TRAMPOLINE HALL TORONTO LECTURES

June, 2010
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)

May 10, 2010
Curator: Daniel Vila
Val Uher: The Coming Insurrection
Luca Lucarini: Cultural Entropy in the Internet Era
Nick Flanagan: Happiness/Misery as Inspiration

April 12, 2010
Curator: Sholem Krishtalka
John Caffery: How to Dance in Public
Marc Bendavid: The Perfect Baguette
Margot Keith: Wigs

March 8, 2010
Curator: Alex Snukal
Rob Gordon: People who did one good thing and then died
Liz Peterson: Natural Disasters
Jeremy Bailey: The Reuben Sandwich

February 15, 2010
Curator: Lauren Bride
Aaron Kopff: The Politics of Friendship
Naomi Skwarma: Secret Eating
Michael McManus: A subject yet to be determined

January 11, 2010
Curator: Becky Johnson
Shannon Gerard: Whales
Jen Goodhue: Other Lives
Steve Fisher: Crafts

December 7, 2009
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Lauren Nunziata: Caffeine and Teachers
Todd Falkowsky: National Symbols
Matt Hamman: Cursing

November 16, 2009
Curator: Sheila Heti
Mary Albino: The Mean Problem
Christine Pountney: Lot's Wife and the Art of Looking Back
Kristy Willow: Transitioning

October 19, 2009
First show with The Garrison as our new venue
Curator: Laurie McGregor
Sarah Barmak: Mixed Martial Arts
Sachin Hingoo: Feigning Interest
Elizabeth Bromstein: Sex with Robots

September 14, 2009
Curator: Lauren Bride
Eric Foley: Teenage Circumcision
Chrissy Reichert: Holy Airport Experience
Aurora Stewart de Pena: Stairway to Heaven

August 10, 2009
Curator: Sheila Heti
Lynn Crosbie: Don't Have Casual Sex
Elena Bird: From the Journals 2007 - 2008
Sameer Farooq: Women are a Gift from God


July 6, 2009
Curator: Amy C. Lam
Doc Matt Dunn: Squash
Xenia Benivolski: Not Cool
Alexandra Napier: Only Children

June 8, 2009
Curator: Carl Wilson
Lisan Jutras: Puking Up Your Demons
Noah Goodbaum: How To Hold It Down When We're Fucked Up in the Game
Derek McCormack: Vintage Novelty Gags

May 11, 2009
Curator: Sheila Heti
Amanda Phillips - "Victory"
Felix Vikhman - "Failure"
Lee Smolin - "Freedom"

April 6, 2009

The Money Show
Curator: Becky Johnson
Andrew Gardner: The Future of the future of the economy
Sara Peel: A financial audit of Trampoline Hall
Non-lecture about what everyone thinks about money

March 9, 2009
Curator: Jon Davies
Grant Heaps: The word “earnest”
Kelly Jenkins: The Origins of Mormonism
Katie Bethune-Leamen: Slang and Bling

February 9, 2009
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Susan Fothergill: Her car, a raccoon, the Moon, love and another thing
Saniya Ansari: Has some good points
Michael Higginson: Being in the way

February 1, 2009 (in Vancouver at Performance Works)
Curator: Veda Hille
Andrew Feldmar: Cooking from Memory
Kevin Chong: Fraternal Polyandry
Faith Moosang: Asserts “There are Clues Everywhere” – a talk about Nancy Drew

January 12, 2009
Curator: Jon McCurley
Steve Thomas: Personal Identity
Ashley Long: Train Hopping
Mel Penner: Something Else

December 8, 2008
Curator: Lauren Bride
Chandler Levack:
Evan Webber:
Dan Shapiro:

November 17, 2008
Curator: Amy C. Lam
Deirdre Fraser: Romance Novels
Malcolm Sutton: Tumbleweeds
Lex Vaughn: Catering

October 27, 2008
Curator: Alex Snukal
Daniel Vila: Authenticity
Dave Dyment: A Certain Poet
Kevin Hegge: Weird Horror-Porn Videotapes

September 22, 2008
Curator: Jamie Shannon
Mathew Den Boer: Symmetry
Amish Morrell: Nude Hiking
Victoria Kent: Maybe space stations, maybe something else

August 18, 2008
Curator: Carl Wilson
Erella Ganon: Friendship 202
Jesse Huskien: The Curta Calculator: Its Construction, History and Aura
Jody Rosen: The Jody Grind

July 21, 2008
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Athena Karkanis: Beauty Pageants in Colombia
Jamie Travis: The Female Teenage Babysitter and her Young Charge
Neil Waldman: Why people turn to cooking as a second career

June 1, 2008 (in New York at The Slipper Room)
Curator: Sheila Heti
Drawings of your soul or swimming pool by Ted Mineo and Colleen Asper

Margaux Williamson: The Soul
Guy Lesser: Swimming Pools
Amanda Filipacchi: Dr. Fish

June 2008
Curator: Lauren Bride
All lectures written by Lauren Bride
Angelika Pietruk: Observations on Lakeview
Laura McCoy: How we talk about the Sky at Night
Kathleen Phillips: Why the Blues

May 12, 2008
Curator: Becky Johnson
All three lectures researched members of Becky Johnson's family, who they had not met before, and gave lectures about them.
Emily Halfon: Devin "Kit" Johnson (Becky's brother)
Michael Balazo: Edward "Ted" Johnson (Becky's father)
Carl Wilson: Anne Theresa Garber (née Hershoran) (Becky's mother)

April 14, 2008
Curator: Jon McCurley
James Joyce: Passive Resistance
Lou Calabro: The word "like"
Simone Schmidt: The Cancer Industry

March 10, 2008
Curator: Laurie McGregor
Adam Bunch: Not being naked
Laurie McGregor (no relation): Being Laurie McGregor
Christopher McKinnon: Beavers in Chile and elsewhere

Feb 25, 2008 (in San Francisco at 12 Galaxies)
Curators: Sarah Robayo-Sheridan and Margaux Williamson
Veronica Graham: How to perform surgery if you have gangrene
Brett Hoff: UFOs and US elections
Raimundas Malasauskas: How to Avoid Public Appearances
Set design by David Yun and Sarah Wylie Ammerman

Feb 11, 2008
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Anand Rajaram: Shaving
David Jager: Japanese Cuspers
Marni Lifshen: Unrecognized States

Jan 14, 2008
Curator: Jon McCurley
Oliver Husain: The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
Bonny Poon: Doing It To Death
Gerry Campbell: Impostor Syndrome

December 10, 2007
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Jordan Tannahill: Bravislovia (a made up country)
Daniel Arci: brain hacking
Desmond Cole's: "Jesus was a cunt"

November 19, 2007
Curator:Alex Snukal
Jonathan Adjemian: Communal Living During the English Revolution
Jen Hutton: Doorstops
Danielle Allen: How to Say More Without Speaking

October 22, 2007 (At Fort York) (Comic book show)
Curator: Becky Johnson
Leah Buckareff: Hyperbolic Crochet
Waylen Miki: Robotism
Jacob Zimmer: Diverse Curiosity

September 10, 2007
Curator: Lauren Bride
Paul Baines: Squirmishness
Souvankham Thammavongsa: A Small Problem
Amanda Burt: Animal Navigation

Aug 13, 2007
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Vicki Stroich: The Romantic Hero Today: Who Cares?
Joanna Falck: Judy Blume
Marcus Bornfreund: Wedding Rings

July 9, 2007
Curator: Dave Meslin
Phil Sarazen: A 21st Century approach to God
Kevin Clarke: Early childhood education
Jenny Keith: tba

June, 2007
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)

May 14, 2007
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Kristen Aspevig: Artificial Intelligence
Diane Borsato: Fungus
Eugene Slonimerov: Why you can only write songs when you're sad.

April 16, 2007
Curator: Becky Johnson
Cathy Gordon: Slut Profiling
Paul Banwatt: Afflictions/Messages from God
Michal Grajewski: The Negative Impact of Pedestrians on the Environment

March 12, 2007
Ideals and Idealism
Curator: Lauren Bride

Murray Enkin: My youthful search for truth, and what I ended up with
Amy C. Lam: "Money or Garbage"
Timothy Comeau: Morality and Idealism

Feb 12, 2007
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Chris Lee: self-refereeing
Jessica Edwards: hunting
B. Soonstra: mercantilism and department stores

Dec 11, 2006
Curator: Sholem Krishtalka
Craig Rodmore: quotations and things people have said
David Bronstein: jocks
Alexis Diamond: the Victorian gentlemen's club for the 21st century

Nov 13, 2006
Curator: Alex Snukal
Matt Smith: Voting by Chance
Jenny Florence: Amazonian exploration mishaps
Jon McCurley: provides a history of his own face

October 16, 2006
Curator: Lauren Bride
"What is your place in the world?"

Julia Tausch: What is my place in my friends' worlds?
Jeoff Bull: What is your place in my world?
Chris Randle: What is my brother's place in World of Warcraft?

Aug 21, 2006
Curator: Alex Pugsley
Pike Wright: her mother's obsession w. bear maulings.
Flora Wood: worksite accidents
Pazit Cahlon: smell: past, present and future

July 10, 2006
Portraits by Lee Towndrow
Roxana Vahed presents
Tom Kerr: Canadian superheroes in American comics
Tom Kerr presents
Nenad Jovanovic: Flea circuses, both real and fraudulent
Nenad Jovanovic presents:
Roxana Vahed: Why do we draw hearts the way we do?

June 5, 2006
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Andy Hamilton: Bike theft in Toronto
Jess Dobkin: Colorblindness
Josh Block: Songs that get stuck in your head

May 8, 2006
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Peggy Gale: Some transcribed conversations from around 20 years ago
Brian Mallette: Nature
Amy Langstaff: Etiquette

April 10, 2006
Curator: Ulysses Castellanos
Milosh Rodic: Tony Robbins
Alvaro Castellanos: Why doing things for free is conducive to success
David Liss: Norwegian Black Metal

March 13, 2006
Love

Curator: Lauren Bride
Ulysses Castellanos: Love vs. Creativity
Kate Kennedy: Love as explained by the Pope and Archie comics
Jesse Brown: Hasidic speed dating

February 13, 2006
Curator: Alex Snukal
Alex Wolfson: Barry Goldwater and American Conservatism
Adam Lauder: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Bojana Stanic: Stalin

January 16, 2006
Curator: Kirstan Azan
Stephanie Abbot: I am a short girl
Chris Whitley: Mr. Maa: Hero or Menace?
Luke Wilson: What Would Jesus Do

December 15, 2005
Tickets only. No show

November 21, 2005
Curator: Becky Johnson
Makesi Arthur: Time and a Finite Universe
Zeesy Powers: The Oneida Commune
Aitor Coria: The Lawn

October 17, 2005
Curator: Eugene Slonimerov
Becky Johnson: The Letterpress (w. Jerry Schaefer)
Timothy Luginbuhl: The Fear
Josh Thorpe: The Opossum

September 19, 2005
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Sholem Krishtalka: Complaining
Angela Dizes: Slowness
Otino Corsano: The Statue of Liberty

August 15, 2005
Sleep
Curator: Sophie Afriat
Ben Freedman: Insomnia and demonic possession.
Deanna Bowlby: Call for school to start later.
Matt Price: Interviews a narcoleptic, an insomniac and a sleepwalker (Heidi Hamilton, Buffy Childerhose, and Abi Slone).
Live sleeping humans (Get names)

July 18, 2005
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Aleysa Young: Teenage Girls and Their Diaries
Kirsten Azan: Migration Patterns of New Torontonians
Harry Kopyto: Weigh Scales

June 2, 2005
Curator: Eugene Slonimerov
Nicole Greenblatt: Being late
Jamie Shannon: Dog breeding
Izida Zorde: Stealing

May 2, 2005
Curator: Alex Puglsey
Matthew Lella: Why we need more time zones.
Jacob Tierney: The New Russia and the Old Me
Ken Babstock: Tinned sardines

April 18, 2005
Curator: Lauren Bride
Anna Linda Siddall: Freisland
Maggie Maloney: Lego
Lindsay Gibbm: The Alphebetization of Bramalea

March 21, 2005
Curator: Buffy Childerhose
Roberto Veri: Children's books
Kathryn Borel: People and their names
Haroon Hassan: U.S government farm subsidies

Jan/Feb 2005: No shows

December 13, 2004
Sheila's last show
Adam Sol: Fantasy Sports Leagues
Matt Collins: Revolutionary email poetry
Katerina Cizek: Floods

November 15, 2004
Amanda Miller: Cake
Ben Cormier: Origins of everyday expressions
Chris Adeney: Traveling alone and with friends in the modern world.

October 18, 2004
Curator: Lauren Bride
Sheila Hanlon: Mudlarks
Richard Marcellus: Sermons from Mount Chingcousay
Patrick Thornton: The Ontario Driver's License System

September 20, 2004
First show w. Sneaky Dee's as our permanent venue
Sherwin Tija: Those Missing Girls (lecturing on missing children posters)
Alex Snukal: The Death of Mama Cass (about fatness)
Tamara Faith Berger: Female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Does it matter how we die?

TORONTO VENUE TOUR

August 16 2004: AGO
Maggie MacDonald: "A Bling is not a Thing"
Dave Meslin: Drinking Games
Tao Drayton: Hugging people

July 19 2004: Sneaky Dee's
Curator: Lauren Bride
David Regan: The Six-Month Separation of 1977
Desiree Wells: Clumsiness
Loryl MacDonald: In Defense of the Potato

June 2004: Rockit
Shayam Selvaduri: Chairs in colonial India
Katarina Gligorevic: Carrier pigeons
Lee Towndrow: The Assassination of

May 2004: Cinecycle
Jane Wells: Children's games
Beatriz Yuste: Machu Pichu if you can
James O'Reilly: Uranium City

April 2004: Rockit
Tyler Clark Burke: My Grandfather
Lee Henderson: Freeloading
Julian Holland: WHO Suicide & Para-Suicide Statistics

March 2004: Silver Dollar Room
Brian Joseph Davis: Wood paneling: Did we say goodbye too soon?
Neil Wedman: Watching a film at least twelve times
Erica Kopyto: Malapropisms and social climbing

February 2004: Gladstone Hotel
Nadia Ross: Intelligent cooperation
Dr. Gabor Mate: Hiding behind the role of knower
Chrisian Moreton: No longer a choirboy

January 2004
Mariko Tomaki: Saying goodbye
Rachel Bokhout: Forts
Mehmet Umsal: Seeking asylum

December 2003
Lisa Gabriele: Being a hero
Louis Marrone: The radius of circles
Jack Blum: Jews at Christmas

November 2003
David Miller vs. Trampoline Hall with David Miller
Jane Jacobs, Daniel MacIvor, Luis Jacob, Nino Ricci, Deanne Taylor and Semi Chellas as Timekeeper

October 2003
Doug Saunders: Atopicality
Andrew Kaufman: Molly Ringwald
Matt Crookshank: Getting away with it

September 2003
Lauren Bride: My Grandmother
Ryan Kamstra: Global economics and the schoolyard in my dreams
Jerry Waese: My brain theory

August 2003
Doug Bell: Ranting before breakfast
Caroline Dionne: Genderbending
Ruby Zagorskis: Hikikomori syndrome

July 2003
Arianne Robinson: Nudity
Ian Morfitt: The ranters
Bobby Hsu: The art of ducking

June 2003
Anton Piatigorsky: Avoiding Feeling Fineberg
Lauren Piech: Vegas and what people want
Jacqui Clydesdale: Why we shouldn't climb Mt. Everest

May 2003
Andre Alexis: Memorizing Dante
Esteban Uribe: Traveling
Semi Chellas: Infinity and my father

April 2003
Sean Dixon: The malleable personality
Adam Pasquella: Texas
Lynne Valeriote: A cereal you can't get here

March 2003
Christian Bailey: Conviction & Certainty
Alex Pusgley: The physicist friend
Morwyn Brebner: The nuclear threat

February 2003
Andrew Johnson: Falling asleep in movies
Kate Rae: Dry humping
Jeanne Randolf: Pivot: an improvised lecture

January 2003
Victor Hymen: Gossip is worse than pork
Elizabeth Renzetti: Horse racing
Sean K. Robb: Wrestling in the 20th century

December 2002
Jane Farrow: Vacation pics
Ron Cunnane: Procrastination
Carly Street as Starlee Kine: A reenactment of the rundown

November 2002
Trampoline Hall U.S. Tour

October 2002
Gustavo Escobedo: Bokassa and cannibalism in the CAR
Jenny Armour: Uncohabited marrieds
Matias Rozenberg: Silence

September 2002
It is Yom Kippur. Boiled chicken is served
John Stiles: Apple picking in the Annapolis valley
Ruby King: Time and temping
Steve Kado: The coelacanth

August 2002
An evening of lectures about Patrick Roscoe
Andrew Morrow (shoe analysis)
Chris Turner (obituaries)
Jim Downs (private eye)
Dr. Dan Perlitz (psychoanalyst)
Panellists Mo Al-Nuaimy, Judith Parker and Dr. Kenneth Montague

July 2002
The Eye - set by Ben Portis
Tony Burgess: Blind spots
Darren O'Donnell: Eye contact
Catherine Osborne: Food photography

June 2002
Chris Turner: Pen cults
Halli Villegas: The pleasures of fashion ads
Kevin Temple: Levinas and the waiter-server relationship


May 2002
Miss Trampoline Hall What Is Beauty? Pageant

April 2002
Sunday Muise: Orphans
Luke Kirby: All the girls I loved before high school
Mary Lewis: The meaning of life

March 2002
The Utopias lecture. Their moms answer questions.
Blaise Wigglesworth: Man, Superman, and me
Duane Wall: Cameraworld
Leo Salloum: Rallying the 3rd grade

February 2002
Kevin Connolly: UFO abductions
Gabriel Heti: My liver transplant
Richard Rosenbaum: Art + magic

January 2002
Linor David: Suburban edens
Matthew MacFadzean: The number 32
Sigrid Johnson: How sweet to be an idiot

December 2001
Peter Lynch: Female poisoners of 18th c. France
Julia Rosenberg: Why I hate the idea of God
Guy Tanentzapf: Love is stronger than death


(All shows from 2001 to 2004 curated by Sheila Heti, unless indicated otherwise)