It's kind of incredible.
One, it's bizarre to me that I do not have this already at my fingertips. I guess after a while you stop feeling like performing is something you keep track of. Also, I'm typically kind of overwhelmed when a bunch of performances happen at once and I try not to think about them too much.
At the same time, this is my checkered history and it's kind of interesting to know all these things I've done.
Like:
I once drove from Ottawa to Madison Wisconsin in an ACCURA full of semi superheroes.
I've sat on cakes.
I've lipsynched.
I've painted myself blue.
I've hosted.
I've worked with some hilarious peeps.
I used my email account, Facebook, Google searches to put this together and I have a request of reading/festival/series - can you make a page with an archive of your past festivals and performers? It is INCREDIBLY useful to your performers. Mostly the only way to track this stuff down is via email and press, but not all performers get listed in press so then sometimes you have to look at the press and guess: was I there too?
Edgy Women in Montreal has a page of all their past festivals and performers. It is awesome.
I'm including my list down here, if only because then I'll have it some place other than my hard drive.
If you can think of anything I'm missing or if you have not been credited, please let me know.
I'm considering changing the "performer" entries into something unique-ish for each event. Might be a bit wacky and unprofesh thou.
But cute, yes?
Yes.
xo
mariko
Mariko Tamaki
List of performances and appearances
February 2012 – In Absentia/Performer – EXPLAIN YOURSELF! – w Lindy Zucker – Toronto, Ontario
October 25, 2011 – Host – Daniel Clowes & Seth in Conversation – International Festival of Authors – Harbourfront – Toronto, Ontario
July 1, 2011 – Performer - Comedy Girl Inaugural Pride Show - Comedy Bar - Toronto, Ontario
June 27, 2011 – Performer/Host -The Outrageously Sublime Gothic Pride Prom - With David Tomlinson - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
May 9, 2011 – Book Signing - Toronto Comic Art Festival - Toronto, Ontario
January 21, 2011 - Keynote - Telling Stories: Representing Difference/Different Representations - University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
November 2010 – Book Signing - Antwerp Book Fair – Netherlands
June 27, 2011 – Performer/Host -The Outrageously Sublime Gothic Pride Prom - With David Tomlinson - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
May 9, 2011 – Book Signing - Toronto Comic Art Festival - Toronto, Ontario
January 21, 2011 - Keynote - Telling Stories: Representing Difference/Different Representations - University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
November 2010 – Book Signing - Antwerp Book Fair – Netherlands
July 2010 – Instructor - Comics 101 - Creative Writing Intensive - School of Continuing Studies - University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario
July 15-18, 2010 – Performer/Writer - Festival of Words - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
July 3rd, 2010 – Performer/Writer - Proud Voices - PRIDE TORONTO - Toronto, Ontario
July 2, 2010 – Installation/Performer – The Death Show – w Lindy Zucker and David Tomlinson – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Toronto, Ontario
July 15-18, 2010 – Performer/Writer - Festival of Words - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
July 3rd, 2010 – Performer/Writer - Proud Voices - PRIDE TORONTO - Toronto, Ontario
July 2, 2010 – Installation/Performer – The Death Show – w Lindy Zucker and David Tomlinson – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Toronto, Ontario
June 2010 – Performer/Writer - BFF CABARET - “Strawberry and Blueberry” – With Lindy Zucker - Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Ontario
May 2010 – Book Signing - “Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List 2010” - Texas Librarians Association Conference - San Antonio, Texas
March 2010 – Performer – Edgy Challenge – Edgy Women Festival – Montreal, Quebec
May 2010 – Book Signing - “Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List 2010” - Texas Librarians Association Conference - San Antonio, Texas
March 2010 – Performer – Edgy Challenge – Edgy Women Festival – Montreal, Quebec
February 1, 2010 – Performer/Writer - Launch for “OUTSPOKEN” Anthology - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
October 23, 2009 – Transgress!– Ottawa Writers Festival – Ottawa, Ontario
October 23, 2009 – Transgress!– Ottawa Writers Festival – Ottawa, Ontario
September 23, 2009 – Instructor/Writer - Kingston Writer’s Festival - Kingston, Ontario
August 2009 – Book Signing - Barcelona Comic Festival – Barcelona, Spain
August 2009 – Performer/Writer - London Pride Lit - London, Ontario
July 2009 – Performer/Curator – Comics to the Rescue – Scream Literary Festival – Buddies In Bad Times Theatre – Toronto, Ontario
August 2009 – Book Signing - Barcelona Comic Festival – Barcelona, Spain
August 2009 – Performer/Writer - London Pride Lit - London, Ontario
July 2009 – Performer/Curator – Comics to the Rescue – Scream Literary Festival – Buddies In Bad Times Theatre – Toronto, Ontario
June 24, 2009 – Performer - Cheap Queers - Cabaret - Toronto, Ontario
April 27, 2009 – Host – This Is Not A Reading Series – Who’s Your Daddy? Cabaret – Gladstone Hotel – Toronto, Ontario
April 27, 2009 – Host – This Is Not A Reading Series – Who’s Your Daddy? Cabaret – Gladstone Hotel – Toronto, Ontario
February 2009 – Panelist/Book Signing - New York Comic Con - New York, New York
November 29, 2008 – Performer - “Silence of the Annes” Cabaret performance at “Anne Made Me Gay” - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
October 21-23, 2008 – Performer/Writer – “The Outsiders Revenge” - Vancouver International Writers Festival – Vancouver, British Columbia
October 18, 2008 – Instructor - Young Voices Writers Conference - North York Central Library – Toronto, Ontario
October 10, 2008 –Performer/Writer - Pleasant View Library Reading - Focus on Youth - Toronto, Ontairo
October 4-5, 2008 – Book Signing - SPX - Bathesda, MA
September 25, 2008 – Performer/Book Signing - Word on the Street - IdeaSpace Young Adult Marquee – Toronto, Ontario
September 2008 – Performer/Writer - Eden Mills Writers Festival - Eden Mills, Ontario
May 2008 – Performer – Feminist Porn Awards – w Daddy K and the Rhythm Method – Toronto, Ontario
November 29, 2008 – Performer - “Silence of the Annes” Cabaret performance at “Anne Made Me Gay” - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
October 21-23, 2008 – Performer/Writer – “The Outsiders Revenge” - Vancouver International Writers Festival – Vancouver, British Columbia
October 18, 2008 – Instructor - Young Voices Writers Conference - North York Central Library – Toronto, Ontario
October 10, 2008 –Performer/Writer - Pleasant View Library Reading - Focus on Youth - Toronto, Ontairo
October 4-5, 2008 – Book Signing - SPX - Bathesda, MA
September 25, 2008 – Performer/Book Signing - Word on the Street - IdeaSpace Young Adult Marquee – Toronto, Ontario
September 2008 – Performer/Writer - Eden Mills Writers Festival - Eden Mills, Ontario
May 2008 – Performer – Feminist Porn Awards – w Daddy K and the Rhythm Method – Toronto, Ontario
July 2008 – Performer - SCREAM in High Park – Toronto, Ontario
June 2008 – Performer – “Canada’s Oldest Gay” w Lindy Zucker – Cheap Queers – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
June 2008 – Performer – “Canada’s Oldest Gay” w Lindy Zucker – Cheap Queers – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
June 2008 – Performer - Proud Voices – PRIDE TORONTO – Toronto, Ontario
August 2007 – Performer/Playwright – Powell Street Society Festival – Vancouver, British Columbia
November 2006 – Performer – Written in Colour – Toronto Women’s Bookstore – Toronto, Ontario
October 1, 2006 – Peformer/Insomniac - Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies
- Nuit Blanche – Toronto, Ontario
June 23, 2006 – Performer - “Twenty times Two” - Cabaret - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
March 2006 – Performer - Cabaret – Edgy Women Festival – Montreal, Quebec December 15, 2005 – Performer/Tour Manager – I WANT TO GO TO AFRIKA w/ Lisa Ayuso – Xspace – Toronto, Ontario
March 2006 – Performer - Cabaret – Edgy Women Festival – Montreal, Quebec December 15, 2005 – Performer/Tour Manager – I WANT TO GO TO AFRIKA w/ Lisa Ayuso – Xspace – Toronto, Ontario
June 14, 2005 – Performer/Writer – Scream at TWB – Toronto Women’s Bookstore – Toronto, Ontario
June 2005 – Performer/Dancer - “Blue Mo Group” w Lindy Zucker – Cheap Queers – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Toronto, ON
May 12, 2005 - Performer - “Jewpanese Take Out” w Lindy Zucker - We’re Funny that Way Festival - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Ontario
March 24, 2005 – Co-Host w Lindy Zucker – Canadian Performance Art Idol – Sneeky Dees – Toronto, Ontario
October 14-17, 2004 – Performer/Writer – Folkfest – Calgary, Alberta
May 2004 – Performer/Roadie – Perpetual Motion Roadshow w Emily Pohl-Weary, Carly Stasko, and Daniel Heath Justice – Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Madison
June 2003 – Performer – Cheap Queers – The Vatikan – Toronto, Ontario
June 16, 2000 - Strange Sisters “She’s Got the Look” - Co-Host (w/Lisa Ayuso) and performer - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, ON