Heather Haley

Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines and media as a poet, author, performer and director. She wrote and produced her first videopoem-which she defines as wedding of word and image- Dying for the Pleasure-in 2003. It premiered at Pacific Cinémathèque and subsequently screened at the International ArtExpo in Milan, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kalingrad and the Gene Siskal Film Centre/Chicago Art Institute. 2006’s Purple Lipstick has garnered kudos internationally, having been selected by having been selected by VideoBardo 2nd International VideoPoetry Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 3rd Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and the Women in Film Festival in Vancouver where she appeared on a panel to discuss the hybrid genre. Purple Lipstick also screened at Commfest, Wildsound, Female Eye in Toronto, Northwest Projections and Reel to Real in Seattle. Selected as well by the Vibgyor Short and Documentary Film Festival in Kerala, India, FemFest in Zagreb, Pause & Play International Film Festival-United Arab Emirates, Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams in Celje, Slovenia, and the NoBudget Film & Video Festival in Heilbronn, Germany, Festival Miden, Kelemata, Greece and the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Germany from 2000 entries. Haley’s life has shifted modes through the years, from performing in the post-punk underground and spoken word scenes to writing and childrearing. She hosts and curates SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse, North America’s sustaining venue for artistically significant poetry film and video, while developing her own works in myriad media. — Heather Haley POET SINGER AUTHOR MEDIA ARTIST • ONLINE: http://www.heatherhaley.com • ON PAPER: “Sideways” and the forthcoming “Sky Busting” • ON DISC: “Princess Nut ” by AURAL HEATHER, spring 2008 • ON SCREEN: videopoems “Dying for the Pleasure “and “Purple Lipstick” • ON STAGE: “Unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word.”-ZULA Presents