Barbara Adler is a musician, poet, and storyteller based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a past Canadian Team Slam Champion, was a founding member of the Vancouver Youth Slam, and a past CBC Poetry Face Off winner.[1]
She was a founding member of the folk band The Fugitives with Brendan McLeod, C.R. Avery and Mark Berube[2][3] until she left the band in 2011 to pursue other artistic ventures. She was a member of the accordion shout-rock band Fang, later Proud Animal, and works under the pseudonym Ten Thousand Wolves.[4][5][6][7][8]
In 2004 she participated in the inaugural Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, winning the Spoken Wordlympics with her fellow team members Shane Koyczan, C.R. Avery, and Brendan McLeod.[9][10] In 2010 she started on The BC Memory Game, a traveling storytelling project based on the game of memory[11] and had been involved with the B.C. Schizophrenia Society Reach Out Tour for several years.[12][13][14] She is of Czech-Jewish descent.[15][16]
Barbara Adler has her bachelor's degree and MFA from Simon Fraser University, with a focus on songwriting, storytelling, and community engagement.[17][18] In 2015 she was a co-star in the film Amerika, directed by Jan Foukal,[19][20] which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[21]
Bibliography
edit- Squeezebox and Hound
- B.C. Memory Game
Discography
edit- Flusterbush (2007)
With The Fugitives:
- In Streetlight Communion (2007)
- Face of Impurity (2007)
- Find Me (2009)
- Eccentrically We Love (2010)
With Fang:
- Diskopatska (2010)
With Proud Animal:
- Proud Animal (2012)
References
edit- ^ "Elementary School Concert Performers".
- ^ McLaughlin, John P. (18 May 2010). "Featured Artist". The Province.
- ^ "The Fugitives". Canadian Review of Literature in Performance. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Barbara Adler and Reach Out Psychosis". CBC News. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ Derdeyn, Stuart (12 June 2013). "Seven ways to entertain in an inexpensive Main Street venue". The Province. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ McCloskey, Hailey. "Interview With Barbara Adler, Extravagant Signals Series Curator". Vandocument. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Varty, Alexander (Jan 10, 2013). "Proud Animal goes to school". Georgia Straight. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Ten Thousand Wolves".
- ^ "Slam Champs". Spoken Word Canada. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "The Cultch's Ignite! Mentorship Program". 23 September 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ Slaven, Rebecca (26 Aug 2010). "Barbara Adler plays the BC Memory Game". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ^ Hannus, Liisa (30 May 2012). "Rad All Over - Barbara Adler". Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "ReachOut Psychosis - Performers". Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Bedry, Derek. "Breaking silence on psychosis". Alaska Highway News. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ Silverberg, David (5 March 2004). "Local poet slams to own beat". Jewish independent. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
- ^ Nozick, Nicole. "Barbara Adler looks beyond spoken word to the world of Fang". Jewish Independent. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ "Barbara Adler". Vancouver Biennale. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "SFU SCA Alumni". Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Amerika". IMDB. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Evolution Films - Amerika". Evolution Films. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "Amerika". KVIFF. Retrieved 11 July 2015.