Barbara Adler

Barbara 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.^[1]

She was a founding member of the folk band The Fugitives with Brendan McLeod, C.R. Avery and Mark Berube^[2][3] 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.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

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.^[9][10] In 2010 she started on The BC Memory Game, a traveling storytelling project based on the game of memory^[11] and had been involved with the B.C. Schizophrenia Society Reach Out Tour for several years.^[12][13][14] She is of Czech-Jewish descent.^[15][16]

Barbara Adler has her bachelor's degree and MFA from Simon Fraser University, with a focus on songwriting, storytelling, and community engagement.^[17][18] In 2015 she was a co-star in the film Amerika, directed by Jan Foukal,^[19][20] which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.^[21]