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             The Dead Letter Office

In this interactive letter mail experience and performance, audience members write and receive  mysterious handwritten letters delivered across time and space. This strange and delightful project attempts to create curious connections and deliver otherwise impossible messages. 
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                Perfect Strangers            


Perfect Strangers is a one-of-a-kind experience that invites consideration of how we perceive strangers in the world around us and the potential for curiosity, creativity, and empathy to spark between people who might not otherwise meet.
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            Meeting Places Project 

January - December 2019

Taking place in and around Mount Pleasant Community Centre throughout 2019, 
Meeting Places is a collaborative community art project centering on the potential for creativity to strengthen and activate community.

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       Creative Neighbourhood Mapping


Creative Neighbourhood Mapping is a community art project which used personal storytelling, community exchange, and site-specific exploration to assemble a collaborative portrait of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood.
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               Paper Dream

June 2017

Intricate, unique, and mysterious, Paper Dream is a miniature puppet show performed on a pop-up book stage. One audience member at a time is welcomed into the home of an elderly man whose memories and dreams literally unfold before their eyes.


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                      Scatter
August 2017

Scatter is a community seed bomb making art project aiming to improve access to green space in East Vancouver. Community members are invited to drop by and learn the value of greening unused and derelict space with colourful seed bombs made out of recycled paper and non-invasive pollinator seeds.
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             Apocalypse Parade

September 2016 (Vancouver Fringe Festival)

Half carnival pageant, half funeral march, Apocalypse Parade invites you to draw from a hat to decide the fate of human life on earth. Music, glitter, and spectacle open the doors to parallel universe futures of our climate: one jubilant, the other catastrophic. Which will you choose?

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                Invisible City

April 2017 & May 2015

Invisible City is a unique audio experience about illuminating the everyday world by discovering the theatre that is always happening
around us and inside us.
Revealing, intimate, and strange, Invisible City  is a secret theatrical adventure in a public space.

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        Wonders of the Ancient World
     
May 2016 (presented at New Narratives)

Wonders of the Ancient World
is an interactive shadow puppet installation set in an imagined future. This immersive piece explores human being's fascinating capacity to simultaneously revere and destroy the natural world.
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                 New Narratives

May 2016

Featuring over 40 multi-disciplinary artists, New Narratives is an evening of site specific dance cycling, a life size vivarium, roving fortune tellers and shadow puppet installations, with each audience member invited to curate their own unique experience of the works.


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                 Elk Walk
                                 
June 2016 & July 2014
(Center A Gallery)

Elk Walk is a large-scale public puppet intervention featuring five puppets made of found and salvaged materials, inspired by the fossilized skeletons of the extinct Irish Elk—the largest species of deer to ever live.
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                 Vivarium

May 2016 (presented at New Narratives)

Vivarium is a site specific performance installation piece, which asks: is Nature our intrinsic habitat or are we drawn to its exoticism because we are contemporary urbanites? What does it mean to co-exist with our local environment on colonized land?


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                Radiant Thing
                       
December 2013


Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Radiant Thing uses poetry, movement, and unconventional staging to guide one audience member at a time through the catastrophe and radiance of a daughter growing up.

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                  Hold On Tightly

July 2014

Intertwining narrative with elements of scavenger hunt, performance art, and visual art installation, Hold On Tightly
attempts to re-enchant the everyday world through theatre.