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October 21 – 31, 2009

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The Peep Show: Licensed Event

Friday, October 23, 10:00pm
| Brigantine Room
Peep Show
2009-10-23 22:00
2009-10-23 23:30

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The internet is a non-stop broadcast, and the star of the show is YOU.
Toronto writer, culture commentator, editor and self-styled pontificator on Peep Culture Hal Niedzviecki explores this recent phenomenon in his book The Peep Diaries: How we’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and our Neighbors.

Join Niedzviecki as he plays ringmaster at the IFOA Peep Show! Part of the IFOA XXX celebration, The Peep Show looks at the past, present and future of the Festival and engages its audience (that’s YOU) in a live, interactive online event. Dani Couture, Jennifer Cowan and Lauren Kirshner join Niedzviecki onstage to talk “Peep”. Further authors from IFOA past join the event via the magic of the world-wide-web.

Bring:
□ your smartphone to take part in the interactive element of this event
□ your dancing shoes. There’s going to be live music from FOXFIRE after the onstage talky part is done.

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Dani Couture

Dani Couture is a poet and fiction writer, whose work has been published in a number of anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers across Canada, including THIS Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and Fiddlehead. She is currently at work on a novel and has a forthcoming collection of poetry, Sweet, which will be published in 2010. Couture presents her first book of poetry, Good Meat, a collection of mostly observational poems that revolve around food, or, more specifically, the varied and complex relationships we have with the things we eat.
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Jennifer Cowan

Jennifer Cowan’s television credits include multiple scripts for CBC FoxKids teen soap Edgemont and the Global/Disney tween dramedy Ready or Not. earthgirl, her first book, follows the eco-evolution of 16-year-old Sabine Solomon, who finds herself at the centre of a heated debate when a cell-phone video of her doing battle with a man littering is posted to YouTube. Peppered with the hottest eco-relevant urls on the net and supported by a blog at sabinetheearthgirl.wordpress.com, earthgirl is both a love story and green manifesto for today’s teens.
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Lauren Kirshner

Lauren Kirshner’s fiction, poetry and journalism have appeared in Exile, NOW Magazine and The Hart House Review, among others. In her sassy first novel, Where We Have to Go, Kirshner tells the story of the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams. Set in Toronto throughout the 1990s, Where We Have to Go follows the coming of age of the irresistible Lucy Bloom.
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Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine, and has published numerous works of social commentary and fiction, including Hello I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. In The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, Niedzviecki explores “Peep Culture,” the modern tell-all, show-all, know-all phenomenon that is dramatically altering our notions of privacy, individuality and humanity.
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