Sook Yin Lee, Motion, Sheila Heti

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY PRESENTS
AN EVENING OF POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES FEATURING
Sook Yin Lee, Motion, Sheila Heti

Wednesday, 21 January, 7pm

AGYU, N145 Ross Building
4700 Keele Street

For further information please contact Allyson Adley, 416.736.5169, aadley@yorku.ca.

Sook-Yin Lee is widely known throughout Canada as a gifted musician, actor, filmmaker, television host, and producer. She first garnered national attention as the lead singer of the influential Vancouver alternative band Bob's Your Uncle. She subsequently released several solo albums, performed in a wide range of theatre, film and television projects, and in 1995 became a VJ for national music video network MuchMusic. Since leaving MuchMusic, Sook Yin Lee has appeared in the film version of the stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and as the romantic lead in the Canadian Film Centre-produced feature The Art of Woo.

Wendy Braithwaite (Motion), is a Spoken Word poet and Hip Hop artist in Canada as well as an ambassador for literacy. Her poetry is intended to move and inspire and equally spawn a new interest in reading for youth who share her passion for Hip Hop. She has released two singles and a vinyl EP and has been published extensively on C.D. anthologies. Motion's journey includes being a radio host and educator.

Sheila Heti writes regularly about the visual arts and is working on a musical with Dan Bejar (Destroyer) for Nightwood Theatre. She lives in Toronto where she runs Trampoline Hall, a monthly lecture series at the Cameron House. She
won the 2003 K. M. Hunter Arts Award for Literature. The Middle Stories is her first book. It has been translated into German, Spanish, French and Dutch, and is published by McSweeney's in the United States.