Hello all sorry for the lack of communications I have been super uber busy and havent had much time to update as i am on the road sometimes and have no laptop or access to the net like i do in my studio. alas I have acquired a macbook, so now there is no excuse.
so lots has been going on, glenbow show, performance in Toroto , Calgary and then Toronto again.
currently
the glenbow museum is presenting, Honouring Traditions and Tracing Histories: presenting the unpresentable running from Feb -july openign to the public Sat, Feb 16th/2008. Both shows feature First Nations works from the Glenbow Collectio, works from traditional garments ( moccassins, Dress, etc.) alongside contemporary works through Aboriginal Art history. The second show curated by Quyen Hoeng features, Adrian Stimson (Blackfoot), Terrance Houle (blackfoot/Saulteaux), Tanya Harrnet (Cree) and Faye Heavyshield (Blackfoot) working with the collection to make a connection to their ideas and art works. The show features soem amazing works. I myself have a video Installation titled Many Snake Woman: the Daughters After Me which is a work in response to a portait of her at age 17 by German winold Riess.
The work is four portraits of my grandmother, mother, sister and daughter all posing in the same position in relation to the portrait by Riess. The work is a homage, legacy to my grandmother and her daughters directly related to myself. I am so pleased with this work and have constantly restrained myself from getting to emotional. anyways here is a quick still:

Other current works coming up is :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 17, 2008 – UPDATED JANUARY 25
FREE FALL08 PARTNERS WITH WORLD STAGE 2008
Free Fall 08, a biennial festival of contemporary performance, is taking a big step. Through a growing kinship between The Theatre Centre and Harbourfront Centre, Free Fall is now part of World Stage 2008 with seven productions showcasing performers from Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal.
Free Fall has an impressive reputation for bringing exciting and diverse work from across Canada to Toronto audiences, at the same time Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage is renowned for bringing stellar international programming into the local and national presentation ecology. At last year’s PuSh festival (Vancouver), Artistic Directors Franco Boni (Theatre Centre / Free Fall) and Tina Rasmussen (Harbourfront Centre / World Stage) made a commitment to work together - resulting in this dynamic partnership.
Venues will include The Theatre Centre as well as Harbourfront Centre locales such as the Enwave Theatre, the Brigantine Room and more. Keeping its connection to Queen West, the festival’s venues will again include The Lennox Contemporary gallery as well as The Gladstone Hotel for the Artists’ Breakfast sponsored by Via Rail.
“What is your relevance?” is the question being posed at the inaugural
Culture Congress, a forum organized by Crows Theatre, The Theatre Centre
and Harbourfront Centre from March 7-10. The forum brings together artists and practitioners from the local and international performance and cultural communities in an exchange of practical skills and ideas, and is designed to stimulate dialogue around ideas of social, political, cultural and artistic relevance.
The Theatre Centre’s FREE FALL 08 a World Stage 2008 partnership
performance without a net
March 6 - 16, 2008
Tickets $20 / Festival Pass - $60
BOX OFFICE: 416-973-4000
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
A Theatre Replacement/ Rumble Productions Co-Production (Vancouver)
Two of the West Coast’s most exciting performance creation companies explore the dilemmas inherent in the appreciation and appropriation of other people’s memories.
Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit
and anything else required to make sense of a found collection of photo albums and personal belongings and the many lives interrupted along the way. March 6-9, The Theatre Centre
Chris Leavins (Los Angeles, Toronto) One of the internet’s most popular artists, Leavins’ videos have been viewed millions of times in countries all over the world. This project combines live theatre with emerging digital technologies. The first installment of this program, in Los Angeles, sold out in 85 minutes. See this innovative digital series archived online at www.theatrecentre.org Beginning March 7
Terrance Houle (Calgary) International performance artist and a member of the Blood Tribe, Houle has endeared himself to the public, fellow artists and galleries across the globe as he creatively twists serious issues inside/out with his irresistible humour. With ‘Hey! Who Won? 2008 (Camper) Terrance creates a unique spin on Cowboys and Indians, challenging the public (The Cowboy) to a variety of board games. Participate in this battle of stereotype vs. stereotype as the camper is parked at various locations downtown in this free performance about leisure, the Wild West, and life in a camper. One day only - Portage (dependent on weather). March 7-9, check website for locations
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Marcelle Hudon (Montreal) Seasoned Quebecois artist Marcelle Hudon brings together a powerhouse team to sculpt a show of delicate beauty with shadow / puppetry / film / theatre. Poursuite puts its audience into the masterful hands of a political puppeteer who uses theatrical magic to reveal how things are never what they appear. March 11 – 13, Enwave Theatre - Harbourfront Centre
Urbanvessel (Toronto) Maverick composer-librettist duo Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton create Stitch, a new a cappella opera featuring sublime and wild singers Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callaghan and Neema Bickersteth. Hemmed in by the language of sewing and the inexorable
rhythm of the machine, three women fight to find space for imagination and individuality. From
the sweet 3-part stylings of “Cowl-neck Blues” to the fierce interlocked minimalism of “Chain
stitch, Lock stitch, Whip stitch”, Stitch gives voice to the unseen women who clothe us all. March 12 -16, Lennox Contemporary
Istvan Kantor (Toronto) Banned by galleries all over the world, this winner of the Governor General Award also known as *Monty Cantsin*, the founder of Neoism, has been active in the fields of media-arts for over three decades. He is consciously working with new technical possibilities of sound and visual presentation, using his blood, mechanical and digital machinery, video and computer animation to deal with the structure of total communication. Transmission Machine is inspired by the artist’s own lifelong obsession and acute longing for revolution. With deadly aim, Istvan exploits the rhythm of in-situ action-based media performance to expose today’s oppressive global broadcast system. March 13 -15, The Theatre Centre
ABA Ent (Toronto) Hip hop at the grassroots. Unsung Bboy Battle (Free Fall Edition) brings the best new and emerging hip hop dancers to go face to face in a dance off for top honours. ABA Ent has begun to connect Bboying communities across Canada in the hopes to increase understanding of all dance-art forms, especially to those who would not normally be exposed to these genres. How can a master of Ballet and a master of Bboying come together and create something spectacular? March 15, Brigantine Room - Harbourfront Centre
Festival Curators: Franco Boni and Cathy Gordon
For a complete public schedule visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
For media kits and pictures visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstagemedia
For company information visit: www.theatrecentre.org
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Media Contacts:
Cathy Gordon: 416-534-9261 cathy@theatrecentre.org
Pamela Hooper: 416-534-9261 pamela@theatrecentre.org
Linda Liontis: 416-973-4381 or lliontis@harbourfrontcentre.com
Shane Gerard: 416-973-4518 or sgerard@harbourfrontcentre.com
So thats it for now
thanks for everyone who pitched for the Facebook Neko tire fund as well…
Terrance & Neko