This past weekend I went to The Legacy Expo partnership gathering and I am so full up from all the passion, knowledge, and skillshare that happened there! It was co-hosted by Michael Brooke of The Endless Wave Skateboarding, Death & Spirituality and Philotimo Life’s Maria Vassiliou. Highlights include Subbing to Philotimo’s Podcast https://www.philotimolife.com/podcast and getting …
Note this is not a grief support group but an ancestral ritual to deepen a connection to your departed loved one. Should you be in the throes of grief this may not be the event for you. Please contact the host if you have any questions. November 1st, 6:30-8:30pmwith Adrianna ProsserSliding scale; suggested donation $20 …
As I get set to celebrate my 42nd birthday next week, which to us nerds is the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything,” I am pleased to say that I was accepted into Algoma University for my BSW thus continuing my work as a Death Doula to graduate in the …
With the internet going crazy for #BernieMittens I just had to jump in as the accounts I manage! For Festival Players I created the Bernie Mittens One Man Show: And for Eldritch Theatre, the classic Black Lodge…. It can be fun to jump into a collective joke and meme, it can be an easy way …
This year marked the ten year deathaversary of my dear brother Andrew’s suicide in November. You may know that I created a one-woman show to help digest my grief through storytelling and resource sharing in Everything But the Cat… which I also wrote about on my mental health and suicide prevention blog on tumblr. I …
These are strange times we are living through; I wrote about the impact of our new “normal” on my mental health blog that tries to encapsulate the surreal reality we find ourselves in. The imagery of pushing through the darkness (IE depression, anxiety, fear of living through a global pandemic) and trying to still access …
I have been working behind-the-scenes (well behind-the-screen) for Groundling Theatre and Crow’s Theatre’s adaptation of Julius Caesar as their social media specialist. I have been having a blast managing their Facebook and Twitter, where so many audience members and critics are able to interact with me and tell me how much they LOVE this production. …
I am so excited for Checkpoint 300 at Fringe this year – ok ok I’m bias, because not only am I working on the show as their marketing and publicist, but I also know Michelle Wise (Playwright and Director) and Geoff Mays from a long time ago from my actors life. Plus bringing to life …
I can’t help but gush about this great moment in my geeky life: I am now a Fraggle at Fraggle Rock and part of the Jim Henson universe!! Did you watch this amazing (Canadian?!) muppet puppet show?! It was one of my very favouritest as a child and it fills me with great joy to …
Recently I had the pleasure of sharing a story with Stories We Don’t Tell, a storytelling gathering in Toronto. I like their mandate: “There are some stories that we get really good at telling, we tell them to our friends, our coworkers, and even strangers at parties. We tell them because they are a part of …