All of thom’s creative & scholarly work is a forum for deepening artistic writing & performance practices and community engagement. With twenty years of professional arts practice & management, thom has worked professionally as an actor in film/TV/theatre and is a highly-regarded creative & critical writer.
The Drifts Live is a performance and workshop package. This unique product explores gender roles & identities through performance and workshops. The Drifts Live is a one-person performance of excerpts of thom’s novel, The Drifts (Coach House Books, 2010). See the workshops page for talk & workshop options.
thom has designed and facilitated creative & critical workshops with the independent theatre companies, GSAs (gay-straight alliances), Arkansas State Library Association, Arkansas State University, Lyons College, Toronto District School Board, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Actor’s Gang, Arts Expand and numerous others to create fun and vital programming that meets the needs of diverse communities.
For more information, email thom at thom@engagedconsulting.ca.
Have a look at what clients & colleagues have to say on the Testimonials page here at thomvernon.com.
Some photos of recent workshops & projects Thom has led, designed, managed and/or facilitated.
Dear Thom,
I am the Curatorial Director for the [frame]works Photography Collective, and on behalf of the Collective, I would like to discuss with you our Toronto Urban Photography Festival (TUPF). The Festival takes place from March 9 to March 23, 2013, and will feature exciting and innovative photography exhibitions at various galleries in Toronto, as well as talks and presentations, walks/tours, and workshops which explore the theory and practice of contemporary urban photography.
The Festival is unique and the first of its kind for Toronto: it provides a venue and forum for visioning, discussing and transposing urban life, as well as exploring and expressing urban issues and expanding the discourse of “urban photography” and the contemporary art of capturing urban life in Toronto and the GTAH. The Festival allows for participatory learning, information sharing and creativity incubation, through the medium of urban photography, and engages both emerging and established photographers through both exhibitions, workshops and internet and social media-based forums and interfaces, such as the Toronto Neighbourhoods Project and the Disposable Camera project.
We are in the process of finalizing details of the Festival, and securing the remaining workshop speakers and exhibitions. We would be interested in having you as one of the speakers. I would like to discuss the opportunity. I would be happy to send you some info about the Festival workshops. I would be happy to discuss these details with you and address any questions that you may have.
Thank you Thom for considering my request. I look forward to exploring this exciting opportunity with you.
Sincerely,
Mr. Les Luxemburger, MES
Director of Curation
[Frame]works Photography Collective
les.luxemburger@tupf.ca
http://www.tupf.ca
About TUPF
The Toronto Urban Photography Festival seeks to deconstruct and reconstruct new formulations of contemporary urban landscapes through the practice of photography. Using critical insights of urban environments and photography, a questioning of what constitutes both the urban in context of the city, as well as street within the context of photography is examined. TUPF seeks to engage photographic practitioners and critical theorists in dialogue surrounding how the city is imagined and viewed as part of daily human fabric.