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Libby Scheier : Readings, Tours and Events



Readings and Performances

  • Host and Performer, Finf un Tsen (5&10): Jewish Writers Cabaret, Ashkenaz: A Festival of New Yiddish Culture, Harbourfront, August 1997

  • Host and Performer, Jewish Women's Cabaret, Bloor Jewish Community Centre, January 1997

  • Featured Performer (along with Susan G.Cole, Michele Landsberg, Elise Levine, and Rhea Tregebov), Conference: From Memory to Transformation - Jewish Women's Voices, Toronto, January 1996

  • Featured Performer, Our Stories - Readings by Jewish Women Writers, Bloor Jewish Community Centre, Toronto, April 1995

  • Panelist, "Strategies for Change," and Reader in evening literary performances (along with Nicole Brossard and Carolyn Forche), Conference: After the Montreal Massacre - Canadian Perspectives on Violence Against Women, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, March 1993

  • Speaker, SKY — A Poem in Four Pieces (reading and commentary), Conference: Women in Canada, York University, North York, Ontario, 1991

  • Panelist, TVOntario (Imprint): Program on feminism, appropriation of voice, and The Women's Press, 1990

  • Panelist, Colloquium: Language in Her Eye - Writing and Gender, York University, sponsored by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, and including Dionne Brand, Markene Kadar, Janice Kulyk Keefer, and Lenore Keeshig-Tobias

  • Speaker, Colloquium on irony in Canadian women's writing and art, coordinated and moderated by Linda Hutcheon, Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at The Robarts Ventre, York University, North York, Ontario, 1988

  • Speaker, Poetry and Women's Writing, Conference: Creating Professionals - A Canadian Writing Workshop, University of Toronto, Ontario, 1988

  • Panelist, with Rick Salutin et al, Panel: Censorship and Pornography- (Freedom to Read Week), The National Library, Ottawa, Ontario, 1987

  • Panelist, Panel: Women's Writing, League of Canadian Poets Annual General Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, 1989

  • Co-Facilitator, with Marian Engel/Joan Haggerty, Workshop: Creativity and Child-Bearing, Child-Rearing, Women & Words Conference, Vancouver, 1983

  • Readings: Several hundred, including Canada Council-sponsored tours, and readings in the Harbourfront Literary Readings series and the University of Toronto Bookstore series


Libby Scheier's works copyright © to The Estate of the Author.


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