PAGES UNBOUND at the AGO’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas West) and the Gladstone (1214 Queen West), May 5 to 8. $10, $43 festival pass. pages-unbound.com.
Media are cross-fertilizing all over the artistic landscape, and the digital world is changing everything about the way we approach big ideas. The Pages Unbound Festival mines these ideas in a series of events featuring innovative artists and thinkers from May 5 to 8. Here’s what to look for.
A CANADA EVENING
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, BJ Snowden, Sarah Gadon and others riff on Richard Ford’s novel Canada as part of a program looking at the ways our country is loathed and idealized.
May 5, 9 pm, at the Gladstone pwyc.
BURST: NEW VOICES IN
CANADIAN LITERATURE
I’ll be hosting gifted editors as they present their favourite relatively new novelists, who will focus on how they found their voices. Emily M. Keeler presents Mona Awad (13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl, Penguin Canada) Suzanne Alyssa Andrew presents Rebecca Rosenblum (The Big Dream, -Biblioasis) Alison Lang presents Andrew F. Sullivan (Waste, Dzanc).
Friday, May 6, 7 pm, at the AGO’s Jackman Hall $10.
ALL OUR BAD IDEAS
Ever wonder what happens to great artists’ bad ideas? Writer and interdisciplinary artist Jacob Wren and filmmaker/playwright Jordan Tannahill discuss why they were drawn to weak artistic concepts, why they rejected them and how they might -resurface.
May 6, 9 pm, at Jackman Hall $10.
WORK
Dan Perry, Joni Murphy and Malcolm Sutton, all presenting their publishing debuts, talk about the way work tends to take over our lives.
May 7, 4 pm, at Jackman Hall $10.
VISUAL LANGUAGE
Michael Snow and Vera Frenkel, two of Canada’s most celebrated artists, show selected works and discuss their use of visual and written language.
May 8, 2 pm, at Jackman Hall $10.
PHOTOGRAPHY BOUND
Photographers Ed Burtynsky and Donald Weber and curators Sophie Hackett and Eva Eicker explore the pheno-menon of hybrid genre the photo book.
May 8, 6 pm, at the Gladstone $10.
PLUS
Comedian/actor Mary Walsh talks to memoirist Barbara Williams about growing up in poverty, May 7, 7 pm, at Jackman Hall. Poets Kaie Kellough, Jason Sharp, Aisha Sasha John and Gustave Morin perform – and they mean it – their work, May 7, 9 pm, at Jackman Hall. Amnon Buchbinder takes the audience on an interactive tour of his new documentary, The -Biology Of Story. May 7, 2 pm, at Jackman Hall. All $10.
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