Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a folk artist and activist of Korean settler ancestry. She writes, performs and teaches in music, spoken word poetry and theatre. She is a hard femme, queer, radical, comedian, truth-teller and trickster. Her work explores gender justice, antiracism, friendship, community, ancestry and the Earth. Janice is interested in how storytelling can build bridges across differences and how to use art to build flourishing communities based in justice and joy.

 Janice has worked as an educator for 10 years facilitating arts, anti-oppression and leadership workshops across Canada. She has facilitated anti-oppression workshops for University of Waterloo, Laurier Student Public Interest Research, Laurier Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work, Folk Alliance International and Vancouver Poetry House.

 In Waterloo Region, Janice Jo Lee was voted Best Performance Artist five years running from 2016 to 2020 (The Community Edition.) She was the City of Kitchener’s Artist in Residence in 2015 and created four cinepoems with the community called Folk Myths of Kitchener. She was the founding artistic director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Poetry Slam from 2011-2018. Currently she is writing a new musical satire and working on her upcoming album Ancestor Song.

Learn, With Scott T. Kim

In this episode, Scotty learns how to dance and do wushu with artist Sze-Yang Ade-Lam. They speak about genre, gender, masculinity and being Asian.

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Apocalypse Earth

Go behind the scenes with bouffon-clowns improvising a new musical satire about humanity and Earth’s destruction.

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