FRIDAY, MAY 26   

7:30  Registration  
8:00  Opening remarks: Elizabeth MacKenzie and Martha Townsend  
          Reception/Cash Bar  

SATURDAY, MAY 27   

Each presentation will take approximately 30 minutes and will be followed by a discussion period.  

10:00 Registration  
10:30  Aganetha Dyck: Merging of Changes   
11:30  Jin-me Yoon: Staging self as (m)other   
12:30  Catered lunch  
  2:00  Barbara Todd: The child is artist to the mother  
  3:00  Ruth Cuthand: I wash poop: Household hints for easy living   
  5:30  Cash bar Bridgeport Hall  
  6:00  Catered dinner  
  8:00  Looking for Trouble:Tapes by Unruly Mothers   
            Muriel Richardson Auditorium  
            Curated by Elizabeth MacKenzie and Laurel Swenson  

SUNDAY, MAY 28   

10:00  Coffee and pastry  
10:30  Louise May: First Person Plural a lecture by Louise W.   
          and Zona H. May   
11:30  Leslie Reid: After-image   
12:30  Catered brunch  
  1:30  Plenary Session and Closing Remarks  

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VIDEO LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: TAPES BY UNRULY MOTHERS  

Saturday, May 27, 8 pm  
Muriel Richardson Auditorium  
Winnipeg Art Gallery  
Curated by Elizabeth MacKenzieand Laurel Swenson  

The tapes we've included in this program disrupt ideas of the mother as she exists in Western popular culture and challenge these notions as they exist in our own psyches. We interrogate ideas that limit what we can do and think as mothers. We tear myths about mothers apart.    

Marian Butler (Winnipeg)  
Beneath the Earth, 1998.   
Following the birth of her daughter, the artist addresses her fears and anxiety as a parent with a new-found sense of mortality.  

Mary Cross (Guelph)   
Supercat, 1998   
A mother's ode to her young daughter and the girl she once was, focusing on the loss and gain of belief in self, and in magical transformation.  

Catherine Elwes (England)  
Postcard, 1986   
A despairing message from a mother to her mother, over top of an infant's ritual protest while being dressed.    

Gunfighters, 1985    
A mother explores the effects of fear, fighting and fantasy violence as two young boys stage a mock gunfight.  

There is a Myth, 1984   
The image of a mother¹s breast milking under the rough caress of an infant's hand combines with references to mourning, playfulness, a devouring lust and castration anxieties.  

Caroline Langill (Toronto)  
Nora, 1997   
This tape works against pervasive representations of motherhood by linking the bodily specifics of nursing to a relationship of eroticism and pleasure.  

Angel in the House, 1998   
An experimental narration in which a mother describes how powerfully her child's moods affect her. The mother/child bond is not always a joy.  

Elizabeth MacKenzie (Vancouver)  
Up and Down She Goes, 1998    
A mother¹s meditation on child rearing and her feelings of anxiety, loss and joy.  

Me First, 1999   
The maternal themes of renunciation and self-denial are taken up and ultimately rejected as they play out over top of the endless cycle of caring for a baby.  

Laurel Swenson (Vancouver)   
Your Mother Wears Combat Boots, 1996  
Guess what? Dykes have kids. But it¹s not only coupled professionals who are popping them out. In this video abunch of moms tell you what it is like for them to be queer single parents in a realm where kids are not expected.    

Mother Fuckers, 1995   
A queer mother questions the occurrence of too many girlfriends who romanticize motherhood and family within relationships and rants about their lack of consideration for the children they invariably affect.    

Marking the Mother, 1999   
Tattoos are okay in Rolling Stone, but we don't expect to see them in the pages of Good Parenting. This video is about tattooed mothers who resist societal expectations of what a good mother is supposed to be like. 

Terra Poirier (Vancouver) 
1-800-Yer Mama, 1998  
An embittered rant on the fetishizing of dyke moms and their kids.