From May 28th – June 7th, Good Women’s classes will be taught by Nextfest artists. The first class is the series is by Claudia Kulay. Claudia will lead a “Movement for writing” class where participants will use movement to generate creative writing.

Claudia Kulay (she/they) is a queer, franco-bilingual playwright and multidisciplinary artist based in Amiskwaciwaskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton, AB. Selected works include, Headhole (Edmonton Fringe Festival, 2023), GOOD GRIEF (Nextfest, 2023) and happy now (New Works Festival, 2020). Their play, happy now, is also the 2020 winner of The Wildfire National Playwriting Competition as supported by the Major Matt Mason Collective. Claudia’s poetry has been published in the Hungry Zine and Folklore for Resistance Zine, writing on themes of intimacy, late-stage capitalism and body politics. Their newest piece, The Hubble Space Telescope Dance, is a exploration of movement created as an excuse to build a large wearable prop, personify gentle labouring space objects and float to sine wave sounds.