Performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have toured internationally for over 25 years. Their films and videos have been screened in venues ranging from the Museum of Modern Art to women’s centres in Sri Lanka, and include provocative, humerous works such as We’re Talking Vulva and Lesbian National Parks and Services. Past publications include the Winnipeg Tarot Co. Tarot Deck, In The Life (a companion to the film A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke), and the Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America. Winnipeg, Canada, the geographical centre of North America, is their chosen home.
Andrew Vaisius is a political poet and creator based in Winnipeg. He recently released a chapbook collaboration with the artist Robert Pasternak titled Domestic/Imported. He also regularly reviews poetry for Prairie Fire and Arc Poetry magazines. He co-edited Don’t Quit Yer Day Job with Phil Hall, and was the poetry Editor for Waves magazine in Toronto. Recent credits are: The Windsor Review, Arc Poetry, and forthcoming in Our Times and Descant. For a regular job he directs the Winkler Day Care Centre.
