May Week Archive
May Week Artist Lineup Archive
You're looking at the artist lineup for the 2006 May Week Labour Arts Festival.
Check out the artist lineups of May Week festivals in other years.
Don Bouzek
Don Bouzek founded GROUND ZERO PRODUCTIONS in Toronto over 20 years ago. Since then, the company has established itself as the major theater working with organized labour in Canada, touring shows everywhere from small union halls to large national conventions. Since moving to Edmonton, he has directed a number of works, including a show about health care, which played to groups including the United Nurses of Alberta and the Friends of Medicare. Don Bouzek has won a number of national awards for his work.
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Elaine Brière
Elaine Brière lives in Vancouver, BC. Her photographs have appeared in Unesco Courier, Folket I Bild, Wereldwijd Avenue, THIS Magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly , Survival International, Zed Magazine and The Family of Women. She was the last photographer to visit East Timor before the Indonesian invasion of l975 and became involved in the Timorese independence movement. Her book Testimony: Photographs of East Timor, was published by Between the Lines, Toronto, in 2004. Her next exhibition will be at the Chinese Cultural Center in Vancouver in June, 2006. She is also a filmmaker. Bitter Paradise: The sell-out of East Timor, won Best Political documentary at HOT DOCS! In 1997, Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen aired on Knowledge Network and SCN in 2005. Visit the Elaine Brière website.
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Kevin Cook
Kevin Cook puts his own original and confident stamp on a country blues style that sounds old and new. He has released three critically acclaimed CDs and is currently working on on a new project. Visit the Kevin Cook website.
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Tom Gale
Tom Gale will be curating for the third year May Week's Worker's Art Show at The Works Gallery. Tom has been showing his paintings in galleries and local venues for 20 years. His work of the past fifteen years depicts the Alberta Landscape and aspects of it, most notably High Treetop and Aspen Grove series. The Artist sees the landscape as an integral part of his life. Tom's work has been included in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts as well as in private and corporate collections in Canada and abroad.
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Ground Zero Productions
GROUND ZERO PRODUCTIONS is a professional Popular Theater company which has been involved in May Week since its inception, supporting the Day of Mourning ceremony, the Labour Cabaret, the May Day March and various dramatic productions.
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Heather Inglis
Heather is an Alberta based director, dramaturge, theatre instructor and producer with credits across the country. Recent directorial credits include Faces of Fire with World Heritage Interpretive Theatre, Moving Pictures by Sharon Pollock at Studio Theatre; Water on the Rocks, which received a UNESCO Award for its contribution to public awareness of fresh water and a critically acclaimed production of The Making of Warriors also by Sharon Pollock. Heather is the founder and artistic director of Theatre Yes, a grass-roots project based company committed to the use of theatrical wisdom from around the world and down the block to create intelligent theatre for adventurous audiences.
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Lynette Maurice
Lynette Maurice has created and performed hundreds of puppets and characters in her 30 years of entertaining. She was co-founder of Patchwork Puppets, which toured throughout Canada and UK with a traditional Punch & Judy show, as well as many other puppet performances. Lynette has been performing with the Edmonton Street Performers Festival since its inception 21 years ago. She is the quintessential Family Area Producer for festivals and events throughout Alberta and North America.
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Mary Joyce
Mary Joyce's works investigate travel, labour, 'women's work' and how things work, industrial architecture and engineering. She invokes mystery, speed and the wild energies of transformation in her art practise. Her studies included art history, poetry, printmaking and education. Born in Montreal, she currently produces in Edmonton and has exhibited in Canada and Europe since 1986. The unending possibility for a more profound humanity to take hold in the world is why she continues to make art. Visit the Mary Joyce website.
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Jaro Malanowski
Jaro Malanowski is a documentary filmmaker who engages in issues surrounding social justice, corporate responsibility, and environmental sustainability. He is involved in advocacy of voices that get overlooked by the mainstream media and popular culture including self-advocacy within disability culture, environmental awareness and protection groups and people focusing on community building initiatives. He is a proponent of the creative commons and open source approach to filmmaking and activism. Jaro will be the visual artist working on the Labour Cabaret Webcast Project. Visit the Jaro Malanowski website.
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RadioVacana
Radiovacana is likely one of the most unique outfits in the West. Most noticeable are the various cultures of the members: from Chinese to Colombian, African to Jamaican to Irish/Welsh, Miq' Maq, Spanish to Hungarian, Ukrainian to German. Fuse this with their dancefloor blends of Cumbia, Salsa, Jazz, Afro-Funk and Reggae, you have non-stop entertainment. Moisture-wicking clothing not included...
Visit the RadioVacana website.
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Shimaisha Robinson aka Dwennimmen
A Spoken Word poet, born and raised in Edmonton, she has been writing for a couple of years and is active in her local arts community. In addition to solo word smithing she hosts a regular open mic evening at the Naked Cyber Cafe in Downtown Edmonton as well as a radio show - Sotto Voice Box - on the local Campus & Community Radio Station CJSR 88.5. All of the aforementioned function as the foundational elements of an overarching effort to build creative community in her home town.
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Souljah Fyah
Edmonton-based Souljah Fyah is a progressive reggae band with pumping bass lines, driving percussions, sweet harmonies and a contagious spirit. They deliver roots reggae music, interwining modern sounds with oldschool vibe to achieve a beat that calls you to the dancefloor! Visit the Souljah Fyah website.Read more info here »
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Memi von Gaza
Memi von Gaza is an Edmonton based artist whose involvement in activism dates back to the Mulroney era. In conjuction with Catalyst Theatre and various local and national groups at that time she helped create a wave of protest that had a global impact. Since then she has been involved with many events both in and out of the province creating cutting edge activist art.
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Cindi Zuby
Cindi Zuby is a professional artist, theatrical set designer, musician and illustrator. She is currently the Resident Set Designer at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. She free-lances in theatre, performs in a variety of puppet and entertainment venues and is part of the collaboration on a multitude of family events throughout Alberta and North America. She is the multi-instrumentalist (guitar, dulcimer, psaltery, bouzouki, mandolin, etc.) for the folk ensemble Speirbhean. In the USA she was the Artistic Director for the Star City Holiday Parade in Lincoln, Nebraska, illustrator for four children's books published by Dageford Press, and part of the folk duo Pheromone Pholk.