Still not weaned from facebook, though problematizing that space for sure! Great interactivity, but somehow a lack of 'narrative' possibilities. Maybe it's just that I like to write in uninterrupted fashion! But truth is, to elaborate on CiCAC activities, it's hard to do in the oneline nature of fb. That said, here's where we're at....
Just on the last leg of a multi-city trip that took me to ottawa, montreal, toronto, st john's, meeting with various folks re both the Distillery project and CiCAC in gen. I'm trying to establish a connection with Memorial U that would let me work on the east coast, the 'entry-point' to canada for so many migrants, to stage a version of the Distillery exhibition. Connections in other cities were predicated on meetings with folks who would be visiitng Kamloops soon (Bennett Fu) or had something to do with other CiCAC events. Back to Vancouver tomorrow where I'll be attending/reading at the international Postcolonial conference sponsored by ACLALS (info at http://ocs.sfu.ca/aclals/). Finishing off the edits of the Distillery novel, too, with great hope(!) and getting set to teach (with fab co-instructor Rachel Nash) a grad course in the new M.Ed programme at TRU.
That, in a nutshell, is what's going on CiCACways. A summer of editing/articling and a fall of visiting artists. Onward...
Notes from the Centre for innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada (Thompson Rivers University)
