Poetry Reading & Performance with Ann Shin + Riddle Fence

FREE ADMISSION

Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive, St. John’s, NL

Poetry readings by both Riddle Fence artists and Ann Shin, accompanied by a screening of Shin’s short film Family China, followed by a short performance piece inspired by the film. There will also be new work by Jillian Murphy in the Rogue Gallery.

Ann Shin is a multiple Gemini nominee and award-winning filmmaker and new media producer whose projects have screened and won awards at festivals including: the San Francisco Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), SXSW, New York Festivals. Ann is the Executive Producer for Fathom Film Group, and has produced and directed programs and series for CBC, Discovery Channel, HGTV, History Channel, W Network, PBS, and Fine Living Network. Her film credits include “The Defector: Escape from North Korea,” Gemini nominee for Best Performance Doc, Four Seasons Mosaic (CBC), Chris Award-winning The Roswell Incident, Planet in Focus Film Festival winning Cow vs. Clown and National Film Board Reel Diversity winner Western Eyes.

Shin’s writing has been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and the US, including Crossroads Cant, Broken Jaw Press On a Bed of Rice, Anchor Books, and Geography of Encounters, Rowman and Little Press and IV Lounge Reader, Insomniac Press, and The Last Thing Standing, by Mansfield Press. Her latest book of poetry, The Family China was published in 2013, by Brick Books and has won the Anne Green Award for innovation in story and narrative form. Some of the poems from the book were produced for broadcast on the CBC Radio One program ‘Living Out Loud’.

Riddle Fence is a Newfoundland and Labrador-based journal of arts and culture, published three times a year. It’s a flashy vehicle for fast-paced literature from Newfoundland, across Canada and around the world. At Riddle Fence unearths the best contemporary writing and art, publishing poetry, fiction, fakelore and nonfiction alongside contemporary art. In its first four years, the magazine won national acclaim and become a hip place to be seen between the covers.

For more information, please visit www.womensfilmfestival.com/scene-heard/