TRAMPOLINE HALL TORONTO LECTURES
November 4, 2024
Curator: Maxwell Matchim
Set Designer: Jessica Beketa
Lauren Stasyna - The Most Powerful Character in Shrek
Rachel Marie - Francis Ford Coppola's 'One from the Heart'
Kat Zoumboulakis - Vests
October 7, 2024
Curator: Lee Suksi
Set Designer: Lena Rubisova
Delilah Rosier - Impressions
Babak Lakghomi - Germany
Vannessa Barnier - Maybe my Spell actually Worked
August 12, 2024
Curator: Margot Fabre
Set Designers: Nilou Ghaemi and Seden Lai
Cody Caetano - Imagine romanticizing wasaga
Akash Bansal - Do nice guys finish last?
Sara Legg - Desire and late Web 1.0
July 8, 2024
Curator: Claire McGee
Set Designer: Claire McGee
Zoe Abrams - Remarkable Events from the TTC Since 1986
Leslie Predy - Nuggets of Truth and Hidden Meanings
Avi Kraimer - History of “The New Math”
May 13, 2024
Curator: Sam Shearman
Set Designer: Chico Togni
Paul Dotey - National Geographic
Liam Crockard - Soup
Julian Higuerey Nunez - How to Name A Chair
April 10, 2024
Curator: Neil Coletta
Set Designer: Paul Dotey
Anya Abramczyk - Cool Handshakes
Saarthak Saxena - Saying Nothing
Katrina Lat - Funnel Cake
March 4, 2024
Curator: Kyle Buckley
Set Designer: Chris Harms
Will Manning - Transitioning
Meredith White - Eels
Brendan Thomas - The Taoist principle, We Wei
January 8, 2024
Curator: Shari Kasman
Jack Breakfast - Any Good Birds Around?
Gabe Kastner - Choosing the Perfect Topic
Michelle Winters - My Life With the ConAir Pro Style
November 13, 2023
Curator: Lauren Barnes
Erica Stocking - Jiggling Moldavite
Alex Borkowski - Vanderpump Rules
Maxwell Matchim - Belleville, Ontario
October 16, 2023
Curator: Lee Suksi
Emily Wood - Sucking
Raheleh Abbasinejad - Worthless Passport
Jill Connell - Making Capes
August 14, 2023
Curator: Cason Sharpe
Sennah Yee - F1
Strong & Silent - Esme’ Hogeveen
Gen Z - Kalale Dalton-Lutale
July 3, 2023
Curator: Chantal Braganza
Canice Leung - How to Poop in the Woods
Natasha M.H. - Gods & Toys
H.G. Watson - Small Stories
May 8, 2023
Curator: Shari Kasman
Sets: Stephanie Avery
Nadia Halim - Communicating with Ghosts
Martin Reis - Notes from a Backseat Driver
Beth Biederman: Bagels: The Hole Story
April 3, 2023
Curator: Neil Coletta & Alison Lang
Simon Borer - So You Have to Give a Eulogy
Lindsay Duncan - Lessons from a Marilyn Monroe Impersonator
Adam Chen - I Live for the Soggy
February 6, 2023
Curator: Chris Frey
Make Takasaki - Hot Dog vs. Hotdog
Amy Blaxland - Tragedy as Fetish
Patrick Pittman - Street View as Time Machine
January 9, 2023
Curator: Adam Chen
Matti Thurlin - K-Pop’s Dad
Laura Gallagher-Doucette - Birding Is Best Without A List
Adam Zendel - I Bet on Broken Things
November 7, 2022
Curator: Neil Coletta
Niko Stratis - Fast Food Humanity
Fernando Marto - Gravity
Jessica Bebenek - I’m Only Sleeping
October 3, 2022
Curator: Zak Jones
Phillip Dwight Morgan: IQ Tests as Social Currency
Phoebe Wang: The Points of Sail and Moving Relative to Wind
Jonathan Schachter: ★★★☆☆
July 11, 2022
Curator: Neil Coletta
Megan Arnold: Probably not, but MAYBE because of the Crystal
Ann Rosenfield: I was The Golden Plum of Wuhan
Paul Uy: That's When I Came Up with Amy
June 6, 2022
Curator: Neil Coletta
Arianne Shaffer: Same Same but Mist It: The Slippery World of Skincare
Zak Jones: Nostalgia
Adam Chen: Hyperpop: The New Punk?
April 18, 2022
Curator: Neil Coletta
Zoe Daniels: Saab 900 Turbo, Best Car of My Life
Shreya Kharbanda: Pinnis: Sweets and Place
Zak Jones: Love and Hijacking
March 21, 2022
Curator: Neil Coletta
Alison Lang: Live Journal
Sukhpreet Sangha: Bridges: Why do I love them so much?
Claire McGee: Unsolicited Advice in a Decaying World. Also, Steven Tyler’s Parenting
September 21, 2021
THE BENTWAY
Curator: Emily M. Keeler + Charles Yao
Claire Foster: Stammering
Alex Wong: Collecting
Huda Hassan: Nina Simone
Tickets by Jillian Kovacik.
March 8, 2021
VIRTUAL TRAMPOLINE HALL #5
Curator: Emily M. Keeler + Charles Yao
Cason Sharpe: Slash & Lenny
Set by 135 Studio, Tickets by Nam Phi Dang
February 8, 2021
VIRTUAL TRAMPOLINE HALL #4
Curator: Jordan Sowunmi
Elliat Albrecht: The Evolution of TV Makeovers
Set by Reiko Cunningham, Tickets by Laura Pitt
January 11, 2021
VIRTUAL TRAMPOLINE HALL #3
Curator: Lauren Bride
Kiva Reardon: HBO Bro Shows
Set by Ashley Bedet, Tickets by Brian St. Denis
October 5, 2020
VIRTUAL TRAMPOLINE HALL #2
Curator: Lauren Bride
Alex Hughes: "Am I *Actually* Smarter Than the AI That Was Published in 'The Guardian'?"
Set by Katherine Ross, Tickets by Diana Nguyen
April 27, 2020
VIRTUAL TRAMPOLINE HALL #1
Curator: Lauren Bride
Sean Wainsteim: "Snikting and Bamfing"
Set by Kate Barss, Tickets by Charles Yao
March 9, 2020
Curator: Buffy Childerhose
Kathryn Lipprott: How do you do? A Navigation of Manners with a WASP
Alyesha Miller: Journey to a Designah Vagina: Trans Edition
Len Senater: The Magic Music of the Telharmonium
Set by Amélie Lorente; Tickets by Alex Warrender
February 9, 2020
Curator: Owen Pallett
Irfan Ali: Might, Magic, & Misandry
Marlowe Granados: The Impossibilities of Glamour & Dating
Liz Hysen: Sign Language Solo
Set by Emanuel Alec Ilagan; Tickets by Tristan Marantos
January 6, 2020
Curator: Jordan Sowunmi
Alice Blackwell: Magician Story
Melissa Vincent: The Ongoing History of White Men Dragging Other White Men
Vidal Wu: Of Moose, Men and Me: Abercrombie and Fitch
Set by Charles Yao; Tickets by Carmel Garvez
December 2, 2019
Curator: Aliya Pabani
Angela Shackel: Angela Lansbury
Kristin Li: The 20-year Nostalgia Cycle
Brandon Ash-Mohammed: Post Madonna Prima Donna
Set by Alley Kurgan; Tickets by Tristan Marantos
November 4, 2019
Curator: Carl Wilson
Liisa Ladouceur: "Shhhh: Sporting While Goth"
Shari Kasman: "If You Wish to Become Taller"
Owen Pallett: "The Perfect Tomato Sauce"
Set by Melissa Fisher-Rozenburg; Tickets by Kate Barss
October 7th, 2019
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Priscilla Chataika: Having 6 Step-mothers
Ausma Malik: Being Defined by Birth Order
Seth Bernstein: On Scrupling
Set by Margot Fabre; Tickets by Marielle Tolentino
Sept 9, 2019
Curator: Aley Waterman
Allison Graves: Love Island
Johnny Spench: "Take that damn pipe out of your mouth, you rat"
Prathna Lor: Luck and Ordinariness
Set by Jess Atkinson; Tickets by Nick Melnick
July 8, 2019
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Lauren Barnes: Hummingbird Migration
Nina Levitt: Mistaken Identities
Madhava Enros: Oak Trees Require Planning
Set by Maxwell Galley; Tickets by Amanda Happé and Tristan Marantos
June 3, 2019
Curator: Erin Klassen
Kathryn Bondy: What to do when your Pluto is in Scorpio
Ameema Saeed: To All the Teen Books I've Loved Before
Braden Alexander: On Leaving Everything Behing
Set by Hudson Christie; Tickets by Kate Barss
May 6, 2019
Curator: Lauren Bride
Megan Franklyne: Heal Appeal
Jade Blair: Falling
Ryan V. Hays - Cultivating Epiphanies
Set by Katherine Ross; Tickets by Sarah Paul
April 8, 2019
Curator: Emily M.Keeler + Charles Yao
Chantal Braganza: "La Cucina Futurista"
Laura Fisher: The Porky Feast
Anupa Mistry: The Bind
Set by Ansel Schmidt & Nilou Ghaemi; Tickets by Caitlin Hammond March 4, 2019
Curator: jes sachse
Esther Splett: Hard to Love
Elwood Jimmy - The Art of Knowing
Kiera Boult - The Emancipation of Kiki
Set by Sarah MacKinnon; Tickets by Jill Holmberg
February 4, 2019
Curator: Angela Shackel & Braden Labonte
Stella Isaac: 23 & Me
Stefan Harhay: Humans: oh man, so great, just the best
Allie Graham: "Does Anyone Know Who That Is?"
Set by Brandon Celi & Emily O Dynes; Tickets by Nick Hanlon + Caitrin Pilkington
January 7, 2019
Curator: Jordan Sowunmi
Chris Locke: The Psychology of Envy
Sarah Hagi: Bootleg Culture
Kyrell Grant: The Red Hot Chili Papers
Set by Flavia Lopez; Tickets by Tristan Marantos & Amanda Happé.
December 10, 2018
Curator: Kate Barss
Sunjay Mathuria: Degrassi Junior High
Emma Healey: Half-Time Basketball
Temma Pinkofsky: The Hole in My Ceiling
Set by Christian Edejer; Tickets by Tristan Marantos & Amanda Happé.
November 5, 2018
Curators: Amy Lam and Aliya Pabani
Steffanie Ling: Uber Everywhere
Emerson Maxwell: I was a teen hippy snob
Rollie Pemberton "Cadence Weapon": Soul Food
Set by Matthew Sabloff; Tickets by Melanie Muto
October 15, 2018
Curator: Kate Barss
Hadiya Roderique: Brains and Beyoncé
Aley Waterman: Dilettantism: Approaching the Concept of Experience
Tommy Marshall: The Importance of Being Ernest: Life Lessons from the Work of Jim Varney
Set by Robert Anthony O'Halloran; Tickets by Ali Qadeer
September 17, 2018
Curator: Angela Shackel & Braden Labonte
Samantha Viarruel: Empaths, Rupaul's Drag Race, and Emotional Porn
Nick Nemeroff: How to book a commercial by a guy who's never booked a commercial
Jenny Laiwint: I should've been Anne
Set by Odran McAtamney; Tickets by Chris Lange
August, 2018
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 9, 2018
Curator: Carl Wilson
Carleigh Pope: Crosswords
Bonnie Bowman: Coulrophobia
Chris Frey: Running in Madness, Dying in Love: How Japanese radical politics went porn
Set by Daphne Chan & Lucy Wowk; Tickets by James Braithwaite
June 4, 2018
Curator: Yuula Benivolski
Matt Cully: How I Met My Mother
Marjie Francis: Needle Fists Forever
Shellie Zhang: Life lessons from the Simpsons
Set by Tom Lowery; Tickets by Kevin Roberts
May 7, 2018
Curator: Aliya Pabani
Natalia Zdaniuk: Entitlement
Celeste Yim: I Want to be Haunted
Jonathan Goldsbie: The Music in Mean Girls
Set by Amanda Happé; Tickets by Tristan Marantos
April 9, 2018
Curator: Lauren Bride
Vida Beyer: Horror for Children and the Era of Don Bluth Aesthetics
Vanessa Fischer: My life as a alien: a journey into afrofuturism
Theresa Ramirez: Making Friends
Set by Daniel Epstein; Tickets by Ali Qadeer & Hailey Kuckein
March 5, 2018
Curator: Aley Waterman
Darrel Gamotin: Self Care
Zac Schwartz: A Life in Flowers
Camille Rojas: The Art of Public Speaking
Set by Katherine Ross; Tickets by Kaila Jacques
February 5, 2018
Curator: Danielle St-Amour
Stacey Ho: MATHS
Alize Zorlutuna: A History of Flavours
Walter Scott: Some Alternative Healing Practices I Have Tried, and Their Effectiveness
Set by Maria Bui; Tickets by Jess Leong
January 8, 2018
Curators: Emily Keeler and Charles Yao
Ali Shamas Qadeer: Brainwashing
Jordan Sowunmi: African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Rudrapriya Rathore: Mentorship
Set and tickets by Amanda Happé and Tristan Marantos
December 4, 2017
Curator: Sagan MacIsaac
Mina James: Cooking Culture
Geneviève Wallen: Gardening and Mental Health
Layne Hinton: Self Storage
Set by Amanda Happé; Tickets by Benjamin Lory
November 6, 2017
Curator: Carl Wilson
Anthony Easton: Babies and Other Queer Problems
Kate McGee: Converting to Judaism
David James Brock: Assassins of American Assassins
Set by Amanda Happé; Tickets by Hélio Teles
October 16, 2017
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Michael Dila: "You're Dead to Me"
Andrea Vela Alarcón: The International Marriage
Michael Solberg Schellenberg: How Stephen Sondheim Saved My Life
Set by Clapboard House (Carmel Garvez and Yahlehly); Tickets by Marvin Candle
September 18, 2017
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Max FineDay: Resilience and Indigenous Humour
Audrey Dwyer: The Literal Void
Lewis Poplak: Why we don't implement good ideas - case study, the bike
Set and tickets by Amanda Happé and Tristan Marantos.
August, 2017
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 10, 2017
Curator: Yuula Benivolski
Zoë Dodd: Rent is Theft
Dobrila Tomic: Letters from my Attorney
Asad Raza: That Time I Moved to Canada and Faked a British Accent for a Year
Set by Lena Rubisova; Tickets by Jaime Sugiyama
June 5, 2017
Curator: Angela Shackel & Braden Labonte
Heather White: Footprints in the sands
Logan MacDonald: Advantages of not listening
Mide Akerewusi: Why a watched kettle never boils and other fake truths about time
Set by Peter Zweifel; Tickets by Kate Peer
May 8, 2017
Curator: Xenia Benivolski
Su-Ying Lee: Walking in Memphis: Trigger warning "that time I thought I found a murder scene."
Adam Litovitz: Overheard
Amy Jemmett: That feeling when you grew up in a cult
Set by Heather Angell; Tickets by Bonita Mak
April 3, 2017
Curator: Lauren Bride
Meredith Cheesbrough: Genetic Testing
Meghan Swaby: Things We Learned from Freddy Krueger
Mark Aikman: The United Church
Set by Elizabeth Czartoryski
March 6, 2017
Curator: Carl Wilson
Katie Krelove: 1977
Sasha Chapin: The Worst Record in Outer Space
Susana Bejar: Phosphenes
Tickets by Katherine Ross; Set by Aubyn O'Grady
February 6, 2017
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Jasmine Miller: On Being Useful
Jonah Samson: Gardening
Sasha Suda: Crombie Park
Tickets by Amanda Happé and Tristan Marantos;
Set by Claire Cybulski
January 9, 2017
Trampoline Hall Podcast Launch Party
December 12, 2016
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Oona Fraser: Disaster Tourism
Michael Winter: Different things in different locations
Beth Janson: The Stock Market
Tickets by Peter Lee; Set by Emma Tanaka
November 14, 2016
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Maija Martin: Classified
Christopher Pandolfi: THE Tomato
Krister Holmes: Bears in Space
Tickets by Tristan Marantos; Set by Paul Kawai
October 17, 2016
Curator: Yuula Benivolski
Lisa Smolkin: Working Retail
Merray Gerges: Erotic Aesthetics
Casey Mecija: Karaoke as a Method of Filipino Dream-making
Set by Koby Barhad
September 12, 2016
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Pacinthe Mattar: Drake, Code-switching and me
Greg Judelman: Technology Can't Kill Death
Roxanne Bielskis-Wright: What Feels Like Work
Set by Alec Donovan
August, 2016
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 11, 2016
Curator: Xenia Benivolski
Iris Fraser: Pornography
Suzanne Carte: Fighting
Cotey Pope: Photo
Tickets by Julia Dickens; Set by Sebastian Rodriguez
June 6, 2016
Curator: Lauren Bride
Isabel Slone: The Queen
Aurina Chatterji: Turkmenistan
Serah-Marie McMahon: Katy Keene
Set by Chris Braden
May 2, 2016
Curator: Jordan Tannahill
Shaista Latif: Punks
Max Mohenu: Sade
Barbara Fingerote: Conundra
Set by Bryanna Reilly
April 4, 2016
Curator: Angela Shackel and Braden Labonte
Josh Vettivelu: Wrestling
Claire Salloum: The effect our thoughts have on our physical bodies
Mark Mann: Demons
Tickets: Hugh Mater; Set by Michael DiLeo
March 7, 2016
Curator: Jon Davies
Lena Suksi: Men
John G. Hampton: Quantum Anxiety
Maryse Larivière: Personal Pilgrimage
Tickets: Ivana Dizdar; Set by Lola Landekic
February 8, 2016
Curator: Sheila Heti
Mari Ruti: Anxiety
Salvatore Antonio: I was a public speaking champion
Chase Joynt: On having a penis
Tickets: Jay Shuster; Set by Raylene Knutson
January 11, 2016
Curator: Yuula Benivolski
Aliya Pabani: Laughing in Public
Judy Virago: The Last Unicorn
Jeff Bierk: Graves' Disease
Tickets: Stephanie Fielding; Set by Liz Went & Bryanna Reilly
December 7, 2015
Curator: Jordan Tannahill
Anne Wessels: Kiwi
Jes Sachse: The Avro Arrow
Andil Gosine: Cardigan vs. Hoodie
Tickets: Cameron Lee and Ben Poirier; Set by Codrin Talaba
November 16, 2015
Curator: Sheila Heti
Craig Penney: The lost art of making fun of people
Juliet Jacques: The prime minister and the pig
Jess Shane: Some weather we're having
Tickets: Morgan Detmer; Set by Helio Teles
October 26, 2015
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Daniel Gallay: Glamour
Heather Scanlan: Bees
Heather Rule: Love (sort of)
Tickets: Zoë Alexis-Abrams; Set by Amanda Happé
September 28, 2015
Curator: Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam & Jon McCurley
Kathleen McLean: My Gay 90s
Onyeka Igwe: The Golden Notebook
Inez Genereux: I'm Not Going Anywhere Tonight
Tickets: Su-Ying Lee; Set by Blair Johnsrude
August 10, 2015
Curator: Mark Reale
John Maden: The unintended consequences of human association
Solomon Hsu: Names
Christopher Hirst: The opportunities of social isolation
Tickets: Morris Fox; Set by Alex Viault
July 6, 2015
Curator: Xenia Benivolski
Juliann Wilding: Emo
Jay Shuster: Cats
Marianna Reis: Jeopardy
Set by Kristina Ljubanovic
June 8, 2015
Curator: Erica Kopyto
David Primack: Emotional Response to Sound
Miranda Elliott: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Jonathan Sas: Privilege and the Canadian Summer
Tickets: Meghan O'Neill; Set by Benjamin Lory
May 11, 2015
Curator: Lauren Bride
Neil LaPierre: Gamergate
Zoë Solomon: Stage Fright
Daniel Rotsztain: Capers
Tickets: Eunice Luk; Set by Odette Beja
April, 2015
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
March 2, 2015
Curator: Sheila Heti
Naben Ruthnum: Your Old Man
Susan Swan: Bad Decisions
Tova Benjamin: Virtual Rebbe
Tickets: Jessica Valentin; Set by Tristan Marantos
February 2, 2015
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Wanda Ely: My Poker Career
Frank Griggs: Shape Note Singing
Andi Larocca: Chips
Tickets: Amy Siegel and Paul Henderson; Set by Aaron Rinas
January 12, 2015
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Barri Cohen: Twitter Agonistes
Stephanie Fielding: Grandpa's Cottage
Julia Mensink: I can't handle this
Tickets: Joelle Walinga; Set by Kar Yan Cheung
December 1, 2014
Curator: Jon Davies
Cait McKinney: The Many Wives of Martina Navratilova
Sarah Febbraro: Why I Really Need to Know How You're Doing
Fan Wu: Steering Towards Queerness
Tickets: Brette Gabel; Set by Justin Close
November 3, 2014
Curator: Sheila Heti
Laura Di Vilio: Filtering the World Through a Lazy Eye
Mira Gonzalez: Nurturing Depression
Nikolai Ostonal: Being Blind
Tickets: Melissa Fisher; Set by Michaud Garneau
October 6, 2014
Curator: Lauren Bride
Anni Spadafora: The Southern Ontario Circuit
Kaleb Roberston: Adventures in Masculinity
Kate Allen: Fame
Tickets: Sebastian Koever; Set by Heather Goodchild
September 8, 2014
Curator: Naomi Skwarna
Anna Fitzpatrick: Pinball
Nicholas Hune-Brown: Impostors
Monica Heisey: Burritos
Tickets: Simon Schlesinger; Set by Adrienne Kammerer
August, 2014
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 7, 2014
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Carla Mundwiller: Utopian Community
Jon Davies: Stay the Same Never Change
Cameron North: My Life as a Contestant
Tickets: Erin Pehlivan; Set by Amanda Happé
June 9, 2014
Curator: Becky Johnson
David Dineen-Porter: The Northern Vowel Shift
Kalpna Patel: Spelling Bees
Freddie Rivas: How to Stay Positive on Welfare
Tickets: Zoe Alexis-Abrams; Set by The Sufferettes
May 5, 2014
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Gemma Foley: Manic Pixie Dream Girl
John Mutu-Grigg: First Nations Tourism
Adam Lazarus: The Uncanny Valley
Tickets: Cameron Stott; Set by Alicia Nauta
April 7, 2014
Curator: Naomi Skwarna
Scaachi Koul: Straight White Men
Catherine Ribeiro: The New Amorous World
Kayla Lorette: Mother/Daughter Experience
Tickets: Dan Rocca; Set by Kelly Jenkins and Amanda Happé
March 10, 2014
Curator: Xenia Benivolski
Thom Gill: Mary Magadelene
James Gardner: Lighters
Sue Johnson: Doppelgangers
Tickets: Nicholas Robins; Set by Michaud Garneau
February 10, 2014
Curator: Mark Slutsky
Michael Stacey: Dentistry
Sarah Goodman: Anxiety
Adam Nayman: Wrestling Referees
Tickets: Vincent Vining; Set by Zoe Solomon
January 6, 2014
Curator: Jordan Tannahill
Cameron Lee: Courtney Love
Erin Brubacher: Power Jewellery
Alec Toller: Friend Therapy
Tickets: Dessa Harhay; Set by Jordan Tannahill
December 9, 2013
Curator: Naomi Skwarna
Cian Cruise: My Dad is cooler than me
Alexandra Molotkow: Impaled On a Spike Outside The Gates of Hell
Andrew Shaver: "even to the edge of doom"
Tickets: Anuta Skrypnychenko; Set by Michaud Garneau
November 4, 2013
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Sam Cotter: Urban Strategies for Howling Into the Void
Derek Leebosh: The Travel Bug
Kim North: Kindergarten
Tickets: Adrienne Kammerer; Set by The Misanthrope Specialty Co.
October 7, 2013
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Tess Girard: Fear and Fear Itself
Matthew McKinnon: Whatever Happened to Hardcore?
Darren Patrick: Trauma Narratives
Tickets: Sarah Friend; Set by Heather Goodchild
September 9, 2013
Curator: Lauren Bride
Bridget Moser: DaVinci's Inquest
Mark Connery: State Legibility
Chris Berube: Sham Psychics
Tickets: Aubyn O'Grady; Set by Naomi Skwarna
August, 2013
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 8, 2013
Curator: Mark Reale
Collin Gribbons: Street Golf: The Beautiful Game
Zemina Meghji: Humans and Robots
Adil Dhalla: Sleepovers at the Office
Tickets: Sebastian Butt; Set by Kelly Jenkins
June 3, 2013
Curator: Naomi Skwarna
Theo Gallaro: The Masking of the Histories
Jared Bland: Cannibalism
Julia Michiko Hori: Hand-Made Love
Tickets: Sarah Bodri; Set by Michaud Garneau
May 6, 2013
Curator: Lynn Crosbie
Andrew Mbaruk: Quails
Leanne Delap: The Young and The Restless
Fred Flahiff: The Godfather Part III
Tickets: Matthew Robin Nye; Set by Alison Creba
April 8, 2013
Curators: Amy Lam and Jon McCurley
John Bell: The Zen of Queen Street
Katia de Pena: Living in a Haunted House
Third Lecturer TBD
Tickets: Sarah Kilpack; Set by Xenia Benivolski
March 4, 2013
Curator: Amy Langstaff
Christina Bagatavicius: Hoarding the Best: Life as a Maximizer
David Jamieson: Metacognitive Mismatch & Relationship Strife
Sheila Murray: Brown's Town, My Dad's Town
Tickets: Diana Lynn VanderMeulen; Set by (The) Misanthrope Specialty Co.
February 4, 2013
Curator: Becky Johnson
Joel Buxton: What Makes a Hit
Tara Bursey: Cheesecake
Serena McCarroll: Invisible Problems
Tickets: Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson; Set by Heather Goodchild
January 7, 2013
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Sarah Treleaven: The Backyard Chicken
Mitch Smolkin: The History of Dentures
Hannah Wise: Laughing When Things Are Not Funny
Tickets: Meichen Waxer; Set by Michaud Garneau
December 3, 2012
Curator: Sholem Krishtalka
Scott Harrison: Boredom
Laura Barrett: Game Autobiography
Vanessa Dunn: Survival
Tickets: Cameron Lee; Set by Lauren Bride
November 5, 2012
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Sagan MacIsaac: " Mr. Quigly from grade 9 science: what did I miss?"
Haide Aide: World / Spiritual History
Lesley Grant: Midlife Crises
Tickets: Yuula Benivolski; Set by Heather Goodchild
October 1, 2012
Curator: Mark Slutsky
Daniel Perlmutter: The Gym
David Sax: The Path to Glory
Emily Keeler: Dads
Tickets: Evie Epietuszko; Set by Kalpna Patel
September 10, 2012
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Alec Donovan: Satisfaction
Kate Hood: Prison Theatre
Rea McNamara: Jane Fonda Workout
Tickets: Nathaniel Addison; Set by Serena McCarroll
August, 2012
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 9, 2012
Curator: Xenia Benivolski
Matt Soucie: Steamrooms
Jeremy McCormick: Dufferin Mall
Henri Faberge: Naval Culture
Tickets: Zoe Solomon; Set by Michaud Garneau
June 4, 2012
Curator: Steve Kado
Amelia Ehrhardt: The Megabus and Time
Guy Halpern: Omens
Chris Boni: Slomo
Tickets: David Graham; Set by the OCAD Nano Publishing Class, taught by Shannon Gerard
May 7, 2012
Curator: Lauren Bride
Jordan Lewis: The art of sneaking into movies
Yuula Benivolski: "I told you guys I was hardcore"
Damian Rogers: Fuck the now: We need the past and future
Alex Leitch: Mind-controlled flame throwers and feminism
Tickets: Magda Wojtyra; Set by Kelly Jenkins
April 2, 2012
Curator: Jon Davies
Meera Margaret Singh: Decisive Karaoke Moments
Heath Flint: Past Life Regression
Amy Rutherford: Archie Comics
Tickets: Vincent Vining; Set by Lauren Bride
March 5, 2012
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Kyle Wyatt: the electric chair
Dominic Stubbs: Gibraltar Falls
Sophie Hackett: Spanish
Tickets: Adam Cowan; Set by Becky Johnson
Feb 6, 2012
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Simone Bern: Not Liking Music
Samir Khan: Tragedy
Daniel Werb: The Multiverse
Tickets: Sarah D'Angelo; Set by Heather Goodchild
January 29, 2012: At the PuSH Festival in Vancouver
Curator: Lee Henderson
Elizabeth Bachinsky: How Memory Happens.
Mike Archibald: Western Movies of the Nineteen-Thirties
John Anderson: "Sanskrit Is The Güber Lingo"
set by Fruitleather Delong & Jeffro "Statutory" Halliday
January 9, 2012
Curator: Mark Slutsky
Laura Perlmutter: Pleasing Mama Olga
Mayana Slobodian: Cargo Cults
Nadia Moss: Worms
Tickets: Basil Alzeri; Set by Amy Lam
December 5, 2011
Curator: Sholem Krishtalka
Daniel DeSouza: Good Roads
David Balzer: Aging Actresses
Aleesa Cohene: My Security Blanket
Tickets by Vanessa Rieger; Set by Kelly Jenkins
(Starting Dec, 2011: Tickets made by artists from the White House Studio Project)
(Also starting Dec, 2011: This list shows who made the sets, and who made the tickets.There were people making the sets and tickets before that, but they are not reflected on this list. The list apologizes to all those people and hopes they understand)
November 7, 2011
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Stephen Delong: Ritalin
Ilene Sova: Where Are You From?
Helen Spitzer: TBD
October 3, 2011
Curator: Daniel Shapiro
Mike Goldberg: Getting Bad News
Elizabeth Strater: Fertility Talisman
Phil Bredehoeft: Bicycle Law Reform
September 12, 2011
Curator: Sheila Heti
David Heti: Decisiveness
Myera Waese: Being a Yenta
Adina Goldman: Yiddish Proverbs
July/August 2011
Trampoline Hall goes on Book Tour
June 6, 2011
Curator: Steve Kado
Alice Wang: The Seagull
James Klassen: Making love to a mountain
Jesse Laderoute: Carl Sagan, humanist
May 9, 2011
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Dushan Jojkic: Can We All Be Heroes?
Vered Koren: Artistic Temperament
AJ Bond: Forgetting Really Important Things
April 4, 2011
Curator: Alex Snukal
Rob Cruickshank: The History of 3D
Rosemary Heather: Anarchist Assassinations
Nathaniel Wolfson:Suicide Notes
March 7, 2011
Curator: Amy Lam
Anne Abbott: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Glenn Macaulay: Being an Asshole.
Zoe Gordon: Rat Root / Calmus.
February 7, 2011
Curator: Sheila Heti
Gabe Gonda: The Perfect Veal Sandwich
Mark Slutsky: Letting My Balls Drop
Linda Kamerman: Self-Discovery and Apple Crumble
January 10, 2011
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Heather Phenix: Inter-Faith Parents
Tony Halmos: "Why the Fuck Do I Know?"
Rafe MacPherson: Palmistry
December 6, 2010
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Sophie Afriat: Plastic Surgery and the Military
Ryan Reid Millard: How Diaries Could Be Better
Lily Cho: Hobbies
November 15, 2010
Curator: Lauren Bride
Cara Eastcott: The Sept. 2010 Lecture
Sean O'Neill: You & Your Brain
Nobu Adilman: Giant Pandas
October 18, 2010
Curator: Buffy Childerhose
Scott McLaren: The Lazy Sociopath
Muhanned Al-Nuaimy-Barker: What's in a Name?
Rajeev Ruparell: Science, Religion and Faith
September 13, 2010
Curator: Margaux Williamson
SheLagh Fitzgerald: World Conflict as Understood Through a Trip to the Cottage
Cara Eastcott: Malaria, Self-reflection, and the movie "BLOW"
Alex Tigchelaar: Anger Management and Altruistic Dreams
August, 2010
(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)
July 19, 2010
Curator: Kelly Jenkins
Amanda Happe: Winging It
Buffy Childerhose: Lovesickness
Chris Reynolds: My Pet Worms
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 Skwarna: 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: Tupperware
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
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)