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Exposure Program 2007
2007 Program
The 2007 festival took place from Friday, Nov. 23 until Saturday, Dec. 1. Where applicable, tickets prices do not include service charges. Program subject to change.
Full descriptions of each event will appear here and the festival program appeared in the Nov. 15, 2007 edition of Vue Weekly.
LOUD 'N' QUEER CABARET
Nov. 23, 24 / 7:30 p.m. / 18+
TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave.
Tickets: $20, Tix on the Square; $25 at the door
www.workshopwest.org
www.guysindisguise.com
See the newest in LGBTQ art, writing and performance during the longest-running queer arts showcase of its kind in Western Canada. Produced by Guys In Disguise and Workshop West Theatre. Directed by Darrin Hagen and Michael Clark. Starring Cathy Derkach, Nathan Cuckow, Andrea House and Trevor Schmidt. Tickets half price with a WWT season pass.
QUEER TERRITORIES (VISUAL ARTS)
Nov. 10 - Dec. 1
Latitude 53, 10248 - 106 St.
Free
www.latitude53.org
Curated by Todd Janes and featuring Johannes Zits (Toronto), Amber Hawk Swanson (Chicago) and Lane Robert Mandlis (Edmonton), this exhibition plays with the frontier culture of Alberta and examines what might be considered on the edges of queer territory in popular culture. Queer Territories mixes video, performance, installation and photography.
FATALE: A DANGEROUS NIGHT OF FEMME PERFORMANCE
Nov. 25 / Doors 7 p.m. / Show 7:30 p.m.
Latitude 53, 10248 - 106 St.
Free
Featuring daring performances by four innovative and provocative artists from across Canada, Fatale will make you wish that 
you were living your own film noir. On this night, poetry walks in stilletos and prose wears pearls. Femme is back, baby. Featuring performances by David Bateman, Anna Camilleri, T.L. Cowan and Val Desjardins and hosted by Anne Whitelaw. Fatale is generously sponsored by the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta.
BIRCH HEART PRESENTS: WET SECRETS, SPREEPARK, KNOTS
Nov. 26 / Doors 7 p.m. / Show 8 p.m. / All ages
McDougall United Church, 10025- 101 St.
Tickets: $11, Pride Centre, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Megatunes; $More at the door
Come hear Calgary's Knots; Edmonton/Calgary/Berlin's Spreepark release their debut CD; The Wet Secrets show off their "horny pop"; plus guest performances from the local scene.
GET BENT: QUEER YOUTH ART (VISUAL ARTS)
Nov. 26 - Dec. 1
Reception Dec. 1 at 1:30 p.m.
Art Gallery of Alberta, 10230 Jasper Ave.
Free
Curators Josie Cross, Chris Rogers and Eugene Dening have come together under the mentorship of Shane Golby and Kris Wells to create a "for youth by youth" exhibit that provokes ideas about identity, individuality, and representation. Join the curators and artists on Dec. 1 at 1:30 p.m. for a free reception.
DESERT HEARTS (FILM) / WARS WE DRESS UP FOR (SHORT FILMS)
Nov. 27 / 7 p.m. / 9 p.m.
Metro Cinema, at the Citadel Theatre complex
Tickets: $10 / $8 (students with ID/seniors) at the door
www.metrocinema.org
Desert Hearts, Donna Deitch's love story between two women, "a classic of queer cinema," has been brought back by popular demand. Wars we Dress Up For, a collection of short films, shares queer experiences and expressions through the lens of identity and aggression.
QUEER STORY SLAM
Nov. 28 / 7 p.m.
Blue Chair Café, 9624 - 76 Avenue
Entry fee: $5 for storytellers, $pass-the-hat for audience
Hosted by Story Slam co-founder Lisa Gregoire, this event is a queer-themed edition of Edmonton's famous story night. Come out and say your piece! Stories run the gamut from fictional to factual, hilarious to serious, carefully read to off-the-cuff. Stories must be original, unpublished and under five minutes. The winner, chosen by audience judges, takes all the money. No reservations and only 10 performers per night. Sign-up starts at 7 p.m. with stories beginning sharply at 8 p.m.
ANN CVETKOVICH
Nov. 29 / 1 p.m.
U of A campus, Humanities Centre, L-3
Free
Ann Cvetkovich presents "Depression: A Public Feelings Project." Cvetkovich is a foundational figure in the study of feelings and feminism and an innovative thinker who demands that we pay attention to the fraught relationship between queer life and traumatic experience. In her widely read 2003 book, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke University Press), she asks that we think of a variety of difficult issues with nuance and care, from the question of lesbians and sexual assault to the crucial matter of how queer communities create their own histories. Cvetkovich's current work on depression questions the way in which our feelings are so often harnessed by pathology and by conventional ways of thinking about our bodies. Rigorous yet highly accessible, Cvetkovich's talks always appeal to a wide audience.
533 STATEMENTS / BUBBLE (FILMS)
Nov. 29 / 7 p.m. / 9 p.m.
Metro Cinema, at the Citadel Theatre complex
Tickets: $10 / $8 (students with ID/seniors) at the door
www.metrocinema.org
In 533 Statements: A Documentary About Queer Canadian Women, you'll join Tori Foster as she travels the country in search of queerness and connections. The Bubble is Eytan Fox's film about being gay, straight, Israeli, Palestinian, lover and fighter (Arabic, English, Hebrew with English subtitles).
TOAST AT THE ROOST (ARTIST/AUDIENCE MIXER)
Nov. 29 / 9 p.m. / 18+
The Roost
Come out and give a TOAST to the stars and participants of Exposure! Network, chat, laugh and enjoy special performances and a great dance floor.
IVAN E. COYOTE / SHAWNA DEMPSEY AND LORRI MILLAN
Nov. 30 / 7 p.m.
U of A campus, Education North Buidling, 2-115
Admission: $5 at the door
Together on a single bill, three of Canada's most notorious queer performers!
Ivan Coyote is the son of a welder and the daughter of a government worker. An award-winning author of four collections of short stories and a renowned performer, Ivan's first love is live storytelling, and over the last twelve years she has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writers' festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam. The Globe and Mail called Ivan "a natural-born storyteller" and Ottawa X Press said "Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture." Sponsored by Inside/OUT.
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan present: Lesbian National Parks & Services Wants You! The public has a rare opportunity to thrill to the tales of first-hand lesbian adventures from around the world! The Lesbian Rangers have temporarily set aside their field work to patrol and present a scintillating slide and video presentation about the LNPS three-pronged approach of research, education and the importance of swelling the ranks. Do not miss this rare opportunity to satisfy your curiosity and Ask-A-Ranger! Learn about the ins and outs of the Force! Admire the uniforms! Driven by a deep-seated concern for the lesbian ecosystem, the intrepid Rangers are here to open your eyes to lesbian flora and fauna, and to recruit, recruit, recruit!
ALBERTA BEEF OVEREXPOSED (DRAG KING CABARET)
Nov. 30 / Doors 4 p.m. / Show 10 p.m. / 18+
Prism Bar & Grill
No cover
Party with the kings for a night! Come see all-new numbers that will leave you laughing, thinking--and HOT. In addition to Alberta Beef, this show features Edmonton court kings, Edmonton's new troupe Prime Rib, and Calgary's Fake Mustaches. Co-hosted by Derek Marshall and his bois Mason and Braden!
EXPOSURE FAMILY DAY AT THE AGA
Dec. 1 / Noon - 4 p.m.
Art Gallery of Alberta, 10230 Jasper Ave.
Free
Got kids? Neices and nephews? Make art with educators Davey Thompson and Clay Lowe during drop-in workshops at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA). While you're making art, be our guest for the Get Bent / Exposure Family Day reception at 1:30 p.m. There will be refreshments and performances from the Pride Centre Youth Theater Project.
TELLING QUEER STORIES: ARTIST WORKSHOP
Dec. 1 / 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. / Free
MacEwan City Centre Campus, Room 7-285
Listen to, learn from and network with established queer artists/writers Ivan E. Coyote, Ann Cvetkovich, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. This three-hour workshop is directed toward Edmonton's emerging queer artists working in all media. Bring your questions, aspirations and realities. Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 28 to todd@exposurefestival.ca.
ROUGE: A MASQUEERADE BALL
Dec. 1 / Doors 8 p.m. / 18+
Freemason's Hall of Edmonton, 10318 - 100 Ave.
Tickets: $25, Tix on the Square, Pride Centre, Blackbyrd Myoozik
Rouge is a dress-up ball for queers and their queer-friendly friends. Cast in the spirit of the Moulin Rouge, the evening will feature roving performance artists, celebrity Santas, DJ West Coast Baby Daddy. Wear your imagination--wear your mask!--and dress in your best, whatever that means to you. This party, the capstone event of Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival, is expected to sell out, so buy your tickets early.
THE WORKS PRESENTS: DAVID FOLK
Nov. 5 - Dec. 1
Reception Nov. 29, 7 - 9 p.m.
The Works Gallery, #200, 10225 - 100 Ave.
Free
www.theworks.ab.ca
The Works Gallery is proud to present Telling Tails and Other Stories, an exhibit of contemporary paintings by recent Master of Fine Art graduate David Folk. Folk's large-scale figure paintings incorporate elements of self-portraiture, nostalgia and desire.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS
Nov. 17 - Dec. 1
Various locations
Free
Photography and LGBTQ folks have a long and fecund history. In that tradition, Exposure offers unique shows, in vernacular spaces, that express a range of queer voices and cultures. Local and international photographers discuss issues of the body, language, and desire. Artists and venues are Andrew McPhail (Greenwoods Books), Jackson (TransAlta Arts Barn; Nov. 23, 24 only), RM Vaughn (Front Page News), Gilles From Paris (Steamworks) , EG Chrichton (Mandolin Books) and Elaine Wannechko (Venue TBA).
Trans Day of Remembrance
Nov. 20 / 4 p.m.
Latitude 53
Artist Talk: Lane Robert Mandlis
Miriam Smith: Thinking about National Human Rights: Queer Movements in Canada and the U.S.
Nov. 23 / 2 p.m.
U of A campus, Business Building 2-5
Brian Webb Dance Company Presents: Kidd Pivot - Lost Action
Nov. 23, 24 / 8 p.m.
John L. Haar Theatre
www.bwdc.ca
AIDS Awareness Week / World AIDS Day
Nov. 26 - Dec. 1
AIDS Vigil with Edmonton Vocal Minority and guests
Dec. 1, Rice Lobby, Citadel Theatre 5 p.m.
www.hivedmonton.com
Elizabeth Saewyc: Paradoxical Pregnancies (Inside/OUT)
Nov. 27 / 5 p.m.
U of A campus, Education North Building, 7-152
BitchSlap!
Nov. 28 - Dec. 9
Theatre Network's Roxy Theatre
www.attheroxy.com
A Grindhouse is not a home: An evening of trashy local homemade films
CANCELLED
The Laramie Project
Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1 / 7 p.m.
Eva O. Howard Theatre, Victoria School
For tickets or information call 426-3010
Program subject to change.