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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 is a Dancer, Choreographer, & Teacher and works in the field of " Dance & Education" and performs cultural research into various styles of dances. She also uses dance as a healing and thereapeutique tool, in combination with the ancient techniques of Yoga & Meditation, dating back to the Tantric tradition of Dance/Yoga practices.

Trained in India in Classical, folk, gypsy & modern Indian dance traditions, a transmission which has been passed down from generation to generation, Amrita travels internationally teaching workshops, offering performances & lectures in the field of Dance & Yoga-Dance.  She has also appeared in various Television and Radio shows in Norht America, Europe, India & in South America.

NRITYA YOGA - YOGA OF DANCE http://www.nrityayogadance.com

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.

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 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.  

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 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.

3 pm-set up room, check technical needs, computer, screen, projector, arrange tables, decorate, ensure entrance and exit are easily accessible, put up signs, volunteers are welcome