https://kaie.ca kaie Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:07:56 +0000 https://kaie.ca en https://kaie.ca/home Fri, 17 Aug 2018 02:31:48 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/home word &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; fyear&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; sound&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; dates &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; bio &nbsp; &nbsp; Kaie Kellough&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://kaie.ca/word Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:05:59 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/word h &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; word &nbsp;&nbsp; f&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; b Interposition&nbsp; Penguin Canada / McClelland and Stewart&nbsp; <img width="1648" height="2323" width_o="1648" height_o="2323" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5abe7865f975232b00adfb520280c5fa7ac8d44411755fb28c2fca57f8969eee/Interpos.jpg" data-mid="242296106" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5abe7865f975232b00adfb520280c5fa7ac8d44411755fb28c2fca57f8969eee/Interpos.jpg" /> Long poem, ed. Canisia Lubrin, March 2026 Interposition appropriates the language of the present. It draws from the news, from entertainment, advertising, war, tragedy, and popular culture. It finds morbid humour in our inability to distinguish between the urgencies of personal achievement and climate crisis. It compresses sound and rhythm into paradox, and it conflates absurdity and emergency. Begun in 2020, Interposition maps the continued encroachment of capital and virtual culture upon our psychic space. It examines how, with each click, we are reconstituted online and sold back to ourselves. Interposition asks: how do we uncouple ourselves from our avatars?Interposition extends Kellough’s work into new themes, while continuing his exploration of the poem as a space in which linguistic convention, empire, and the impositions and internalized desires of power can be contested. Équateur magnétique&nbsp; triptyque&nbsp; <img width="1800" height="2700" width_o="1800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15ab4ee13c3301101eeefebae6687e3b93a59df535fb8ee83c38356fcb8ff137/triptyque-poemes-equateurmagnetique_c1-hr_dapres_c_levoy_exil.jpg" data-mid="176116431" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15ab4ee13c3301101eeefebae6687e3b93a59df535fb8ee83c38356fcb8ff137/triptyque-poemes-equateurmagnetique_c1-hr_dapres_c_levoy_exil.jpg" /> French translation of Magnetic Equator by Stéphane Martelly, April 2023 Winner, QWF Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, 2025 Entre l’Amérique du Sud et celle du Nord, les poèmes de ce livre dérivent. Ils cherchent une ancestralité à Georgetown, au Guyana, dans la forêt amazonienne et dans l’Atlantique. Ils retournent aux années 1980, en banlieue de Calgary et dans les quartiers montréalais emmurés dans la neige post-référendaire. Comme la traversée des vaisseaux noirs jusqu’à la terre ferme, ces poèmes se fraient un chemin dans ce monde et peinent à expliquer l’état d’une personne scindée en deux hémisphères. Présents dans un ici tout en portant les battements de l’ailleurs, les poèmes d’Équateur magnétique cartographient les distances parcourues. Petits marronnages Les éditions du Boréal <img width="220" height="340" width_o="220" height_o="340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c655adac161900959367e099b3a688e79c94e30b72a86179e6fdc2608a766cf/petits_marronnages_w.jpg" data-mid="94817574" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/220/i/9c655adac161900959367e099b3a688e79c94e30b72a86179e6fdc2608a766cf/petits_marronnages_w.jpg" /> French translation of&nbsp;Dominoes at the Crossroads by Madeleine Stratford, February 2021 Finalist, Governor General’s Award, French Translation 2021 Dans Petits marronnages, Kaie Kellough s’engouffre dans les interstices de l’histoire officielle pour tirer de l’oubli les figures fictives ou bien réelles des diasporas caribéennes et africaines. Musiciennes et autostoppeurs, poètes et banlieusards sans histoire, agents secrets et historiennes, domestiques et révolutionnaires s’y croisent et s’y recroisent dans une improvisation débridée et foisonnante placée sous le signe du déracinement. Dominoes at the Crossroads Véhicule Press <img width="900" height="1350" width_o="900" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1545ac8a97a990b465d74f5cf256fef3380e5239b6ce2be40323f6500ff6a2ad/kellough_dominoes_cover.png" data-mid="55760790" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/1545ac8a97a990b465d74f5cf256fef3380e5239b6ce2be40323f6500ff6a2ad/kellough_dominoes_cover.png" /> Short stories, ed. Dimitri Nasrallah, published February 2020 Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020 Longlist, CBC Canada Reads 2021 Winner, Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2020Finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2020 Finalist, Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, 2021 Finalist, ReLit Award for Short Fiction 2021 Cover story, Quill and Quire, December 2020Globe and Mail, Globe 100 Best Books of 2020CBC, Best Books of 2020 Dominoes at the Crossroads&nbsp;plays double-dutch with time and latitude as its characters skip between their Caribbean roots and their Canadian present. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes. Magnetic Equator Penguin Canada / McClelland and Stewart <img width="1725" height="2550" width_o="1725" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95f89b85922a8165bc7a0f106a3dc60ec97d6371815b5de83e2d05e1315258ef/Kellough_MAGNETIC-EQUATOR_Nov-12.jpg" data-mid="29179993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95f89b85922a8165bc7a0f106a3dc60ec97d6371815b5de83e2d05e1315258ef/Kellough_MAGNETIC-EQUATOR_Nov-12.jpg" /> Poetry, ed. Dionne Brand 2019 Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize 2020Finalist, Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2019 CBC, Best Books of 2019 Finalist, Carte Blanche 3Macs Award 2018 The poems in MEQ are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts that issue from suburban oblivion.They drift between North and South America looking for their ancestry in the cities and rainforests of Guyana, the Atlantic Ocean, and the prairies, foothills, and badlands of Western Canada. AccordéonARP Books <img width="1740" height="2475" width_o="1740" height_o="2475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe4c56e70fa07a816f126661bf729d6e08dd9f691d763e9f89c06c7d2beb27f4/9781894037839.jpg" data-mid="22438537" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe4c56e70fa07a816f126661bf729d6e08dd9f691d763e9f89c06c7d2beb27f4/9781894037839.jpg" /> Novel. Jacket and text by LOKI Design, published 2016 Finalist, Amazon / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award 2017 Cover story, Montréal Reivew of Books, Spring 2017 The Ministry of Culture seeks to shape and direct every detail of Québec society, and institutes a vast surveillance program. It plants agents in offices, cafés, and daycares. It abducts citizens, interrogates them, and meticulously catalogues their testimony. When Accordéon's itinerant narrator is detained, their testimony discloses a counter-conspiracy in which a mythic flying canoe will ascend to thwart the Ministry and radically transform Québec society. Maple Leaf RagARP Books <img width="483" height="604" width_o="483" height_o="604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1be0bd85186de27526046b3811aa7325ee6bb4fd1609d3079d1ed76f92b3bf22/maple leaf rag cover _o.jpg" data-mid="22438531" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/483/i/1be0bd85186de27526046b3811aa7325ee6bb4fd1609d3079d1ed76f92b3bf22/maple leaf rag cover _o.jpg" /> Poetry, published 2010 Shortlist, Manitoba Book Awards, Manuela Dias Design Prize, 2010 Maple Leaf Rag is a dynamic, jazz-and-noise-infused riff on Canadian culture. Its concrete and written soundscape explores belonging, dislocation and relocation, and national identity from a Black Canadian perspective. This collection of poems syncopates the page and scores speech. Navette Shape &amp; Nature Press <img width="3600" height="4200" width_o="3600" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93c08c396648b65c9e00eeffdeb2299b5e26f7bf25764b8c5bf13a1f726f6f6f/Navette_FrontCover.jpg" data-mid="22438536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93c08c396648b65c9e00eeffdeb2299b5e26f7bf25764b8c5bf13a1f726f6f6f/Navette_FrontCover.jpg" /> Short story and conceptual walk, published 2015, Greenfield, Mass. Navette contains a conceptual walk and a work of short fiction. The walk visits familiar Montréal landmarks that double as passages along a migrant's journey. The story is one of revolution and flight in which a nameless youth, the child of Haitian immigrants, comes of age during the 2012 student strike. The Duvalier régime and the space shuttle Challenger haunt the family's memory, while a future blurred by social unrest, language politics, vintage Congolese recordings, and interstellar space engulfs their city. https://kaie.ca/fyear Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:07:56 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/fyear h.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;w &nbsp; &nbsp; fyear&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; b &nbsp; &nbsp; FYEAR &nbsp; FYEAR  is a Montréal-based nonet led by composer Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough. FYEAR fuses spoken word into multi-genre compositions for electronics, two voices, two drummers, processed saxophone, pedal steel guitar, and violins. Their debut self-titled&nbsp; studio recording was released by Constellation Records in 2024. It is available in all digital formats, 180-gram vinyl edition, and compact disc.FYEAR incorporates drone, out-jazz, post-classical, ambient metal, avant-rock, and modular synthesis, and creates a unified sound/aesthetic while traversing adventurous and varied terrain. Kellough’s langauge engages with the challenges of modernity: extraction, inflation, and the unequal distribution of access to the future. This self-titled debut album is a supremely innovative 40-minute multi-movement work. <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62d2fdd0b75cf4102e74e90162b6a08804372865b6db66d5c3b18c597a841e4c/hO1fNuXw.jpg" data-mid="205668728" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62d2fdd0b75cf4102e74e90162b6a08804372865b6db66d5c3b18c597a841e4c/hO1fNuXw.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42e996bd0ca95f1209af4250912219797dc4b57c38093f258d301911947857ef/qOUVkSGQ.jpg" data-mid="205783023" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42e996bd0ca95f1209af4250912219797dc4b57c38093f258d301911947857ef/qOUVkSGQ.jpg" /> 180 gram vinyl LP and compact disc designed by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo and Constellation. Video design by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo &amp; Sarah Auches&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1623" width_o="2500" height_o="1623" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc952df32d7161a3699d7c3a5ffdf3f9c11763123d0b2af4ba5b5bd2457b1414/1uFam6xA.jpg" data-mid="205668725" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc952df32d7161a3699d7c3a5ffdf3f9c11763123d0b2af4ba5b5bd2457b1414/1uFam6xA.jpg" /> Schemmann Photography, Moers Festival, Germany, 05/2023 Contributors, L-R:&nbsp; Jesse Zubot, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Kaie Kellough, Jason Sharp, Joe Grass, Josh Zubot, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Stefan Schneider, Tommy Crane Jason Sharp is a bass and baritone saxophonist, synthesist, and composer who has recorded 3 studio albums for the prestigious Constellation Records label.Kaie Kellough (text, voice) is a poet, novelist, and sound performer. A recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Kaie’s writing emerges where social engagement and formal innovation meet.Joe Grass (pedal steel) is a guitarist, composer, and producer who has worked extensively with Lhasa, Patrick Watson, Marie-Pierre Arthur, and Elisapie.Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is a graphic designer. He is the founder and creative director of&nbsp; LOKI Design Studios, which blends a passion for craft with a commitment to equality and social justice.Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice) is a poet, novelist, sound performer, and whirling dervish. Her publications, solo perfromances, and collaborations have reached Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and the Caribbean.Jesse Zubot (violin) is a composer, musician, and producer who is a four-time Juno Award winner. As a film composer, he has won acclaim for his innovative scores for Monkey Beach, Indian Horse, and Academy Award-nominated Two Lovers and a Bear.Joshua Zubot (violin) is a central figure in both the Montréal and Vancouver creative music scenes. Some of his frequent collaborations are with Bernard Falaise, Francois Houle, Sam Shalabi, Nicolas Caloia, and Isaiah Ceccarelli.Stefan Schneider (percussion) is a founding member of the Bell Orchestre and The Queer Songbook Orchestra. Tommy Crane (percussion) is a Montréal-based musician who has recorded and performed with Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, The Mingus Big Band, Linda Oh, Thus Owls, Aaron Parks, Richard Reed Parry, and Logan Richardson. https://kaie.ca/sound Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:06:02 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/sound h &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; w&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; f&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;sound &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; b Small Stones05/2021 Small Stones is a 21-minute work that blends audio, graphic design, animation, and text. It was commissioned by Jason Camlot at Spokenweb for the Listening, Sound, Agency Symposium. Text and voice: Kaie Kellough, Bass and baritone saxophones: Jason Sharp, Visual and typographic design: Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Editing and animation: Sarah Auches. FYEAR 04/2021 FYEAR is a 9-piece ensemble. This performance was recorded live at the Lion D’Or venue in Montréal. It was commissioned by JazzAhead! Bremen, the National Arts Center, and the Canada Council for the Arts, and it&nbsp; aired on April 29 with partnering jazz festivals in Canada and Europe.Contributors are Jason Sharp (compositions, electronics, bass and baritone saxophones), Kaie Kellough (text, voice), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel),&nbsp; Stefan Schneider (drums), JahSun (drums),&nbsp; Jesse Zubot (Violin), Josh Zubot (violin), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (type and visual design).&nbsp; www.fyear.ca UBGNLSWRE09/2020 UBGNLSWRE is a mixed media collaboration between Jason Sharp (bass saxophone, electronics, composition), Kaie Kellough (voice, text), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design). Interview: 00:00-15:35w/ Jason Sharp and Kaie Kellough, by David Dacks Performance: 15:38-46:45 This work was composed during the 2020 pandemic. It emerges from a moment when climate change, global uncertainty, and sharply rising inequality appeared to suspend the future. It examines that suspension and it considers how we construct our sense of self in such a moment. It explores questions of (historical) access to the idea of a future, and what happens to a self when that access is limited.UBGNLSWRE was presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Museum, with the X AVANT Festival, and with the Music Gallery Toronto. Rocket #09/2020 Rocket # is a series of 00:45-second improvised conversations between voice (poem) and brass. Text is drawn from the book Magnetic Equator, winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.Kaie Kellough (voice, text)Jason Sharp (baritone saxophone) Produced in collaboration with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Fire in the Mainframe09/2019 Fire in the Mainframe is a lecture with an electronic narrative embedded in the middle. It features live voice, recorded voice, and modular syntehsizer, and was composed and presented by Kaie Kellough. This performative lecture was delivered at the Power Plant, Toronto, in October 2019. The lecture begins and ends with an essay on the 1969 student occupation of the Sir George Williams Computer Center, a protest against racial bias in grading.The lecture was published in TOPIA Journal, Special Issue, Legacies of the 1969 Sir George Williams Student Protests, ed. Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Vol. 44 The narrative embedded in the lecture is a work of short fiction that was published as “Ashes and Juju” in the collection Dominoes at the Crossroads. Turning Centre of the Still World 06/2018 Turning Centre of the Still World is a cross-disciplinary work, composed with Cheryl Duvall (prepared piano), Ilana Waniuk (violin, effects), Jason Sharp (electronics, sound design), and Kaie Kellough (voice, vocal effects, text). This work draws on ideas of diaspora, displacement, erasure, ambivalence, and on personal history. It looks at place (the Canadian prairies) from the perspective of one who is physically present there, yet who is culturally absent or erased.&nbsp; This work was performed live at the Music Gallery, Toronto, in 06/2018, as part of the Thin Edge New Music Collective’s event, Fusing. 01100001 09/2014 01100001 is a mixed media collaboration between Jason Sharp (electronics, sound design), and Kaie Kellough (live and synthesized voice, text, visual design).&nbsp;Video shot/edited by Victoria Nam, 05/09/2014, Montréal. This performance of the book of Genesis converted into binary code, is inspired by the quote: “Too much has been made of origins, all origins are arbitrary” by Dionne Brand, from A Map to the Door of No Return . Excerpt from a performance at the launch of Creole Continuum. Produced in collaboration with HOWL! Arts Collective. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts Creole ContinuumHowl! Design: Nazik Dakkach Creole Continuum was released on vinyl, CD and MP3 on September 5th, 2014 with Howl! records. Personnel: Martin Heslop (contrebasse), Jason Sharp (bass &amp; baritone saxophones), Ted Strauss (piano, organ), Brahja Waldman (drums, alto saxophone), Kim Zombik (voice), Tyler Fitzmaurice (recording, mixing), Dimitiri Condax (mastering). From Creole Continuum, “d-o-y-o-u-r-e-a-d-m-e” was selected for BAX Online (Best American Experimental Writing) 2015, eds. Douglas Kearney, Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, and was named among the top poems of 2014 by the Vancouver Poetry House. Vox:Versus Wired On Words Vox:Versus <img width="1631" height="1472" width_o="1631" height_o="1472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93cca7341052a5be9f61f61b09054c275d4e0cde6eefb1cc7f9449a20e22c786/vox_versus_o.jpg" data-mid="22438545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93cca7341052a5be9f61f61b09054c275d4e0cde6eefb1cc7f9449a20e22c786/vox_versus_o.jpg" />Design: Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (LOKI) Vox:Versus was recorded in 2010 at Hotel 2 Tango, Montréal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Personnel: Martin Heslop (contrebasse), Jahsun (drums), Stefan Christoff (piano), Kim Zombik (vocal), DJ Andy Williams (soundscapes), Zeke (sound collage), Jason Selman (trumpet), Radwan Ghazi Mounmeh (recording), Graham Lessard (mixing), Harris Newman (mastering). <img width="2930" height="1800" width_o="2930" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dac05011850e8a5af8e4b56404e9170450d68f4869340871ff20ef78f43fa7cf/voxversuslayout_o.jpg" data-mid="22438543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dac05011850e8a5af8e4b56404e9170450d68f4869340871ff20ef78f43fa7cf/voxversuslayout_o.jpg" /> Vox:Versus was launched at th 2011 Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Montréal. https://kaie.ca/dates Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:06:23 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/dates h &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; w&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; f&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; s &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;dates &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; b Upcoming 2026 September-December, Toronto September 28th, Toronto York University November, Halifax Achieved 2026 March, VictoriaOrion Arts Lecture, University of Victoria March, TorontoMcCelland and Stewat Poetry Night, book launches with Laurie D. Graham, Jake Skeets May, OttawaOttawa International Writers Festival, with Jordan Abel May, Kingston Dual book launch, Interposition alongside Qaf’s People by Sadiqa De Meijer June, Montreal Festival de la Poésie de Montréal 2025 November, Miami, Naples, FL Dark Ride with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer October, Utrecht FYEAR plays Le Guess Who Festival&nbsp; 2024June 6, TorontoFirst novel award ceremony, juror w/ Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy Ray Belcourt May 9, SudburyDuo w/ Oana Avasilichoaei, Productions Rhizome May 7, TorontoDuo w/ Oana Avasilichoaei, Productions Rhizome April 30, MontrealMontreal International Poetry Prize Reading Series w/ Bianca Stone, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jeremy Desjarlais March 7-16, MontréalInfinitheater Presents: Dominoes at the Crossroads, a play based on the collection of short stories February 15-25: Rhizome, Québec City In residence with Oana Avasilichioaei February 5: Toronto Launch of Code Noir with Canisia Lubrin 2023April 21: Librairie Port de Tête, MontréalLancement d’Équateur magnétique, traduite par Stéphane MartellyMay 11th-15th: Stockholm, SwedenHägerstensåsens medborgarhus Festival, with Michael Nardone, Jordan Abel, Cecily Nicholson, Gail Scott. Lisa Robertson May 25th: Moers Festival, Moers, GermanyFYEAR performance, with Jason Sharp (composition, bass saxophone, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel, electronics), Stefan Schneider (drums), Tommy Crane (drums), Josh Zubot (violin), Jesse Zubot (violin)Feberuary 27th: Casa del Popolo, MontréalTrio with Jason Sharp (saxophones, electronics) &amp; Liam O’Neill (drums) February 14th: Queens University, Kingston, ONCourse guest, lauch of A is for Acholi with Juliane Okot BitekFebruary 7th: VirtualGiller Book Club interview with Rawi HageJanuary 25th: Musée des Beaux Arts, MontréalReading as part of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibitWith David Bradfort, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Jason Sharp, Mo Bolduc 2022November 28-Dec 01: Guadalajara, MexicoGuadalajara Feria Internacional del Librow/ Oana Avasilichioaei &amp; Productions Rhizome November 25: MontréalPoésie et musique improvisée&nbsp; November 23: Concordia University Montreal writing in English, Course guest November 22: McGill UniversityIntroduction to the Philosophy of Race, Course guest November 20: Montréal The Fire That Time, book launch&nbsp; November 15: Université de Montréal&nbsp; Département des littératures et langues du monde, présentation littéraire November 10: McGill UniversityGenetic Cascade&nbsp;Presented by the Department of English and the Montréal Poetry Prize June 14: La Sala Rossa, Montréal&nbsp; &nbsp; Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, FYEAR performance, with Jason Sharp (composition, bass saxophone, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel, electronics), Stefan Schneider (drums), Jahsun (drums), Josh Zubot (violin), Jesse Zubot (violin)June 10: URSA, Montréal &nbsp; June 01: MontréalFestival de la Poésie de MontréalMay 27: MontréalACCUTE Conference Keynote, with Eric Schmaltz (visual projections)April 29-May 01: New BrunswickFRYE Festival March 15: Guelph University, College of Arts Black Writers and Thinkers series, with Tessa McWatt, David Austin, Lawrence Hill, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, and Canisia Lubrin, curated and hosted by Paul Barrett Jan-Aug:&nbsp;Writers’ Trust&nbsp; of Canada Mentor, poetry, with Sho Yamagushiku Jan-Oct: Scotiabank Giller Prize Juror 2021 December 01, 2021: Concordia University Writers Read, w Oana Avasilichioaei, Caroline Bergvall November 03: York University A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering, Fields of Imagining, w Natalie Diaz, Torkwase Dyson, Canisia Lubrin, Nanjala Nyabola, Brandon Shimoda October: TIFA, TorontoMasterclass September: Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Guest presentation, Q&amp;A September 16: Word Vancouver FestivalWith Tawhida Tanya Evanson and Cecily NicholsonSeptember: Send &amp; Recieve Festival, Winnipeg August: Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityFaculty, Online Literary Program, w Jordan Abel May 24: Giller Book ClubIn coversation with David Chariandy May 22: Concordia University &nbsp; SpokenWeb Symposium, premiere of Small Stones, an audio-video work in collaboration w Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design), Jason Sharp (bass and baritone saxophones), Kaie Kellough (text, voice) April 29: Jazzahead! Festival, Bremen FYEAR, a 7-piece ensemble audio-visual work, w Jason Sharp (composition, modular electronics, bass saxophone), Kaie Kellough (text, voice), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel), JahSun (drums), Stefan Schneider (drums),&nbsp;Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design, projections) in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts, Jazzahead! Bremen, and the National Arts Center April 25: Bocas Literary Festival, TrinidadIn a Cold Country, conversation with André Alexis and Anton Nimblett April 24: Stanstead Arts Center, Montréal&nbsp; &nbsp; Reading and conversation with Oana Avasilichioaei and Shelley Pomerance April 21: Memorial University, NewfoundlandDoing Representation Justice, conversation with Zalika Reid-Benta and Dr. Stephanie McKenzie April 9th: Québec City (Virtual)Imgination Festival April 6th: Queen’s UniversityOn Translation, discussion w Madeleine Stratford April 1st: Concordia UniversityFARR (Fine Arts Reading Room), discussion, Q&amp;A March 16th: Queen’s University Language, Liberation, and Design, discussion w Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Dani Spinosa March 10th: Queens’s University Music Department, Extended Technique, discussion w Jason Sharp, Matt Rogalsky March 5th: Queen’s University2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Annual Event, discussion w Souvankham ThammavongsaFebruary 26th: Queen’s UniversityThe Politics of Multidisciplinarity, discussion w Gary Barwin, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Kama La Mackerel February 23rd: Toronto (Virtual)York University, Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series February 18thVéhicule Press, launch of The Book of Wings, a novel by Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author interviewFebruary 12: CBC GemJah in the Ever-Expanding Song, a monodrama presented by Obsidian Theatre, as part of the 21 Black Futures project February 9th: Toronto (Virtual)Toronto Public Library, The Black Prairie Archives, discussion with Dr. Karina Vernon and Ismaila Alfa (CBC) January 20, CBC IdeasEverything at Once, interviewed as part of an episode on time during the pandemicJanuary 19: Queen’s UniversityMaroon Time: Time and Ancestry in the Poem, Queen’s University WiR Opening Address 2021 Winter Semester: Kingston, ON (Virtual)Queen’s University, Writer in Residence 2020 November 27th: Montréal (Virtual)QWF / AELAQ Black Writers Out Loud, in conversation w Canisia Lubrin, curated by Tanya Evanson November 25th: Oakville, ON (Virtual)Sheridan College, Masterclass and public discussion w Gary Barwin November 19th: MontréalJohn Abbott College, course guest w Dr. Sara Villa November 18th: MontréalConcordia University, Contemporary Canadian Fiction, course guest w Dr. Jessica Bardill November 7th: Ottawa (Virtual)Ottawa Versefest, Official Welcome w Karen Solie, Anne-Marie Desmeules, Albert DumontNovember 6th: Sudbury (Virtual)Wordstock Sudbury, Our Belonging, panel w Chelene Knight, Jonina Kirton, Kim Fahner October 29th: Toronto Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), Far From Home, in conversation w Souvankham Thammavongsa October 15th: Toronto (Virtual)Aga Khan Museum / Music Gallery / Avant X Festival co-present UBGNLSWRE, live performance w/ Jason Sharp (bass / baritone saxophones, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections) October 8th: MontréalSuoni TV, live performance w/ Jason Sharp (bass / baritone saxophones, electronics), and JahSun (drums) October 7th: Toronto (Virtual)Coach House Books, Watch Your Head anthology launch October 7th: Toronto (Virtual)Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) Book Club October 2nd: Toronto (Virtual)The Art of the Short Story,conversation among Giller prize nominees, w Souvankham Thammavongsa and David Bergen September 28th, 29th: TorontoAga Khan Museum, audio / video recording date w/ Jason Sharp (bass saxophone, electronics), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections)September 23/24th: MontréalRhizome Productions, live recording at the Lion D’or w Oana Avasilichioaei September 21st: Ottawa (Virtual)OIWF - Ottawa Internatioal Writers Festival w Ian Williams and CBC host Adrian HarewoodSeptember 11th: Vancouer (Virtual)Word Vancouver - Host, w Souvankham Thammavongsa, Derek Mascarenhas, Nilofar Shidmehr September 10th: Toronto (Virtual)WOTS - Word on the Street, At the Crossroads, conversation w Jack Wang August 10th-22nd: Banff Cancelled due to COVIDBanff Centre for the Arts, Poetry Program Faculty, w/ Jordan AbelJune 5th-11th: Berlin Cancelled due to COVIDFestival Poesie Berlin, w/ Oana Avasilichioaei, Rhizome ProductionsMay 1st-10th: Hong Kong Cancelled due to COVIDContemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Sound Forms Festival w/ Kevin Yuen Kit Lo April 30th: Ottawa Cancelled due to COVIDOttawa Writers Festival April 18th: Toronto Cancelled due to COVIDAga Khan Museum, duo performance w/ Jason Sharp April 7th-9th: Québec City Cancelled due to COVIDRhizome Productions March 28th: Ottawa Cancelled due to COVIDOttawa VerseFest March 26th: Montréal Cancelled due to COVIDMRB (Montréal Review of Books) Spring Launch @ D&amp;QMarch 13th: Montréal Cancelled due to COVIDConcordia University, Black Studies Conference, Opening Launch March 3rd: MontréalConcordia University, course guest w/ Dimitri Nasrallah February 27th: QuébecOpen Book Diaspora Panel, Centre Morin, w/ Rebecca Fisseha February 19th: MontréalDrawn &amp; Quarterly Bookstore: Launch of Dominoes at the Crossroads, with Dimitri Nasrallah, Véhicule Press January 17th: VancouverUBC, Black Noise. Course guest w/ Phanuel AntwiJanuary 15th: VancouverUBC, Thinking While Black. Claudia Rankine, moderated by Kaie KelloughPresented by The Phil Lind Initiative 2019November 27th: MontréalRhizome, recording November 21st: MontréalDuo &nbsp;w/ Jason Sharp, Casa del Popolo November 15th: KingstonQueens University November 7th: MontréalConcordia University, Deep Curation November 5th: MontréalQWF Awards: Shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Poetry Award October 23rd-25th: VancouverVancouver International Writers Festival October 22nd: MontréalParagraphe Bookstore: QWF Awards Readings October 19th: TorontoHarborfront Center, hosted by the Power Plant October 11th: MontréalDeath of Futurism October 10th: MontréalConcordia University, Wired on Words September 24th-25th: WinnipegWinnipeg International Writers Festival September 20th: St. CatharinesSonic Glow Festival September 9th: MontréalLOGOS Reading Series June 13th: MontréalSuoni Per Il PopoloSextet w/ Jason Sharp (modular synth, bass saxophone), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual language projections), Joe Grass (pedal steel), Tanya Evanson (voice), Stef Schneider (drums) May 24th: MontréalPublishing Sphere ConferenceReading with Erin Moure, Nicole Raziya Fong May 4th: MontréalWords and Music, Blue Metropolis FestivalMay 3rd: MontréalThe Equivocal City author panel, Blue Metropolis FestivalApril 25-27th: DublinMaking In Canadian Space conference April 12th: MontréalSounding the City, Concordia UniversityIn collaboration with Dr. Katherine McLeod, Writers Read, Spokenweb March 27th: TorontoLaunch of Magnetic Equator (Poetry, McClelland and Stewart), AGO February 8th, 9th: MontréalProtests and Pedagogy Conference, Concordia University 2018 November 25th: MontréalMile End Poets’ Festival November 20th: MontréalQWF Awards. Poem Bow nominated for the 3Macs Carte Blanche AwardNovember 14th: MontréalConcordia University, Montréal / Québec Literature w/ Katherine Mcleod October 7-15: AustraliaBundanon Trust Artist Residency October 19-21: Sydney, AustraliaWord Travels Storyfest June 22: TorontoThin Edge New Music Collective: FusingNew composition by Cheryl Duvall, Kaie Kellough, Jason Sharp, Ilana Waniuk June 9th: MontréalMy Backyard, Somewhere / Quelque part, mon jardin Music by Collectif 9 &amp; Architek Percussion, works by 5 composers, incl. bilingual text by Kaie Kellough May 2nd: MontréalMonastiraki Gallery. Launch of Hider Seeker by Jen Currin, with Nicole Raziya Fong, Helen Guri, Emilie O'brien April 7th: MontréalSBC Gallery. Electronic narrative presentation, as part of Relief Theory March 29th: MontréalCanadian Literature, w/ Robert Lecker, McGill Univeristy March 16th: MontréalQuébec / Montréal Writing in English, w/ Gillian Sze, Concordia University January 25th: MontréalContemporary Poetry, w/ Michael Nardone, Concordia University 2017 November 9th: MontréalVanier College Literary Symposium November 4th: St.Catharines, OntarioFestival of Readers October 13th: TorontoXAvant XII Festival: Intérro, collaborative work w/ Jason Sharp, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Tanya Evanson, The Music Gallery Septermber 15th: MontréalUnderground Sounds. Phonopolis. Modular synth improv set July 26th: TorontoCourse Guest: Mixed Race and Other Border Crossings, University of Toronto, w/ Karina Vernon July 12th: MontréalMixed with Dust (duo w/ Stefan Christoff), Casa del Popolo June 24th: MontréalDuo w/ Jason Sharp. Casa Del Popolo June 14th: Montréal Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, at&nbsp;La Vitrola w/ Lillian Allen, Tanya Evanson May 25th: TorontoShortlisted: Amazon.ca / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award gala at the Four Seasons April 29th: Montréal Blue Metropolis Festival at Hotel Dix. Round table: Performing Words, Performing Signs April 22nd: Montréal Howl! Festival at Casa Del Popolo w/ Sam Shalabi, Stefan Christoff, Mark Haynes April 19th: Vancouver Wax Poetic program at Co-op Radio 100.5 fm w/ RC Weslowski April 12th: Victoria Tongues of Fire series w/ Bill Bissett April 7th: Montréal Montréal Monochrome V&nbsp;at Articule Gallery April 4th: Montréal Mile End Poets Festival w Tanya Evanson, Victoria Stanton, Skin T0ne March 13th: Montréal Kola Reading Series w Joel Desrosiers, Olive Senior February 17th: Montréal Black Future&nbsp;w Elena Stoodley &amp; Kaitlyn Ramsden, DJ Ellise Barbara, Slowpitchsound &amp; Lybido January 31st: MontréalPoetry, Engl 234 course guest, w/ Michael Nardone @ Concordia University January 27th: Montréal Accordéon novel launch @ Casa Del Popolo 2016 December 15th: MontréalGod is Alive, Magic is Afoot: Leonard Cohen Tribute @ Rialto Novermber 26th: MontréalQWF Book Fair @ Atwater Library November 23rd: TorontoARP Books Authors' Showcase @ The Gladstone w/ Hal Niedzviecki, Andrew Sullivan, Emma Healey, Angela Hibbs November 20th: MontréalWired on Words @ Casa Del Popolo w/ Tanya Evanson, Paul Dutton November 3rd: MontréalLa Plante: duo performance w/ Jason Sharp October 22nd: MontréalCBC 5 à 6 interview w/ Nantali Indongo August 17th, 18th: Edinburgh, ScotlandEdinburgh Int'l Book Festival: GlossPerformance &amp; panel w/ Tanya Evanson &amp; Pamela Witcher July 14th: MontréalArgo Books: Africa as a Dream that Travels Through my Heart duo performance with Jason Selman June 2nd: MontréalSuoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Intérro: Performance w/ Jason Sharp, Tanya Evanson, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo May 26th: HalifaxObey Convention, Solo Performance May 7th: TorontoPages Unbound Festival, duo performance w/ Jason Sharp. solo performance by Aisha Sasha John April 16th: MontréalBlue Metropolis Festival, Rapid-Fire Reading / Ricochet Writing Series April 8th: QuébecLes Vendredis de Poésie March 25th: MontréalHowl! Arts event, duo w/ Stefan Christoff (Mixed with Dust) March 9th: MontréalPerformance, festival Dans ta Tête March 1st: MontréalRésonance Reading Series, with Oana Avasilichioaei, Jeramy Dodds, Lisa Fishman, Virginia Konchan, Andrew Zawacki January 25th: MontréalJessica Moss, + trio w/ Jason Sharp, Kaie Kellough, Stefan Schneider January 22nd: MontréalHowl! présente: Sarah Pagé, Rêves Sonores, Markus Floats January 9th: MontréalHowl! Benefit duo w/ Stefan Christoff (Mixed with Dust), 2015 November 25th: MontréalAtwater Poetry Project w/ Oana Avasilichioaei November 8th: Kingston (Ontario)Tone Deaf Festival w/ Skin Tone &amp; Nobuo Kubota October 22nd, 23rd: St Catharines (Ontario)Harriet's Legacies Conference: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada, Brock University October 9th: MontréalOpening for Algiers, presented by Blue Skies Turn Black duo w/ Stefan Christoff September 27th: MontréalWired on Words and Music Performance Series September 25th: St Catharines (Ontario)Visual poetry vernissage: The Assembly Line of Babel w/ Eric Schmaltz, Manticore September 17th: St. Catharines (Ontario)Border Blur Reading Seriesw/ Jacqueline Valencia, Natalee Caple, Andrew Mcewan September 12th: MontréalShape &amp; Nature Press launch of Navette (chapbook)w/ Julie Mannell September 5th: TorontoCPRG (Contemporary Poetry Research Group) microtalk series "Play" w/ John Liberty, Lillian Allen, Jenny Sampirisi, David James Brock, John Bell, Liz Howard June 6th: Ottawaab Series w/ Wayde Compton May 27th: MontréalBetween the Pages, literary TV program (taping for broadcast) April 30th: MontréalQWF presents: Ricochet Readings, Atwater Library April 1st: MontréalRésonance Reading Series March 28th: MontréalMile End Poets Festival February 9th: MontréalConcordia University, Digital Texts and Typography course, guest 2014 November 4th: MontréalCKUT 90.3 fm, Interview October 24th, 25th: BarcelonaBarcelona International Spoken Word Festival October 15th: VictoriaCanadian Festival of Spoken Word October 1st: MontréalRésonance Reading Series, Café Résonance September 5th: MontréalCreole Continuum, Kaie Kellough record launch w/ Jason Sharp June 14th: TorontoOISE &amp; House Reading w/ Bronwyn Haslam, Laura Broadbent, Michael Nardone, Steve Giasson, Mat Laporte May 29th: MontréalHyena Subpoena, Catherine Kidd book/cd launch May 9th: TorontoACROSS Reading Series, w/ Gary Barwin, Margaret Christakos, Hoa Nguyen, Beatriz Hausner May 8th: TorontoThin Edge New Music Collective: Onomatopoeia, w/ Jason Sharp April 26th: MontréalHowl! Arts festival, panel on art and gentrification April 2nd, 3rd: Calgary Calgary International Spoken Word Festival March 30th: Ottawa Ottawa Versefest March 22nd: MontréalFriends of Freedom, Café Résonance March 1st: WinnipegCluster Festival w/ Jason Sharp https://kaie.ca/biograph Sun, 11 May 2014 21:35:26 +0000 kaie https://kaie.ca/biograph h &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; w.&nbsp; &nbsp; f&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; bio Bio <img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19ef00c9ed96d7c146e755e2c25193f4abfdadf5cfc8d87102e41e8d0688158b/Kaie-Kellough-by-Kevin-Calixte-2-2020-WEBV.jpg" data-mid="77641749" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19ef00c9ed96d7c146e755e2c25193f4abfdadf5cfc8d87102e41e8d0688158b/Kaie-Kellough-by-Kevin-Calixte-2-2020-WEBV.jpg" /> Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, and sound performer. His work emerges at a crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. From western Canada, he lives in Montréal and has roots in Guyana, South America.His books include Interposition (poetry, McClelland &amp; Stewart, 2026),&nbsp;Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020),&nbsp; Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland &amp; Stewart 2019), and&nbsp;Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) . Kaie’s writing has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.&nbsp; Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. They are core collaborators in FYEAR, a 9-piece ensemble whose debut was released by Constellation Records in 2024. &nbsp; Kaie is a doctoral student at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of a CGSM-SSHRC fellowship and the Robert Sutherland fellowship. He researches sound in Caribbean diasporic literature and performance.&nbsp; Kaie continues to craft new passages. &nbsp;︎&nbsp; &nbsp; ︎kaieouy@gmail.com