moe clark (weather beings, QWF, PIV)

Music & Sound

Specialities: Choir, Creative writing, Haiku, Improvisation, Music Production, Nature-focused art, Percussion, Songwriting, Soundscapes, Spoken Word/Slam Poetry, Storytelling, Zines

Contact Info

Email address

moe.clark@gmail.com

Phone Number

514-409-1725

Website address

www.moeclark.ca/

Where Artist lives

Montréal / Plateau

Resides in

English Montreal

Social Media

Experience working with

Cycle 1 Elementary
Cycle 2 Elementary
Cycle 3 Elementary
Secondary 1 & 2
Secondary 3 & 4
Secondary 5
CEGEP
Senior Citizens

Lifelong Learners

Adult Learners

I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work

Health and Wellbeing
Environmental Awareness and Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
Media Literacy
Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)

Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire

I have experience working with

ArtsSmarts
ELAN’s ACE Initiative
MASC
MikwChiyâm
Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Writers in the Communities Program
Poetry In Voice

I can facilitate virtual creative experiences

Travel

An extended residency is an option

âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis/ Norwegian/ French/ British) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing Thunderbird. She works across diverse disciplines of vocal improvisation, spoken word poetry, storytelling, and music to create meaning that is rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory and embodied knowledge. Her approach to arts facilitation is participatory, inclusive, and reciprocal, engaging learners through land-based teachings, tools of empowerment, and Indigenous languages.

performance for Harold Napper elementary school

example of workshop set-up, with traditional instruments (hand drum, flute, percussion) and looping pedal + space pedal in music room for students at Harold Napper Elementary.

photo: Christine Hamel. Example of land-based community workshop performance with Elders and Indigenous community, call + response singing

student drawing from Harold Napper, visual response to song and storytelling of Creation stories from Cree/Métis worldview.

student drawing from Harold Napper, visual response to storytelling of Thunderbird and other Creation stories from Cree/Métis worldview.

Creative Approach and Experiences Offered

There are many possibilities to be explored in my workshops, depending on the group's capacities, needs, and age. We explore the voice as an instrument for transformation and connection.

Example: "We shared practices centred around building better relationships with our surrounding environments through song-catching, deep listening and vocal improvisation practices. Participants were able to imagine their own vocal relationships with prompts to activate qualities of voice and movement from the natural world, including creatures, elements & landscapes. They were also enthusiastic to participate in call and response practices and circle singing, which were all invitations to consider the natural world around and within us as catalysts for musical discoveries." Other explorations: breath-work connected to medicine wheel (4-directions); collective songwriting incorporating poetic prompts, Indigenous / mother tongue languages, and earth-based understandings; partner work; talking circle.

Video

land-based performance of drum song that has been performed/workshopped with students as a call + response

digital drum video