Authors & Headliners

Poet, arts educator, and interdisciplinarian Angela Rawlings (a.rawlings) has presented and published work throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Her first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), received an Alcuin Award for Design and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; the book is currently being translated into French.

As the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, angela spent 2009 and 2010 in Belgium, Canada, and Iceland working on her next manuscripts, researching sound/text/movement with special emphasis on vocal and contact improvisation, and collaborating with local artists. angela’s current collaborators are experiential theatre company bluemouth inc., Belgian artist Maja Jantar, Canadian musician Nilan Perera, and Canadian dancer Julie Lassonde.

More at http://cwip.artmob.ca/contributors/arawlings

a.rawlings will take part in synesthesia: unframed, unbound(ed), The Poetry Party and the Festival’s School Program.