Jessica Mason-Paull is the incumbent Slammaster for the Vancouver Poetry Slam, who will begin her term after the VIP Festival. She has been an active participant and organizer for Van Slam for years, often housing traveling poets at East Van’s venerable Foxy House. She has designed costumes professionally, run non-profit organizations and founded a federal political party/ dance night called the Work Less Party.
Author Beverley Gray is a boreal herbalist, aromatherapist, natural-health practitioner, journalist, and an award-winning natural health-product formulator. She owns the Aroma Borealis Herb Shop in Whitehorse, Yukon.
How would you like to awaken the Lover within?
Explore through the many layers of our senses. Aspects of scent, sound, touch, breath, taste and the rhythm of our primal nature. To be able to move & feel each moment as if all was making love through you..
Founded in 2000, Fires of Compassion provides support and training for professional caregivers or those in the service of caring for others. Compassion is not a luxury, it’s a necessity that our human world cannot do without.