Barbara Adler

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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]

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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]

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