Kern makes an appearance on Jeff VanderMeer’s “Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015” alongside a fabulous list of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Arianne Jones has just won GOLD at the Nations Cup in Calgary wearing the helmet I designed for Helmets for Heroes – congrats Arianne!
Today I was honoured to be part of the unveiling of the new helmets for the Canadian National Luge Team! I have been lucky to work – as part of Helmets for Heroes – with Arianne Jones and her teammates on the Canadian National Luge Team, alongside Cassandra (age 11) to design Arianne a helmet that she can use at the World Cup and in competition through-out 2015-2016!
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Media Coverage:
#PutALidOnIt – 21st Century Reading
Arianne Jones Commercial in support of Helmets for Heroes
“Calgary kids, artists connect with Canadian luge team to create unique helmets” – Metro News Calgary
“Canada’s lugers eager for home track advantage” – CBC Calgary
“Canada’s lugers look for home-track magic again in Calgary World Cup” – Calgary Herald
“Olympic Luge Athletes Encourage Canadians to ‘Put a Lid on it'” – Luge Canada
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Canadian Luge Team and Helmets for Heroes Launch Brain Injury Awareness Campaign
Concussions!
It may be the most talked about issue in elite sport these days. But brain injuries extend far beyond high-performance athletes.
WireService.ca Media Release (12/14/2015) Calgary, AB – That is why Canada’s luge athletes have teamed up with Helmets for Heroes to launch a brain injury awareness campaign December 15 while readying themselves to host the best sliding sport athletes on the planet for the 2015 Viessmann Luge World Cup in Calgary. The media conference will be held in the Ice House at Winsport’s Canada Olympic Park.
The seven members of the national luge squad will address the media with a group of inspiring young children from the Calgary community who have suffered brain injuries along with a group of artists who have helped specially-design the team’s helmets this year that will be a constant reminder of the importance of helmet use when playing.
Partnering with Helmets for Heroes – a powerful initiative that builds tight bonds with athletes and the community while sharing their heartfelt stories through sporting helmets – the team will wear the helmets for the entire season to reinforce the importance of getting fitted and wearing helmets while playing.
As part of the season-long initiative, the team will also provide details around a series of video vignettes that will be released throughout the winter season stressing the importance of wearing proper helmets and making smart decisions to reduce the risk of brain injuries.
Who: Child Artists who have Suffered Brain Injuries
Canadian Luge Team
Dr. Brian Benson – CMO & Director, Sport Medicine
Brad Spence – Two-Time Olympian, Alpine Skiing, founder of Helmets for Heroes
Local Artists involved with the campaign
Where: Ice House – Winsport’s Canada Olympic Park
When: Tuesday, December 15 – 12 noon
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Chris Dornan
Media and Public Relations
Canadian Luge Association
T: 403-620-8731
Once again, December brings an opportunity to reflect upon the year’s publications. Like previous years, my “most engaging books” list is idiosyncratic and reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search. Your local, independent, bookstore can help…. This is the cream of the crop for 2015, seriously:
- Allemann, Urs. (trans. Patrick Greaney). The Old Man and the Bench. (Dalkey Archive Press)
- Bök, Christian. The Xenotext (Book 1). (Coach House Books)
- Brossard, Nicole. (trans. Angela Carr). Ardour. (Coach House Books)
- Cage, John. Diary: How to Improve the world (You will only make matters worse). (Siglio)
- Carmody, Teresa and Vanessa Place. Maison Femme: a fiction. (Bon Aire Projects)
- Cobbing, William and Rosie Cooper, eds. Boooook: The Life and Work of Bob Cobbing. (Occasional papers)
- Dworkin, Craig. Alkali. (Counterpath)
- Garréta, Anne. (trans. Emma Ramadan). Sphinx. (Deep Vellum)
- Goldsmith, Kenneth. Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century. (Verso)
- Goldsmith, Kenneth. Theory / Théorie. (Jean Boîte Éditions)
- Reznikoff, Charles. Testimony: The United States (1885-1915): Recitative. (finally reprinted from the 1978 edition by Black Sparrow)
- Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening. (Harvard UP)
- Levé, Edouard. (trans. Jan Steyn & Caite Dolan-Leach). Newspaper. (Dalkey Archive Press)
- Waeckerlé, Emmanuelle. Reading (Story of) O. (Uniformbooks)
- Worth, Liz. No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. (Bookthug)
Coldfront magazine has published my reflections on bill bissett’s “Quebec Bombers” [scroll down]…
“a: a novel #1” (for Kenneth Goldsmith)
The newest issue of Stockholm, Sweden’s Slot magazine is exclusively dedicated to my concrete poetry. For those of you who live in Scandanavia, you can order from audiatur, everyone else can order via email to: chateaux@hotmail.se
Calgary’s METRO has covered my ACAD ENGL217 “choose your own adventure” class and the efforts of my students…
It was a real pleasure to be the guest editor of the 3rd issue of ACAD’s Catalyst Magazine …
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I’ve just submitted my helmet design for Helmets for Heroes – to be worn by Canadian National Luge Team member Arianne Jones … here’s a sneak peak of the work in progress – the finished helmet will be revealed on December 15th!
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When Brad Spence, founder of Helmets for Heroes, competed at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, he was wearing a hand painted helmet by Gillian O’Blenes-Kaufman, a young patient at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. During a hospital visit a few months prior, Brad had learned of Gillian’s incredible artistic talents and wanted to bring her on his journey to Sochi. He did so by having her design and paint his Olympic helmet.
Seeing the impact that his helmet had not only on her, but also on the entire community, Brad wanted to find a way to bring the athletic and artistic worlds together, to support and help children battling adversity cope and heal. What evolved was Helmets for Heroes, an initiative aimed at doing just this. For each project, an athlete, an artist, and a child battling adversity are connected to collaborate on a helmet design that will be worn in competition by the athlete. Art not only helps children battling adversity express themselves, it improves their mood, decreases pain levels, and assists in the healing process. After completion of the projects, the helmets are auctioned off, with proceeds being donated to the charity of the child’s choice. To date, Helmets for Heroes has facilitated five very unique projects, raising more than $15,000 for charity.
I have been lucky to work with Arianne Jones and her teammates on the Canadian National Luge Team, alongside Cassandra (age 11) to design Arianne a helmet that she can use at the World Cup and in competition through-out 2015-2016!
Arianne Jones, me, Brad Spence and Cassandra
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