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…

Photo of Susan Kendal and Krista Posyniak by James Kendal

I will be reading at A Fringe Fiesta this Monday night and will be auctioning off a handbound book! Dance + science + Mexican food, what more could you want on a Monday night? (except maybe a margarita…and you can even have one, too!)

In addition to my organ-based poetry and book, there will be live music, live performance, raffles, drinks and sampling tasty Mexican dishes. All in support of the gals creating and performing in Scienceography: dances of physiology, entomology and psychology at The Toronto Fringe Festival.

I am oh-so-thrilled to announce I’ll be opening for Meagan O’Shea’s new show, “The Atomic Weight of Happiness” on May 27-29, 2011. I’ll be reading excerpts from my two novel-length manuscripts, “Asphalt,” and “The opposite of drowning.”

The show runs all month – check ‘er out!!

About the show:

“As a dancer born with 12 toes, Meagan O’Shea has always had to acknowledge her inner outcast. In The Atomic Weight of Happiness, she locks herself (and an audience) in an hour-long experiment to arrest global warming; dissect, identify and measure the ingredients of each human emotion; and determine whether her anatomical deviations are drug induced oddities or random genetic mutations.”

I created a wee one-of-a-kind gem for ‘i hid art’ – the brilliant brainchild of Chris Fritton. The premise: artists hide art and leave a photo and a note on the i hid art website and when these creations are found, the finders can document their find on the same site. It’s like hide-and-go-seek with art!

And sooooo, if you’re in Toronto, go find my letterpressed book!

HINT: There’s a book about a lake tucked between row boats and bumper boats, in Toronto, just steps from the blue of Lake Ontario…

EXTRA HINT: It’s along the Martin Goodman Trail, near the windmill!

…get lookin’!!

The Art Farm: 1306 West 21 Rd., Marquette, Nebraska, USA

~ the annual ArtHarvest includes work by the 2010 Art Farm residents

~ 12pm-7pm