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. English Department at Capi lano University. In 2008, he joined the faculty of the New Jersey Institute of Tech­ KE ITH NAHANEE (Kwetsimet) is a Squamish Nation art­ nology in Newark, NJ to help direct their Communica­ ist/cultural worker living in North Vancouver who began tion and Media programme. Recent essays have appeared weaving at the age of twenty. Inspired initiall y by the in Crayon (Fall 2008) and Leonardo Electronic Almanac traditional knowledge and ski lls of a great aunt, he has sub­ (2009). A forthcoming article on Bob Pe relman will sequently become a pioneer in reviving the function and appear in the Fall issue of Ja cket. In 1999, he co-edited with sustaining the value of both spiritual and mate ri al culture Mike Barnholden the poetry anthology Wri ting Cla ss (New w ithin the context of contemporary First Nations culture. Star), detailing the work and ideas of the Kootenay School Nahanee is now widely recognized for his contribution of of Writing between the years 1983 and 1992. sacred masks and over a hundred cere monial blankets. His work is pe rmane ntly installed in the Great Hall of the Squa­ AURELEA MAHOOD 's great great uncle had a dairy farm mish Lil'wat Cultural Centre in Whistler. His weavings wi ll near the Capilano River where her grandfather helped out be featured in an upcoming PHG exhibition about topographi­ as a boy. The dairy farm was long gone by the time she was cal photography and Salish weaving. born at Lions Gate Hospital. She teaches in the English De­ part ment at Capilano University and is a TCR board mem­ AL NEIL is a Vancouver artist, composer, pianist, and ber. Her own current work is exploring representations of wri ter whose activities have spanned six decades. He became technology and transportation- perhaps even bicycles-in a central figure in the Vancouver jazz scene in the 1950s late modernist fiction. and during the 1960s became known for solo and ensemble performances which combined music with texts, art as­ KYLA MALLETT is a Va ncouver artist whose work has semblages, slides, and prepared tapes. His collage works been widely exhibited. Since receiving an MFA from the have been exhibited extensively and are in museum University of British Columbia in 2005, her work has coll ections. His books include Changes (1989), Wes t Coast been included in exhibitions at ThreeWalls, Chicago; Lokas (1972), Slammer (1981), and the exhibition catalogue the Vancouver Public Library a nd at the Vancouver Art Origins (1989). He has toured and exhibited internati onally, Gall ery. Her recent solo exhibition Marginalia at Artspeak, and lives in Dollarton, Vancouver. In 2003, he was awarded Vancouver-accompanied by the publication An Art of the an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr Institute. Weak: Margi nalia, Writers, and Readers-traveled to Hali­ "Laughter on 3"' Street" was published in Slammer in 1981 fax, N.S. by Pulp Press and is reprinted here w ith their permission.

DAPHNE MARLATT's long poem in prose fragments, N.E. THING CO. was a corporate enterprise with head­ The Given (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), the third in quarters in North Vancouver developed by co-presidents her trilogy beginning with Ana Historic and Taken, won Ingrid Baxter and lain Baxter to pursue experimental art the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award. Between Brush activities and va rious business ventures as conceptual art. Strokes, a limited-edition poem about the life and work of Founded in 1966, N.E. Thing Co. was incorporated in 1969 the BC painter/poet Sveva Caetani, designed by Frances and participated in important exhibitions and publications Hu nte r, was released from JackPine Press (Saskatoon) nationally and internationally until it ceased in 1976. Their late in 2008. It has received an Al cuin Award fo r design. projects included an office environment as an exhibition In 2009, Talonbooks will publish "The Gull ," her contem­ at the National Gall ery of Canada (1969), the sponsoring porary Canadian Noh play, in a bilingual edition with pho­ of a pee-wee hockey team (1972), and the operati on of tographs from the 2006 Pangaea Arts Production. a restaurant named Eye Scream (1977). N.E. Thing Co. continues to be internationally recognized in major STEPHEN MILLER has lived in Vancouver since 1968 exhibitions, publi cations, and museum coll ections. when he came to UBC from North Carolina to get an MA in Creative Writing. He has made a living as an actor on stage SELWY N PULLAN has been based in North Vancouver and screen, and is recognized locally as Zack McNab on since the earl y 1950s and has operated as a comme rcial DaVinci's Inquest. His most recent novel, Th e La st Train to photographer with a focus on architecture. His photographs Kazan was published last summer by Penguin Canada. For have become important documents of the development of more information, readers are invited to visit his website: modern west coast architecture. He studied photography stephenmillerwrite r.com.

209 at the Art Centre in Los Angeles and after graduating DAN SINEY was born in North Vancouver and graduated returned to Vancouver where he published in magazines from Emily Carr University in Vancouver in 2003. He has such as Western Homes and Living, Canadian Homes, and since exhibited at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Canadian Interiors. An exhibition of his photographs was Collette, Paris; La Santa, Barcelona; Campbell Works, Lon­ held at the West Vancouver Museum in 2008. don; and Go Gallery, Milan. Siney's works have also been featured in magazines and publications such as Vice Maga ­ LISA ROBERTSON's Magenta Soul Whip was recently zine, Sunday Magazine, Ripe, Border Crossings, and C Magazine. published by Coach House Books; R's Boat will be out with University of California Press in 2010. Robertson currently SXAALTXW-T-SIYAM, LOU IS MIRANDA was born in works collaboratively on sound and video based works, with 1892 and served as a chief of the Squamish band for close Allyson Clay, Nathalie Stephens, and Stacy Doris. to 50 years. He received an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University in recognition of his work on a CHRISTOPHER OLSON is a Vancouver-based artist and two-volume study of the Squamish language. The present writer. He is a frequent contributor to Border Crossings, Van­ work is from an unpublished oral history of Moodyville couver Review, Front, and Color and has recently completed transcribed and abridged by Squamish Nation Department of solo shows at Plank and Blim in Vancouver and group shows Education: Skwetsatenaat, Valerie Moody, Vanessa Camp­ in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Toronto. He is currently com­ bell , and Snitelwet, Deborah Jacobs. pleting Everything Louder Than Everything Else, a web-based project through Helen Pitt ARC. JAMIE TOLAGSON lives in Victoria, BC. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at CSA Space and Jeffrey AARON PECK is the author of the novel The Bewilderments Boone Gallery, and group exhibitions at the Toronto of Bernard Willis. His art writing has recently appeared in International Art Fair and the Vancouver Film Centre, Canadian Art, Fillip , and Matador. He lives in Vancouver, BC. and has been published in Canadian Art, The Globe & Mail, and Doppleganger Magazine. In 2007, he collaborated with SHARLA SAVA received her doctorate from Simon Fraser Christopher Brays haw, Adam Harrison, and Evan Lee on a University's School of Communication. She has lectured, year-long on line photography project entitled "Four." curated exhibitions, and published a variety of articles about art after modernism, discussing the works of Ray MICHAEL TURNER's fiction includes Hard Core Logo, The Johnson, Jeff Wall, Antonia Hirsch, and Damian Moppett, Pornographer's Poem and 8x10. Most recently he contributed among others. She has taught art history, visual culture, an essay, "Expanded Literary Practices, 1954-1969" to the and media studies, and is c urrently on faculty at Capil ano anthology Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. University. The conversation about North Vancouver culture was coordinated by Sharla. lAN WALLACE is a Vancouver artist who spent his youth on the North Shore. Since the mid-1960s, his significant JEREMY SHAW is a Berlin-based Vancouver artist who contributions to international contemporary art have been grew up in Deep Cove and graudated from Emily Carr widely recognized. The subject of many ex hibitions and University. His solo exhibitions include the Museum of publications, he recently had three linked survey exhibitions Contemporary Canadian A.rt, Toronto; Cherry and Martin, at the Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Kunsthalle Los Angeles; Blanket Gallery, Vancouver; and Galaria

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