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The Box Salon Night
Presented by: The Box Salon
Louise Bak presents an evening of diverse arts featuring filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, artist and author Eldon Garnet, found object aficionado Alison S. M. Kobayashi, interdisciplinary artist Karilynn Ming Ho, hip-hop AIDS/HIV activist Miss Ebony, MC, vocalist and poet Motion, contrastive musician Katie Stelmanis and playwright Adam Seelig.
Host: Louise Bak
One of Canada's most promising, versatile and truly independent filmmakers, Andrea Dorfman graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1995 and then wrote, directed, shot and edited several experimental and dramatic short films that toured the international festival circuit. Dorfman then produced, wrote, shot and directed her first feature film, Parsley Days (2000). It premiered to great acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival® and was named one of Canada's Top Ten films of the year. After directing, producing and co-writing three seasons of the award-winning CBC-TV series "Street Cents", Dorfman made her sophomore feature Love That Boy (2003), which drew consistently positive reviews upon its theatrical release. Most recently, Dorfman's full length documentary, Sluts (2006) was broadcast on the LIFE Network and the Independent Film Channel. She is currently in development with two feature films, Crème de la Crème and Marigold with co-writer Jennifer Deyell as well as another documentary, Flawed, with the NFB.
Eldon Garnet was the editor of IMPULSE, an influential international magazine of art and culture. Simultaneously pursuing his interests in visual art, theory, and literature, Garnet has become one of Canada's most original contemporary artists, with exhibits at the National Gallery of Canada, Centre Georges Pompidou, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, and the Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotograpfie. He is the author of Reading Brooke Shields: The Garden of Failure (Semiotext(e), 1995, called by The Toronto Globe & Mail "a terrific book, an unforgettable pop novel."
Karilynn Ming Ho is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work aims to thoughtfully deal with issues in the politics of representation by way of performance, video and installation. Karilynn Ming Ho has exhibited at Images Festival (Toronto), The Western Front (Vancouver]) and Festival Nemo (Paris).
Katie Stelmanis: Armed with a keyboard and backed by a wall of pre-assembled midi madness, Katie Stelmanis' music is endlessly evocative, with strong and scattered beats riding alongside dense synth melodies and vibrato-laden vocal swoops. On top of being a talented beat-maker, Stelmanis possesses one mean set of vocal chords, with a tone that falls somewhere between opera-house class and punk rock crass. Taking cues from Reznor, Amos and Mercury, the end result sounds as if the Anticon crew and Patrick Wolf teamed up to convince Kate Bush to sing over drill and bass beats at the top of her lungs. She will be performing with Maya Postepski, an exceptionally talented percussionist who despite her youth as already toured worldwide with renound pop musicians and classical orchestras. An EP will be released very shortly.
www.stelmanis.com
Alison S. M. Kobayashi is fascinated by found objects that contain traces of private experiences. She is currently studying at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and Sheridan College in the Art and Art History program. She received the 2006 Bill Huffman Award for Excellence in Studio Practice and has screened her video work at the 2006 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Pleasure Dome.
Motion is an MC, vocalist, songwriter, poet. Toronto-born with Caribbean roots. Her first collection of words, "Motion In Poetry" (Women's Press), along with companion album "The AudioXperience," has made an impact across the northside. Transcending the worlds of lyricism, musicality and poetics, Motion infused rhthym and sound as the winner of the CBC National Face-Off. She went on to receive nomination for the UMAC Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. Motion has been featured on diverse compilations, ranging from Phem Phat's Honey Drops [Universal] to Urbnet.com's Underground Hip Hop, the international B-Gyrl.com Collection and the groundbreaking Wordlife: Tales of the Underground Griots album. On stage, Motion has been a highlight at Def Poetry Jam, Toronto Urban Music Festival, the Ottawa International Writer's Festival, Zed TV, the Nuyorican Poet's Café and the televised Canadian Urban Music Awards. This season, Motion continues her movements in the feature the documentary series "Heart of a Poet" airing on Bravo Television this fall. Her new title, "40 Dayz" is set for release this fall on Women's Press. About town this spring, experience Motion live at Toronto's Luminato Festival, and the North By Northeast Music Festival. www.motionlive.com
Adam Seelig is a poet, playwright, stage director and the Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company in Toronto (OneLittleGoat.org ). His productions include the English-language world premiere of Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhard (Toronto 2006), his own play, All Is Almost Still (New York 2004), and four radio plays by the late Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai (New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, 2002-2006). His poems and writings have appeared in World Literature Today, The Walrus, Modern Drama, Open Letter, stonestone and Poetics.ca. A new play, Talking Masks, is forthcoming.
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The Box thanks the Toronto Arts Council
Runs: Jun 21, 2007
At: Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West,
Playing: Thursday
Times: 8 pm
Cost: pwyc, $5 suggested donation
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