Barbara Adler

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
  • Squeezebox and Hound
  • B.C. Memory Game

Discography
  • 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
  1. "Elementary School Concert Performers".
  2. McLaughlin, John P. (18 May 2010). "Featured Artist". The Province.
  3. "The Fugitives". Canadian Review of Literature in Performance. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  4. "Barbara Adler and Reach Out Psychosis". CBC News. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  5. 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.
  6. McCloskey, Hailey. "Interview With Barbara Adler, Extravagant Signals Series Curator". Vandocument. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  7. Varty, Alexander (Jan 10, 2013). "Proud Animal goes to school". Georgia Straight. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  8. "Ten Thousand Wolves".
  9. "Slam Champs". Spoken Word Canada. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  10. "The Cultch's Ignite! Mentorship Program". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  11. Slaven, Rebecca (26 Aug 2010). "Barbara Adler plays the BC Memory Game". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  12. Hannus, Liisa. "Rad All Over - Barbara Adler". Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  13. "ReachOut Psychosis - Performers". Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  14. Bedry, Derek. "Breaking silence on psychosis". Alaska Highway News. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  15. 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.
  16. Nozick, Nicole. "Barbara Adler looks beyond spoken word to the world of Fang". Jewish Independent. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  17. "Barbara Adler". Vancouver Biennale. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  18. "SFU SCA Alumni". Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  19. "Amerika". IMDB. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  20. "Evolution Films - Amerika". Evolution Films. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  21. "Amerika". KVIFF. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
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