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MOODYVILLE CONTRIBUTORS NEDA ABKARI was born in Abadan, Iran. Her father, a JIM BREUKELMAN li ves in West Vancouver. He received big influence in her life as a poet, introduced her to poetry a BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and classical literature. They used to read Hafi z for at least and taught photography at Emily Carr Institute from 1967 half an hour every day. Neda published three books of to 2000. Breukelman has been a significant influence on poetry in lran-Tajrobeh Hayeh Ghameh Rostan , Az Raheh the development of artists of photography in Vancouver. Sayeha, and Hara seh Amadaneh Sobh. The las t book is also For over four decades, he has had many exhibitions across translated into Swedish. Neda li ves with her daughters in Canada, most recentl y solo exhibitions at the Ri chmond North Vancouver and is a student at UBC. Art Gallery and Republic Galllery, and hi s work is in va ri ous public and private coll ections. He is represented ANDREA ANDERSON is a fundraiser and writer li ving by Republic Gallery, Vancouver. in Vancouver. Excerpts from her UBC MA thesis, "Tom Burrows' Sculpture of Concrete, Sculpture of Dreams COLIN BROWNE is a writer and filmm aker li ving in or, Looking for the Utopian in the Everyday" (1997) are Vancouver. His most recent book is The Shovel (Talon published here. books). "Kingfisher Annex," of which this is an excerpt, is a prelude to the text for a longer dramatic work, perhaps an oratorio, entitled The Kingfisher. The action in The King INGRID BAXTER, in the yea rs following N.E. Thing Co., fisher begins where "Kingfisher Annex" leaves off, at dawn founded and owns Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak in North on May 28th, 1938, under the northern ramp of the Lion's Vancouver (1981 to present). She created the Adaptive Gate Bridge, and concerns the life and times of David Bolster. Aquatics Specialist position for the City of Vancouver The three-line cinched stanzas of "Kingfisher Annex" are and directed the creation of swim programs for the used only in this prelude, which seems to have become a disabled, including the Berwick Centre's swim program for postlude as well. developmentally disabled preschoolers. She was a founding member and professional accompanist for the North KARIN BUBAS, originall y from North Vancouver, is a Shore Chorus for close to 20 years. She has taught piano, graduate of Emily Carr Unive rsity. She has ex hibited na canoeing, swimming, and aquasizes. tionally and internationall y, most notabl y in Montreal, Washington DC , and Brussels. Exh ibi tions include solo DAVID BELLMAN (Xwi7 xwa) is an art historian and inde exhibitions at Monte Clark Gallery, About Time at the pendent research curator. His interdisc iplinary research Canadian Embassy in Washington DC; The Power Of has connected the fi elds of19th and 20th century experimen Refl ection at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, tal architecture, photography, painting, and sculpture, and Montreal; and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social is often concerned with the spiritual and materi al heritage at the Vancouver Art Gal lery. She is represented by the of traditional, non-European societies. His research and cu Monte Clark Callery, Vancouve r/Toronto. ratorial work have been presented in No rth America and Europe. He often coll aborates with Mei rion Evans. TREVOR CAROLAN writes from Deep Cove and teaches at UFV in Abbotsford. His current work is Another Kind of Para MOLLY BOBAK began studying art inl938 at the Vancou di se: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific (Boston: Cheng ve r School of Art where she pursued drawing and painting & Tsui, 2009). with instructors Charles Scott and Jack Shadbolt. In 1942 she joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps and became PIERRE COUPEY was a founding co-editor of Th e Georgia the first Canadian female war artist. In 1946 she married Straight and founding editor of The Capilano Review. Gallery Bruno Bobak and lived in North Vancouver until 1960 Jones represents his work in Vancouve r, where his next when they moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick where solo show takes place in Spring 2010. Hi s work will be she still resides. She has exchibited widely and her artwork included in a fi ve-person group show of new abstraction is included in private and public collections, including the at the Kelowna Art Gallery in Fall 2010. National Gallery of Canada. 207 PETER CULLEY li ves in South Wellington, British Columbia, MIKE GRJLL is a self-taught Vancouver photographer who and his books include Th e Climax Forest, Hamm ertown , was born in North Vancouver. He has had solo exhibitions The Age of Briggs & Stratton: Hamm ertown Book Two and in Vancouver, most recently at CSA Gall ery and Jeffrey To the Dogs . Boone Gallery, and has been recently published in local magazines Su bterrain and Ripe. He is represented by Jeffrey MEIRION EVANS (Nexw Siu/um Ta Ensxi Pim) is a docu Boone Gallery, Vancouver. mentary fi lmmaker, television producer, and independent research curator. Hi s mass media work concerning cross STEVEN HARRIS teaches art history at the University of cultural themes has been commissioned and realized in Alberta in Edmonton, and has published on surreali sm and collaboration with the BBC and S4C Wales ; his independent other twentieth-century art and cultural movements. He practice has been showcased at the Festival of Documentary was a student editor of The Capilano Review before and dur Films on Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris. He often collaborates ing the period recoll ected in these memoirs. with David Bellman. LEE HENDERSON is the author of an award-winning ALISON FROST is a writer from Brooklin, Ontario, whose short story coll ection Th e Broken Reco rd Technique and the fiction has appeared in several literary journals. She is in novel Th e Man Game. He is a contributing editor to the the latter stages of work on her first manuscript of short art magazines Border Crossings and Contemporary and has fiction. Alison li ves in East Vancouver with her husband, published fi ction and art criticism in numerous periodi dog, and twin cats. cals. His fi ction has twice been featured in the Journ ey Prize Anthology. He lives in Vancouver. BRIAN GANTER teaches li terature and critical theory in the Capilano University Engli sh department and ANNETTE HURTlG is an independent curator and writer CultureNet program. During the daytime working hours based on Hornby Island. She intermittently takes curatorial North Van has a tangible, determinate, and material ex and directorial work wi thin public institutions elsewhere. istence for him. However, at the end of the working day, Active internationally and known for initiating and managing North Van enters an ethereal, hazy, and immaterial state of ambitious, nationally touring exhibitions and accompany being from the view of his back window, as the illuminated ing publications, she is currently Interim Curator at the Grouse Mountain ski resort detaches from the earth and Kamloops Art Gall ery. quietly floats in the darkness. ANNE KIPLING has received wide recognition for her GARY GEDDES has published more than thirty- fi ve drawings, whi ch have been acquired by many public art books and won a dozen national and international liter museums in Canada, including the National Gallery of ary awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Prize and the Canada. In 1962, after graduating from the Vancouver Lt-Governor's Award for Literary Excell ence. He is working School of Art, she moved to Lynn Va ll ey, North Vancouver, on a book about human rights in sub-Saharan Africa. where she lived until 1965. During this time she purchased a small etching press and taught herself drypoint, etching, and aqua tint. Her career was the subject of a major Vancou CHRJSTOPHER GLEN grinds some, along with a lot of ver Art Gallery exhibition and publication in 1995. others. His times are getting slower, such is time. His best time mattered an awful lot to him, at the time, matters ROBERT KLEYN is a Canadian architect, visual artist, less now, and matters not a monkey to the good reader and writer. He began making photo-conceptual and video let alone the indifferent one. works in Vancouver in the earl y 1970s, and has shown his artwork in Nortl1 America and Europe. He apprenticed as BABAK GOLKAR lives in North Vancouver and has an an architect in Rome and studied architecture at UBC. His MFA from UBC. His multidisciplinary practice includes writings have been published in art magazines ZIG, Terna performance, instal lation, drawing, and vi deo. Golkar has Celeste, Arts, Vanguard , and in numerous exhibition cata exhibited extensively both nationally and internationall y logues. He has taught at several universities and practices at venues such as the Bergen Kunsthalle, Bergen; Liu in Vancouver as Robert Kl eyn Architect, specializing in art Haisu Museum, Taipe i; Morris and Helen Belkin Gall ery, gallery and cultural projects. Vancouver; and the Belkin Satellite, Vancouver. He recently participated in the group exhibition Orienta/ism and Ephemera at Centre A, Vancouver. 208 ANDREW KLOBUCAR is a Vancouver based writer who REZA NAGHIBI is a student in Creati ve Writing at Capilano prefers cell phones to bear bell s when hiking the North University and he looks fo rward to a career as a writer. He Vancouver trails. He writes on programmable literary has published in the student newspaper Th e Capilano Courier practices and screen poetics and works full-time in the and is a new reader of The Capilano Review.