Novelist, publisher of  Brick, a Literary Journal and author of  Consolation, a novel published in 2006, in which he intertwines the stories of two Torontonians, J.G. Hallam a photographer who took a famous, lost set of photographs of the burgeoning city in 1856, and David Hollis who a century later sets out to find them. As theContinue Reading

Algonquin playwright and artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts between 2003 & 2011. The toughest thing about Toronto for me is — to quote a character in a piece I wrote for Diaspora Dialogues, “We live on a lake. We Live On A LAKE!” This is the thing for me, people don’t even knowContinue Reading

The artist speaking about her video installation Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2009). These notes were taken by Susan Crean; quotations are from the text of the installation’s voiceover.  (PDF, 106kb) is available from verafrenkel.com.  Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive is about the city and its haunting dilemma. A cityContinue Reading