ART & PERFORMANCE at SWAMP FEST:
Presented by Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre

Swamp Fest is working with Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre for the second year running, to present multidisciplinary Arts programming on Willow Island and all around the festival!  Be sure to look for these exciting art works and performances at Swamp Fest 2019! 

Sean Dunham
Willow Island Host - Saturday 

Sean Dunham is a podcaster, performer and wig enthusiast from Regina, Sk.

FadaDance Troupe:
Trails

​“A pathway is a physical attempt of making sense of the world. Although there are infinite ways to cross a landscape, a path reduces the chaos of choice to one intelligible line. Trails emerge through use and endure because they are useful. They persist because they connect one mode of desire to another. Trails exist because they express and fulfill a collective desire. When the desire is no more so too will the trail fade.” -Robert Moor

FadaDance was born on the dance floor in 2002. Heather Cameron, Fran Gilboy, and Misty Wensel came together through a shared desire to create a dance community rooted in dance floor culture. Responsive and collaborative, FadaDance embraced the unexpected as they moved away from classical performance etiquette, and towards a new form of prairie dance. By presenting contemporary dance in alternative spaces and unconventional work in traditional performance venues, FadaDance Troupe is making dance accessible to a broad audience. This relationship to the audience exists in work that both invites and involves the viewer, breaking down barriers and conjuring excitement about the discipline.

fadadance.ca

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Allan Dotson
Monster Map

Join in mapping swamp monster sightings. Track your cryptozoological findings on emergent collaborative maps, hidden around the island in separate locations for your safety.

Allan Dotson is a Regina-based artist, educator, and self-publisher. Allan has self-published a fantasy graphic novel, an ongoing webcomic, and several storytelling game books. Allan teaches STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) at Prairie Sky School in Regina, and teaches comics creation and game design at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Center. He has also created child-friendly spaces and interactive fantasy game experiences for many local galleries, libraries, festivals, summer camps, and as part of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building's 100th anniversary artist in residence program.

Allan's comics and games are online at critters.webcomic.ws, and maycontainmonkeys.tumblr.com.

The Swamp Swarm 
Interruptions and Interludes

Image Credit: Simon Fuh

Created + Conceived by Kris Alvarez and Judy Wensel in collaboration with Lazlo Paradis, Iris James, Zoe James, Suki Kembel, Rosco Kembel and others!

The Swamp Swarm is back for Swamp Fest 2019 and this time they are bringing friends. The Swarm will once again rise from the green waters of Wascana, joining their friends of the plant, animal, element and human kind! Together they’ll reveal what mere festival going mortals cannot see, fear or interpret. They’ll lead you to secret island crevices and chasms - real and imagined! They’ll surprise and delight you with merry tricks and quirks! Take them by their swampy paws… ultimate adventure and wild abandon await!

Judy Wensel is a director, creator, performer and educator whose work emphasizes connection to place and community. She has conceived and directed numerous interdisciplinary creation-works and community art initiatives with organizations including Fada Dance, Globe Theatre, Swamp Fest, Wolf Willow Band, Cathedral Village Arts Festival, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Dunlop Art Gallery and as an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors Theatre. Her directing work includes productions of contemporary Canadian work, ensemble-based devised creations, dramaturgy and new play premieres. As an educator she has worked the Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society, the Canadian Improv Games, Globe Theatre School and Listen to Dis' Community Arts. Judy is a graduate of the Directing program at National Theatre School of Canada.

Kris Alvarez is a theatre artist + Regina monologue. Kris creates with all ages (Globe Theatre School, Fadadance, Artesian). Kris recently completed a residency with Common Weal Community Arts’ program Respond to Racism. Kris is passionate about Curtain Razors: as performer (Bad Blood, Carmen Angel) and as Artistic Associate. Her project What Kind of Brown Are You?, inspired by ‘growing up brown’ in 1980s Regina, in its current instalment, Burnt Sienna with Kris Alvarez, was presented by Curtain Razors’ Moveable Feast 2018-19 series and continues in 2019-20.

Ghost House Studio
Friday - German Club

Inspired by early light art, 1960’s psychedelic light shows, and multi-sensory environments, Lindsey Rewuski (aka Ghost House) explores the physical process of creating analogue visuals in real-time. Her projections incorporate liquids, glass, organic materials, chemicals, textiles, and other found or created objects into live performances that are projected onto screens and stages. The movement and composition of her visuals are both inspired by and contribute to the experience of interacting with music and sound.

Lindsey Rewuski is a multi-media artist and graphic designer who produces work under the name Ghost House. She is based in Saskatoon, SK, and has projected light on stages, festivals and art venues across Western Canada. Find more of her work on Instagram at @ghosthousestudio.

Mooky
Willow Island Host - Sunday

Mooky was a co creator and principal clown of Cirque du Soleil’s, very successful show Varekai. She delighted crowds with her unique brand of slapstick in over 1000 shows throughout North America and Europe including Cirque du Soleil’s debut in Russia.

She has graced some of the World’s most illustrious stages, including London’s, Royal Albert Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Union Square Theatre in New York, and the Bobino in Paris. She has participated with Just for Laughs Festival, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Cape Town Comedy Festival and more. She has charmed Gorbachev, Liza Maneli and even received a kiss from Desmond Tutu.
Cirque du Soleil’s television venture, Solstrum, featured Mooky as principle role in two episodes. The series aired on BRAVO and CBC television as well as being broadcast in Europe, Asia and South America. Audiences worldwide have seen her performance on the Varekai DVD and online.
A gifted instructor, Mooky is invited to direct and teach workshops in many countries. She taught at Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, in California, led social circus workshops for Cirque du Monde and Clowns Without Borders and was a featured speaker at IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education) conference in Norway where she performed for the Queen.
A master of physical comedy, puppetry, piano and performance, Mooky is one of the funniest ladies working the international circuit today.

The General Store
Swamp Forage

Photo Credit: Diane + Mike Photography

The General Store is: Lane Shordee & Nikki Martens

Come on down to the General Store, we’ll swap you a coffee for your best joke, doo-hickey, or cosmic wisdom! The only store to trade in all 8 forms of capital ~ material, intellectual, living, spiritual, financial, social, experiential, and cultural ~ we are sure to have something you need, and need something you have! Bring your best offerings and we’ll bring ours.**NO GUARANTEES*EVERYTHING IS UNCERTAIN**

Lane Shordee and Nikki Martens are a creative duo investigating urban sustainability, ecology, and the economy via performance & installation. Lane and Nikki both work and live in Calgary, Alberta.

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Lane Shordee (b. 1979, lives and works in Calgary) creates work that has strong ties to urban ecology and recycling, utilizing techniques that combine a variety of materials in various installations. Harvesting the alleyways has become a central part of Shordee’s process, actively demonstrating the trope “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. Shordee uses these cultural artifacts as a way to tell stories about the past while acknowledging our present concerns about the environment and society at large.

Nikki Martens (b. 1984, lives and works in Calgary) Nikki Martens is an artist/horticulturist/educator, with a focus on art as a way of knowing. She creates sensation-based learning experiences for groups of various demographics. The local environment is a crucial component to these learning experiences, and she uses art and horticulture as a way to connect people to their it, inviting individuals to shape the way they learn

laneshordee.com/the-general-store

Margo Henry & David Hoffos
Two Roadies
Saturday - Sound Stage 

Margo Henry & David Hoffos borrow inspiration from a range of cultural phenomena including stage magic, theme parks, genre movies, and self-help books. From a mixed bag of found and invented technologies, Margo and David conjure an eerie world of illusion while simultaneously exposing its artifice. Much of thier installation work presents a blend of sculptural diorama and do-it-yourself cinema. Although his uncanny effects often provoke a sense of wonder-or even terror-in the viewer, his true subjects are the collective modern conditions of melancholy and anxiety.

Since 1992 Margo Henry & David Hoffos have maintained a full-time practice – with over 50 group shows, dozens of school and community collaborations, a few works for the stage and 40 solo exhibitions including a recent survey at the National Gallery of Canada. They have received awards including the Images Grand Prize, 2007, and a Sobey Art Award (2nd prize), 2002. Margo and David have recently re-located to Fort Macleod, Alberta, where they are modifying a defunct Kingdom Hall into their new studio, home and artist-run road-side museum, opening Fall 2019.

Scummy Magic 
all venues - all weekend

Image Credit: Carey Shaw

Scummy Magic is a mobile sticker dispensary/gallery that aims to promote affordable adhesive art at community-minded events in the form of retro vending-machine nostalgia. Dispensing locally designed stickers, hand-made zines, limited edition screen prints, DIY life advice and whimsy, Scummy Magic is a design collusion that exists in the most unexpected of spaces, where weirdo pop culture visuals meet street art.

Scummy Magic, a Saskatoon-based sticker art dispensary project, is a collaborative project and co-curated art gallery between Joanna Graves and Chris Morin. Having been involved in a number of festivals and events across Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including Nuit Blanche, Big Fun Festival, Swamp Fest and CFCR FM-Phasis, Graves and Morin aim to bring whimsy via pop-up art pieces amidst larger shows and markets. Actively seeking collaborations with a number of featured artists, Scummy Magic is a dispensary of take-home art pieces that are accessible to anyone with a spare dollar.

cargocollective.com/chrixmorix/Scummy-Magic
facebook.com/scummymagic/