Barbara Adler is a musician, poet, and storyteller based in

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. 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. She was a founding member of the folk band The Fugitives with Brendan McLeod, C.R. Avery and Mark Berube 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. 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. In 2010 she started on The BC Memory Game, a traveling storytelling project based on the game of memory and had been involved with the B.C. Schizophrenia Society Reach Out Tour for several years. She is of Czech-Jewish descent. Barbara Adler has her bachelor's degree and MFA from

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, with a focus on songwriting, storytelling, and community engagement. In 2015 she was a co-star in the film Amerika, directed by Jan Foukal, which premiered at the

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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

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Ten Thousand Wolves
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adler, Barbara 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Living people Jewish Canadian writers Jewish Canadian musicians Musicians from Vancouver Poets from Vancouver Canadian people of Czech-Jewish descent Canadian people of Czech descent Simon Fraser University alumni 21st-century Canadian women writers Year of birth missing (living people)