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Sexing and Sizing Up
Edmonton’s Exposure Festival
Community Event
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Pam Rocker
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November 2009 (Page 30) |
Playwright Neil Labute wrote, “Go back to the theatre, audience members everywhere, and get your hands dirty. Sit closer than you usually do. Smell the actors and make eye contact and let a little blood splash on your hem. Let us know that if we are brave enough to write about the stuff that matters, then you’ll come and watch...”
His words resonate profoundly with the mandate of Edmonton’s Exposure Festival: exposing queer artists to new audiences, and exposing Edmonton audiences to new art. By presenting these artists working in diverse media, Exposure seeks to question and inspire, celebrate and expand the spectrum of queer expression. This requires something from both sides of the footlights: the courage to take risks and venture out to showcase your work, and a sense of adventure to see and hear both the emerging and the established artists that are shaping our culture.
This year marks the third for the festival and Dave Jackson, Exposure’s Media Director, shares that they have been rapidly gaining national and international recognition.
“This means that when we approach artists to present their work, that they have already heard of us and are usually eager to participate. It also means that audiences have begun to hear about the Festival and we are growing in terms of interest and attendance...
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Exposure:
Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival
November 13th-21st
www.exposurefestival.ca
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