Dangerous Mammals Tour 2010: Ivan Coyote and S. Bear Bergman! With Special Guests Jessica Halem and Tania Katan!
Come and celebrate the co-launch of S. Bear Bergman’s Butch Is A Noun and Ivan Coyote’s Missed Her, both hot off the presses at Arsenal Pulp Press. Both Coyote and Bergman are renowned performers, bringing finely their finely honed stage skills and the pitch perfect timing of master storytellers to their live readings.
Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. An award-winning author of six collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films and a renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling, and over the last seventeen years she has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer’s 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.” www.ivanecoyote.com
S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is the author of Butch is a Noun (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) and Lambda Literary Award-finalist The Nearest Exit May be Behind You (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009). Bear is also the creator and performer of three award-winning solo performances, a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics and co-editor (with the fabulous Kate Bornstein) of Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal Press, 2010). www.sbearbergman.com
Called “Brave and Bawdy” by Time Out Chicago and “Sexually Explicit Yet Chipper” by the Times-Picayune, Jessica Halem was raised by hippie Jewish artists from the East Coast which was anything but normal – or easy – in small-town Ohio, but did help to foster this very funny “on-your-face” queer comic. www.jessicahalem.com
Photo by Angela Ellsworth
Tania Katan is an author, playwright and performer. Her memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer is the winner of the Judy Grahn Award in Nonfiction, an honoree of the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Rock-n-Roller Melissa Etheridge said of Tania’s memoir, “This book rocks! It’s passionate, playful, and downright beautiful,” and the Library Journal gave the book a Star Review. Since the success of her first book, Tania has been performing her one-woman show, “Saving Tania’s Privates” (adapted from My One Night Stand With Cancer), which made its European premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008 where it was a critical success! In the U.S. “Saving Tania’s Privates” has been seen at such prestigious venues as ACT in Seattle, The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, and in 2011 will make its debut in New York as part of the Frigid Fringe Festival! Katan is a regular contributor to The Advocate, Compete Magazine, Stand Up To Cancer’s online magazine, and others. And because of her unique ability to write and perform she has become a regular performer on the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles as a part of Sit-n-Spin. As a public speaker and teacher, Tania is invited to teach writing workshops and give performance-style lectures around the world. Including Australia, Iceland, and Italy. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Bust, Curve, Running Times, DIVA, GCN Ireland, The Scotsman, and other publications. Tania is extremely proud to be a graduate of the New York Artist in Residence program at the Creative Center, an organization that brings the art making process to the bedsides of people in the hospital dealing with cancer. For more information please visit: www.taniakatan.com