In public school, I directed my friends in skits for the class. In high school, I discovered experimental theatre and then performance art & contemporary dance (BFA, Concordia). I went into special event planning, then community collaborations, then directing my own productions.

I've also loved design since I was young, and made sci-fi fanzines in high school. As a freelancer, I later did promotional materials & copy-writing for small businesses & non-profits, and created magazines & books for distinguished small presses (including Spring, then publisher of the oldest Jungian journal in the world, and Dance Collection Danse, the Canadian dance history archive).

 

My essays on culture & psychology appear in two collections from Routledge (one forthcoming) and in White Rose Magazine online, discussing issues of language & meaning in our time.

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I sang folk tunes & country classics at home with friends before starting to perform in public – debuting for an audience of ranchers & modern dancers! Now it's been 20 years of mixing it up at dark bars, local porches, block parties, Pride Days, a fashion show, an outdoor rave... 

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House of ShAkE has been the culmination of a life-long dream: a venue for cultural creation & re-creation, a virtual/physical place for hosting unique creators, wide-ranging guest contributors, and visitors who come to share in the feast.