Selected Performance History

COLLABORATIONS - Dance

  • With Lesley Telford & James Meger : Live Performance, recordings, text | 'Relating at a Distance' | Residency at The Dance Centre, Global Connections Series | April 2017

  • With Lesley Telford: Spoken word composition | 'If I Were 2' | Ballet B.C, Program 2, March 2017

  • With Lesley Telford, Pugs and Crows, Rob Kitsos and SFU Repertory Dancers: Live performance, text & music | ‘Nostos‘ - School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU | November 2015

  • With Yves Candau: Live Performance, text | ‘Points de Vu’ – School for the Contemporary Arts | MFA Graduating Project | November 2015

  • With Jaime Williams: Video Installation | ‘Untitled (The Dog Doesn’t Worry About Being Late)’ | MFA Spring Showing, Audain Gallery, SFU | May 2015

  • With Nita Bowerman: Live Performance, music | Brief Encounters Express | Revolver Festival | May 2014

  • With Mascall Dance: Live Performance, text | ‘Three Cornered Hat’ & ‘Nijinsky Jibber Jazz Club’ at the Firehall Arts Centre | May 2014, August 2013

  • With Edmund Kilpatrick: Live Musical Performance w./ The Fugitives at The Chutzpah Festival | 2006

COLLABORATIONS – Sound Art

  • With The Public Swoon collective: Installation co-curator, text and composition | ‘Signals from the Mountain’ – Pandora Park Field House | May 2016
  • With Paul Paroczai : Audio memoir: ‘Strange Memorial’ - Through the Window: Sound Archive – SFU Galleries | May 25, 2015
  • With David Newberry: Audio memoir: ' Call Me Black Wolf' - VANDOCUMENT, March 2015
  • With Paul Paroczai : Sound Design for pod-play | ‘Invisible Cities’ – Popcorn Galaxies | May 2015

SPOKEN WORD & MUSIC

 SOLO PERFORMANCES\ENSEMBLE LEADER

  • Performance | Denman Island Reader and Writers Festival | 2016
  • Performance | Verses Festival of Words | April 2015
  • Book\Lyrics\Music | Klasika: a new musical | MFA Graduating Project, SFU | 2015
  • Composer\Librettist | Pathetic Fallacy | MFA Spring Showing, SFU | 2014
  • Performance | Accordion Noir Festival | 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
  • Poet of Honour | Victoria Spoken Word Festival | March 2014
  • Performance – Proud Animal | Club PuSh, PuSh Festival | January 2013
  • Performance – Proud Animal | Brandon Folk Festival | 2012
  • Commissioned Writer: Gabriola Poetry Festival | November 2011
  • Whistler Writers Festival | 2011
  • Words Aloud Festival, Durham, ON | 2009
  • Western Sullivan Library Contemporary Writers Series, NY | 2007
  • SUNY Oneonta Performance Poetry Series, NY | 2007

 With THE FUGITIVES:

  • Midsummer Folk Festival, Smithers, B.C. | 2011
  • Hillside Music Festival, Guelph, ON | 2011
  • Brandon Folk Festival, MB, | 2012, 2017
  • Vancouver Folk Music Festival, B.C. | 2011, 2007
  • Discovery Coast Music Festival, Bella Coola, B.C. | 2010
  • Mariposa Folk Festival, ON | 2009
  • Winnipeg International Folk Music Festival, MB | 2008
  • Jewish Book Festival, Vancouver | 2007
  • Vancouver International Jazz Festival | 2007
  • Vienna Literature Festival, Vienna | 2006
  • Spoke Fest, Stockton on Tees, UK | 2006
  •  Festival Voix D’Ameriques, Montreal | 2006
  • Dylan Thomas Festival, Wales | 2005
  •  Isle of Barra Festival of Poetry and Song, Scotland | 2005
  • Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Vancouver | 2005

discography

MUSIC

  • Proud Animal, Proud Animal EP | Independent Release, 2012
  • FANG, Diskopatska EP | Independent Release, 2011
  • The Fugitives, Eccentrically We Love | Universal, Light Organ Records, 2012
  • The Fugitives, Find Me EP | Universal, Light Organ Records, 2009
  • The Fugitives, In Streetlight Communion | Independent, 2007
  • The Fugitives, First and Second Person | Independent, 2006
  • The Fugitives, Shadowbox Choir | Independent, 2005

SPOKEN WORD

  • Hotchpot | Independent Release, 2007
  • Flusterblush | Independent Release, 2006
  • The Littlest Hobo Strikes Again | Independent, 2003
  • ‘Butter Spoken Hammers.” CBC Poetry FaceOff 6 | CBC, 2007
  • ‘Breadcrumbs.” Coastal Tongue: West Coast Women in Rhyme | 2004
  • ‘In the time Before.’ Dig Your Roots: Spoken Word Compilation | National College Radio Association, 2003

youth

  • Wordplay Poets in Schools | Project Leader for “Where I’m From” Youth Engagement Project| April 2017
  • Creative SPARKS Pro-D Grant for Artists Working with Youth – “Diorama*rama” | July 2016
  • Vancouver Biennale | Artist in Residence, Big Ideas in Action Program | 2016, 2014, 2013
  • Vancouver Poetry House | Wordplay Poets in Schools, Workshop Leader | 2006 – present
  • Vancouver East Cultural Center | Ignite! Program Mentor | 2010 – 2014
  • Vancouver Symphony Orchestra | Commissioned Writer\Performer –Schools Concerts | 2011
  •  B.C. Schizophrenia Society | ReachOut Psychosis Program | Lead Performer | 2006 – 2013