Performance artist offers free tastings at 'breast milk bar'

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=937555a2-024a-450a-87da-769cd39e5a18&k=66483
or try
http://tinyurl.com/rjsym

Mike Fuhrmann, Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, June 15, 2006 

TORONTO (CP) - A performance artist is inviting people to "quench their curiosity" and taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk at her upcoming show.
Jess Dobkin has titled her work the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar. 
"Participants will have the opportunity to sample small quantities of breast milk, donated by local lactating new mothers at this free public tasting," said a news release.

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[Janice here again.  Not surprisingly, this item is getting a lot of press.  Especially since gov't officials are being grilled about their support, since the artist received a Canada council for the Arts grant see link below.]


Breast milk bar fails to raise Tory ire; federal arts funding at arm's length
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/06/16/1636997-cp.html

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Conservative government says it won't lay a hand on the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar. 
A Toronto performance artist is offering the public an opportunity to sample human breast milk, in the spirit of wine tasting, and the lesbian single mother is using a $9,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to help get the creative juices flowing. 
That's the kind of avant garde stuff that used to make Conservative MPs paw the earth in opposition. 
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