Note: Since 2016 I have shifted my practice from primarily performance-based work to fibre arts and writing due to becoming disabled by chronic illness

EDUCATION
2006 Master of Arts in Devised Theatre. Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon, UK
– Show: splanchnologies. Five short pieces of “sung physical theatre” based of the theme of anatomy.
– Dissertation: The Liminal Phase in Contemporary Music Theatre/Total Theatre.
– Activities: Active with Music Department in performing pieces by Andriessen, Glass, and Reich; Co-director of final vocal theatre undergraduate presentation; Trained in Suzuki, Feldenkrais and Alexander techniques.
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours in Music (Great Distinction). York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Composition; improvisation; New Music performance on oboe & piano; Karnatak (South Indian) music with a focus on voice.

LITERARY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2011 In(ter)ventions: Writing at the Edge. Resident artist (2 weeks). The Banff Centre. Banff AB.
2010 In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge conference. Attendee. The Banff Centre. Banff, AB.
2009 Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Winter Colony at St. Peter’s Abbey. Muenster, SK.
2002 Sage Hill Fall Poetry Colloquium with Erin Mouré (3 weeks). St. Peter’s Abbey. Muenster, SK.
1995 Sage Hill Writing Experience: Poetry Workshop with Di Brandt (1 week). St. Michael’s Retreat. Lumsden, SK.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PERFORMANCE WORK)
1994-2015 Roy Hart Voice Work with Richard Armstrong.
– International Voice Workshops, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB. Advanced (10 days), 2015. Advanced (included participating in the filming of a documentary on Armstrong’s teaching) [11 days], 2014. Advanced [10 days], 2012. Advanced [10 days], 2008. Advanced [10 days], 2001. Intermediate [5 days], 2000. Introductory [3 days], 1999.).
– One-on-one training sessions (3 days), New York, USA. 2002.
– Autumn Leaf Performance Professional Development Workshop (2 days), Toronto, ON. 1994.
2014 The Living Object: Puppetry and Manipulation of Everyday Objects, led by Viktor Lukawski and Nicholas De Gaetano from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Persephone Theatre (2 days), Saskatoon, SK.
2010-2011 – Breakthrough Acting classes with Tom Bentley Fisher. Tant per Tant Theatre Company. Saskatoon, SK.
2006 Choreographic Theatre Workshops with Enrique Pardo. – Pantheatre Summer University (12 days) included sessions with Linda Wise. Roy Hart Centre, Malérargues, France; Giving Voice Festival (3 days), Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, Wales.

PLAYS PRODUCED
2012 Anchoress written in 2003. A play set in 1120 in an anchorhold. Directed by Donna Challis. Performed by Battlefords Community Players at The Dekker Center, North Battleford, SK.

ESSAY PUBLICATIONS
October 2023 What is the Body but a Matrix of Threads?
In the anthology Sharp Notions: Essays on the Stitching Life edited by Marita Dachsel and Nancy Lee. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press. My embroidery she breathed is on the cover of the anthology, and some photos of my pieces are included inside as well.
2021 When Illness Becomes the Way: Stoicism as a Way through Chronic Illness and Disability. Won First Prize in Classical Wisdom’s Stoic Essay Writing Contest. Published in their subscription magazine, Litterae, in December 2021 and then on their website in spring 2022. Some of my embroidery pieces were published alongside the essay. https://classicalwisdom.com/philosophy/stoicism/when-illness-becomes-the-way-stoicism-as-a-way-through-chronic-illness-and-disability/
2019 Meaning Making / Making Meaning :: In Corpore Sano presents Lia Pas
Online essay about shifting my creative practice due to disability and a gallery of seven embroidery pieces. February 6, 2019. https://medium.com/the-operating-system/meaning-making-making-meaning-in-corpore-sano-presents-lia-pas-f8c0b50fb32d
2014 MESS: the hospital anthology edited by Julie Devaney & David Molenhuis: “lumen 1 – the cell“ (image/text), “Small Beginnings” (personal essay), Tightrope Books.
2000 Wrestling with the Angel: Women Reclaiming their Lives edited by Caterina Edwards and Kay Stewart: personal essay “births”. Red Deer Press.

SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS
2024 Arc Poetry. Spring 2024 Issue 103: Frock Consciousness
1 poem published in print magazine: anamnesis
2024 Epistemic Lit. Issue 2: Happy Place
Poetry editor Kristin Houlihan. 2 poems published in US online literary magazine with recordings of me reading each poem: rain . forest and The River Speaks.
2018 GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times
Edited by Tanis MacDonald, Rosanna Deerchild, and Ariel Gordon: text/image piece“The Hollow Body“. Frontenac House.
2014 The Body Electric: Medicine & Technology digital exhibit
My text/image piece percuss (lumen 10) surface anatomy shown digitally at the International Conference of Residency Education in Toronto, ON and subsequently published in that year’s Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities.
2014 MESS: the hospital anthology edited by Julie Devaney & David Molenhuis: “lumen 1 – the cell“ (image/text), “Small Beginnings” (personal essay), Tightrope Books.
2012 Ars Medica, Vol. 8, No.1, “percuss” (text/image piece)
– The Capilano Review, 40th Anniversary Edition, Issue 3.17, “Vesalius – Skullcap” (text/image piece).
– Dandelion: Performance/MACHINE Issue 37.2, “lungs skulled”, “a tender & violent duet”, “lumen 3: the skull” (image/text), and “a tender & violent duet” (recording).
– why I want you. Lyrics written for Didier Monge’s composition. France 
2011 Shortlisted for Matrix Litpop Poetry award; The Society, “hotate” (poem) Edited by Taylor Moisan (St. Peters College); Residue: participants of the In(ter)ventions: Writing on the Edge residency of the Banff Centre. “eyebone” (poem) Banff Centre for the Arts.
2007 W12: The All-Music Issue: “portal vein” for voice and piano. Text and mp3 of live recording from MA show published online.
2006 Synapse (UK & USA)
2002 land/space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, Edited by Candas Jane Dorsey & Judy McCrosky (Tesseract Books); Sage Hill Writing Experience Website alumni section; Howlin’ Literations: An Anthology of Writing Presented at the 2002 Her-icane Dorothy Arts Festival (25th Street Theatre Inc.)
note: list of earlier publications available upon request.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2009-2010 Member, Editorial Collective, JackPine Press.
May-November 2008 Online mentor for the League of Canadian Poets YoungPoets.ca website. Commented on poetry uploaded to website by young poets.
1996-2003 Editorial Advisor, Musicworks magazine.
1991-1993 Member, Editorial Collective, Existence Magazine (York University).

READINGS
2012 Reader/performer at launch of Transforium by Mari-Lou Rowley and Tammy Lu, Jackpine Press launch at PAVEDarts, November 24, 2012; Guest poet at launch of Melanie Schnell’s novel While The Sun Is Above Us. McNally Robinson BookSellers, Saskatoon. April 30, 2012.
2010 Grey Borders Reading Series. St. Catherines, ON. November 26, 2010.
2009 Featured poet at Tonight it’s Poetry. Flint, Saskatoon; LCP (W)rites of Spring. Flint, Saskatoon; “Mantra” paintings by James Wyper and poetry by Lia Pas. Willow Studio. Saskatoon.
2008 LCP (W)rites of Spring. Beily’s, Saskatoon; LCP poetry without borders. Amigo’s, Saskatoon; Featured poet at Tonight it’s Poetry. Flint, Saskatoon; JackPine Press summer launch. Saskatoon.
2007 Her-icane festival reading at McNally Robinson.
2003 Book Launch for Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction. McNally Robinson’s Biblio Bistro.
note: list of earlier readings available upon request.

INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
October 2023 Taught webinar: The Invisible Made Visible: a visualization & writing workshop
Led participants through my process for creating both the visual and textual aspects of my symptomatology pieces. Organized by CHASE Medical Humanities Network (UK).
2022 Interviewed by Jason Osler for 4-minute CBC radio piece on brown noise
Syndicated nationally to various local CBC stations. Piece starts at 1:01:50  on this show: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-96-radio-west/clip/15939713-cbc-indigenous-affairs-reporter-wawmeesh-hamilton-brings-story
2010 Voicing workshops breathe new life into your health and self-esteem. Article and interview on Voicing classes at Free Flow Dance Studio. Written by Pamela Irving for SP Creative Services. Published by The Saskatoon Star Phoenix Wellness Magazine, Saskatoon, SK.
2004 Short autobiography published in Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Published by The Canadian Plains Research Centre. Regina, SK.
2001 Feature article about Her-icane festival of women’s art in Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Featured interview about The Descent of Inanna. Published by The Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Saskatoon, SK.
2001 Review of vicissitudes by Alexis Keinlan in The Broken Pencil Review Number 16.

MUSIC
SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS
2007-2009 60×60 project: “between” for voice (text) and electronics (2007). “interchange” for voice and electronics (2008). “cavea” for voice (2009). Vox Novus Music, NY.
1996-2010 Performed own compositions as voice/keyboard soloist at various venues in

SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS
2011 Free Flow Dance Company commissioned by New Dance Horizons “a tender and violent duet”. Performance, score and soundscapes by Lia Pas, choreography by Jackie Latendresse. Premiered March 6, 2011 at MAGDance, Bluenote Series, Regina, SK.
2009 – 2011 Mysterium Choir. Director, Vocal Coach, Soloist, and Composer with Mysterium Choir – A choir of ten-plus singers whose mandate was to perform meditative and innovative music. Founded by Angie Tysseland.
2010 Improvised music performances with Lia Pas (voice), Ken Aldcroft (electric guitar), Chris Cawthray (percussion), Chrstine Duncan (voice) and other performers. Somewhere There and The Central. (Toronto, ON). November 27-29, 2010.
2009 Free Flow Dance Company “a small piece of sky” for three moving voices. Back Alley Antics III. Saskatoon, SK.
2001-2003 aBANDon. Writer, Composer, Vocalist and Keyboardist with aBANDon – New Music/sound poetry/improvisation ensemble with Steven Ross Smith (voice), and Chris Cawthray (percussion).
note: list of other group projects available upon request

COMPOSITION
2009-2018 a small piece of sky for variable numbers and types of instruments
– Performed as a chamber music piece at the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s Voices of Canada concerts. January 28-29, 2017. Regina, SK.
– Performed as part of the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s performances in Regina schools during the 2017-2018 school year.
– Performed as a chamber music piece at Ritornello Chamber Music Festival and at MoSoFest. May 2015. Saskatoon, SK.
– Performed by the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra as part of their fall retreat. Directed by Richard Carnegie. 28 September 2014. Saskatoon, SK.
– Performed by the SSO core players (flute, oboe, bassoon, viola, double bass) accompanied by a short film, i, by Jennifer Sparrowhawk. CORE III concert at PAVED arts. Saskatoon, SK. Winter, 2013. Subsequently recorded a voice and piano version to accompany Sparrowhawk’s film.
– Commissioned by Free Flow Dance Company for three moving voices. Premiered at Back Alley Antics III. Summer 2009, Saskatoon, SK.
2015 Prairie Solo – a look back
Three compositions for piano by Lia Pas to accompany a solo dance piece by Jackie Latendresse. Set design by Mark Eriksson. Part of the 20th anniversary year of Free Flow Dance Theatre. November, 2015. Saskatoon, SK.
2014-2015 Piano and vocal score & recording for Listening to the Past/Listening to the Future, a film installation by Amalie Atkins. Installation was a new piece for Amalie Atkins: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical solo show at MacKenzie Art Gallery 1 February to 14 June 2014, Regina, SK and in Wundermärchen at the Kenderdine Art Gallery 16 June to 7 August 2015, Saskatoon, SK.
2010-2011 tongues in 7
Performed by Juice vocal trio. BBC Broadcast of May 12, 2010 performance, Sounds New Festival, Canterbury, UK.
2009-2011 Compositions performed by Mysterium Choir: Blessed Be; Astavakra Gita; Desire to Sound.
2000 Saskatoon Symphony Festival of New Music. Saskatoon, SK. – Pieces Performed: Mandara: a place for seeing for chamber orchestra premiere; Golden Face for voice and string quartet premiere; Cosmic Egg for 4 female voices. – Panelist at Composer’s Colloquium.
1999 Saskatoon Symphony Festival of New Music. Saskatoon, SK. – Purple Snake for string quartet: I spiralling (nestled in the warm womb), II ophion, III kundalini premiere. – Produced Saskatoon Composers’ Performance Society concert – Panelist at Composer’s Panel.

RECORDINGS
2007-2009 60×60 project: between for voice (text) and electronics (2007). interchange for voice and electronics (2008). cavea for voice (2009). Vox Novus Music, NY.
2007 portal vein for voice and piano. Text and mp3 of live recording from MA show published in W12: The All-Music Issue. Kootenay School of Writing. Vancouver, B.C.
2000 No Where Else. Improvised, co-recorded and co-mixed DUCT track on Revolutions 2000: a compilation of Saskatchewan sound works produced by Steve Heimbecker (Qube Assemblage Audio) and Video Vérité.
1999 galvanized. Full-length audio CD. An Underwhich Audiographic of free improvisations produced by DUCT and distributed by Underwhich Editions.

BROADCASTS
2011 tongues in 7 performed by Juice vocal trio. BBC Broadcast of May 12, 2010 performance, Sounds New Festival, Canterbury, UK.
2003 Kali for flute/alto flute/piccolo, cello, and piano, recorded April 17, 2003 at Regina Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival subsequently broadcast on CBC Radio One (540 AM) and CBC Radio Two (105.5 FM)
2000 Poetry and Music “Poetry Postcard” broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two’s “Out of the Blue.”

VOICE, THEATRE & MUSIC INSTRUCTION
2015 Private voice coach for Masters in English student Colin Gibbings’ live performance of The Canterbury Tales in Old English. Supervisor: Peter Robinson. University of Saskatchewan.
2015 Music Director: Coram Boy
Directed music for University of Saskatchewan Drama Department’s production of Coram Boy featuring the music of Handel’s Messiah. Included teaching vocal parts by ear to drama students who could not read music and recording keyboard parts. Production directed by Natasha Martina. 
2014 Sessional Lecturer: Drama 362—Voice & Speech
Taught vocal technique to third year drama majors as part of their studio classes for one semester. University of Saskatchewan.
2013 Consultant for Make Your Mark a dance theatre piece choreographed by Jackie Latendresse. Saskatoon, SK.
2012 Taught 1-day Voicing Workshop: Resonance, Free Flow Dance Centre, Saskatoon, SK. “Voicing: Resonance” article published in FLIGHT: A Living, Breathing Document of Consciousness, Volume 1 Issue 9. Editor: Trent Deerhorn, Saskatoon, SK.
2002-2012 Taught weekly Voicing classes exploring movement and voice. Free Flow Dance Centre (2009-2012), Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre (2002-2005), Saskatoon, SK.
2010 Taught 1-day voice workshop for Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. Saskatoon, SK.
2007 Voice Instructor. Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company’s Circle of Voices Program. Saskatoon, SK.
2002 Voice workshop leader. Native Theatre School Summer Intensive. Saskatoon, SK.
2001 Facilitated devising of composition, graphic scoring, recording, and mixing of soundscape for 15 children, Part of The Water Babies Project, an initiative of the 25th St. Theatre Centre.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
2003-present: League of Canadian Poets Full Member: 2007-present, Associate Member: 2003-2007
1999-present: SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada) Member
1988-2012: Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Member: 1988-1991, 1995-2005, 2007-2012. Secretary, Board of Directors: 2000-2001
2006-2012: Centre for Performance Research Member

GRANTS
Saskatchewan Arts Board
2014: Music Established Professional Artist Grant ($8150) to compose music for Book. Chair. Table.
2010: Literary Established Mid-Career Project Grant ($8600) to complete a manuscript of poetry and performance scores centred around the theme of anatomy.
2008: Multidisciplinary Established Mid-Career Project Grant ($7000) to create susurrations, a multi- disciplinary video piece about the heart combining text, music and imagery related to personal experience with illness.
2005: Multidisciplinary Professional Development C Grant ($3000) to help defray costs towards MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts.
2001: Multidisciplinary Professional Development C Grant ($1938) to attend Sage Hill Fall Poetry Colloquium with Erin Mouré and Advanced Level International Voice Workshop with Richard Armstrong.
1999: Inter-Disciplinary Travel Grant ($500) to attend Beginner Level International Voice Workshop with Richard Armstrong at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
1996: Literary C Grant ($2000) to complete poetry manuscript. Published by Thistledown Press November 2003 as what is this place we have come to.

Canada Council for the Arts
2011: Literary Arts Travel Grant ($750) to travel to Banff Centre for the Arts to participate in In(ter)ventions Residency.
2008 and 2001: Inter-Arts Travel Grants ($500 each) to travel to Banff Centre for the Arts in order to participate in the Advanced Level International Voice workshop with Richard Armstrong.