 NewOn August 1st and 2nd, the Victorian village of Knowlton will be transformed into an outdoor literary salon! Besides letter-writing, you?ll be able to take part in many other literary activities in the company of Anglophone authors who will participate in literary discussions in this very first satellite edition of LES CORRESPONDANCES D?EASTMAN LITERARY FESTIVAL : LETTERS FROM KNOWLTON. PROGRAM SATURDAY AUGUST 1 1:00 pm Round-table discussion Galerie Bistrot Carpe Diem GROWING UP IN AMERICA Guest writers: Heather O?Neill, Neil Smith Moderator: Anne Lagacé Dowson $ 17, full-time students and 65 + : $ 15 4:00 pm Round-table discussion Galerie Bistrot Carpe Diem «THIS IS MY COUNTRY. WHAT?S YOURS ?» Guest writer: Noah Richler Moderator: Anne Lagacé Dowson $ 17, full-time students and 65 + : $ 15 7:00 pm Words & MUSIC performance Galerie Bistrot Carpe Diem SARAH BIGGS, IAN FERRIER, AMOS JOANNIDES $ 10 SUNDAY AUGUST 2 11:00 am Round-table discussion Galerie Bistrot Carpe Diem A SENSE OF PLACE Guest writers: Don Davison, Laura Teasdale, Harry Yates Moderator: Philip Lanthier $ 17, full-time students and 65 + : $ 15 4:00 pm Open Microphone Parc Coldbrook PUBLIC READINGS Moderator: Joseph Singerman Free admission Buy a pass for the event and receive a free CD celebrating 15 years of the best music from around the world, Putumayo World Music, guaranteed to make you feel good. Tickets / Info Place des lettres (billetterie officielle) : 338, rue Principale, Eastman. Tel. : 450-297-2265 Brome Lake Books : 264 Knowlton Rd. Tel. : 450-242-2242 Chamber of commerce of Brome Lake. Tel. : 450-242-2870 Town of Lake Brome / Rues Principales. Tel. : 450-243-6111 Grand partenaire 44 MONTREAL MIRROR JULY 23 - JULY 29 2009 70582.1ARTSDIVERS/CITÉGender reassignmentLes Grandes Murales challenges us to rethink queer lifestyles and hetero gender rolesby SACHA JACKSON his year, Divers/cité is taking T a new message to the streets. Comprised of work by JJ Levine and Jason Hendrickson, Les Grandes Murales is an outdoor photo exhibit set to challenge preconceived notions of the queer identity and lifestyle. Curated by Aydin Matlabi, a photographer himself, the exhibit uses the two radically different series?Hendrickson?s work focuses on the homes of men at a menonly campground, while Levine?s depict what we perceive as heterocouples in everyday life?to show us both the private and public domains of the queer experience. More than anything, though, these images ask us to question our own preconceived notions of what the queer lifestyle means. Levine, who?s been taking photographs since she was a kid and studied photography and interdisciplinary studies in sexuality at CURIOUS COUPLING: From Alone Time Concordia, delves into intimate relationships in her series Alone Time. Using iconic scenes from heterosexual life?couples watching TV, making dinner, reading in bed?Levine questions the stability of gender, identity and aesthetic beauty. ?The idea for Alone Time started with another project I did called Switch, which was a prom-themed studio portrait project that involved fictitious straight couples. This project comes from the same idea of gender fluidity and trying to make visually confusing images. Images that on first glance seem straightforward and, upon closer inspection, become more complicated.? Using six models, all of which are friends of Levine?s or people in her community (?trust is a really important aspect in my work,? she says), they are transformed through masquerade and drag into visually identifiable (i.e. male and female) gender roles. The catch being that the same person plays each gender in these ?hetero? couples. ?I was given the choice to show anything I wanted and the reason I selected this body of work is because I think looking at pictures of straight people will automatically get people?s attention,? Levine says. ?It?s not something you?d normally see at Pride.? Hendrickson, who?s completing his MFA at Concordia, also traverses uncommon ground by presenting us with images of the exterior of summer dwellings at an all-male campground. Through this series of photographs, Hendrickson explores the tents, cabins and summer homes as expressions of the residents and looks at the juxtaposition between the freedom the campsite provides its residents with and also how closely this closed community sometimes mimics communities that are often criticized for promoting exclusion and homogeneity. For the viewer, both series demand more attention than is immediately obvious and both present new ways of looking and thinking about queer identity, something Levine wanted her work to promote. ?I wanted to show something that would provoke thought and hopefully make people reflect on their own identity, how they perceive gender, or their assumptions about sexuality and sexual relationships. It?s fairly common for people to ask queer couples, ?So who?s the guy and who?s the girl in the relationship?? And to look at these images you think, ?Oh, that?s the guy and that?s the girl,? till you realize they?re the same person. For me, queerness isn?t just about being gay, it?s about realizing a different way of approaching gender and realizing that there are more genders than just male and female.? ? LES GRANDES MURALES AT TERRASSE STE-CATHERINE/PARC ÉMILIE- GAMELIN FROM JULY 28?AUG. 2, VERNISSAGE JULY 29, 5 P.M.
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