If I Were a Monument is an exhibition by renowned artist Louise Liliiefeldt. The exhibition consists of paintings and installations that deal with the issue of loneliness. The images Liliefeldt creates are born from a very personal place, as dementia and caregiving have been part of her immediate family, perhaps exaggerating the solitude of both the person who has
dementia and the caregiver. The images surrounding the walls of the gallery represent images of what loneliness would feel like if she were a monument erected to honor the lives of others.

The Radical Vulvas aims to be a multi-disciplinary art and discussion forum, enabling further discourse about women's experiences and feeding into broader discourses of gender identity. We are inviting anyone to express themselves, through any medium (song, monologue/dialogue, poetry, visual art, dance, performance) on the subject of women, or "femininity", or the very notion of women. 

If you would like to perform or participate, please send a copy of your text or a sound recording to vulves.radicales.de.montreal@gmail.com by January 6th 2012.

Submissions may be in English or in French; the production itself will be completely bilingual. Performance submissions should be under ten minutes. 

A performance adaptation of the graphic novel The Listener by Jean Smith
that includes indie rock duo Mecca Normal.

Tuesday, JUNE 7, 5-7 pm (WINNIPEG): Book signing only, McNally-Robinson,
Grant Park Mall, 1120 Grant Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3M 2A6

Wed, JUNE 8, 7:30 pm (WINNIPEG): Book launch, Mondragon Bookstore &
Coffeehouse, 91 Albert St., Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1G5.

Friday, JUNE 10, 6-8 pm, (TORONTO): Type Books, 883 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON M6J 1G3. 416-366-8973. FREE. Sponsored by Broken Pencil.
Includes a Q&A with the author by Hal Niedzviecki.

The Toronto Free Gallery is proud to be hosting a multimedia literary explosion of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, poets and fancy scribblers. A night of queertastic, female-centric brilliance!

On October 20, the legendary, raucous, rowdy performance gang Sister Spit - The Next Generation's van will unload in Toronto for a rare Canadian performance. The night will include; queer luminary Michelle Tea, hilarious literary force Beth Lisick, trans-licious performance artist Ben McCoy, graphic novelist extraordinaire Ariel Schrag, powerhouse poet Kirya Traber, photographer/myth-explorer Sara Seinberg, and world-traveling novelist Rhiannon Argo plus Toronto special guests.