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Etown Top 30: #2, Folk Fest
(This Top 30 comes to you courtesy of Edmonton Winter. It’s a list of things that keep me here despite weather like, well, like the royal blizzarding we’ve had this week. Today’s item is a true summer gem: The Edmonton Folk Music Festival.) I lived in Edmonton for almost a decade before I ventured to […]
Top 30 things I love about Edmonton
See, here’s the thing. I do not like winter. It does not agree with me. It depresses me, it makes me cold and cranky and ornery and sad. So why do I reside in a city that is occupied by winter for a minimum of five months each year? And not just mild winter; HARSH […]
Let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic
More Orange Flowers For Jack, acrylic on canvas, Laurie MacFayden 2011 Orange Flowers, acrylic on canvas, 20×24, Laurie MacFayden 2011
Wet Your Eyes
The Poetry of Water Consider what water represents to you – symbolically, elementally, metaphorically – when viewing The Poetry of Water, a solo exhibition of 24 of my paintings currently on display at the Kaasa Gallery, lower level of Edmonton’s Jubilee Auditorium. Water refreshes. It has the power to calm us, cleanse us, mesmerize us […]
God loves a parade, and pool parties, and rainbows and revolution, baby
Busy, busy weekend ahead! I’m now involved with the board of Exposure, Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival, and will be helping staff the Exposure booth at Churchill Square tomorrow afternoon following the annual Pride parade. (The parade has a new route this year, btw – along 102 Avenue instead of Jasper, and starts at […]
A Goldie Opportunity
White Shirt has been shortlisted for another literary award. Last month my debut poetry book was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Today I received an email from the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS), informing me that the book is also a finalist for the “Goldies” in the lesbian poetry category. The GCLS […]
The Gospel according to Kandinsky
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to walk about into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? The more frightening the world becomes … the more art becomes abstract. Of all the […]