Growing Room 2019 : The Writing on the Wall: Storytelling in Visual Art
Visual art has its own special form of storytelling, a storytelling that exists outside of words. But how does this form of artistic practice influence creative writing?
Date/Time: Mar 10 2019, 10:30 am to 12:30 am
Vancouver, Red Gate Revue Stage1601 Johnston Street
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How do these forms converse, join together, and open up new worlds? Join Lindsay Nixon, Arleen Pare, Chantal Gibson with moderator Kristin Cheung as they discuss how artistic mediums outside of writing influence, and are often integral to, the writing process.
Panelists
Chantal Gibson is an artist-educator interested in the cultural (re)production of knowledge. She teaches writing & design in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at SFU.
Lindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, award-nominated editor, award-nominated writer, and McGill Art History PhD student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi-âcimowak, an independent art, art criticism, and literature journal, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review, em>Room, GUTS, MICE, esse, Inuit Art Quarterly, Teen Vogue, and other publications. nîtisânak is their first book.
Victoria writer, Arleen Paré, has won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, the American Golden Crown Award for poetry and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
Moderator
Kristin Cheung is an arts fundraiser and co-founded “The Future is you and me”, a mentorship program for young women of colour in the arts.
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