Spoken

Nea Reid
NEA REID is the curator of the inter art video exhibitions, Spoken, Is Love Enough, Something on the Side, Expanding Insight, and several solo exhibitions including Rion: D.O.P Retrospective, Grace Channer,and Performance for Order.
A multidisciplinary artist, director and producer, Reid has participated in various national and international exhibitions, productions, and site specific performances. Awards include CCTA Galaxy Award, MMVA, World Shorts, The CBC “Reel Black Award”. In 2011, she was nominated for a Hamilton Arts Awards for “Emerging Performance Artist.

Aaron Enwright – Curatorial Intern/Technical Assistant
AARON ENWRIGHT is an emerging producer/director, a new member of the Factory and a recent arrival to Hamilton. An innovative creator, Aaron’s work has a certain raw quality that lends his productions a unique cinematic flare. With a broadcast distribution deal under his belt and two videos in rotation on Much Music, he is living the promise of his pseudonym “Always Entertaining”. Aaron is currently working on his own variety entertainment show.

The Burlingon SLAM Project
The Burlington Slam Project holds a monthly poetry slam in Burlington, Ontario; 3rd Thursday of every month, always a different feature artist; never the same show twice.
The Burlington Slam Project (BSP) is helping youth, and the young at heart, discover their voices, share their stories and is working to make art entertaining and accessible for the general public. The series has been running for over three years in the city of Burlington, ON, and continues to gain momentum largely off the gumption of its core supporters and the simple laws of attraction. BSP’s supporters and participants come from diverse backgrounds and find commonality in the expression of the written word and the nuance of competitive performance. While the competition is judged by the audience; the points and prizes are only a small source of the motivation for the intrigue that a poetry slam inspires.
Each year the BSP develops a team from their monthly slams, to compete at nationals – Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. This National competition brings the best and brightest from each community together once a year to test their wits and word-wizardry; Burlington has been represented for the last 3 years, and placed in the top 5 each time.