Chairs of Ottawa - video release

Chairs of Ottawa, a new song by Benoit Christie and Amanda Earl will be available to watch on May 12, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/@KikiFolle . Also follow #ChairsofOttawa on Instagram. Celebrate by sharing your own photos of abandoned chairs! Thanks to Charles Earl for the video with footage by Kuna Zero; Art House Cafe, Miguel Fernandes, Wake LLoire & all those who wrote the fan fiction: Liam Taliesin, Natalie King, Susanne Fletcher, darryl joel berger & all those whose fan fiction we couldn't fit in too! A special thanks to my song-writing partner Benoit, who made this such an enriching and whimsical experience, and to Charles, who did such a fine job on the video. This was really a great collaboration and a community project based on my fascination with abandoned chairs and what they reveal about our habits and perhaps even our secret stories.

Monday, May 12, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Doors Open 7:00 am


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Member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada

2024 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; Beast Body Epic longlisted for the LCP Raymond Souster Award.

2023 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers

2022 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers.

2021 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers. City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers.

2020 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; Winner of the October Arc Poetry Award of Awesomeness.

2019 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers; City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers

2018 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers

2017 Winner of the 2017 Tree Chapbook Contest as judged by Stephen Brockwell

2016 - Member of  VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

2016 - 2017 Member of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) 

2016 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers; Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grants

2014 to present Member of the League of Canadian Poets

2014 City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers

2014 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour Inductee along with spoken word artist, Danielle Gregoire

2013 Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grant.

2012 City of Ottawa Creation & Production Fund for Emerging Writers; OAC WR Grants.

2011 OAC WR Grants; Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award for collaboarative manuscript with Sandra Ridley; Shortlisted for Geist's Magazines Erasure Poetry Contest

2010 OAC WR Grant.