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The Doubt Project My series “Doubt” came from a recognition that women are not safe. The paintings are of women who are ambiguously captured in a moment. I recognized how common the theme of “Doubt“ is prevalent in the lives of women in the world: Doubt they are being treated poorly, doubt they know how to help themselves, doubt they can leave a situation, doubt is deeply rooted and pulls people back into situations that are not healthy. Doubt holds women who are in precarious situations. I am sourcing my own past, family history, and narratives from numerous women I know and support. While there are privileges of being a woman in Canada, we need to continue to instill safety for all woman. There are intersections between being a woman as well as being a woman of colour. Providing a space for people to speak openly and to allow multiple voices to be invited into the discussion are major factors on my work. I invited writers to respond to the work. The writers range from poets to academic writers as well includes allies, women of a variety of backgrounds and trans writers from across Canada. This aspect involves a focus on accessibility for people to share their perspectives through my personal platform to publish, curate and encourage social engagement practices. This series is incredibly relevant to the unstable ground that women stand on socially, regionally and politically. It is a world social issue. |
Daughter/Mother- Acrylic on Paper 2022
Writers from across Canada were invited to respond to the series and the theme of Doubt for a Book Project. This part of the project is in progress :)
Writer Biographies
Bonnie Nish Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. Bonnie has been widely published worldwide in such places as The Ottawa Arts Review, The Danforth Review, Haunted Waters Press, Illness Crisis & Loss Journal Volume 24 and The Blue Print Review. Bonnie’s first book of poetry ‘Love and Bones ’ was released by Karma Press in 2013. Bonnie has a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Language and Literacy Education at UBC. Her next book “Concussion and Mild TBI: Not Just Another Headline” an anthology of concussion related stories, was published by Lash and Associates in August 2016. Bonnie is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist with a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies from the Vancouver Expressive Arts Therapy School who has worked extensively with youth and adults in high-risk situations. She has conducted writing and expressive arts workshops for over 20 years across North America.
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, are the current Writer In Residence for Berton House (2023), were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021, and will be debuting their solo show "No one's special at the hot dog cart" in 2024 at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Dana Foley (she/her) is an avid writer and reader from Ottawa, Ontario. She received her B.A. English from Carleton University in 2021 with a concentration in creative writing. Her writing tends to blend memoir with fiction while focusing on female perspectives. Her short stories and poems have been published in Beyond Words Magazine, Montreal Writes, Coven Editions, and others. In August 2022 she was a writer-in-residence at Chateau Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France.
Holly Flauto’s fiction and creative memoir have been published in The Puritan, Joyland, and The Rusty Toque. She recently completed a manuscript of memoir-based poetry exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler. She works at Douglas College, and lives on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations.
RC Weslowski is an award-winning spoken word poet and radio broadcaster. He has featured at such distinguished events as the Nuyorican Café Poetry Slam, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Toronto Poetry Slam, The Art Bar Reading Series, Planet Poetry, The Poets Corner, The Otoba Poetry Slam, Song and Bird Reading Series, the Verses Festival of Words and now the Edmonton Poetry Festival. RC has led poetry “wordshops” with Word Travels Australia, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Tuscon Poetry Festival, The Victoria Spoken Word Festival and many more. RC’s first book of poetry, “My Soft Response to the Wars” is out on Write Bloody North Publishing. www.writebloodynorth.ca
Richa Dwor is a Victorianist with a specialization in Anglo-Jewish literature and culture. In my work on Jewish women’s writing, I have argued that the authors Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889) drew on Jewish approaches to reading with feeling in their own novels, poetry, and criticism. Aspects of this research have appeared in the journals Literature and Theology, Partial Answers, English Literature in Transition, and Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, as well as two entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (on Charlotte Montefiore and Judith Montefiore). I have written a book, Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women’s Writing (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), which reads Aguilar and Levy alongside the canonical Victorian authors George Eliot and Henry James. My current research focuses on transatlantic Jewish networks facilitated by private correspondence, trade, and the periodical press.
I am an Instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, Canada. Before coming to Douglas, I was Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Wilhelmina Salmi (b. 1978) is a writer and art-based performer living and working in Vancouver BC. Her writing has appeared in Quills Magazine. She has performed at Verses Festival, Mashed Poetics, and Summer Dreams Literary Festival and has featured both locally and internationally.
Writer Biographies
Bonnie Nish Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. Bonnie has been widely published worldwide in such places as The Ottawa Arts Review, The Danforth Review, Haunted Waters Press, Illness Crisis & Loss Journal Volume 24 and The Blue Print Review. Bonnie’s first book of poetry ‘Love and Bones ’ was released by Karma Press in 2013. Bonnie has a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Language and Literacy Education at UBC. Her next book “Concussion and Mild TBI: Not Just Another Headline” an anthology of concussion related stories, was published by Lash and Associates in August 2016. Bonnie is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist with a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies from the Vancouver Expressive Arts Therapy School who has worked extensively with youth and adults in high-risk situations. She has conducted writing and expressive arts workshops for over 20 years across North America.
Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022. They have been featured on the CBC's Q, are the current Writer In Residence for Berton House (2023), were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021, and will be debuting their solo show "No one's special at the hot dog cart" in 2024 at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Dana Foley (she/her) is an avid writer and reader from Ottawa, Ontario. She received her B.A. English from Carleton University in 2021 with a concentration in creative writing. Her writing tends to blend memoir with fiction while focusing on female perspectives. Her short stories and poems have been published in Beyond Words Magazine, Montreal Writes, Coven Editions, and others. In August 2022 she was a writer-in-residence at Chateau Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France.
Holly Flauto’s fiction and creative memoir have been published in The Puritan, Joyland, and The Rusty Toque. She recently completed a manuscript of memoir-based poetry exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler. She works at Douglas College, and lives on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations.
RC Weslowski is an award-winning spoken word poet and radio broadcaster. He has featured at such distinguished events as the Nuyorican Café Poetry Slam, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Toronto Poetry Slam, The Art Bar Reading Series, Planet Poetry, The Poets Corner, The Otoba Poetry Slam, Song and Bird Reading Series, the Verses Festival of Words and now the Edmonton Poetry Festival. RC has led poetry “wordshops” with Word Travels Australia, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Tuscon Poetry Festival, The Victoria Spoken Word Festival and many more. RC’s first book of poetry, “My Soft Response to the Wars” is out on Write Bloody North Publishing. www.writebloodynorth.ca
Richa Dwor is a Victorianist with a specialization in Anglo-Jewish literature and culture. In my work on Jewish women’s writing, I have argued that the authors Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889) drew on Jewish approaches to reading with feeling in their own novels, poetry, and criticism. Aspects of this research have appeared in the journals Literature and Theology, Partial Answers, English Literature in Transition, and Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, as well as two entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (on Charlotte Montefiore and Judith Montefiore). I have written a book, Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women’s Writing (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), which reads Aguilar and Levy alongside the canonical Victorian authors George Eliot and Henry James. My current research focuses on transatlantic Jewish networks facilitated by private correspondence, trade, and the periodical press.
I am an Instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, Canada. Before coming to Douglas, I was Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Wilhelmina Salmi (b. 1978) is a writer and art-based performer living and working in Vancouver BC. Her writing has appeared in Quills Magazine. She has performed at Verses Festival, Mashed Poetics, and Summer Dreams Literary Festival and has featured both locally and internationally.
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