2006 SYMPOSIUM STAFF

BRIAN PAISLEY
Producer

Brian has been writing, directing and producing theatre and film entertainment for more years than he cares to remember.  He is the author of ten feature-length screenplays.  His script LIES LIKE TRUTH (Gumboot Productions) won the 2003 CHUM TV Reel Edge competition and premiered at the 2005 Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival.  He has also written several widely toured plays for young people and worked extensively in television, radio and new media.

In 1982, Brian founded the Edmonton Fringe, a community celebration that now boasts an annual audience of over 500,000 people and has become the artistic and administrative model for alternate theatre festivals across North America.


STEPHANIE CROFT
Communications & Planning Coordinator

Equipped with an M.A. in Journalism and a B.A. in History, Stephanie’s primary responsibilities are communications and fundraising for the Symposium.  Her background includes organizing the Sooke Fine Arts Show, freelance writing for various publications (including the Goldstream News Gazette, Herizons Magazine and Alternatives Journal) and working as an Executive Assistant for a local federal Member of Parliament.

In her off time, Stephanie enjoys keeping up on current events, traveling to new places and getting lots of fresh air and exercise.


KIM CROSWELL
Galleries and Volunteer Coordinator

Kim Croswell holds a M.A. in Art History, University of Victoria. Her thesis, “Stella Bloch and the Politics of Art and Dance,” analyzed the relationship between dance, art and society during the World War One era in New York. An artist herself, Kim completed her B.F.A., majoring in steel sculpture, at the University of Alberta in 2001.

Kim was curatorial coordinator for two seasons at The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton. Her job at the symposium is to exhibit artwork in alternative spaces and recruit volunteers to assist with the speakers program.


ALLAN ANTLIFF
Program Coordinator

Allan holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at the University of Victoria. He edited Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004) and is author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde (2001).  Active as a curator and art critic, his articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Canadian Art Magazine, Fuse, Galleries West Magazine, Art Nexus, C Magazine, and Mix.

Currently, Allan is preparing a one-hour program to air on CBC Radio entitled "Guernica: A Political Odyssey."  A third book, Art and Anarchy: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, is forthcoming in 2007.


RICK MARTIGNAGO
Graphic Designer

Rick is a graduate of Pacific Design Academy in Victoria and Vancouver's British Columbia Institute of Technology/Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He is the principal of BSMNT Graphics and the creative mind behind the production and development of the Victoria Arts Symposium website and collateral print material. Rick lives in Victoria and loves it.