Kristine Maitland was a freelance writer/journalist for 15 years, writing for a variety of small arts journals (at the crossroads, Trade, Mix Magazine) as well as for local weekly newspapers and magazines, including The Toronto Star, Eye Weekly (now The Grid), and Sway Magazine. She is also a storyteller who has performed at Mayworks (Toronto's Labour Festival) and at Nathan Philips Square.
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"I want to go down in history in a chapter marked MISCELLANEOUS
because the writers could find no other way to categorize me in a world where classification is key.
I want to erase the straight lines...
so I can be ME."
~poet and spoken word artist Staceyann Chin
Kristine Maitland was a freelance writer/journalist for 15 years, writing for a variety of small arts journals (at the crossroads, Trade, Mix Magazine) as well as for local weekly newspapers and magazines, including The Toronto Star, Eye Weekly (now The Grid), and Sway Magazine. She is also a storyteller who has performed at Mayworks (Toronto's Labour Festival) and at Nathan Philips Square.
Ms. Maitland is something of a Google guru. She adores research, her specialties being Black History from 7th to 17th century, and women's history and the history of sex during Europe's Medieval and Renaissance period. (a result of her membership in the Society for Creative Anachronism). But you can throw a any topic at her and she will jump right on it.
The arts have played a role in Ms. Maitland’s life from the beginning. But dance has been her passion from the very beginning. She learned ballet and ethnic folk dances as a child. But her focus as an adult has been American Social ballroom, Latin and Swing dance.
Her goal to train as a teacher and to have her own studio.
The arts have played a role in Ms. Maitland’s life from the beginning. But dance has been her passion from the very beginning. She learned ballet and ethnic folk dances as a child. But her focus as an adult has been American Social ballroom, Latin and Swing dance.
Her goal to train as a teacher and to have her own studio.
