On the Mic, Off the Cuff: A Banter and Hosting Workshop
Folk Alliance 2022 Workshop Notes
Read more >This Panorama Goes On
Jan 24 2022 – Hello Visitor! This worldwide late-stage capitalism eco-human catastrophe continues. After a necessary and inevitable existential crisis at the turn of the year – wondering if I’ll ever perform regularly for a live audience again – I’m back on the virtual stage. Eyyy. I am finally taking advantage of being a member […]
Read more >Lullabies for End Times NYE Show
Friday December 31, 2021, 8-10 PM ETA Virtual New Year’s Eve Concert with Janice Jo LeeBUY TICKETS $0/6/10/20 Are YOU feeling existential? Worried about the PLANET? Your job? Your safety? Are YOU missing your community? Worried about racists, anti-vaxxers and inflation??Don’t go out! STAY IN AND CRY WITH MEEEE BECAUSE THIS CONCERT IS FOR YOU. […]
Read more >Halloqueer In-Person Concert Oct 31 2021
Join us this Halloween for a live concert with none other than Janice Jo Lee! Come ready for a costume contest, photo booth, Together We’re Bitter (TWB) Beer and other non-alcoholic drinks, Four All Ice Cream, Lenjo Bakes, free hot drinks, and LIVE MUSIC! In order to attend in person or online, you must register […]
Read more >April 14 2021 – I’m recording!
My musical satire Will You Be My Friend premieres as a radio play Sunday April 25th on Midtown Radio KW. My director Matt White of Green Light Arts has been working with me via video as we work through the recording. It’s been very interesting to revisit this show about the challenges of loving white […]
Read more >Protected: Will You Be My Friend – Radio Play
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Read more >Lullabyes Live at Burdock Toronto
Burdock, 1184 Bloor St W.Doors at 6 p.m., Show at 6:30 p.m.$10 in advance, $15 at the door BUY TICKETS Come to my first Toronto concert in a long time! I will be singing my new Lullabyeeees backed by Melinda Suarez. Justin James will also join on keyboard for some jazz numbers. Hilarious and dazzling […]
Read more >Lullabyes. Live in Kitchener Tickets on Sale Now
Hey KW,It’s been 7 months since I performed a concert at home. It’s winter and hard times. Let’s get cozy and I’ll sing you my nice lullabyes. If I get my act together this month, it will also the release of my Lullabyes EP.Bonus points and free stickers if you wear fuzzy pastel clothes, onesies […]
Read more >Press: The Star, Now Magazine review Will You Be My Friend
Wow wow such kind reviews from the production of Will You Be My Friend in Toronto, Theatre Passe Muraille, Produced by Green Light Arts, Oct-Nov 2018. NOW MAGAZINE “Will You Be My Friend introduces an artist with something to say… and sing” by Glenn Sumi, 4/5 N’s Link THE STAR: “Will You Be My Friend […]
Read more >CBC Radio Interview
May 18, 2019 Interview on CBC Radio about Will You Be My Friend Link
Read more >Ancestor Song Concert – June 10 2018
My main project, Ancestor Song! Epic folk, sweeping ocean melodies and Korean drum. This is what I have created when I’m not being destroyed by oppression. Anthems for fierce feminists freeing ourselves of anger and hate, and coming into our power. Playground Festival of New Work Presents Ancestor Song by Janice Jo Lee Sun June […]
Read more >Will You Be My Friend to make Toronto debut with Theatre Passe Muraille
REVIEW: “It’s a white white world”
Impact 17, the largest and most diverse yet International theatre festival
Article Link Sep 01, 2017 by Valerie Hill Waterloo Region Record More emphasis on youth programming, a budget $100,000 higher than the 2015 festival and now with a lineup of interesting new venues, Impact 17, the international theatre festival has reinvented itself. The bi-annual festival, which runs Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, has kept all […]
Read more >Defining Home With The Legend of Sing Hey
Article Link SHYENNE MACDONALD JANUARY 10, 2018 Look around you. Look at the buildings, the shops and the schools. Look at all the things that make up the Kitchener Waterloo area, all the things that make up your community. Do you think this is where you belong? Are you happy here? If your answer is no, […]
Read more >Ragged Company wins Waterloo Reads’ book battle
Article Link Lively debate of top 10 Canadian books as chosen by Waterloo residents CBC News Posted: Oct 18, 2017 7:30 AM ET Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese has been named the top book in the Waterloo Reads battle of the books. The novel came out on top after a lively debate at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex […]
Read more >Thought provoking stage series in Kitchener wraps up this week
Jun 19, 2017 by Valerie Hill Waterloo Region Record KITCHENER — Theatre performers, Matt White and Carin Lowerison, just wanted to get out of Toronto, away from the noise, the pressure, the competition. “We decided we needed a change of pace,” said White. “We wanted to switch up life, find a different community and try […]
Read more >Janice Lee Confronts the Uncomfortable
Article Link SAM NABI JULY 6, 2017 Janice Jo Lee’s new play, Will You Be My Friend, attracted multiple sold-out shows at the Conrad Centre in downtown Kitchener during its inaugural run from June 22 to 25. Billed as a musical comedy, this one-woman show follows Lee’s quest for friendship and validation as a Korean […]
Read more >People’s Tribune: ‘Without justice there can be no love’
Article Link June 2017 Editor’s Note: Janice Jo Lee’s album, Sing Hey, begins with three deep breaths, as if she’s thinking through what she has to say before launching into a kind of slam-sung poem of tough self-talk. That opener, “All the Times You Were Silent,” kicks off a seamless and stunning mix of soulful folk, blues […]
Read more >Out There Queerness, (in)visibilité et espace public
Montréal: Janice Lily/22 June 2017/ Janice, Montréal, Août 2016 (Version française plus bas) 1) Can you introduce yourself ? My name is Janice, I am a singer, songwriter, poet and community organizer. I take care of my sister who’s twelve years younger than me and I try to do art projects that fight for social […]
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