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"Juriste de formation, Cathy Wong est devenue la plus jeune présidente du Conseil des Montréalaises depuis sa création, et occupe le poste d’agente de développement jeunesse pour les YMCA du Québec. Après avoir présidé le Jeune Conseil de Montréal et le Forum jeunesse de l’île de Montréal, Cathy est aujourd’hui membre du conseil d’administration de la Société du 375e anniversaire de Montréal, du c.a. de Les Offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec, du Théâtre Jean-Duceppe, ainsi que des comités consultatifs d’Élections Canada et de MaTV. | |||
Elle était une des concurrentes de l'émission télévisée La Course Évasion autour du monde et chroniqueuse à la Première Chaîne de Radio-Canada. Elle a co-animé les émissions Les Oranges Pressées et Droit de cité sur les ondes de CIBL. Elle était aussi collaboratrice mensuelle dans le cadre des Duos improbables à l'émission Pas de midi sans info. | |||
Depuis 2012, elle contribue aux efforts de reconstruction du YMCA d’Haïti à Port-au-Prince. Ses engagements lui ont valu en 2009, le prix Hommage Bénévolat-Québec remis par le ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, le prix Femmes de mérite du Y des femmes (2014), ainsi que le prix « Ambassadrice » de l’organisme Cultures Croisées et « Personnalité de la diversité 2014» de l’agence de presse Médiamosaïque. | |||
=Amrita Choudhury= | =Amrita Choudhury= | ||
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Amrita was educated in Tagore's ashram in Santiniketan India, where an intimate relationship with mother nature, respect for the environment, and living in harmony with all that surrounds us, was of importance in the everyday educational model. | Amrita was educated in Tagore's ashram in Santiniketan India, where an intimate relationship with mother nature, respect for the environment, and living in harmony with all that surrounds us, was of importance in the everyday educational model. | ||
Amrita believes that dance is a philosophy of life in motion, and that every single being is a dancer in their own way. | Amrita believes that dance is a philosophy of life in motion, and that every single being is a dancer in their own way. | ||
Topic: | Topic: | ||
A dancers Journey throughout the years: from India to Canada...... | A dancers Journey throughout the years: from India to Canada...... | ||
What lies behind the different masks of dance? A story about how dance shaped the woman, and how the woman shaped the dance..... | What lies behind the different masks of dance? A story about how dance shaped the woman, and how the woman shaped the dance..... | ||
AMRITA DANCE CREATIONS www.ananda-amrita.com | AMRITA DANCE CREATIONS http://www.ananda-amrita.com | ||
NRITYA YOGA - YOGA OF DANCE www.nrityayogadance.com | NRITYA YOGA - YOGA OF DANCE http://www.nrityayogadance.com | ||
=kimura-lemoine= | |||
nathalie lemoine (나타리 르무완 * ナタリー.ルモワーヌ) is a conceptual multimedia feminist artist who works on identities (diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, post-colonialism, immigration, gender), and expresses it with calligraphy, paintings, digital images, poems, videos and photography. kimura-lemoine’s work has been exhibited, screened and published internationally (artist’ statement). | |||
as a curator, kimura-lemoine has developed projects that give voice and visibility to minorities and as an activist archivist, ze is working on ACA (adoptees cultural archives) to document the history of adoptee’s culture through media and arts. | |||
Presentation | |||
Project # 6261 Montreal Project is a photographic and video project I carried in the city of Montreal. Designed as a participatory piece of work, the project proposes a new artistic urban vision to create a link with locals and their memory of certain places. | |||
=Jenny Lin & Eloisa Aquino= | |||
Jenny Lin is a multidisciplinary artist who creates experimental narrative-based works aimed at causing disruption to the everyday and infiltrating mainstream narrative frameworks with difference, ambiguity and awkwardness. Jenny completed a BFA degree at the University of Calgary in 98 and an MFA at Concordia University in 2001. She teaches at Concordia University as a sessional instructor in the Print Media program area. | |||
Eloisa Aquino was born in Brazil in 1970. She worked as a translator, writer, and journalist in her country of origin. In 2000, she moved to Canada to pursue a M.A. in Media Studies at Concordia University, where she researched the food of immigrants in Montreal. Always active in the micropublishing industry, having published art and poetry fanzines since the 1980s in São Paulo, she founded B&D Press in 2009. She is the author of the series, “The Life and Times of Butch Dykes”. | |||
Together Eloisa and Jenny run B&D Press, a Montreal-based micro-press focused on queer zines and artist's books. | |||
For more info, please visit: http://banddpress.blogspot.ca andhttp://www.jenny-lin.ca | |||
Presentation description: | |||
Jenny and Eloisa’s presentation for Ginger Garden will be about the formation of B&D Press and their interest in self-publishing zines and artists’ books with usually queer content. | |||
=Madeleine Thien= | |||
Madeleine Thien is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes, and three novels, including Dogs at the Perimeter, which was shortlisted for Berlin's 2014 International Literature Award and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's 2015 Liberaturpreis. Her books and stories have been translated into 25 languages, and her essays have appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Financial Times, Five Dials, Brick, and elsewhere. Her most recent novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, was published this year. She lives in Montreal. | |||
Presentation: Madeleine will read from/talk about Do Not Say We Have Nothing, a novel about music, art and revolution in 20th century China. | |||
=Event Day Schedule 2016= | =Event Day Schedule 2016= | ||
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6-begin, Jimmy Ung, intro | 6-begin, Jimmy Ung, intro | ||
6:05- | 6:05-Cathy Wong & 6 mins Q&A | ||
6:17-Amrita Choudhry & 6 mins. Q&A | 6:17-Amrita Choudhry & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
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7:05 MC-break, 20 mins. | 7:05 MC-break, 20 mins. | ||
7:25- | 7:25-Madeleine Thien & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
7:37- | 7:37-Jimmy Ung & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
7:49-MC, parking lot, spontaneous announcements | 7:49-MC, parking lot, spontaneous announcements | ||
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8:12-Shie Kasai & 6 mins. Q&A | 8:12-Shie Kasai & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
8:24-Shahriar | 8:24-Shahriar Taheri & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
8:36-Jenny Lin & Eloisa Aquino & 6 mins. Q&A | 8:36-Jenny Lin & Eloisa Aquino & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
8:48- | 8:48-Sherwin Sullivan Tjia & 6 mins. Q&A | ||
9 pm –MC, parking lots, spontaneous announcements, presenters, last words | 9 pm –MC, parking lots, spontaneous announcements, presenters, last words | ||