Playing within the Paradoxes w/Jc

Monday, February 11th 7:00 – 9:00pm

play is at the core of this artist’s work. what happens when we open ourselves to child-like wonder? what movements ripple? what sensations? what parts of ourselves can we see and feel most clearly?

jc invites you to partake in a 2 hour exploration of this play-full, contemplative movement, compellingly paired with contemplative writing.

rooting our creative explorations in play asks us to hold loosely to self judgment, inhibition, and fear of failure; it is possible to permit these experiences as part of the unfolding without letting them smother our joy. so we play with them; within the paradoxes. we experiment. and inevitably, we surprise ourselves.

influenced by principles of Gestalt therapy, performance clowning, and contact improvisation, this artist has created a delightful fusion of embodiment and creative writing.

please, come play!

Meet Jc!

Jc is a settler, poet, educator, improviser, play therapist, and wild food enthusiast raised in Windsor, Ontario on the traditional land of the Objibwe, Odawa, and Potawatami people. They have traveled to the west coast and back sharing their work as a spoken word artist, and engaging in sustainable agriculture since 2014. They’ve now resettled with their cats and veggie garden in their birthplace on the south side of the Detroit River in so-called Canada.

Their writing explores a myriad of subjects, frequently queer, often provocative, including gender, place, privilege, non-monogamy, mental health, nature re-connection, consent, decolonization, magic, bodies, vulnerability, erotica, love and heartbreak. They are a maker-of-zines and have self-published three chapbooks, one of which, “Soft Boi” is currently in its second edition, with 200 copies in print.

Jc is a creator & curator of the only queer and trans open mic in south-western Ontario, QT HAUS, which is held monthly in Windsor and built upon the principles of Safer-Space and anti-oppression initiatives.

An enthusiastic organizer within the Canadian poetry community, Jc has participated in the Canadian Festival of Spoken word in 2014 & 15, run & facilitated poetry writing workshops in over two dozen cities across Turtle Island (so-called North America), and performed on more than 150 open mic stages since the start of their career in 2010.

Jc also finds great joy in collaborative projects with a slew of exceptional artists, poets, dancers and improvisers, experimenting with fusions of poetry, trip-hop, contact improvisation, clowning, and street performance.

Jc likes the ocean and often compares themself to it. Such is the source of their acclaimed stage name: Jsea Like the Ocean.