Bio

Lori Weidenhammer is an artist/educator from Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan. Her performance work uses humour to explore feminist issues. For the past several years she has been appearing as the persona Madame Beespeaker, practicing the tradition of “telling the bees”. As a community-based artist, food security volunteer and activist Lori works with students of all ages on eating locally and gardening for pollinators. She is the author of a best-selling award-winning book called Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees published by Douglas and MacIntyre.

Works

Don Juan Envy

  • 2020
  • Lori Weidenhammer

A woman daydreams in the Winnipeg winter, and discovers the Don Juan within. Don Juan, as a woman, gives us glimpses of her life with a collection of cross-dressers, unlikely saints and martyrs. Don Juan becomes a martyr for women’s pleasure. Actors in this video are Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan, Rebecca Popoff, Erika MacPherson and Lori Weidenhammer.

Don Juan Envy

Constars

  • 2017
  • Lori Weidenhammer

To create "Constars", Donna and Lori improvised for over three hours in a hotel room with several suitcases of costumes and makeup. Their goal was to "find" as many characters as they could wearing each other's clothes, eyeglasses, wigs, etc.

Constars