I am thrilled to be part of this incredible project — writing about home and leaving and returning and these unending prairie skies. It’s also been so exceptional to work with the Grade 10 and 11 drama students here in Yorkton.

We’re presenting the work we’ve done on “HOMEbody,” and with the students on Jan. 26 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan at the beautiful Anne Portnuff Theatre. If you’re in the neighbourhood, c’mon by!

Shannon’s written more about the project (and performance!) here.

AAAAND, we made the Yorkton paper. Read the article here!

I worked with the most lovely group of makers this fall at The Paper Place, creating handbound books with embroidered covers. I so wish I had taken a picture of all of the wonderfully inventive covers!

Nothing I love more than a paper-messy table!!

Oh, this is just SO exciting! I’m teaching a hardcover handbound book binding course at The Paper Place! Learn to make an embroidered cover single leaf book…with me! Sign on up! We’ll play with paper!

This is so exciting! The Love Lettering Project is becoming a community arts project! On Oct. 1, 2011, in collaboration with Culture Days and the Neighbourhood Arts Network at the at Annette Library in Toronto’s west end, I’ll be making love letters with all of you!

Toronto Public Library will host over 80 Toronto-based artists and arts organizations in a celebration of arts and culture at library branches throughout the city of Toronto.

The Love Lettering Project is a guerilla art project that reinvents the ritual of receiving love letters, transforming the physical space of our city, while highlighting the transformative capacity of even the smallest gesture of love.

With artist and writer Lindsay Zier-Vogel, write an anonymous love letter to your favourite thing about Toronto, turn it into a one-of-a-kind art piece, slip it into an envelope marked ‘love’ and share the love by hiding it for someone to stumble upon.

Location: Annette Library, 145 Annette Street, Toronto, Ontario

See you there!! (More info here!)

As one of three pieces in Scienceography at the Toronto Fringe Festival, Organ Stories is choreographed and costumed by Susan Kendal, performed by Krista Posyniak, with poetry by Lindsay Zier-Vogel. Featuring large, knitted exo-organs worn on the dancer’s clothes, Organ Stories offers both factual and poetic information about the lungs, uterus, heart and brain. The choreography muses on the mechanics and emotional connotations of each organ.

Scienceography is a three-part journey exploring and abstracting science through movement as a physiologist works through a series of “lectures” on various organs, a mayfly’s ephemeral life unfolds on stage, and a two-in-one woman considers dialectical theory from the inside out.

Dances by Brittany Duggan, Susan Kendal and Krista Posyniak, presented by Pocket Alchemy.

Factory Theatre: 125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)
Thurs. 7th @ 6:30pm / Sat. 9th @ 11pm / Mon. 11th @ 1pm / Wed. 13th @ 7:30pm / Fri. 15th @ 9:15pm / Sat. 16th @ 12:30pm / Sun. 17th @ 3:30pm

Lungs: Years ago,
her doctor drew
an upside down tree,
the trunk tracing her throat
then spreading
wide into branches dividing into smaller
branches and smaller
branches,
until they are too small to
split…