Reading
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Celebrating Piecework & Judevine
Please join me on Thursday, May 15 in Montpelier! We’ll be celebrating the release of two Vermont books with theatrical roots: my new book Piecework and the new, revised edition of David Budbill’s Judevine. Written in the 1970s, Judevine is a collection of poems that narrate the life of a northern Vermont town and its…
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Samedi à la frontière! | On the Border this Weekend!
Meet me at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House this weekend! I’ll be doing a special borderland book launch event to celebrate Piecework and the cross-border ties that brought the book into being. This special afternoon event will include performances, music, conversation, and celebration in English and French. J’espère vous voir! Rejoignez-moi à la…
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Know Where You Stand
It’s a tricky time to be a person with their feet in two cultures. If you’re someone who crosses borders frequently, you understand that borders are places of friction, where identity shifts or slips, where we are made vulnerable. This is what is beautiful about borderlands — and also what makes them sites of conflict.…
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Piecework est arrivée !
I had an unforgettable few days in Orono this weekend, celebrating the launch of my new book at an annual gathering of Franco American artists known as the rassemblement. It’s a fascinating feeling to hold my work in my hands in its new (and beautiful!) form, and it was deeply meaningful to celebrate with friends,…
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LES FILLES at TNB’s Virtual Fall Festival
UPDATE (November 21) : The final events of the festival, including mine, have been postponed due to the recent uptick in COVID cases within the Atlantic bubble. I will post information about new dates when I have them. Theatre New Brunswick kicks off their virtual Fall Festival of New Plays tonight with an on-line reading…
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Le Moncton Studio Vidéo Radio Show
UPDATE: Episode 2 of Le Moncton Studio Video Radio Show, which was postponed, has now been rescheduled! The show will be broadcoast Monday, September 21, 2020, at 7pm EST (8pm ATL). You can find the relevant info and links here: https://www.facebook.com/events/608291316716135/ [ORIGINAL POST:] How’s your pandemic going? My primary observation about it is that it…
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Notable Acts
Every year, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick, premieres a whole slate of brand new plays. To me, it is the most exciting this about the festival: it encourages the creation of new work and creates an audience for it, something that most theater companies are downright sluggish about attempting. This year,…
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Reading New Work in Montpelier
The opening weekend of Pride & Prejudice at Lost Nation Theater was loads of fun, with jovial crowds who were happy to laugh along with this farcical adaptation of the classic novel. (The Times-Argus describes the production as Jane Austen meets Looney Toons.) We’re looking forward to two more weekends of performances, so please come…
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“A Distinct Alien Race”
I usually use this site to post brief updates about my own work, but today I wanted to share a longer post about David Vermette’s A Distinct Alien Race, a new book about Franco-American life in New England. It has been one of the unexpected twists of my adult life that my creative work has…
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Last RITES
As my residency draws to a close, I am looking forward to the last few RITES that I will perform at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery this weekend. Evidential Rite Saturday, July 28, 12-5pm I’ll spend Saturday afternoon in the main gallery, inviting visitors to participate in this RITE, designed to explore how art speaks to…
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