Since 2019, NVRC’s artist residency program has supported arts and culture projects and artistic development in North Vancouver.
The program provides unique opportunities for emerging and established artists from diverse disciplines, cultures and backgrounds to discover, create and produce new work or develop existing projects.
Between 2019 and 2024, the program has supported over 30 artists. Past projects have been in the areas of visual art, dance, digital art, music, environmental art and storytelling. Artists receive financial support and space to work on their projects.
A unique feature of the program is that it offers opportunities for artists to work in the community, develop arts-based engagement activities and deliver creative projects that generate meaningful connections.
During their residency, artists are installed in spaces in the City or District of North Vancouver for anywhere from two to eight months. The artists then connect with this environment, and give back to community and help foster connection through workshops, artist talks, performances and other activities.
Contributing to the vibrancy of our neighborhoods, the program seeks to inspire participation and relationship-building where the process of creating art together acts as a catalyst for individual and community engagement.
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NVRC is pleased to issue an open Call for Artists working in all disciplines, including but not limited to: choreographers, composers, dance artists, digital media artists, graphic artists, multi-media and multi-disciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, poets, photographers, theatre artists, video artists and writers.
Program Guidelines
Artists interested in applying to the program are asked to read the Artist Residency Program Guidelines.
Application Materials
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All proposals must be submitted on the Application Form provided.
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Review the checklist and ensure that all supporting documents are complete and that they adhere to the specifications provided in the Program Guidelines.
Submission Deadline & Requirements
Monday, January 13, 2025 - All applications must be received by 4:00pm.
All enquiries should be submitted to: artist-residencies@nvrc.ca
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Upcoming Workshops
Cardboard Sculpture Workshop Adults
Explore the art of storytelling through sculpture! In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to design and build sculptural pieces using cardboard. Guided by NVRC's Artist Resident, Juka, you'll experiment with form, texture, and structure while discovering how sculpture can express identity, movement, and transformation. No prior experience is needed—just bring your creativity!
Wednesday, July 23 | 6:00-8:00pm | Lynn Creek Community Centre | 00357732
Capoeira & Creative Movement Workshop all ages 5+
Experience the dynamic energy of Capoeira! This workshop introduces participants to the rhythms, movements, and history of this Brazilian art form, which blends dance, martial arts, and music. Led by one of NVRC Artist Residents, Juka. This session will explore creative movement and expression, encouraging participants to engage with their bodies and the space around them in a playful and interactive way. Open to all skill levels—come ready to move!
Monday, July 21 | 6:00-7:00pm | Ray Perrault Park | 00357653
Meet the artists
2025 artists in residence
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Joaquim (Juka) Almeida is a Brazilian-Canadian illustrator, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist based in North Vancouver. His work explores themes of identity, resilience, and cultural transformation through storytelling, movement, and visual art. Drawing from his background in Capoeira, Juka integrates traditional and digital media—combining illustration, sculpture, and animation—to craft immersive narratives that bridge movement and visual art.
During his NVRC residency, Juka will explore the fluidity of identity and transformation through sculpture, storytelling and movement. Inspired by the rhythms of Capoeira and the stories we carry, he will invite the community to craft masks that hold echoes of memory and the spirit of transformation. Through hands-on workshops, participants will engage in a creative dialogue between past and present, uncovering new ways to express themselves through art and storytelling.
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Sam Chang Bravo is a queer Venezuelan-Canadian 2D animator and filmmaker based in British Columbia. An honours graduate of Vancouver Film School’s classical animation program, Sam’s work blends personal storytelling with a deep appreciation for the cityscapes of BC. Their animated short Virus Girl was featured in TIFF’s Young Creators Showcase, and their latest film, The Worst Kind of Aftertaste, continues their exploration of human emotions and connection. Drawing from their experience as a mixed-race immigrant, Sam tells personal stories while capturing the everyday beauty of British Columbia.
instagram: @samyychang
website: samchangbravo.com
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Keerat Kaur is a Canadian-born artist of Sikh-Panjabi heritage and a background as a licensed architect (OAA). Her work takes shape through the disciplines of painting, sculpture, writing, music, and architecture. Drawing inspiration from Sikh philosophies, she employs the art of metaphor and symbolism to revolutionize our relationship to nature and spirituality. Her aesthetic sensibility lies within a realm where the ordinary merges with the dreamlike.
She completed her schooling in French Immersion, received her BA in 2012 (Western University) and her Master of Architecture in 2016 (U of T), while continuing her formal training in the Dhrupad and Khayaal schools of Indian Classical Music. Having a passion for languages, she is able to read, write and speak Panjabi, French, and Hindi. She is currently learning the Shahmukhi script and is studying the ancient language of Braj through the examination of historical Sikh texts. Most recently, Keerat has been deeply engaged in exploring how the symbolism in her work transcends boundaries and evolves across various media. Keerat currently lives and works between Burnaby, BC and London, Ontario.
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Ghazal Majidi is an interdisciplinary new media artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Her works span 3D animation, extended reality, interaction design, generative systems, and audiovisual installations. Playing in the intersection of digital media and non-linear storytelling, her work challenges the constructed stereotypes of contemporary technoculture, examining liminality, simulations, nostalgia, disintegration, and noise. Magical realism is a common genre in her works, probing questions about the nature of memories, dreams, and reality. Drawing from her academic background in architecture, Majidi’s work is deeply entangled with the poetics of space and involves intricate world-building in virtual space. By critically engaging with digital tools and immersive technologies, Majidi crafts alternative narratives and affective experiences that invite the audience into the uncanny valley.
Majidi’s works have been presented internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Vienna Shorts, Mutek AE, Brussels Independent Film Festival, MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival. Majidi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University.
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Beth W. Stewart is a self-described abstract artivist who creates vibrant, complex acrylic paintings inspired by social justice. Having begun painting expressively in the midst of conducting research in post-conflict northern Uganda, her creative practice is consequently rooted in an ethic of bearing witness. Now, as an educator of history and social justice, Beth draws inspiration from historical and contemporary stories of resistance, resilience, and revolution.
Beth’s creative work currently focuses on developing and sharing her practice of abstract artivism. Through expressive abstraction, abstract artivism challenges dominant ways of seeing and thinking. While traditional artivism harnesses art’s communicative power to inspire social change, abstract artivism prioritizes the transformative potential of the creative process itself. -
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Melifawn is a singer/ songwriter based in Vancouver, BC.
In her music, she explores imagery and themes inspired by the west coast. Originally from Vancouver Island, Meli grew up near the ocean. She is a 2016 graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria. Her background in theatre inspires her music further, pushing her to create thoughtful and authentic stories.
Melifawn has toured across Canada with the Shameless Hussy production of Love Bomb. In the Chemainus Theatre Festival’s production of Classic Country Roads, she understudied four separate roles and went on for two. She has also performed with the Blueweed Band in North Vancouver, where she further developed her love of bluegrass music.Mel Kahan (she/ they) | Voice Actor, Singer/ Songwriter
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Sophia is a visual artist, watercolour painter and fashion textile print designer.
Her art practice explores the liminal space between nature and human experience, using memory fragments as both material and metaphor.Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Sophia holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a post-grad in Art History from FAAP. She has worked in fabric print design since 2007 and began exploring watercolor in 2012. Sophia has taught fashion illustration, pattern design, and painting at various institutions, and is currently a Fine Arts Instructor at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, North Van Arts, and təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre.
During her NVRC residency, Sophia will invite the community to share nature-inspired stories. These memory fragments from North Vancouver residents will inform and inspire her creative process, culminating in a drawing workshop and public art exhibition titled Global Garden.
Follow Sophia on Instagram @sophialongo
2024 artists in residence
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Chelsey Stuyt (she/her) is a photographer working primarily on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh nations. She holds an MA from the University of Bristol and is currently the season photographer at Pacific Theatre and Tightrope Theatre in Vancouver.
My work is about playing with the constructed image. The purpose of an image is to show us something, but in the era of ubiquitous smartphone imagery our drive to curate and manipulate creates images that showcase only what we want to be seen. My interest lies in juxtaposing that carefully constructed facade with hints of what may lie beneath it.
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I am primarily a textile artist working in the film industry for over 15 years. I began in Ireland in 2010 after completing a post graduate degree in Performance and Production through my native language, Irish. My art consists of performance and production elements coming together.
My time in film has been spent mainly working in the costume department, specifically special effects where we breathe life and soul into the costumes of characters you see in all your favourite movies and shows. I am fascinated with the processes’ we use to convincingly portray character through clothing, the various mediums that can be used to alter color and texture, and to restore items that would otherwise be waste.
I am an advocate for the upcycling/ restoration movement and most of my work involves elements of recycled materials. I breathe textile art and its dramatic elements including how we interact with materials from a performance perspective and how character can be created with these elements in mind. As a performer, feeling the transformation with the step into a costume is quite transcendental. It is intriguing to observe how what we wear informs us as an individual, a society, and as artists. I play with juxtaposition the old and the new, side by side, interchangeable and malleable, according to our artistic vision. I have a strong connection with nature, the ebb and flow in life and all things and love to practice relinquishing control over outcomes via organic methods. In this residency, I will deep dive into the nature of colour, colour theory and the colours of nature through work on natural and bundle dye techniques using natural and organic fabrics and materials.
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Pat Chessell is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter renowned for his soulful melodies, poignant lyrics, and captivating storytelling. With a career steeped in collaboration and a deep-rooted passion for championing the underdog, Chessell has carved a unique niche in the Canadian music scene.
Chessell's talent has not gone unnoticed, earning him coveted opening slots for iconic acts like Tegan and Sara, Jim Byrnes, The Paperboys, Sharon Shannon, and Delhi 2 Dublin, among others. His live performances are known for their raw energy and heartfelt connection with audiences, showcasing his unwavering commitment to his craft.
At the heart of Chessell's music lies a profound empathy for the human experience and a dedication to amplifying the voices of those often overlooked. Through his songs, he paints vivid portraits of life's struggles and triumphs, embodying the spirit of resilience and hope.
Residing in Vancouver with his wife Alexandra and son Liam, Chessell finds inspiration in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest landscape. As he embarks on an artist residency in North Vancouver, he eagerly anticipates delving deeper into the region's rich cultural tapestry. With North Vancouver as his muse, Chessell looks forward to crafting a new body of work infused with the essence of the Vancouver region, exploring its landscapes, stories, and people.
In his quest to illuminate the human experience through music, Pat Chessell continues to captivate audiences with his heartfelt melodies and poignant storytelling, leaving an indelible mark on the Canadian folk music landscape.
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The Art & Fungi Project is an ongoing series of artistic projects led by artists/facilitators Willoughby Arevalo and Isabelle Kirouac. Together, they offer artistic experiences in relation to fungi and how they shape and connect our world growing the interconnections between the community, the land, and it's more than human inhabitants.
Willoughby Arévalo is a mycologist, visual artist, author and educator. He is passionate about how fungal lives shape our world. His lifelong friendship with fleshy fungi has led him down a mycelial pathway – from a start in field identification and mushroom hunting, branching into cuisine, DIY cultivation, farming, education, writing and eco-arts. For over a decade, he has shared mycology with communities across North America, especially his own. His community-engaged art work engages fungi in the artmaking process: thematically, materially, and as active collaborators. Originally from Arcata, California (Wiyot and Yurok Territories), he strives to be a good guest on Coast Salish Territory.
Isabelle Kirouac is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist and educator born in Quebec, on the unceded territories of the Abenaki nation, and currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She uses movement as a tool to investigate the poetics of the senses, and to process questions raised in her everyday life. Isabelle researches the intersection between the world of fungi and somatic practices, movement improvisation, immersive experiences and community engaged projects in collaboration with mycologist and visual artist Willoughby Arévalo. Isabelle's work has been performed extensively across Canada, the USA, Mexico, Colombia and Europe. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
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My art practice is rooted in themes of shared experience, world making and storytelling. Through photographic means both digital and manual, embroidery, drawing and writing, I work to create narratives that often lay somewhere between fact and fiction. These liminal spaces that lack a sense of absolute often creates space for the viewer or reader to place themselves into the story, to imagine beyond what is being seen into their own lived experience. Most of my photographic work is accompanied by text, sometimes the writing is collected by the viewer themselves. I enjoy this dialogue that unfolds between a photo and text, and how it can influence and shape how we see things. I also often embroider or draw directly on to my photographs, working to add layers and perspectives to the story being told. Much of my work leans into gently shifting moments of the everyday, creating a photo where fiction and reality have blurred lines. It is in this subtle altering of the real photo that a different perspective can be seen. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, my practice works to utilize stories as a way to explore how the personal expands beyond ourselves in to shared experiences.
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Erin MacNair (she, her) lives in North Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people in British Columbia, Canada. Her stories are published or forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, such as The Baffler, Augur, The Walrus, Grain, EVENT, december, Orca, PRISM international, The Razor, Pulp Literature, The Fiddlehead, and others. When not writing, Erin can be found taking pictures of mushrooms, metalsmithing in her tool-filled woman-cave, playing the bass (badly) and ferrying kids to Ultimate Frisbee practice. More info at erinmacnair.com.
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Camilo Martin-Florez
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Camilo Martin-Florez is a Colombian-Canadian filmmaker and film-research, whose artistic practice focuses on live, multimedia and performative cinema. Martin-Florez's practice includes found-footage filmmaking, film remediation and video art/performance. Martin-Florez filmography is composed of cinema pieces, i.e., The Vernacular Danse, The Interrupted Chilean, The Common Guilt, Whose Boards Are These, Sakartvelo 36x36, among others, that have been selected and screened in various festivals and art events around the world. A resident of North Vancouver, during the present artistic residency, Martin-Florez will explore video-art performances with recycled and original material, that will be accompanied by live poetry and live music.
Carolina Silva
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Carolina Silva is a Colombian musician, proficient in various musical disciplines, including composition, singing, and songwriting. Her musical education focused on classical, musical theater, and traditional Latin American folklore, refining her skills in each genre. She has participated in esteemed choral competitions across Europe, earning notable recognition. Carolina's compositions are deeply personal, serving as a vehicle for introspection and reflection on life's themes. Through her music, she explores her own experiences and questions herself, inviting listeners on a journey of self-discovery and contemplation, aiming to share her distinctive voice and perspective with audiences worldwide.
2023 artists in residence
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Dolores Altin and Elvira Monteforte (aka Elvis and Lola) are public artists with a passion for environmental art. They make art that makes a difference and that's meant to be experienced in person. The art work is site-specific and often uses recycled and natural materials to create a sense of place. The artists strongly believe that art should be accessible to everyone, thus creating pieces that can be enjoyed by all.
Read our story about their artist in residence projects: Bugging out – artists in residence create willow sculpture insects
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My work is all about making experimental (mental and physical spaces) that spark curiosity and compassion to help bring about collaborative healing and visioning in the community. Making like this lets me live thousands of lives and stories within my own. It lets me stretch my creativity and stay a life-long learner. Working like this I also heal parts of myself around belonging.
The three most important things I want to communicate are hope, imagination and power. In which we always have the chance to re-imagine, learn and expand our models of community, knowledge and power to tap into collective strength and indigenous solutions generated with and by the people that live in the system.
As a multidisciplinary maker, I work with a lot of found objects.
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Project details coming soon!
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Lori Goldberg was born and lives in Vancouver. She attended Langara College Fine Arts program, Ontario College of Art and Design and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Canada Council Grant, two Tony Onley Artist's Project Scholarship and the Vermont Artist Award.
Her work is in the collections of the Canada Art Bank, Contemporary Art Gallery, the City of Vancouver, Michael Audain private art collection and VGH Foundation. Major exhibitions include South Main gallery, Vancouver / Justine Barnike Gallery, Ontario / Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver / the KX Kunst Kampfnagel Gallery, Hamburg.
As an artist, Goldberg has always sought intersections with broader communities, developing collaborative and mutually instructive inquiries about how art can impact positive environmental changes. She has spearheaded socially engaged project in Akumal, Mexico, Governors Island, NYC, Vancouver and Squamish BC.
She served for three years as the Provincial Representative of C.A.R./F.A.C. a Canada-wide advocacy and education NPO. As well, she was a founding director of the Vancouver Salish Sea Artist Residency. Over the last two decades, Goldberg has taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and frequently presented at Hollyhock on Cortes Island.
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Nathan Lee’s Artist in Residency
During Nathan Lee’s artist residency with NVRC, he created a model of The Rookery, along with a step-by-step education guide for the community.
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Moodyville sawmill opened in 1863. The community of Moodyville was an early mill town and one of the first permanent European settlements in North Vancouver. While the population was multicultural, it was far from equal. By 1889 there were 160 men employed at the mill, 36 of whom were of Chinese descent. Produced as part of NVRC's Artist Residency program, this project explores the “Chinese Rookery,” an ethnic enclave on the lowlands of the site. Little is known about the lives and working conditions of the people that lived here. This model is an interpretation of the site conditions based on the available archival information.
Make Your Own Rookery
Build a scale model and discover for yourself what the area may have been like.
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Artists Pierre Leichner and Johnny Trinh hosted 'Stories from the Kitchen' where over four sessions, chefs from the community offered demonstrations of foods from various cultures: Indigenous, Persian, Asian and Ukrainian.
Participants had an opportunity to taste and enjoy the dishes together. After the meal, the artist facilitators led discussions and story sharing. The food offered prompts to share memories, consider cultural significance and create new stories together as a community.
This series took place at Lions Gate Community Recreation Centre over four Thursday evenings from March 30 to April 20.
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Gemma Crowe Gemma Crowe is a new media and movement artist exploring ways of knowing beyond cognition by encouraging a felt-sense through aesthetic affect. Her thesis research is concerned with the illusory potential of sound and the sensory apprehension of movement. Gemma will be continuing this research now, with the performance of sound through dance.
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Pattern Nation is a slow fashion sustainable clothing design brand, artist collective and creative platform for colourful humans run by cosmic partners and spouses Cyd Eva and Costa Besta and friend and artist Brianna Klassen. They create handmade one-of-a kind & small run ungendered street wear and accessories, interactive art installations called blobs, visual art and surface pattern designs, fashion films and photography, DJ & live music sets, events, workshops, collaborative projects and more. Their current work takes place on the stolen, unceded and traditional territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm people (Kwikwetlem) in Coquitlam BC and have previously worked and lived in Vancouver Canada (all), Durban and Cape town South Africa (Cyd & Costa) and Bangalore India (Bri).
2022 artists in residence
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Cara Guri is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and has completed a painting residency at Columbia University. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Takao Tanabe Scholarship, the Brissenden Scholarship, and the Bishop’s Undergraduate Prize in Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and New York, NY. Recent exhibitions include The Reach Gallery Museum, Burrard Arts Foundation and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. She has also completed artist residencies with hcma, Burrard Arts, and The City of Abbotsford and was an artist with Vancouver Mural Festival.
In her current painting practice, Cara explores the relationship between identity construction and portraiture. Her works examine the transactional nature of portraiture: the information that is given to the viewer and that which is withheld. Through her paintings, she re-examines conventions and symbols that are found in historical portraiture by translating them into her current reality in a way that disrupts their original meaning and questions what it means to see and be seen.
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Cath Hughes is a British and Canadian multi disciplinary visual artist, living and working with gratitude on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh nations. She holds a BFA from Oxford University, and an MA from London University as well as a Postgraduate Certificate of Education from Goldsmiths College and recently participated in the postgraduate painting correspondence course facilitated by Turps Art School. She has worked for many years in art and gallery education, including at Tate Modern and the National Gallery in London before immigrating to Canada in 2008. She now teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Burnaby Art Gallery and the Shadbolt Centre.
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CONTEXTURE is a noun that refers to an interwoven structure – a fabric. It is also the work of Nathan Lee. CONTEXTURE weaves together threads of place, history, culture, and ecology into playful, richly layered objects of art and design.
Nathan’s creative approach seeks to engage meaningful social and ecological concepts with humour and whimsy, while celebrating overlooked natural and cultural systems. His projects are built on a foundation of thorough research and layered with site-specific meaning. The end result is relevant and playful, profound and engaging.
2021 artists in residence
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Andrea Superstein is one of the most versatile voices in Canadian music today. Dubbed as "redefining jazz" by the Vancouver Province, her debut performance at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival earned her a nomination for a Galaxie Rising Star award and launched her squarely into the limelight. She later shared a triple bill with Canadian female heavyweights Laila Biali and Brandi Disterheft.
Her performance stylings exemplify powerful vocals, evoking the gentle and the strong, deep blues to pop confection, often in the same song. She lithely navigates the colours of the emotional spectrum, luring us in deeper with killer improvisational instincts and exceptional storytelling.
Her latest oeuvre, Oh Mother is a Juno-nominated multimedia experience rooted in the stories of motherhood. It’s an ambitious tour de force highlighting her ever growing creativity and sensitivity as a songwriter and arranger. It includes a who’s who of the musical world, with a killer female dominated creative team including Jane Bunnett and Elizabeth Shepherd. Although the stories are rooted in motherhood, the free-spirited music is for everyone.
Previous release Worlds Apart showcases her talents as vocalist, composer and arranger, bringing her fresh, modern ideas to the forefront. Her sophomore record What Goes On was produced by Juno winner, Les Cooper (Jill Barber) and released on the esteemed Cellar Live imprint.
She has graced multiple official Spotify playlists, notably #4 on Vocal Jazz, just ahead of Norah Jones, received a 5-star review in BBC Music Magazine, spins on BBC Radio2 and an explosive release in Japan as well as impressive charting on Earshot and a steady rotation on JazzFm and CBC/ici Musique.
Super has been a guest on TV and radio nationwide including CBC’s Hot Air, CTV news, Breakfast Television, CKUA, Quand le jazz est lá and Sirius XM radio and is a crowd favourite on the touring and festival scene.
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Between Arts and Sciences, I first chose science. Curious about the mind, I eventually became an academic psychiatrist. But my increasing frustration with the business mentality that has infiltrated health care led me back to question my early decision. I received my BFA from Emily Carr in 2007 and my MFA from Concordia University in 2011. I am presently a full-time interdisciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice. My works has focused on environmental and mental health issues. I am a member of the Connection Salon Collective, and on the board of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. I am the founder of the Vancouver Outsider arts Festival now in its 8th year.
2019 artists in residence
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Jackie Bateman, Author, Screenwriter, Copywriter jacbateman.com/about
Jackie Bateman is a British author and screenwriter. She was raised in Kenya, lived in London and Edinburgh, and eventually found home in Canada in 2003. She has published three award-winning novels: a character-driven, psychological suspense trilogy set in Scotland. The books are being developed into a television series called Thirst. Locally, she was featured at the North Shore Writers Festival in 2017 and that year’s Local Authors Cafe, events which received enthusiastic praise from both the audience and the festival organizers. jacbateman.com
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Matthew Ariaratnam is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, guitarist, and listener based on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations – also known as Vancouver, BC. He creates sensory walks, writes dumbpop and chamber music, and frequently collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and theatre-makers. His Soundwalks are focused on the sensory perception of listening. matthewariaratnam.wordpress.com/
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Virginia Duivenvoorden
As a maker of dance Virginia removes hierarchy within the form, embracing a specific combination of freedom and technique. The concept for this residency has grown out of research observing the human figure composed in space. The simplicity of the form tells a story as a vibrant living image or tableau vivante. Whether live or recorded, creating movement this way invites all trained and untrained participants to create together live compositions of art. Moving, breathing sculptures in space, informed by and including dance. imageryexercise.com
