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Artistic Director
Elaine Carol

Former Artistic Producer
Jules Rochielle

Founders

Rebecca Bishop
Yuki Matsuno
Jo Ann Chew
Elaine Carol
Jules Rochielle

Company Co-Founder & Artistic Director: Elaine Carol

Elaine Carol is a director, artist, writer, performer and activist whose interdisciplinary and site-specific performances e-race, What You Carry With You..., Outcasts & Angels / THE REENA PROJECT, Performance Alchemy, GOSSIP, The Little Black Dress, Plans for Tomorrow, Ceremony for the City, The Labyrinth Project with Gregory A. Wight, Still Hip? and Marc Lepine thought he was a hero in a uniform have been presented in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and Richmond, Canada. Her solo and site-specific performances, audio work, photography and writing have been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, BC Arts Council as well as private sector sources such as the Lesbian & Gay Community Appeal of Metro Toronto and celebrity chef Michael Carlevale.

In July 2000, along with Jules Rochielle and a volunteer Board of Directors, Elaine Carol founded a new interdisciplinary arts organization in Vancouver, BC called MISCELLANEOUS Productions.

The focus of our work is creating, directing and producing professional, original, issue-based performances written with and performed by non-professional participants. Most of our work has integrated “mainstream” and at-risk/high risk youth.

Elaine is the director and creator of e-race, a 78 minute live, interdisciplinary performance and a 53-minute DVD adaptation of that hip hop musical performance that was presented by MISCELLANEOUS Productions in Richmond, BC at the Gateway Theatre in September 2005. The story of e-race works backwards in time and explores young people's obsession with "speed" including street racing, the "fast life" of gangs, crystal meth and early sexual activity. e-race features a cast of young people aged 15 – 27 years old and also examines the erasure of race and racist stereotyping in the mass media.

e-race works backwards in time and explores young people's obsession with "speed" including street racing, the "fast life" of gangs, crystal meth and early sexual activity.

e-race works backwards in time and explores young people's obsession with "speed" including street racing, the "fast life" of gangs, crystal meth and early sexual activity

In 2004, Elaine worked with a diverse group of professional and non-professional artists, who collaborated with MISCELLANEOUS Productions on past community art projects, to create and distribute MISCELLANEOUS Magazine, available for free on-line at this web site.

Elaine was the Creator/Artistic Director/Choreographer for What You Carry With You... dealing with immigration in a post-September 11th era with a group of young and elder people in Richmond, BC who find their roots on 6 continents, and speak 25 languages and dialects. The performance, written mainly in English with sections in Cantonese, Malaysian Mandarin, Tagalog, Urdu, Punjabi, Eritrean, Japanese, Gaelic and French, opened for a two-week run on September 11, 2003 at the Gateway Theatre and played to 95% capacity audiences and standing ovations.

Named for the memory of Reena Virk, THE REENA PROJECT (2001) was the company's first work and the performance component was entitled Outcasts and Angels. Elaine was the director, co-writer and co-choreographer of this site-specific, interdisciplinary, roving theatrical performance featuring young people aged 13 - 19 years old from the community as performers, co-writers, co-choreographers, props makers and technicians. Outcasts and Angels was presented at the Gateway Theatre and various City of Richmond locations in September 2001 to overwhelming popular and critical success.

Named for the memory of Reena Virk, THE REENA PROJECT (2001) was the company's first work.

In addition, Elaine's radiophonic audio pieces have been broadcast across Canada, in San Francisco, Vienna and Melbourne, Australia. In 1998-9, she travelled throughout North America collecting material on an experimental, radiophonic work funded by the Canada Council for the Arts entitled Radio Pride. Her essays, articles and performance texts have been published in the critically acclaimed collection Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond to Censorship, as well as FUSE Magazine, Borderlines, Parallelogramme, The Toronto Star and the Women's Press Anthology Countering the Myths.

In 1990, along with the Toronto art collective a bunch of feminists, Elaine worked to create and implement the first art event which memorialized the 14 women who were gunned down in the Montreal Massacre - Healing Images. In addition to organizing this event with the collective, Elaine made a ritual-based, dance-theatre performance entitled Marc Lepine thought he was a hero in a uniform… which was performed on December 6, 1990, exactly one year after the Montreal Massacre, as part of Healing Images' third evening of new performance art and interdisciplinary work. Her photograph of the lobby of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal has been exhibited and published in many community and high art contexts.

Elaine has taught, given workshops and seminars in interdisciplinary performance art, writing, art history and theory at CKDU Radio / Dalhousie University (artist-in-residence in 1999), Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design, CKDU Radio / Dalhousie University and Centre for Art Tapes (artist-in-residence in 1996), York University, University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto Seed Schools (alternative schools) as well as to community art groups serving oppressed children and youth. She has served on the Board of Toronto Photographers' Workshop/Gallery TPW, was on the Performance Committee of A Space in the 1990s and served on several City of Toronto Arts Policy and Artists' Housing Committees.

In addition, Elaine has worked front-line and developed programs for community-based treatment centres and residential facilities with street youth, young offenders, psychiatric survivors, homeless adults, immigrants and refugees, children and youth with disabilities, and abused women and children.

Company Co-Founder & Former Artistic Producer of MISCELLANEOUS Productions: Jules Rochielle

Jules Rochielle is an artist, activist and web geek.

Jules has been a landed immigrant in Canada since 1994 and is a graduate of Washington University with an interdisciplinary B.A in art, art history and anthropology/sociology. The following artists and institutions have had a longstanding impact on the way Jules thinks about the realtionship between art and community: the performance artist Jerri Allyn, visual and public artist Chris Bruch, Interaction Arts Foundation, Portland Art Museum and PACCOM: Film and Video.

Jules is now the Executive Director of the Access to Media in Education Society.