(Or listings for: All Artists involved in QAF 2011 | Facilitators | Performers | Visual Artists | Writers)
Writer Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker and performance artist based in Vancouver. She is the author of the novel Sub Rosa (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010), editor of the Lambda Award-nominated Fist of the Spider Woman (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005).
Writer C.E. Gatchalian
C. E. Gatchalian has been Playwright-in-Residence at the Playhouse Theatre Company and the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, and Writer-in-Residence at the Berton House Writers’ Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon. His plays, which include Broken, Crossing, Claire and Motifs & Repetitions, have appeared on stages nationally and internationally, as well as on radio and television. His play for young audiences, People Like Vince, commissioned by Green Thumb Theatre, is touring schools next spring, and the world premiere of his play Falling in Time will be produced by Screaming Weenie Productions this November. His latest book, Crossing & Other Plays, was published earlier this year by Lethe Press. A Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2003, he is currently Producer at Neworld Theatre.
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Daelik has been performing for over 20 years. He began acting in Toronto in the mid 1980s, performing in Grotowski-inspired physical theatre productions. In 1990 he moved to Vancouver where dance through Contact Improvisation. Daelik has performed across Canada and internationally, spending two years living in Berlin.
Dawn Pemberton, of the No Shit Shirleys
Dawn Pemberton is a dynamic and soulful singer who firmly believes that everyone can sing. She loves to help others discover their voices through embodied singing that is soulful, groovy and fun. She is a deeply passionate and versatile musician who loves to explore music with others. Dawn is currently based in Vancouver where she teaches voice and piano, facilitates community singing, leads workshops, performs with many musical groups and works as a session singer for studio and live performances.
Delia Brett
Before professional dance, Delia worked as an actress in film and television.
For the past 35 years, Persimmon Blackbridge has worked as a sculptor, writer, curator and performer, as well as being a fiction editor, cleaning lady and very bad waitress. She is known internationally as a pioneer in feminist, queer and disability arts and culture. She is the author or co-author of six books, including Prozac Highway, finalist for a 1997 Lambda Literary Award; Sunnybrook, winner of the 1996 Ferro-Grumley Fiction Prize; Her Tongue on My Theory (with Kiss & Tell), winner of a 1995 Lambda Literary Award; and Slow Dance (with Bonnie Sherr Klein), winner of the 1998 VanCity Book Prize. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as Hot and Bothered (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, B.C., 1999), The Click (McFarlane, Walter and Ross, Toronto, Ontario, 1997) Forbidden Territories (Cleis Press, San Francisco, California, 1995), and Collaboration in the Feminine (Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1994). Winner of the VIVA award for visual arts in 1991 and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000, Blackbridge’s art has been shown across Canada and the U.S., as well as in Australia, Europe, and Hong Kong. She currently lives on Hornby Island in British Columbia.
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Visual Artist Roxanne Gagnon
Facilitator for 3 Day Youth Visual Arts Workshop,
A long- time visual arts instructor for Arts Umbrella, Roxanne holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and is a recipient of the Jason Singh Memorial Award and the Moving Towards Independence Award. Roxanne is a practicing visual artist specializing in ceramics and printmaking. She has exhibited in Vancouver and Australia.
Sakino Sepulveda
Facilitator of Life Drawing Workshop, August 6-7
I was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1965. Self taught artist.
In 1988 I made contact and start to work with the art movement of the 80s through Arte Actual Mexicano gallery in Monterrey city. In 1991 I worked and studied through my artist friends like Julio Galan and in the studio of artist Cesar Garcia Cavazos, a painter from The Mexican Modernist School of art.
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Tiffany Tamaribuchi, an internationally recognized taiko master, has achieved a level of acclaim in trailblazing fashion.
In the traditional taiko realm, of Japanese born and trained male performers, she creates a new powerful voice with her multicultural heritage, youth, and feminine perspective. Ms. Tamaribuchi’s determination and perseverance, through long hours of grueling practice in her initial studies, transformed her sense of life’s possibilities, which she now does for others.
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