Meet the Artists of Halls Island, 2021
Though 2021 was a challenging year for everyone, Halls Island was able to host a full slate of talented artists.
Halls Island Artist Residency 2021 Artists
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Painted Girls became a #1 National Bestseller in Canada ……
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Beverley Cooper
Writer, dramaturge, and teacher Beverley Cooper has written for TV, film and extensively for CBC radio drama. Plays include …….
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Sandra Bouza
R&B/pop singer Sandra Bouza has a lot to offer through her music and life experience. The Toronto native who has lived, studied or worked all over the world, lets her stories breathe in songs that are deeply personal. ……
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Melodie Acero
Melodie Acero was born and raised in Haliburton, where she loved building fern forts and making arts & crafts ……
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Alyssa Graybeal
Alyssa Graybeal is a writer/cartoonist whose first prose book, Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World, won the 2020 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award and will be released spring 2023.…….
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Lindsay Hobbs
Lindsay Hobbs is a writer and storyteller whose work encompasses fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and at times stirs them all together with a sprinkle of myth and a dash of humour. …….
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Alicia Nauta
Alicia Nauta is a Toronto based artist. She makes screenprinted posters, prints, wallpaper, installations, books, printed textiles and other multiples……..
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The River Pilots
Carlie Howell, Todd Porter and Tanya Porter make up The River Pilots. The River Pilots is an acoustic instrumental trio that has been co-creating together for 13 years. Our original compositions are informed through improvisation, inspired by the natural world, and grounded in the variety of musical traditions we have collectively studied.
Cheyenne Scott
Cheyenne Scott is Straits Salish of the Saanich Nation/Norwegian settler descent and an actor, playwright, and emerging creative producer with a focus on new works
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Marilla Wex
Marilla Wex got her first big laugh at the age of four playing the Blessed Virgin Mary in her junior kindergarten nativity play. It was a major embarrassment for her parents and a destiny-defining moment of unalloyed glory for her as a comedian.
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