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Couplets is a series of one-of-a-kind collaborations that bridge the gap between literary arts (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction) and other art forms. Each event is conceived, curated, and created by a writer/artist pairing over a month and then presented for a single night.

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Couplets is open to established, emerging, and new writers & artists living in or traveling to K'jipuktuk / Halifax. Event details are determined by each writer-artist pair. Previous Couplets collaborations have

revisited and renewed existing work;

incorporated new response works and co-creations;

included collaborative performance, improvisation, and conversation;

and brought together literary arts with a broad range of other forms (e.g., music, sound art, comedy, theatre, performance art, painting, comic art, animation, film, and yarn bombing).

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Series 1 of Couplets included 21 events held over three years (from 2016 through 2018) in London, Ontario. These events were generously hosted by several local arts venues — foremost among them being Brown and Dickson Booksellers and TAP Centre for Creativity.

Series 1 took three different approaches to collaboration, first pairing established and emerging poets (in 2016), then pairing local and visiting poets (in 2017 and 2018), before finally focusing on collaborations between writers and artists working in other forms (in 2018).

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The Series 1 finale of Couplets featured collaboration and competition among six highly destructive artists from London and beyond:

Jess “Feelings” Taylor & “Did” Jenny “do thaaat?” Berkel

Faith “Is Watching You” Patrick & Angie “Takes Your Money & Moves On” Quick

Jason “Ain’t No” Dickson & Kevin “Can’t Stop the Slop” Heslop

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Andy McGuire (Huron County) is the author of Country Club.

Angie Quick (London) is known for her large oil paintings, which explore flesh in historical and contemporaneous manners. Her practice experiments with the nature of language and sensation within both visual and performative contexts. She has performed at Words Fest London and recorded with the band New Zebra Kid.