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2023 CBC Poetry Prize Longlist
Lana Kouchnir featured in the CBC and named a longlisted finalist for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize.
The League of Canadian Poets - Feature in Poetry Pause
Odesa Caviar featured in Poetry Pause: Spoken Word Saturday Series Newsletter
Lana Kouchnir - Odesa Caviar: A Lyrical Poem ft. Alysha Brilla, Kinnie Starr, Lucius Dechausay
A CBC Arts - Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals initiative creation.
Amid a summer homeland visit, a queer connection jolts a young Ukrainian immigrant woman into confronting her self-surveillance instincts.
Concept, Collage, Poem, Performance: Lana Kouchnir
Musical Composition, Sound Design and Mix: Alysha Brilla
Illustration: Kinnie Starr
Animation: Lucius Dechausay
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Fringe Toronto: Theatre Entrepreneurs' Network and Training
I've been selected to participate in Fringe Toronto's Theatre Entrepreneurs' Network and Training, a 10-day production skills training program from July 5-16, 2017!
Theatre Creators' Reserve Grant
I've been awarded a 2016-2017 Theatre Creators' Reserve Grant from the Ontario Arts Council! An enormous thank you to the OAC and Mixed Company Theatre for the recommendation!
Vovk to be featured at 2017 Undercurrents Ottawa Theatre Festival
Vovk will be featured as an excerpted work-in-progress in the 2017 Undercurrents Ottawa Theatre Festival as part of the Late Night Series.
Synopsis:
Vovk (“wolf” in Ukrainian) is an award-winning coming-of-age queer femme wolf tale that follows Sasha, an immigrant Ukrainian girl-woman, as she crosses the violence of becoming a modern witch. While in recovery from writer’s block at a retreat, Sasha journeys toward herself with guidance from matrilineal ancestors and a newly befriended elder.
Vovk was originally developed in the 2015-2016 Watah Theatre Transdisciplinary Artist Residency Program under the mentorship and dramaturgy of d'bi.young anitafrika.
A work-in-progress one-woman play.
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, February 9 at 10:30pm
FRIDAY, February 10 at 10:30pm
SATURDAY, February 11 at 10:30pm
Arts Court Studio
Photographer: Paul Ohonsi
2017 Watah Theatre Outstanding Performance Award
Lana recently graduated from the 2015-2016 Transdisciplinary Arts Residency at the Watah Theatre; she was a recipient of the Watah Theatre's Outstanding Perfomance Award for Vovk, the first draft workshop presentation of her one-woman play created under the guidance and dramaturgy of d'bi. young anitafrika.
Photographer: Anique J. Jordan
Sorplusi Institute Press celebrates another book launch!
Find photos of Lana Kouchnir in
Chimurenga: Watah Theatre Inaugural Season (photo book)
A photo documentation of The Watah Theatre's Inaugural year of 2014-2015. Chimurenga features over 30 Artists-in-Residence, guest lecturers, book launches, theatre presentations and an essay by d'bi.young anitafrika.
Photographers featured: Anique J. Jordan | Vero Diaz | Paul Ohonsi | Anthony Gebrehiwot | Sylvia Limbana
A special limited hard cover edition.
In Love and In Danger Conference
I'm excited to create a custom-designed poetry workshop to be presented to high school students at the fall 2015 In Love and In Danger Conference. ILID is a teen dating violence prevention program offered in partnership with Family Services Ottawa and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board.
The Power of Poetry: Creating an Anti-Violence Campaign on Teen Dating Violence and Social Media. October 29, 2015.
Lana K has been selected as an artist-in-residence in the 2015-2016 Transdisciplinary Arts Program at the Watah Theatre. The 9-month residency guides artists-in-residence in creating cross-genre performance works under the femmetership of d'bi.young Anitafrika.