A bunch of portraits for the Swerve Fall Arts Guide, they're all people coming to Calgary this season! Margaret Atwood, Dalai Lama, Judy Chicago, Bill Cosby, Lizzie Borden (Blood Relations at Vertigo Theatre), Billy Twinkle (Alberta Theatre Projects), Ron Mueck's Giant Baby, Little Women (Calgary Opera), Elton John, kids from the 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee (Theatre Calgary), Bugs Bunny (Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra), and the Tooth Fairy (Old Trouts Theatre). PHEW!
Trevor Smith - programming director of the Calgary International Film Festival
Robert Minczuk - conductor of CPO's Tchaikovsky festival
Bev Tosh - artist; her show, War Brides, is at the Glenbow Museum
Ronnie Burkett - puppeteer; his show, Billy Twinkle, is on at ATP
Margaret Atwood - author; coming to Calgary to promote her new book The Flood as a literary talk
John Rutherford - longtime fixture on the roots/blues scene, he is releasing his first solo record this fall
Marie Chouinard - choreographer; her troupe is at Theatre Junction
Swerve's own Shelley Arnusch, she writes the Cheap Date column
Portrait of the Pale Air Singers/super rad guys! They're doing a few shows around western Canada in April, check 'em out! (Drawing done in ballpoint pen!)
This is an ooooold one, from last summer, for the University of Guelph via the lovely and amazing Kathe Gray at Electric Pear! I was waiting to get a nice photo of before posting, but it's been months so i just went ahead and took some shoddy ones.