CITY JOURNAL Made in Van BC MEMORY GAME [ BY NOA GLOW ]
Performing throughout British Co- lumbia for the past decade, Barbara
Adler visits a lot of cool places, promptly forgetting them as soon as she returns to Vancouver. “Being on the road so much has resulted in a muddle of memories,” jokes Adler, a slam-poetry champ and former member of East Van folk band The Fugitives. “The BC Memory Game is my way of tackling this confusion head-on.” Her concept is based on a kids’ card game called Memory. Whenever Adler visits a new town, she asks people there to join her for a story-sharing session, where they get a chance to teach her something memorable about where they live. She then shares her story with artist Jordan Bent, who creates a card to represent her memory. She’s already got two towns, two stories and two memory cards in her virtual deck: Invermere and Hudson’s Hope. See the cards, listen to the stories and play along by sub- mitting your own memories at thebcmemoryg-
ame.ca and
badler.ca. Adler’s next stop is Haidi Gwaii; she’s visiting as part of the BC Schizophrenia Society’s Reach Out program, which tours the province teaching youth about psycho- sis through music and poetry. While there, she plans to add a story about the Queen Charlottes to her BC Memory Game roster. “I think it’ll be something about weather; I hear they get some pretty wild weather,” she says, adding that the stories she collects are “anything but tame.” (With talk of wolf pelts, mud pies and enemy cabbage on her blog, we believe her.) Adler plans to spread the love for her home province further at the Winnipeg Theatre Fringe Festival this summer, where she’ll perform as part of glam-folk duo the International Tomorrow Society (interna-
tionaltomorrowsociety.com). From there, who knows? “The Memory Game may have to go national,” she says. “I’ve done enough travel- ling to forget a whole bunch of places across Canada, too!”
PHOTO: ADLER’S MEMORY OF INVERMERE, BC IS CAPTURED IN A GAME CARD CREATED BY VANCOUVER ARTIST JORDAN BENT. CREDIT: JORDAN BENT
PHOTO: YOU KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE IS
UNFORGETTABLE; BARBARA ADLER WANTS YOU TO PROVE IT BY PLAYING THE BC MEMORY GAME. CREDIT: EVIL PATRICK SHANNON
26 VANCOUVER VIEW MAY 2012
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