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•Monday, April 14th to May 28, 2008 - my collage work will be exhibited at the december 1st gallery in Berlin in a group show with Australian artist Lee Salomone and the Berliner painter Silvia Sarseno. See the website here: (http://www.december-1th.de). The address in Berlin is: december 1st contemporary art gallery,
greifswalder str. 217. The openning will occur on April 18th at 8pm.
•Monday, February 4rd, 2008 - for one night only at the Ex-Centris theatre we will perform the multi-media show which premiered at the Berlin poetry festival. It is entitled "Raum der verlorenen Schritte"
or "The Room of Errant Steps", or "La salle des pas perdus". Fellow Montreal writers and performers in the show are D. Kimm, Alexis O'Hara and Michel Vézina. Bernard Falaise and Michel F. Côté will provide the music. Luciane Pinto will dance, and Brigitte Henry
from Montreal will be the vj. See her website here (http://www.brigitte-henry.com/), and see the festival website for more information including time, venue and ticket prices. Festival voix d'ameriques
•Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 - I will host an event at the Festival voix d'ameriques. The featured performer will be John Giorno. See the
Festival website for more information including times, venue and ticket prices. Festival voix d'ameriques
•Sunday, November 18, 2007 - At this event I will be presented
the first "Voice Electric/La voix électrique" award for carreer acheivement in literature in performance. The award is designed to honour
a spoken word performer for personal achievement, originality, contributions to the aesthetics of the genre, and contributions to
the national and international scene for spoken word. For more information on the prize, read the press release or visit
the website of les Filles électriques. French Press Release
English Press Release
•Thursday, November 8, 2007 - reading at the Yellow Door in Montreal. Entry is free.
•Monday, June 25, 2007 - 8:00 pm at the Berlin poesifestival at the Kesselhaus, Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. This is a multi-media show entitled "Raum der verlorenen Schritte" or "The Room of Errant Steps". Several Montreal poets, writers, musicians as well as a dancer and a vj will perform in the event. Fellow Montreal writers include
D. Kimm, Alexis O'Hara and Michel Vézina. Bernard Falaise and Michel F. Côté will provide the music and Luciane Pinto, dance, Frank Esposito from Paris will be the vj. Tickets are 7 Euros.
•Monday, June 18, 2007 - 9:00 pm at the 13th International Poetry Festival in Genoa, Italy:
in the Cortile Maggiore of the Palais Ducale. Free entry.
•Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 8:00 pm at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival: "Bilingual Tongues" event at the Auburn Saloon - #163 115 9th Ave SE
$10.00. with Tchitala Nyota Kamba (Calgary), D. Kimm (Montreal), Genevieve Letarte (Montreal), Geneviève Robichaud (Victoria), Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary)
•April 11 -- 9pm, reading at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival: "Poetry sPeaks" event at the Club, Theatre Complex in Banff with Jill Battson (Toronto), Klyde Broox (Toronto), Ian Ferrier (Montreal), and Cheryl L'Hirondelle (Vancouver).
•March 15 reading at the Yellow Door in Montreal
•March 6 reading at the Drake Hotel in Toronto in "Poetry, Process, Preformance" series.
•"he sings" charts
on free103point9 Internet radio: #24 in January 2007, #11 for the month of December, #32 for November.
•October to December 2006: "he sings" charts
from October 31st to December on CFRO, Co-op Radio, in Vancouver, #17 on October 31, #17 on October 31,#10 on November 7,#10 on November 14,
#26 till December 5th.
• November 2006, "he sings" charts
on CKUT in Montreal, #26 on November 21.
•September 22, 2006, reading at the Festival internationale de la litérature
at the Lion D'or at 20h30. The show is called "L'eau qui brule" and I'll be reading with a dozen Quebec poets. The address of the Lion D'or is 1676, Ontario East, corner Papineau. Tickets are 15$.
•September 18, 2006, the launch of a CD single "He sings" at the Casa del Popolo. The show starts at 21h.
•August 30, 2006 "Poets Against War" reading and benefit at the Casa del Popolo. Show begins at 20h and tickets are 5$.
•June 1, 2006, reading at the Marché francophone de la poésie for the conference
"Poésie et Performance". 9 h 30 à 17 h : Conference and debate -- "Poésie et performance"
at the Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal, 465, avenue du Mont-Royal East
•May 31, 2006, speaking at the Marché francophone de la poésie at the conference
"Poésie et Performance". 19 h : at
O Patro Vys, 356, avenue du Mont-Royal East (métro Mont-Royal)
•May 30, 2006, a "5 à 7" launch of the DVD "Écrits et chuchotements"
of selected performances from the Festival voix d'amériques at le divan orange, 4234 St-Laurent, Montréal
(just north of Rachel) 5 to 7 pm. Free
•April 2006, "six silk purses" charts
two weeks on CFRO, Co-op Radio, in Vancouver, #17 on April 11 and
#15 on April 18th.
•March 2006, "six silk purses" charts
#10 on CHRY-FM in North York, Ontario. It charts # 14 on CFRO in Co-op Radio in Vancouver.
•February 2006, "six silk purses" charts three weeks on
CJSF-FM in Vancouver, reaching #5 on February 13.
•January 2006, "six silk purses" charts #18
on CHOU-FM in Ottawa, #25 on CKDU in Halifax, and #22 on CKMS in Waterloo, Ontario.
• December 6th, "six silk purses" charts
on CHOU-FM (number 20) in Ottawa and at CKUT-FM (number 23) in Montreal.
• January 15th, a new mini-CD will be
launched at the Wiredonwords
reading at the Casa.
Wiredonwords appears at the Casa, the third sunday of every month.
• December 1st read at the Golden
Star Lounge in Ottawa, Ontario with poet Eddie Garnier
• Read Wednesday, November 16th at
the Rime Club, 1130 Commercial
Drive, Vancouver, B.C.
• Read Thursday, November 17th the first
night of the Gabriola Poetry
Festival on Gabriola Island, B.C.
• October 30th was the release of the
new CD, "six silk purses" on the Wiredonwords
label. Performed with the big band; Chantal Dumas on effects, Alexander
MacSween and Alexandre St-Onge on laptops, Fabrizio Gilardino playing
field recordings, Sam Shalabi on guitar and Christof Migone on electronic
auto-harp.
• Each Thursday 7-9 pm on CKUT
listen to an hour of spoken-word recordings on Dromostexte. CKUT
may be found at 90.3 on the FM dial or on the web at www.ckut.ca.
• Red
School House Poetry Primer took place in Kingston, Ontario,
Saturday August 13th, 2005.
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