Words & Music LIVE at Café Resonance

For our last LIVE show of 2021 we present:

-Skin Tone (James Goddard)

-Sarah Venart (A.M. Klein poetry prize winner for I Am the Big Heart)

-Liana Cusmano (Montreal slam poetry champion)

-Jennifer Cloutier (Multimedia writer, photographer, performer)

The event is FREE although we are happy to accept donations of $5-$7.

Our last two shows SOLD OUT, so get tickets early. Bring proof of vaccination for entry.

BACKGROUND

skin tone

is the (mostly) solo performance project of Ndebele-Canadian artist James Nicholas Dumile Goddard. skin tone incorporates saxophone, voice, mbira and electronics; it explores issues related to blackness, the canon, and the future. Goddard also performs in a variety of experimental ensembles including notably Egyptian Cotton Arkestra & NYON.

Sarah Venart

is this year's winner of the A.M.Klein Award for Poetry for her collection, I Am the Big Heart. Her writing has been published recently in Arc, Numero Cinq, and Concrete and River. She lives in Montreal and teaches at John Abbott College.

http://www.sarahvenart.com/

Liana Cusmano

Writer, filmmaker and spoken word artist, Liana Cusmano is the 2018 and 2019 Montreal Slam Champion, representing their city at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Guelph (November 2018). Their poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines, journals and anthologies, including The Radiance of the Short Story(CEAUL; Centro de Estudos Anglisticos da Universidade de Lisboa, 2018), People, Places, Passages: An Anthology of Canadian Writing (Longbridge Books, 2018), Influence and Confluence, East and West: A Global Anthology on the Short Story (East China Normal University Press, 2016), Exploring Voice (University of Toronto, 2016) and Writing Cultural Difference(Guernica Editions, 2015).

Liana has performed their work in English, French and Italian, and given readings in Montreal, Winnipeg, Lisbon and Shanghai. They are also the writer of the short films La Femme Finale, screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and Matters of Great Unimportance, which they directed. Their work explores cultural heritage, sexual orientation and gender identity, queerness, interpersonal relationships, physical and mental health. They are looking forward to leading writing workshops in the classroom, in addition to giving readings, performing spoken word, and participating in question and answer periods. Liana is passionate about encouraging students to explore emotional or difficult themes in order to better understand themselves through their own writing, and to help them to identify the genre or form that best suits them.

Jennifer Cloutier

is a multidisciplinary artist, avid traveler, and wellness educator, born in Maidstone Ontario, and residing in Montreal, Quebec. She has always felt the need to observe, explore and create. Beginning with the act of observing through the senses, she unites these three passions. Using different mediums to document and express her visions, she is passionate to tell the story of others, the creative process, and the daily aspects of life. She strives to create, guide, and share sensory experiences for people to connect, learn, and be inspired by.

This year she self-published a book called MIRA Cuba The flaneur Way. In which she will present and perform excerpts from the book in a piece called The modern day flaneur. MIRA Cuba is a collection of impressions and expressions inspired by a journey, a sensory experience, and a creative process. Observed and documented through the mediums of writing, drawing, and photography. She will have her book and other flaneur way products on hand that night for purchase if you have an interest.

www.jennifercloutier.com

Host or Publisher Les Sympathiques