“SKYE OR MIRANDA OR VERANDAH”: VARIATIONS ON PLENTY

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 8:00pm

The Gladstone Hotel

1214 Queen Street West
416-531-4635

Cost: PWYC

In full festival spirit, Kevin Connolly offers up his poem "Plenty" for plunder and plagiarism by artists from a range of disciplines. From Kevin’s new collection, Revolver, “Plenty” will be the main source of ideas, inspiration, letters, words, sounds and images for the artists – and for the audience.

Featuring:
"Plenty": a reading by Kevin Connolly
"Plenty": a new play by Conor Green
"Plenty": a new visual art piece by Olia Mischenko
"Plenty": a new song by NQ Arbuckle
"Plenty": a new film by Tamara Romanchuk

All followed by a set from NQ Arbuckle.

Co-sponsored by This is Not a Reading Series, Pages Books, and EYE WEEKLY

1214 Queen Street West
416-531-4635

The Gladstone Hotel

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Conor Green

CONOR GREEN is a Toronto-based actor and writer. His musical comedy group, Calcu-Lator and the Oral Presentation, were nominated for the prestigious Tim Sims Award in 2003.

Kevin Connolly

Kevin Connolly’s most recent book is Revolver, published in April by House of
Anansi. drift (Anansi, 2005) won the 2006 Trillium Award for poetry. His previous poetry collections include Happyland (ECW 2002) and Asphalt Cigar (Coach House, 1995), which was nominated for the 1996 Gerald Lampert Award. He was founding editor of the influential 1980s literary magazine What!. Connolly lives in Toronto, where he works as a poet, editor, and arts journalist.

NQ Arbuckle

NQ ARBUCKLE is a widely celebrated Canadian alt-country band, consisting of Neville Quinlan (the eponymous “NQ”), Mark Kesper, Peter Kesper, and John Dinsmore. The band just released their third album,
XOX (Six Shooter Records).

Olia Mischenko

Olia Mishchenko is an artist in Toronto. Mischenko recently had a solo exhibition at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, and contributed to such group shows as makingROOM.

Tamara Romanchuk

TAMARA ROMANCHUK is a Toronto-based filmmaker with extensive video production and editing experience. Romanchuk’s selected credits include: Zero Degrees of Separation (2005) Associate Producer; Aerobia! (2006) Producer; XVI International AIDS Conference (2006).