TRAMPOLINE HALL TORONTO LECTURES

May 12, 2008
Curator: Becky Johnson

All three lectures researched members of Becky Johnson's family, who the had not met before, and gave lectures about them.
Emily Halfon: Devin "Kit" Johnson (Becky's brother)

Michael Balazo: Edward "Ted" Johnson (Becky's father)
Carl Wilson: Anne Theresa Garber (née Hershoran) (Becky's mother)

April 14, 2008
Curator: Jon McCurley
James Joyce: Passive Resistance
Lou Calabro: The word "like"
Simone Schmidt: The Cancer Industry

March 10, 2008
Curator: Laurie McGregor
Adam Bunch: Not being naked
Laurie McGregor (no relation): Laurie McGregor
Christopher McKinnon: Beavers in Chile and elsewhere

Feb 25, 2008 (in San Francisco at 12 Galaxies)
Curators: Sarah Robayo-Sheridan and Margaux Williamson
Veronica Graham: How to perform surgery if you have gangrene
Brett Hoff: UFOs and US elections
Raimundas Malasauskas: How to Avoid Public Appearances

Set design by David Yun and Sarah Wylie Ammerman

Feb 11, 2008
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Anand Rajaram: Shaving
David Jager: Japanese Cuspers
Marni Lifshen: Unrecognized States

Jan 14, 2008
Curator: Jon McCurley
Oliver Husain: The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
Bonny Poon: Doing It To Death
Gerry Campbell: Impostor Syndrome

December 10, 2007

Curator: Margaux Williamson
Jordan Tannahill: Bravislovia (a made up country)
Daniel Arci: brain hacking
Desmond Cole's: "Jesus was a cunt"

November 19, 2007
Curator:Alex Snukal
Jonathan Adjemian: Communal Living During the English Revolution
Jen Hutton: Doorstops
Danielle Allen: How to Say More Without Speaking

October 22, 2007 (At Fort York) (Comic book show)
Curator: Becky Johnson
Leah Buckareff: Hyperbolic Crochet
Waylen Miki: Robotism
Jacob Zimmer: Diverse Curiosity

September 10, 2007 

Curator: Lauren Bride 
Paul Baines: Squirmishness
Souvankham Thammavongsa: A Small Problem
Amanda Burt: Animal Navigation  

Aug 13, 2007
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Vicki Stroich: The Romantic Hero Today: Who Cares?
Joanna Falck: Judy Blume
Marcus Bornfreund: Wedding Rings

July 9 , 2007

Curator: Dave Meslin

Phil Sarazen: A 21st Century approach to God

Kevin Clarke: Early childhood education

Jenny Keith: tba

June , 2007

(Trampoline Hall takes a rest)

May 14 , 2007

Curator: Margaux Williamson

Kristen Aspevig: Artificial Intelligence

Diane Borsato: Fungus

Eugene Slonimerov: Why you can only write songs when you're sad.

April 16 , 2007

Curator: Becky Johnson
Cathy Gordon: Slut Profiling

Paul Banwatt: Afflictions/Messages from God

Michal Grajewski: The Negative Impact of Pedestrians on the Environment

March 12 , 2007

Curator: Lauren Bride

Ideals and Idealism
Murray Enkin: My youthful search for truth, and what I ended up with

Amy C. Lam: "Money or Garbage"

Timothy Comeau: Morality and Idealism

Feb 12 , 2007

Curator: Erica Kopyto
Chris Lee: self-refereeing

Jessica Edwards: hunting

B. Soonstra: mercantilism and department stores

Dec 11 , 2006

Curator: Sholem Krishtalka
Craig Rodmore: quotations and things people have said

David Bronstein: jocks

Alexis Diamond: the Victorian gentlemen's club for the 21st century

Nov 13 , 2006

Curator: Alex Snukal
Matt Smith: Voting by Chance

Jenny Florence: Amazonian exploration mishaps

Jon McCurley: provides a history of his own face

October 16, 2006

Curator: Lauren Bride
"What is your place in the world?"

Julia Tausch: What is my place in my friends' worlds?
Jeoff Bull: What is your place in my world?
Chris Randle: What is my brother's place in World of Warcraft?

Aug 21, 2006

Curator: Alex Pugsley

Pike Wright: her mother's obsession w. bear maulings.

Flora Wood: worksite accidents

Pazit Cahlon: smell: past, present and future

July 10, 2006 .

Portraits by Lee Towndrow
Roxana Vahed presents
Tom Kerr: Canadian superheroes in American comics

Tom Kerr presents
Nenad Jovanovic: Flea circuses, both real and fraudulent

Nenad Jovanovic presents:
Roxana Vahed: Why do we draw hearts the way we do?

June 5, 2006

Curator: Erica Kopyto

Andy Hamilton: Bike theft in Toronto

Jess Dobkin: Colorblindness

Josh Block: Songs that get stuck in your head

May 8, 2006

Curator: Margaux Williamson

Peggy Gale: Some transcribed conversations from around 20 years ago

Brian Mallette: Nature

Amy Langstaff: Etiquette

April 10, 2006

Curator: Ulysses Castellanos

Milosh Rodic: Tony Robbins

Alvaro Castellanos: Why doing things for free is conducive to success

David Liss: Norwegian Black Metal

March 13, 2006

Love
Curator: Lauren Bride

Ulysses Castellanos: Love vs. Creativity

Kate Kennedy: Love as explained by the Pope and Archie comics

Jesse Brown: Hasidic speed dating

February 13, 2006
Curator: Alex Snukal
Alex Wolfson: Barry Goldwater and American Conservatism
Adam Lauder: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Bojana Stanic: Stalin

January 16, 2006
Curator: Kirstan Azan
Stephanie Abbot: I am a short girl
Chris Whitley: Mr. Maa: Hero or Menace?
Luke Wilson: What Would Jesus Do

December 15, 2005

Tickets only. No show

November 21, 2005
Curator: Becky Johnson
Makesi Arthur: Time and a Finite Universe
Zeesy Powers: The Oneida Commune
Aitor Coria: The Lawn

October 17 , 2005
Curator: Eugene Slonimerov
Becky Johnson: The Letterpress (w. Jerry Schaefer)

Timothy Luginbuhl: The Fear

Josh Thorpe: The Opossum

September 19, 2005
Curator: Margaux Williamson
Sholem Krishtalka: Complaining
Angela Dizes: Slowness
Otino Corsano: The Statue of Liberty

August 15, 2005
Sleep

Curator: Sophie Afriat
Ben Freedman: Insomnia and demonic possession.
Deanna Bowlby: Call for school to start later.
Matt Price: Interviews a narcoleptic, an insomniac and a sleepwalker (Heidi Hamilton, Buffy Childerhose, and Abi Slone).
Live sleeping humans (Get names)

July 18, 2005
Curator: Erica Kopyto
Aleysa Young: Teenage Girls and Their Diaries
Kirsten Azan: Migration Patterns of New Torontonians
Harry Kopyto: Weigh Scales

June 2, 2005
Curator: Eugene Slonimerov
Nicole Greenblatt: Being late
Jamie Shannon: Dog breeding
Izida Zorde: Stealing

May 2, 2005
Curator: Alex Puglsey
Matthew Lella: Why we need more time zones.
Jacob Tierney: The New Russia and the Old Me
Ken Babstock: Tinned sardines

April 18, 2005
Curator: Lauren Bride
Anna Linda Siddall: Freisland
Maggie Maloney: Lego
Lindsay Gibbm: The Alphebetization of Bramalea

March 21, 2005
Curator: Buffy Childerhose
Roberto Veri: Children's books
Kat Borel: People and their names
Haroon Hassan: U.S government farm subsidies

Jan/Feb 2005: No shows

December 13, 2004
Sheila's last show
Adam Sol: Fantasy Sports Leagues
Matt Collins: Revolutionary email poetry
Katerina Cizek: Floods

November 15, 2004
Amanda Miller: Cake
Ben Cormier: Origins of everyday expressions
Chris Adeney: Traveling alone and with friends in the modern world.

October 18, 2004
Curator: Lauren Bride
Sheila Hanlon: Mudlarks
Richard Marcellus: Sermons from Mount Chingcousay
Patrick Thornton: The Ontario Driver's License System

September 20, 2004
First show w. Sneaky Dee's as our permanent venue
Sherwin Tija: Those Missing Girls (lecturing on missing children posters)
Alex Snukal: The Death of Mama Cass (about fatness)
Tamara Faith Berger: Female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Does it matter how we die?

TORONTO VENUE TOUR

August 16 2004: AGO
Maggie MacDonald: "A Bling is not a Thing"
Dave Meslin: Drinking Games
Tao Drayton: Hugging people

July 19 2004: Sneaky Dee's
Curator: Lauren Bride
David Regan: The Six-Month Separation of 1977
Desiree Wells: Clumsiness
Loryl MacDonald: In Defense of the Potato

June 2004: Rockit

Shayam Selvaduri: Chairs in colonial India

Katarina Gligorevic: Carrier pigeons

Lee Towndrow: The Assassination of

May 2004: Cinecycle

Jane Wells: Children's games

Beatriz Yuste: Machu Pichu if you can

James O'Reilly: Uranium City

April 2004: Rockit

Tyler Clark Burke: My Grandfather

Lee Henderson: Freeloading

Julian Howard: WHO Suicide & Para-Suicide Statistics

March 2004: Silver Dollar Room

Brian Joseph Davis: Wood paneling: Did we say goodbye too soon?

Neil Wedman: Watching a film at least twelve times

Erica Kopyto: Malapropisms and social climbing

February 2004: Gladstone Hotel

Nadia Ross: Intelligent cooperation

Dr. Gabor Mate: Hiding behind the role of knower

Chrisian Moreton: No longer a choirboy

January 2004

Mariko Tomaki: Saying goodbye

Rachel Bokhout: Forts

Mehmet Umsal: Seeking asylum

December 2003

Lisa Gabriele: Being a hero

Louis Marrone: The radius of circles

Jack Blum: Jews at Christmas

November 2003

David Miller vs. Trampoline Hall with David Miller

Jane Jacobs, Daniel MacIvor, Luis Jacob, Nino Ricci, Deanne Taylor and Semi Chellas as Timekeeper

October 2003

Doug Saunders: Atopicality

Andrew Kaufman: Molly Ringwald

Matt Crookshank: Getting away with it

September 2003

Lauren Bride: My Grandmother

Ryan Kamstra: Global economics and the schoolyard in my dreams

Jerry Waese: My brain theory

August 2003

Doug Bell: Ranting before breakfast

Caroline Dionne: Genderbending

Ruby Zagorskis: Hikikomori syndrome

July 2003

Arianne Robinson: Nudity

Ian Morfitt: The ranters

Bobby Hsu: The art of ducking

June 2003

Anton Piatigorsky: Avoiding Feeling Fineberg

Lauren Piech: Vegas and what people want

Jacqui Clydesdale: Why we shouldn't climb Mt. Everest

May 2003

Andre Alexis: Memorizing Dante

Esteban Uribe: Traveling with a Columbian passport

Semi Chellas: Infinity and my father

April 2003

Sean Dixon: The malleable personality

Adam Pasquella: Texas

Lynne Valeriote: A cereal you can't get here

March 2003

Christian Bailey: Conviction & Certainty

Alex Pusgley: The physicist friend

Morwyn Brebner: The nuclear threat

February 2003

Andrew Johnson: Falling asleep in movies

Kate Rae: Dry humping

Jeanne Randolf: Pivot: an improvised lecture

January 2003

Victor Hymen: Gossip is worse than pork

Elizabeth Renzetti: Horse racing

Sean K. Robb: Wrestling in the 20^th century

December 2002

Jane Farrow: Vacation pics
Ron Cunnane: Procrastination

Carly Street as Starlee Kine: A reenactment of the rundown

November 2002

Trampoline Hall U.S. Tour

October 2002

Gustavo Escobedo: Bokassa and cannibalism in the CAR

Jenny Armour: Uncohabited marrieds

Matias Rozenberg: Silence

September 2002

It is Yom Kippur. Boiled chicken is served.

John Stiles: Apple picking in the Annapolis valley

Ruby King: Time and temping

Steve Kado: The coelacanth

August 2002

An evening of lectures about Patrick Roscoe

Andrew Morrow (shoe analysis)

Chris Turner (obituaries)

Jim Downs (private eye)

Dr. Dan Perlitz (psychoanalyst)

Panellists Mo Al-Nuaimy, Judith Parker and Dr. Kenneth Montague

July 2002

The Eye - set by Ben Portis

Tony Burgess: Blind spots

Darren O'Donnell: Eye contact
Catherine Osborne: Food photography

June 2002

Chris Turner: Pen cults

Halli Villegas: The pleasures of fashion ads

Kevin Temple: Levinas and the waiter-server relationship

May 2002

Miss Trampoline Hall What Is Beauty? Pageant

April 2002

Sunday Muise: Orphans

Luke Kirby: All the girls I loved before high school

Mary Lewis: The meaning of life

March 2002

The Utopias lecture. Their moms answer questions.

Blaise Wigglesworth: Man, Superman, and me
Duane Wall: Cameraworld
Leo Salloum: Rallying the 3^rd grade

February 2002

Kevin Connolly: UFO abductions
Gabriel Heti: My liver transplant

Richard Rosenbaum: Art + magic

January 2002

Linor David: Suburban edens

Matthew MacFadzean: The number 32

Sigrid Johnson: How sweet to be an idiot

December 2001

Peter Lynch: Female poisoners of 18^th c. France

Julia Rosenberg: Why I hate the idea of God

Guy Tanentzapf: Love is stronger than death

(All shows from 2001 to 2004 curated by Sheila Heti, unless indicated otherwise)