Girls! GIrls! Girls! is an annual fundraiser that showcases the incredibly talented women of the Winnipeg arts community.

Get your tickets online here or in person at the Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue (call first: 284-9477).

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! 7 artist bios/statements:

Kristina Karlsson is the new girl in town, having arrived from Calgary via a Montreal, Korea, and Northern Manitoba. She is a high school art teacher and an obsessive artist who enjoys experimenting with not only clay, but fibre based art, metal, paint, and any other process oriented material that lends itself to time intensive pattern-making.

Monica de Jong was inspired to create masks during her travels abroad. She has been producing a wide variety of ceramic masks for the last fifteen years, and has not come even close to running out of ideas. Please visit her website at http://www.monicadejong.com for more information.

RobYn Slade likes to write funny things and then perform them onstage. She also likes to make things up on the spot, and not write them down, and perform that way too. RobYn does the former for amazing shows like this, and the latter with her improv group Outside Joke. (xo).

Debbie Patterson is a proud GGG repeat offender: she promises her piece at GirlsGirlsGirls '11 will be as offensive as her past efforts.

DJBEEKEENI presents her new side music act "PHOTO" with singer Sarah-Lynne combining elements of drama and dance-pop. Sarah has performed alongside DJB over the past few years & is also a multi-instrumentalist - this is the first time PHOTO performs live! Our guests on-stage are Karen Asmundson of the band "Querkus" on harp - http://www.myspace.com/querkus and the exquisite dance and acting talents of Mia Van Leeuwen as the witch doctor - http://www.outoflinetheatre.com.

Liz Cooper is an aerial artist & choreographer who began ignoring gravity as a child by jumping on the bed, swinging off the monkey bars at school, and training in gymnastics and martial arts for many years. A graduate of the Senior Professional Program of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg, Liz began performing aerial fabric, hoop, and trapeze in 2001 and is the head aerial choreographer for Momentum Aerial & Acrobatic Troupe, Manitoba’s first and only aerial dance company. In addition to teaching ongoing classes at Monica’s Danz Gym, Liz has also taught aerial dance workshops in Saskatoon, Hawaii, and with the Oulun Tahti Sirkus in Finland. Past performances include the Manitoba Homecoming 2010 & 2011 Concerts and Canada Day with the WSO, the grand opening of the MTS Centre arena, annual appearances at Winnipeg’s Mardi Gras, the Juno Awards gala banquet, Nygard fashion shows, the School of Contemporary Dancers Professional Program’s 35th Anniversary Gala, and the World Gymnaestrada in Portugal and Austria. Liz has also been a guest aerial performer with Bolero Dance Theatre and NAfro Dance Productions. Upcoming performances include the Brandon Winter Fair during spring break and the World Gymnaestrada in Switzerland this summer. Liz has been greatly enjoying collaborating with fellow artists Ruth Baines and Jolie Lesperance, woo hoo! And until Liz figures out how to grow her own pair of wings, aerial dance will do quite nicely in the meantime. www.momentumaerial.com

Kitty Kittie: Factional Civic Performance artist, Kitty Kittie, keen observer and critic extraordinaire, through the use of multi mediums and artistic disciplines. She is able to cross dress ideas, push buttons and boundaries into what she describes as new creative frontiers. Educated in the school of life, Kitty is firm in her belief that one great idea is built on a previous one, therefor all her ideas are fantastic and are available to everyone and anyone. With the help of her collaborator Matt Sheedy, a voice of reason in the middle of chocolate cravings, forgotten lines, grammatical errors and spelling mistakes not to mention the occasional over inflated ego. Kitty combines poetry, visual and performance art together, creating a strange and unique art form that is inclusive and participatory, encouraging an environment where the audience becomes part of the performance. After all it is her world and her place in is a shared one.

Wanda Farian - My mother likes to remind me of how tactile I was as a child, and Iʼm still that way. Working with fabric and creating garments has become a way for me to express emotion, and tell a story.

Jordan Miller also known as director of cre8ery, private art consultant and visual artist... In October 2010, Miller hosted her biggest show of her life featuring 364 mixed media works. This is Miller's 3rd Girls!Girls!Girls! show. Please visit www.jordanlmiller.com to view full bio.

Doreen Beaupre works in a variety of media, namely clay, fibre, painting and drawing. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, an Education Certificate from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of General Studies from Brandon University. Doreen has taught visual arts programs for a number of years while living in Northern Manitoba and in Winnipeg to adults and high school students. Doreen is from an aboriginal background and is originally from The Pas, Manitoba. The focus of her artwork has been creating masks of Aboriginal people and using symbols of traditional Aboriginal teachings.

Aliza Amihude is internationally known for her controversial yet contagious visual and performance art. As a jeweller and sculptor, Aliza often mixes precious metals and gems with materials like twigs, sand, and fur to express her belief that the entire natural world is precious. As a performer, she pushes the societal envelope with original songs, theatrics, political satire, dance, and comedy. Both praised and rebuked for her art, Aliza consciously continues to create, teach, perform, laugh, and kick your ass.

Jolene Bailie is a performer, choreographer, teacher and the Artistic Director of Gearshifting Performance Works. She has self-presented and produced over 250 solo shows, six cross Canada tours, numerous smaller tours, re-mounted fourteen works by senior choreographers, commissioned eight new works, collaborated on video projects, created three full length works, ten works for pre-professional students, choreographed over 150 dances for schools, as well as created and toured her own solo works to numerous festivals. Jolene has also performed with Trip Dance Company, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers and Ruth Cansfield Dance and since 2000, and on numerous occasions, with Bill Evans. A graduate of The School of Contemporary Dancers, and committed to ongoing training, Jolene holds a B.A. Honors degree in Dance from The University of Winnipeg, a Teacher's Certificate from The Royal Academy of Dance and is currently working on her MFA in Dance through The American Dance Festival/ Hollins University. Her recent collection of works, Hybrid Human, in collaboration with Wanda Koop, will be performed thirteen times this season, including two tours to Ottawa.

Linda Drosdowech enjoys exhibiting and selling her art in group and solo shows in Winnipeg and Vancouver. Photography, drawing, collage and painting are the mediums of her choice.

Talia Pura splits her time and talents between filmmaking,(Aerial Artistry now on NSI: on-line festival), writing (plays: StrindbergFest, fiction: Prairie Fire, and drama teaching resources: STAGES), acting (Cashing In - Season 3), and aerial dancing (Wpg. Symphony Orchestra, MB Showcase). She is thrilled to be performing at GGG once again: Thebest show in town!

Ruth Baines is an Aerial Dancer and Pilates Instructor who has enjoyed living the Winnipeg life for a decade now. A proud Canadian Ruth is relishing the theme for this years Girls!Girls!Girls! She can't wait to fly around with Liz Cooper and dance with Gislina Patterson in this celebration of time and place.

Cara Lytwyn is the 2008 winner of Winnipeg’s Funniest Person with a Day Job, an annual contest held at Rumor’s Comedy Club and is the 2009 winner of Winnipeg’s Funniest Comic competition sponsored by the Winnipeg Free Press and Hot 103. She is the first and only female comedian to win either title. She performed in the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2010 and 2011. Armed with her quick wit and sassy self-deprecation, Lytwyn performs with a fresh attitude and dynamic energy.

Arlea Ashcroft is a self-taught multimedia creative dynamo and woman-about-town, who crosses the creative platforms as a filmmaker, performer and visual artist. She has received local, national and international exposure through publication, broadcast and public presentation. Ashcroft’s work is deliberately off-putting, antagonistic and challenges the usual dynamic of western art under the female gaze. www.arleaashcroft.ca

Amanda Smart has been in the Winnipeg Theatre scene for over 10 years working as a Stage Manager and designer. This is her fourth Girls! Girls! Girls! as both artist and stage crew. Amanda has been working as a Production Assistant and an Assistant Director in film and has written, produced and directed a series of shorts in which she was nominated for “Best New Talent” at WAFF. Amanda is a graduate of U of M with an honours degree in Art History. She has worked in communications and new media at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art and recently graduated from her studies in Journalism and internship at CTV News Winnipeg.

Rea Kavanagh has been working in the arts for 15 years as a producer, writer, actor and musician. Writer/performer credits include Grow Op and Floodgates (In the Chamber, TPM) as well as cabaret pieces CockBlock and Woodchick. Other recent happy projects include Paradise Lost with puppet at Adhere and Deny and her musical collaborations as bass player with pink punk band Shrimp.
Artistic Associate of Theatre Projects Manitoba since 2005, she is also the Vice President at ACTRA Manitoba and the acting Chair of PAL (Performing Arts Lodges) Winnipeg which is working to build retirement housing for Winnipeg’s performing arts community.

The Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir:
At times amusing, sometimes baffling, but always entertaining The Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir (which translates literally into fancy, fancy, crazy, crazy) has been a popular act for the last four years at the Girls,Girls,Girls Cabaret are thrilled to be back and support this fine event. This past year saw them perform at the Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts and the WAG Gala Fundraiser.
Members:
Marina Stephenson Kerr
Melanie Whyte
Gerri Cooper
Liz Quesnel
Michelle Boulet
Sarah Constible
Laura Olafson
Jacquie Loewen
Jan Skene

Darlene Drewniak is ecstatic to be involved with GGG-7, she is a returning visual artist of raw dimensions and appreciates the diverse collaboration of the ladies. As I see it, our neurotic adventures unfolds the creative elements that glue the earth together... We are Canadian!! We are Change! We are Radical!! www.creationwithin.ca, website will be interactive soon.