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 La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario welcomes its new communications officer, Greater Sudbury’s Poet laureate: Daniel Aubin

Sudbury, January 4th 2013 – Greater Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Daniel Aubin, is joining the team at La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario. As of now, Daniel is filling a new communications and marketing position at the GNO. Among others, his responsibilities include making the GNO’s work and reputation better known by increasing attendance to its various exhibits.

Having worked as a journalist for Le Voyageur newspaper, Daniel is well equipped to contribute to the further development of the GNO’s network at community, provincial and national levels.

In the past, La GNO has twice presented the young poet as a performance artist. Disguised as a masked avenger, he “battled” the artist Médéric Boudreault in a series of super-poetic duels.

Daniel Aubin has participated actively in the sudburian arts scene ever since he first climbed on stage as part of Collège Notre Dame’s theatre troupe Les fous du Roy (1996-2000). He honed his skills while working toward a BFA in Theatre at Laurentian University (Cum Laude. 2004). Soon after, he cofounded the short-lived FFF collective and published a book of poetry, Plasticité, with les Éditions Prise de parole (2004). He launched this same book by performing it in its entirety at the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in a performance poetry show. Daniel contributed lyrics to the songs of Konflit Dramatik and lent his voice to recordings of two of the band’s songs: Words Fail and Tête de poisson. In 2005, he acted in Exits: a coproduction between the TNO and Théâtre la Catapulte. Daniel continued performing his poetry live, notably in the Sudbury Blues show and a series of super-poetic battles organized by La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario. After working for two years as the director of the Grand Ciel Bleu bookstore in downtown Sudbury, he took to the stage once more in a production of Les Roger at the TNO (2011). Daniel was named Greater Sudbury’s Poet Laureate in 2012. Éditions Prise de parole published his second book of poems, Néologirouettes, in December 2012. Daniel continues to write as an arts columnist for Le Voyageur newspaper.

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Further information:     Daniel Aubin

                                                     Communications officer

                                                     (705) 673-4927

                                                     communication@gn-o.org