Barbara Adler

Who is Barbara Adler?

Barabara 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.

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 is currently a member of the accordion shout-rock band Fang, and most recently, Proud Animal.

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 has also been involved with the B.C. Schizophrenia Society Reach Out Tour for several years.

Barbara Adler has her bachelor's degree and is an MFA candidate at Simon Fraser University, with a focus on songwriting, storytelling, and community engagement. She is of Czech-Jewish descent.