"Urban Tattoo is a performance work that features a radical approach to storytelling, incorporating multi-media and music. It takes the themes of identity, displacement and survival and redesigns them into an urban context. Urban Tattoo was workshopped at The Native Earth's Performing Arts Weesageechuck Festival in Toronto with dramaturge and director Margo Kane. It was given a work in progress performance with Maenad Theatre in Calgary in early 1996 and a staged reading at The Native Voices Festival in New York, directed by Randy Reinholz, at the American Indian Community House. In 1997, Urban Tattoo was presented at The University of Leeds, in England. Later, it was workshopped with Peter Hinton and Chapelle Jaffe at The Playwright's Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and premiered a workshop production at the 1998 Women in View Festival in collaboration with Lynda Hill, Terri Snelgrove, and DB Boyko. Urban Tattoo has since toured to festivals and theatres across Canada and the US. Most recently, it was presented at last year's prestigious Festival des Theatre Ameriques in Montreal. Written and performed by Marie Clements, Urban Tattoo is published by UCLA Press and Ribsause, a book/cd by Vehicle Press." -- Urban Ink Productions, Vancouver