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red diva projects

February 25, 2012 | 7PM
FREE

Audain Gallery

As part of the exhibition Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future and in partnership with The Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence Program at Simon Fraser University’s English Department, the Audain Gallery is pleased to announce a series of events in the gallery featuring the work of red diva projects and their collaborators.

red diva projects

Performance by Marie Clements, Michelle St. John, and women from the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre.

Drawing on Clements’ previous experience working with the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, red diva projects will guide women from the Centre through a series of workshops that will explore the use of written words and vocables (non-lexical sound-words) to address the themes of isolation and incarceration and to explore the critical potential of fiction to express truth. The outcome of these workshops will be an experimental theatrical musical performance in the gallery by red diva projects and the women of the Centre.

red diva projects is a collaborative project between veteran artists Michelle St. John and Marie Clements. They are committed to deepening the vocabulary and aesthetic style of integrative Indigenous performance and creating and producing new innovative work. Their films include Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, The Road Forward, and Jesus Indian.

Working in theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television, Marie Clements is a prolific and award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer. She is also the founding artistic director of Urban Ink Productions and Fathom Labs Highway, the co-founder and producing partner of Frog Girl Films, and the Artistic Director of red diva projects. Clements is currently The Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University English Department.

Michelle St. John is a Dora nominated and two-time Gemini Award winning actor with more than 30 years of experience in film, television, theatre, voice, and music. Co-Founder of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, a Native women’s theatre company based in Toronto, St. John is currently a producing partner with Evan Adams and Marie Clements in Frog Girl Films and the Artistic Producer of red diva projects.