Oana Avasilichioaei

CALENDAR

2025

January 14: Montreal
Reading and Conversation with Erín Moure on Huit pistes, Port de tête
January 24-28: Toronto
Rehearsals for Cells of Wind opera (libretto by Oana Avasilichioaei, music by Anna Höstman)
January 29: Kitchener
Concert performance of Cells of Wind opera, The Registry Theatre
February 21: Gatineau
Performance from Huit pistes, Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
March 1: Montreal
Performance at Nuit Blanche, Nuit de la poésie, Place des Arts
March 12: Montreal
Performance from Chambersonic, Blue Metropolis/MRB Spring launch, Hotel 10
March 25: Ottawa
Performance from Chambersonic, VerseFest
April 11-13: Quebec City
Salon international du livre de Québec
April 11: Quebec City
Workshop and Performance, Rhizome/Morrin Centre
April 23: Montreal
Reading with Erín Moure and M. L. Martin, L’Eugéulionne

2024

February 15-29: Quebec City
Artist residency with Kaie Kellough, Rhizome
February 29: Quebec City
Reading with Annie Lafleur, Libraire Pantoute
March 24: Montreal
Reading and talk, Des poèmes venus du froid - Rencontres multilingues, Un livre à soi
April 30-May 6: Toronto
Artist residency at Le Labo
May 7: Toronto
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, The Chorus Duets, Alliance Française Toronto
May 9: Sudbury
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, The Chorus Duets, Salon du Livre du Grand Sudbury
May 29: Montreal
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, The Chorus Duets, Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Festival de poésie de Montréal
Sep 24: Berlin
Sound performance, alle meine türen und fenster stehen offen Poesie aus Québec, Haus für Poesie
Sep 28: Münster
Sound performance, Rhizome - Poesie aus Québec, Haus Rüschhaus
Oct 16: Vancouver
Sound performance and book launch, Talonbooks Fall 2024 Launch, Pyatt Hall
Nov 14: Montreal
Reading with Stephen Collis, Port de tête
Nov 18: Toronto
Reading with Stephen Collis, Toronto Metropolitan University
Nov 21: Montreal
Event Chambers: A Listening Session and Sound Performance with Klara du Plessis, OBORO
Nov 27: Montreal
Reading and launch of Huite pistes with Erín Moure, Le Noroît group launch, P'tit Ours

2023

February 10: Montreal
Choral Reading Le port de tête la nuit with Annie Lafleur, Renée Gagnon and Martine Audet
February 25: Houston
Bound and Oblique Theatre (filmpoems) screening at REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2023
April 14: Montreal
Sound performance, Pink Noise et Poésie with Cloud Circuit, Pigs&Wolves, Marilou Craft, La Sotterenea
May 27: Sherbrooke
Sound performance, Festival du texte courte, Sporobole
May 30: Montreal
Oblique Theatre (filmpoem) finalist for Prix des Rendez-vous poésie, Festival de la Poésie de Montréal, screening at Cinéma Moderne
May 30: Montreal
Launch of Aural Poetics, Librairie Résonance
June 21: Montreal
Solovox Reading with Jean-Marc Desgent, Pierre Ouellet, Louise Dupré and Guillaume Asselin, La Petite Marche
Aug 12: Toronto
Sound performance, Fertile23 Festival, Remote Gallery
November 25-26
International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine, YouTube
November 29: Quebec City
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, Morrin Centre
November 30: Chicoutimi
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, CEM
2023-2024
Rhizome Fellow with Kaie Kellough, Quebec City and Montreal

2022

May 5: Montreal
Panel discussion La poète et son double: praxis des voix, de l’atelier à la scène, with Annie Lafleur, Renée Gagnon and Martine Audet, UQUÀM
May 15: Montreal
Staying the Course, Veering off Track: A Literary Multimedia Performance, ACCUTE 2022, Alt Hotel
May 30: Montreal
Reading at launch of Esuaire, n'était-ce pas l'été bookstore
June 15 - 17: Wales
Collaborative sound performance with Zoë Skoulding, Poetry in Translatlantic Translation, Bangor University
July 4 - 9: Toronto
Opera Workshop of Cells of Wind, FAWN Chamber Creative
July 14 (virtual)
class visit, Oregon State University-Cascades
July 20: Vancouver + virtual
Soundings: Celebrating 50 Yeas of The Capilano Review
October 10: Montreal
Môn_Mesh_Tréal: A Sonopoetic Duo Performance with Zoë Skoulding
November 23: Montreal
Panel discussion: Writing Beyond the Mother Tongue, with Sherry Simon, Baharan Baniahmadi and Sylvain Neuvel, Salon du Livre de Montréal
November 30: Guadalajara
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, Chœur(s) (collaborative sound installation), Guadalajara International Book Fair
December 1: Guadalajara
Sound performance with Kaie Kellough, Chœur(s) (collaborative sound installation), Guadalajara International Book Fair

2021

January 26 (virtual)
Provocations: A Mise en Translation, Atwater Poetry Project and La poésie partout
February 10 (virtual)
class visit, Eastern Michigan University
February 11 (virtual)
sound performance, Eastern Michigan University
March 31 - April 14: Montreal
Constructing Chambersonic III, artist residence, OBORO
April 24 (virtual)
Reading with Kaie Kellough, Centre des arts de Stanstead
April 29 (virtual)
Host conversation with Gail Scott & Céleste Godin, Blue Metropolis Festival
May 13 - 16: Montreal, Place des Festivals
Carrefours poétiques installation, produced by ATSA and La poésie partout
May 24 (virtual)
sound performance, Words & Music Show (part of SpokenWeb symposium)
June 2 (virtual)
class visit, Concordia University
September 14: Montreal
Dehors est un poème, Parc Dante
September 23 (virtual)
BathHouse Journal launch
October 3 (virtual)
Guernica Editions group launch
October 8 - 22: Montreal
Carrefours poétiques installation, Espace 40e/Beaubien
October 27 - 30: Gatineau
Chœur(s) - en continu (collaborative sound installation), Festival des arts littéraires
October 23 - November 8: Montreal
Carrefours poétiques installation, Espace Boyer
November 8 - December 3: Montreal
Carrefours poétiques installation, Les fourchettes de l'espoir
December 1: Montreal/London UK
Performative hybrid event with Kaie Kellough & Caroline Bergvall, 4th Space, Concordia University

2020

January 27: New York
McNally Jackson, Edge Tracks performative reading w/ Moina Pam Dick)
February 19: Quebec City
RIDEAU OFFiciel, performance of Thresholds
February 19 & 20: Quebec City
Deuxièmes rencontres arts littéraires, Maison de la littérature de Québec
February 25: Tucson
class visit at University of Arizona, performance at Exploded View w/ Moina Pam Dick
March 30: Montreal
virtual class visit at Concordia University
April 29: Montreal/Toronto (virtual)
Atwater Poetry Project Online, performative reading w/ Margaret Christakos
June 1 to 7: Montreal (virtual)
Festival de la poésie de Montréal, broadcast of Langues Chorales
September 20 - October 12: Winnipeg (virtual)
ThinAir 2020 Winnipeg International Writers Festival
November 15, 1:30 pm: Ottawa (virtual)
VerseFest 2020, Translate This
November 22, 4:30 pm: Ottawa (virtual)
VerseFest 2020, Sunday Afternoon Special, video art performance
November 23, 8:30 pm: Montreal (virtual)
Celan 100, Atwater Poetry Project

2019

January 26: Toronto
knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, duo w/ Catherine Lalonde – info
March 1 and 2: Regina
Talking Fresh Festival, panel discussion, seminar and multimedia performance of OPERATOR – info
March 8: Toronto
University College, University of Toronto, Listen Deep: Poetry, Sound, Multitudinous Remix (multimedia/vocal performances) – info
May 3: Montreal
Blue Metropolis Festival, Deep Curation (reading/performance) – info
May 30: Vancouver
SpokenWeb Symposium 2019, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, performance of OPERATOR – info
Sep 28: Westmount
Atwater Poetry Project Anniversary Event – info
Oct 2: Calgary
Shelf Life Books, launch of Eight Track – info
Oct 9: Vancouver
Pyatt Hall, performance of OPERATOR from Eight Track – info
Oct 10: Winnipeg
McNally Robinson (Grant Park), performance from Eight Track – info
October 22: Montreal
Paragraphe Bookstore, QWF Awards Readings
Oct 23: Toronto
Knife Fork Book, performance from Eight Track
Nov 1: Montreal
La Sala Rossa, Words & Music 20th Anniversary Bash – info
November 5: Montral
QWF Awards, won the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation – info
Nov 7: Montreal
The Diving Bell Social Club, Langues Chorales – info
Nov 14: Montreal
4th Space, Concordia University, Performing Technology, performance of OPERATOR – info
Nov 16: Montreal
Librairie le Port de tête, performance from Eight Track – info

2018

January 14 to 28: Vancouver
Simon Fraser University, Audain Visual Artist in Residence – info
January 23: Vancouver
class visit at Simon Fraser University
January 24: Vancouver
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, multimedia performance of Limbs & Thresholds – info
January 29: Calgary
The Insurgent Architects' House, University of Calgary – info
January 30: Calgary
Theatre Junction Grand (Flanagan), multimedia performance of Limbs & Thresholds – info
March 15: Montreal
Notman House, LemonHound 3.0.3 Launch
March 16: Montreal
Concordia University, Off the Page Literary Festival, panel "Adaptations, Translations & Reimagined Texts" – info
March 20: Calgary
Big Secret Theatre (Arts Commons), Performance and conversation w/ Richard Harrison – info
April 20: Montreal
Librairie Le Porte de tête, Le Port de tête, La Nuit – info
May 1: Montreal
Concordia University, The Othered Senses Workshop: Law, Regulation, Sensorium, multimedia performance of Limbs & Thresholds
June 1: Bucharest, Romania
Apollo 111 Theatre, Sambata Sonora, multimedia performance of Limbs & Thresholds – info
June 15: Montreal
Si le refus avait une forme, part of Refus contraire exhibition at Galerie de l'UQAM – info
June 22: Montreal
Université de Montréal, École d’été, translation workshop
October 6: Notre Dame, IN, USA
University of Notre Dame, &NOW Festival of New Writing, panel "Philosophy & Experimental Writing" and performance of OPERATOR – info
November 1: Toronto
The Garrison, Book*hug Press Launch Party, launch of The Faerie Devouring – info
December 11: Montreal
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, launch of The Faerie Devouring w/ Michael Nardone's The Ritualities – info

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