Maureen has been Writer-in-Residence at the University of Prince Edward Island and a judge for several poetry contests and awards. She has given many poetry workshops and readings across Canada and abroad, and has published her poems in numerous journals. Maureen is Poetry Editor for Our Times, Canada’s national labour magazine.
Robert Hough Writer. Robert worked as a journalist, writing for such magazines as Toronto Life and Saturday Night, before turning to books. His first book was originally intended to be a biography of Mabel Stark, a promiscuous and ribald 1920s lion tamer for Ringling Brothers Circus. Due to a general lack of documentation on Stark, Hough decided to write a novel instead. Published by Random House to rave reviews in 2001, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark was shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the Trillium Book Award. Next, The Stowaway (2004) was nominated for the IMPACT Dublin Literary Award. His third book, The Culprits (2007) was nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Rogers Writer’s Trust Award and the Trillium Book Award.
Andrew Pyper Writer. Andrew received an MA in English literature from McGill University and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practiced. Andrew Pyper’s work has been published internationally. Lost Girls (1999) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was a national bestseller in Canada and a Notable Book selection in both the Globe and Mail and The New York Times Book Review. The Trade Mission (2002) was selected by the Toronto Star as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year. The Wildfire Season (2005) was a Best Books of the Year selection by the Globe and Mail. The Killing Circle (2008) was selected as one of the notable crime novels of 2008 by The New York Times.
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Music Committee
Brian Current, Co-Chair 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.
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.
Jane Hargraft General Manager of Opera Atelier, a baroque theatre company that produces opera, ballet and drama from the 17th and 18th centuries. Prior to Opera Atelier, Jane was Director of Development at the Canadian Opera Company.
Kathleen Kajioka Musician (viola/violin) with a reputation as a musical multilinguist, moving between genres. She appears as a baroque violist and violinist with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, as a modern violist with Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra and as an Arabic violinist with Maryem Tollar, Maza Méze and the Arabesque Orchestra. Kathleen has also recorded with popular music artists Jesse Cook, Luke Doucet and K-os.
Joseph Macerollo opened the door to acceptance of the concert accordion in Canada. A renowned performer, teacher and arts administrator, he pioneered acceptance of the concert accordion at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University. His graduates are successful musicians nationally and internationally whether in education or performance. Joseph Macerollo has performed with a large cross-section of major ensembles and orchestras in Canada and throughout the United States. He has given workshops throughout the world and was recognized in Moscow in 2005 with a silver disc for his high standards in accordion performance and pedagogy. He performed with Quartetto Gelato (1998-2002), performed for the Three Tenors on 3 occasions, recorded for Henry Mancini and with Teresa Stratas, and has been showcased in countless commissions, commercials and television and film soundtracks. His long standing commitment to arts groups is evident in a multitude of positions he assumed working with Patria Music Theatre Projects, New Music Concerts, International Accordion Society, Toronto Musicians’ Association and Esprit Orchestra.
Kevin Parnell 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 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.
Richard Underhill Award-winning jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist. Richard is a founding member of Toronto’s acclaimed Shuffle Demons and has performed and recorded with The Neville Brothers, Taj Mahal, Molly Johnson, Blue Rodeo, Andy Stochansky and Tory Cassis. His most recent CD, Moment in Time, has received significant critical acclaim.
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Theatre Committee
Moynan King, Co-Chair, is a director, writer, dramatug, actor, curator and performance artist. Moynan’s solo and collaborative performance pieces have been presented across Canada and the US. As an actor, Moynan has over fifty professional film, theatre and TV credits and is a member of CAEA and ACTRA. She was dramaturg for the Toronto Women’s Caucus of the Playwrights Guild of Canada from 2001 to 2006 and Associate Artist at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre from 2004 to 2009. Moynan is the director of Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Canada’s largest multidisciplinary festival of work by women, and was curator of the Rhubarb! Festival of New Plays from 2003 to 2005. She has been a guest lecturer at Guelph University, York University, Glendon College and the University of Wisconsin and is currently working on her MA at University of Toronto Centre for Study of Drama.
John Van Burek, Co-Chair Founder and Artistic Director of Pleiades Theatre, John Van Burek has been a professional theatre artist for thirty-five years. He has directed over 100 plays, workshops, operas and special events and translated over 40. He was the founding Artistic Director of Théâtre français de Toronto, which he ran for close to twenty years. Through his translations, often in partnership with the late Bill Glassco, he introduced the work of Michel Tremblay, one of Canada’s preeminent playwrights, to the English-speaking world. In addition, he has translated works by Gratien Gélinas, Goldoni, Suzanne Lebeau, Marivaux and Molière. He is currently working on a translation of Albert Camus’ Les Justes. He has received many awards and distinctions, including the Toronto Drama Bench Award for Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Theatre, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and most recently, he was given the prestigious Silver Ticket Award by the Toronto Association of Performing Arts.
Stephen Colella 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.
Alex Fallis has been part of the Canadian professional theatre scene for close to thirty years. He is an actor, director, singer and teacher. He has experience in opera, musical theatre, new Canadian work, classical work and performance art. He is currently a theatre instructor at George Brown College and Humber College. In his professional career, he has performed on many Toronto stages including Dream in High Park, Young People’s Theatre, Canstage, Toronto Free, Skylight Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts.
Camilla Holland General Manager of Tarragon Theatre. She has worked for CanStage, Opera Atelier, Factory Theatre and Young People’s Theatre. She is a former producer of the SummerWorks Theatre Festival and has produced for numerous independent theatre companies including Volcano. She was a Grants Officer at Toronto Arts Council. She is currently the chair of the Advocacy Committee of TAPA and the former chair of the Commercial Theatre Development Fund at TAPA. She recently completed a three-year term as a jury member of the Toronto Book Awards.
Ravi Jain Born and raised in Toronto. He trained at LAMDA in London, England, graduated with honours from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is a recent graduate of École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Ravi's training includes Commedia dell'arte in Italy, Noh/Kabuki Sweden with Abel Solares, as well as with Ann Bogart and the SITI Company and various members of Théâtre De Complicité. Ravi is artistic director of Why Not Theatre and has acted, directed and taught internationally. In 2008, he directed a site specific work in Regent Park as part of the Luminato Festival. He is part of the producing team for Wrecking Ball and was nominated for the John Hirsch Award for emerging director.
Richard Lee is a co-founder and current General Manager of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company. He sits on the Board and several committees for Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts (TAPA) and is member of the diversity committee of Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT). As an actor, fight director and sound designer he has worked for many Toronto companies including: Obsidian Theatre, Cahoots, Nightwood Theatre, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Shakespeare in the Rough and fu-GEN Theatre.
Beatriz Pizano Founder and artistic director of award-winning Aluna Theatre, a Toronto-based professional Latin/Canadian theatre company. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr School of Art and Design, she has been a professional actor, writer and director since 1988 with numerous credits in theatre, film and television. Beatriz has been a recipient of awards and grants for her work, including: Dora Mavor Moore Award, Metcalf Professional Development Grant Chalmers Professional Development Grant, and Urjo Kareda Emerging Artists Grant.
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.
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a writer, performer and arts administrator. Her plays have been staged in Summerworks, Ignite Festival and Nightwood Theatre’s Write from the Hip Festival. She was playwright in residence at Obsidian Theatre. In 2009 she won the Enbridge Emerging PlayRite Award for her play Gas Girls. She is a hip hop artist with several recordings and a writer whose work has been published in Epoch Times and Afrotoronto.com. She is currently the General Manager of Native Earth Performing Arts.
Visual Arts/Media Arts Committee
Danis Goulet, Co-Chair Artistic 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 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.
Deanna Bowen Media installation artist and Lecturer at UTSC. Deanna has a Masters Degree in Visual Art (2008) from the University of Toronto and a Diploma of Fine Arts (1992) from Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous film festivals, artist-run centres and commercial galleries. In addition to her artistic practice, Deanna has also worked in the cultural sector for over 13 years at organizations such as the Images Festival, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, LIFT, Point of View Magazine, Women in Focus Arts & Media Centre, and the Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival.
Heather Keung Artistic Director of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Heather’s artistic practice examines issues of identity, intimacy and physical experience through the use of video, installation and performance art. Inspired by repetitive daily actions and physical labour, her current work looks at involuntary responses, habitual social behaviours and the training of the mind & body. Works from this series have recently been exhibited at Trinity Square Video's Artist Spotlight (Toronto), FIFA (Montreal), Transmedial (Berlin), MUU Gallery (Helsinki), Tranzit Ateliery (Slovakia), Casa Tranzit Haz, (Romania), Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art (Budapest). In addition to her artistic practice, Heather is an active contributor to local arts organizations such as Images Festival, Planet in Focus Festival, Trinity Square Video and Vtape.
Michael Klein has been exhibiting video and photo-based work for more than 25 years. His interests include personal history and identity, relationships and interaction, structure and presentation. Recent exhibitions include Citizen Dandy at the Art Gallery of Windsor and i and i at the Confederation Centre for the Arts Gallery in Charlottetown. Citizen Dandy was also included in the exhibition, Here Now or Nowhere in Grand Prairie, Alberta in 2009. Video Pool in Winnipeg will be exhibiting i and i in 2010. Michael Klein is also the director of the Toronto gallery MKG127.
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.