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Une relecture de l’image de la belle-mère conclut le Festival Frye

Amélie Prévost is a spoken word artist based in Montreal. Her approach draws on poetry and stage performance. She believes in breaking down barriers between genres and practices, unabashedly creating works that blend the codes of storytelling, slam poetry, theater, and poetry. Initially a creator of performed poetry shows (Fol ouvrage – Torcher des paillettes, with Queen Ka / Kamikaze du vendredi / etc.), she is also the author of several collections of short texts (Corps flottants, Kamikaze du vendredi, etc.). Her work focuses heavily on the relentless quest for beauty and meaning, as well as on the relationship between human beings and their bodies and environment. She is known for her energy, humor, and ability to connect directly with her audience. She is also a member of the collective Primaires, les couleurs secondaires, which offers storytelling and poetry performances. (Bio taken from the RAPAIL website)

Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer, editor, and curator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020 and was a finalist for the Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole from the Quebec Writers’ Federation in 2022. She has taught workshops on poetry and performance in Scotland, Ireland, England, South Africa, Greece, Haiti and Canada. Her new show La Belle-mère//The Stepmother, co-written with Amélie Prévost, will premiere in Montreal in September 2024. Rachel is the vocalist for noise-poetry group Pigs&Wolves.