CHAR LORO
Heather Lamoureux is a community organizer, artist, and facilitator living on the Coast Char Loro is a multi-faceted creative: curating and producing live music and dance events, designing spaces and immersive art experiences, and art directing music & movement videos. Based out of Unceded Coast Salish territory (colonially known as Vancouver, BC), Char is an international connector, community builder, and master of ceremonies – often traveling the Pacific NW, LA, Bay Area, SE Asia, Mexico, and has lived in Canada’s largest urban centers Toronto & Montréal.
With a diverse sonic palette, Char’s passion for music spans hip-hop, house, funk, soul, disco, boogie, r&b, reggae, dub, dancehall, jazz, and more. She graduated with a BA of Fine Arts at the RTA School of Media in Toronto in 2013 where she focused on video production, interviewing & hosting. She was the Co-Director of Video Documentation for Manifesto Festival of Community & Culture – Canada’s largest urban hip hop festival – and she also interned for TV shows RapCity and The Wedge on MuchMusic in 2011.
Char is very passionate about activating urban public spaces as the connecting ground for music and street/club dance communities to cross-pollinate and collaborate. She has brought her energy, event curation and MC’ing skills to work with the Vancouver Mural Festival, the Vancouver Street Dance Festival, Public Disco, Vancouver Civic Theatres, City of Vancouver, the Museum of Anthropology UBC, and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association – producing dance battles and specialty performances. She has also been invited internationally to MC, produce, and design events in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, Portland), and SE Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Philippines, Indonesia) working with communities such as Singapura Dub Club – a dub, reggae, dancehall movement in Asia. shapeshifterstudio.ca
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