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  • Group Exhibition, “Postpartum” curated by Rachel Epp Buller, E.B. White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS. March 1-April 5, 2013. Public Reception Friday, April 5, 6-8pm.
  • Flowers screens at the Strangelove Queer Festival 2013 March 28-30 in Antwerp, Belgium
  • Performing Everything I’ve Got and more at the Animal Acts symposium and festival organized by Holly Hughes at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 21-24. Complete festival schedule and information here.
  • New publication: Reconciling Art and Mothering edited by Rachel Epp Buller includes an essay by Charles Reeve about my work.
  • Performing in the Dirty Plotz cabaret at the Rhubarb Festival in Toronto on Feb 21 at 10pm. Curated and hosted by Alex Tigchelaar.
  • New publication: Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance includes a chapter I authored about intimacy and my Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar performance.
  • Performing at MIX 25 Opening Night in NYC November 13
  • YARD SALE at the Gladstone Hotel Granny Boots on Wednesday, July 25 from 8-10pm. Come buy the clothes off my back.
  • Performing The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar in Montreal May 26, 2012 at Usine C. Presented by Studio 303 and OFFTA. Details here!
  • Guest Curating HATCH 2012. Performances at Harbourfront Centre April 14-May 5.
  • One Day Performance Art Workshop Saturday, February 25 at the Toronto School of Art
  • Performing at Explain Yourself Sunday, February 26 @ Goodhandy’s, 120 Church Street. Door at 7:30, Performances at 8pm. $6 at the door. Celebrating the launch of Canadian Theatre Review #149: Queer Performance
  • CTR #149 on Queer Performance includes publication of Everything I’ve Got available online here
  • The Artists’ Soup Kitchen! Artists are invited to a FREE HOT LUNCH. Each week is hosted by different artists who will bring their creative practices to the project. A different menu each week
    Mondays from 12-3pm @ The Raging Spoon Cafe, 761 Queen Street West, Toronto / Wheelchair accessible space
  • Curating Commitment Issues, an evening of performance art presented by Fado Performance Art Centre on Wednesday, November 16 at Oasis Aqualounge in Toronto, 7-10pm. There will be an artists’ panel and reception on Thursday, November 17 at the University of Toronto at 7:30pm.
  • Presenter/speaker at Hamilton Artists Inc.’s blackboxwhiteboxsmallboxnobox Status of Media Art Symposium on Saturday, October 22, 1-5pm.
  • Guest curating the 2012 HATCH season at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. More details and performance schedule coming soon!
  • Now online at Feminine Moments: fine art made my lesbian and queer women worldwide
  • Videos – including a new compilation DVD of recent performances (2003-2010) is now being distributed by Vtape.
  • Visiting Artist talk at Bryn Mawr College, Tuesday, February 15 at 7pm, Carpenter 21. Free.
  • Performing “Everything I’ve Got” at the Chapter Arts Centre Experimentica Festival in Cardiff, Wales on Thursday, October 14.
  • Performing at the lipsync SMACKDOWN fundraiser for the 7a*11d Festival. Thursday August 26, 2010 at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto.Doors open: 9pm. Show time: 10pm. Admission: $12.
  • Performing and presenting at the Performance Studies International Conference, June 9-13 in Toronto. Click here for complete schedule of events.
  • Participating in the Industry Series Pitch Session at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Kitchner, ON. Festival runs June 9-19, 2010.
  • Jess will be presenting and participating in a Symposium on Teaching and Learning Performance Art, Presented by FADO Performance Art Centre, Sponsored and hosted by OCAD. Monday, May 10, 2010, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design) 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.
  • Performance & Workshop! Jess presents “Everything I’ve Got” at the Edgy Women Festival at Tangente in Montreal March 24, 2010 @ 7:30pm – and will be teaching an intensive week long workshop at Studio 303 with a focus on ideas and actions of intimacy in performance.
  • Interview! Monday, March 8. Jess interviewed by Dykes on Mykes, CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal from 7-8pm. You can listen live here or check out the podcast here.
  • Performance! Jess presents “Everything I’ve Got” at the Rhubarb Festival, February 24-28 @ 8pm in Toronto.
  • Interview! Jess interviewed by Leanne Cusitar on Sex City CIUT 89.5FM. Airs Saturday, Feb 20 5-6pm.
  • HOT off the press! a monologue from Jess’ Emergency Exits published in “OutSpoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues” Playwrights Canada Press, Ed. Susan G. Cole. Book launch celebration Monday, February 1 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 7pm.
  • Performance! HATCH: emerging performance projects presents “Everything I’ve Got” on Sunday, January 31. 4pm at the Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre. Performance followed by artist talk-back and reception. Tickets $12 regular, $10 student, senior or arts worker. 416 973 4000 or HERE
  • December Issue of Curve Magazine features an article written by Stephanie Schroeder about Jess’ performance work.
  • Read! Jess’ work included in the Study Room Guide on One to One performances, published by the Live Art Development Agency (UK) ed. Rachel Zerihan.
  • Tuesday, September 1 Jess’ performance work featured on re-broadcast of SOCKET on CBC Radio One. 11:30AM ET
  • Wednesday, June 24 Jess performs at Cheap Queers! 8:30pm at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto. Tickets $6.48 at the door(can’t beat the price!)
  • Now online! Check out the interview with Jess featured in No More Potlucks Issue #3
  • Read Amy Fung’s writing about Jess’ recent Edgy Women performance at Prairie Artsters.com
  • Monday, April 27 Jess will be performing at “Who’s Your Daddy?: A Queer Parents’ Cabaret,” sponsored by Pages, This Is Not a Reading Series and hosted by Mariko Tamaki. 7:30-10pm at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. A book launch event in celebration of the publication of “Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting,” edited by Rachel Epstein. Published by Sumach Press.
  • April 3 & 4 Jess will perform “Everything I’ve Got” at Dixon Place, NYC. Double billing with Felice Shays’ “The Possibility of Response.” 8pm, $15. Saturday night’s performance will be ASL interpreted. 161 Chrystie Street. Tickets/info: 212 219 0736.
  • Monday, March 30, 7-8pm, Radio Interview with Jess Dobkin, by Dayna McLeod on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal and live at ckut.ca
  • Sunday, March 22, Artist Talk at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse by Jess Dobkin. 11am-1pm, 4296 St-Laurent, Montreal. Free! Info: 514 871 0268.
  • Saturday, March 21 Jess performs at the Edgy Women Festival in Montreal. Performance begins at 7:30pm at Tangente, 840 Cherrier. Tickets $15/$10.
  • Thursday, March 5 Jess will be performing at the Joyce SoHo in NYC as part of the NDA Performance Mix Festival. Performance starts at 8pm. Tickets are $18 general, $15 students/seniors. 155 Mercer Street. Box office: 212 352 3101.
  • Jess will be featured in the upcoming issue of Shameless Magazine in a piece written by piKe krpan. Launch party on Saturday, March 15 from 1-4pm at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroon, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto.
  • Curator Charles Reeve’s “The Kindness of Human Milk: Jess Dobkin’s Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar” is published in the Winter 2009 Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, published by the University of California Press.
  • Anthropologist Penny Van Esterik’s, “Vintage Breast Milk: Exploring the Discursive Limits of Feminine Fluids” discusses Jess’ Lactation Station performance in the Winter 2009 Canadian Theatre Review, Ed. Laura Levin.