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EDUCATION
2010 Banff Centre Spoken Word Program (Banff AB)
2007 Turkish Language Certificate . Dilmer (Istanbul Turkey)
2001 TESL Certificate . ESL
International Training Centre (Vancouver BC)
1997 B.A. in Creative Writing & English
Literature . Concordia University (Montreal QC)
GRANTS
2012 Roundhouse Community Arts &
Recreation Centre Artist
Residency (ANU 10)
2011 Canada Council for the Arts . Writing
& Publishing -
Lit. Performance & Spoken Word (LFG)
2011 Roundhouse Community Arts &
Recreation Centre Artist
Residency (ANU 9)
2010 Banff Centre Spoken Word Program
Scholarship
2010 Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre Artist
Residency (ANU 8)
2009 Roundhouse Community Arts &
Recreation Centre Artist
Residency (Sema)
2007 Canada Council for the Arts . Writing
&
Publishing -
Spoken Word & Storytelling (The
Memorists)
2004 Roundhouse Community Arts and
Recreation Centre Artist Residency (Under
the Griot Tree)
2003 Canada Council for the Arts . Film and
Video Artists /
Production (Almost Forgot my Bones)
2003 Canada Council for the Arts . Writing & Publishing
-
Spoken Word & Storytelling (Invisible
World)
AWARDS
Almost Forgot My Bones
videopoem:
2006 Best International Work Award, Chroma Audiovisual Art
Festival, Mexico
2004 Official Selection, Toronto International Film
Festival, Canada
2004 Audience Choice Award, Vancouver Videopoetry Festival,
Canada
PUBLICATIONS
AUDIO
The Memorists
(Mother Tongue Media, 2008)
Invisible World
(Mother Tongue Media, 2004)
AUDIO COLLABORATIONS
Blue Bop
Vol. 1 - Jerry the Cat (Dark River Media
US, 2009)
800 -
Mercan Dede (Doublemoon Records, Turkey, 2007)
Southfull - Brifo (La
Baleine Records, France, 2006)
VIDEO
One Through Love (Cem Productions documentary 2011)
Generation Exile (Rodrigo Dorfman documentary 2010)
In Search of Ecstasy
(Global Spirit documentary 2009)
Death for Beginners (Brifo
music video, 2006)
Almost Forgot My Bones
(Bowen Arrow Productions videpoem, 2004)
PRINT
Love Letter to Anatolia
(Mother Tongue Media, 2012)
The Golden Section
(Mother Tongue Media, 2001)
Cut of Buddha / The Vancouver
Eloquence (Mother Tongue Media, 2000)
Throwing Skin – South
America Poems (Mother Tongue Media, 1999)
Word Class Animal (Mother
Tongue Media, 1997)
Blood In, Blood Out – A
Universal Preparation (Mother Tongue
Media, 1996)
ANTHOLOGIES
AUDIO
Coastal Tongue - CD Anthology
Women in Spoken Word in Vancouver T.L. Cowan & L.
Bricker, Ed. (Canada, 2004)
Ribsauce - A CD/Anthology of
Words by Women (Wired on Words/Vehicule
Press, Canada, 2001)
PRINT
Bluesprint – Black
British Columbia Literature and Orature Wayde
Compton, ed. (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002)
All Wound Up –
Alternative Writing from BC (Ripple Effect Press,
2002)
La Vache Enragee Anthologie
1996-97 Mitsiko Miller, ed. (Revue Stop,
1997)
AFFILIATIONS
CIRAA - Canadian Independent Recording Artists' Association
LCP - League of Canadian Poets
SOCAN - Society of Composers, Authors and Music
Publishers of Canada
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