Imagining Abundance on the Margins....

Swallowtail Light video/performance 2010 by Pam Patterson dedicated to her grandmother, Vivian.

In these challenging economic times, those of us who live and work in the margins as social activists and cultural workers need to become more creative and ingenious in finding funds to live and support our work.

As one such worker, I have, since my major cancer surgery eight years ago, been struggling with ill health; directing, with no pay but with much passion, an arts-informed feminist academic and activist program (http://www.wiaprojects.com/); and attempting to support myself and my creative work with contract teaching and a CPP disability pension. I need others’ assistance to help buy me time – about 5 months – to deal with pressing health issues, search for more substantial funding for WIAprojects, and to find more long-term teaching work. In exchange, I will post each person’s name, if so wished, as a patron and supporter on the WIAprojects website and, for donations over $100.00, also mail out a free copy of Performing Pedagogy: Communitas in Context, my recently published monograph of an exhibition and text on women in a collective art community.

Proposed Work:

This coming year’s WIAprojects projected programming is attached for you to enjoy reading. My current performative work-in-process for Oboro Gallery in 2012  Liturgical Returning examines the liminal transitional space from life to one’s death, and my creative and academic writing is for a project with Eva Karpinski entitled The Silent Book: Crafting Memories from a Life with Breast Cancer. All are very exciting projects.

The funds will be put to very good use!

Donations may be sent as cheques payable to Pam Patterson via mail to:

Pam Patterson

WIAprojects

264 Bloor Street West

PO Box 22580

Toronto, ON

M5S 1V8

Or by Interac bank transfer or check or cash deposit to:

TD Canada Trust

Pam Patterson

Account #: 6396551

Bank Transit #: 1968