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"Pauline Le Bel is above all else a praise-singer whose poems call us to participate in the universal song," - Susan McCaslin.
Pauline Le Bel is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and singer who arrived to live in B.C. in 1998. She is known for her portrayals of the "little sparrow" Edith Piaf and her interpretations of the music of Jacques Brel. Her CDs include: Dancing with the Crone, a musical journey into conscious and juicy aging; Rescue Joy, songs about loss and starting over; La Tendresse, a French CD with songs of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and her own French songs; Deep Fun: Songs about Science, Food and Sex, her CD of amusing songs; and Voices in the Sound, the soundtrack to her cosmological musical about Bowen Island.
Le Bel has on a Cable ACE award for Best Writing in a Children's Special. In 2001, she performed her one-woman show, The Way of the Goddess: Songs Honouring the Divine Feminine, at Vancouver's Sacred Music Festival. She writes a blog integrating science, song, nature and spirit, all aspects of life explored in her second book, Becoming Intimate with the Earth (2013), the first book in the Flourishing Earth series by Collins Foundation Press (CFP). "The goal of the series it to contribute to a vibrant conversation, and a wholesome vision of how humans and all other life forms on the planet can co-exist in mutually enhancing relationship." Le Bel offers workshops on Becoming Intimate with the Earth as well Kiss the Crone workshops for women of all ages who want to access the wisdom of their Inner Crone.
They Ask Me Why I Sing So Loud (Collins Foundation Press, California, 2017) opens with a hymn to creation, to planet earth, to our common mother Gaia. Then the poems describe the particularities of a woman's everyday life, moving through the stages of childhood, adulthood, and elder-dom. "I'll make sentences/ gather nouns and verbs/ the occasional unnecessary adjective/ the mighty metaphor/ pile them together/ like stones on the beach."
In 2017, Pauline Le Bel launched a series of reconciliation events on Bowen Island in collaboration with the Bowen Island Arts Council and the Bowen Library. The first event of Knowing Our Place: A Reconciliation Initiative was The Blanket Exercise as a way to experience the effects of colonization, the Indian Act, and residential schools. The second was Building Bridges Through Art, with presentations by Squamish Nation artists and storytellers.
CITY/TOWN: Bowen Island BC
DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH: Windsor, Ont.
ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: French Canadian
EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: Singing
AWARDS: Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice Award
BOOKS:
The Song Spinner (Red Deer Press, 1994)
Science, Wisdom, and the Future: Humanity's Quest for a Flourishing Earth (Collins Foundation Press, 2012)
Becoming Intimate with the Earth (Collins Foundation Press, 2013) $19.95 978-0-9884382-2-4
They Ask Me Why I Sing So Loud (Collins Foundation Press, California, 2017)
Whale in the Door (Caitlin, 2017) Photos by Richard Duncan $24.95 978-1-987915-48-8
[BCBW 2017] "Music"
Pauline Le Bel is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and singer who arrived to live in B.C. in 1998. She is known for her portrayals of the "little sparrow" Edith Piaf and her interpretations of the music of Jacques Brel. Her CDs include: Dancing with the Crone, a musical journey into conscious and juicy aging; Rescue Joy, songs about loss and starting over; La Tendresse, a French CD with songs of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and her own French songs; Deep Fun: Songs about Science, Food and Sex, her CD of amusing songs; and Voices in the Sound, the soundtrack to her cosmological musical about Bowen Island.
Le Bel has on a Cable ACE award for Best Writing in a Children's Special. In 2001, she performed her one-woman show, The Way of the Goddess: Songs Honouring the Divine Feminine, at Vancouver's Sacred Music Festival. She writes a blog integrating science, song, nature and spirit, all aspects of life explored in her second book, Becoming Intimate with the Earth (2013), the first book in the Flourishing Earth series by Collins Foundation Press (CFP). "The goal of the series it to contribute to a vibrant conversation, and a wholesome vision of how humans and all other life forms on the planet can co-exist in mutually enhancing relationship." Le Bel offers workshops on Becoming Intimate with the Earth as well Kiss the Crone workshops for women of all ages who want to access the wisdom of their Inner Crone.
They Ask Me Why I Sing So Loud (Collins Foundation Press, California, 2017) opens with a hymn to creation, to planet earth, to our common mother Gaia. Then the poems describe the particularities of a woman's everyday life, moving through the stages of childhood, adulthood, and elder-dom. "I'll make sentences/ gather nouns and verbs/ the occasional unnecessary adjective/ the mighty metaphor/ pile them together/ like stones on the beach."
In 2017, Pauline Le Bel launched a series of reconciliation events on Bowen Island in collaboration with the Bowen Island Arts Council and the Bowen Library. The first event of Knowing Our Place: A Reconciliation Initiative was The Blanket Exercise as a way to experience the effects of colonization, the Indian Act, and residential schools. The second was Building Bridges Through Art, with presentations by Squamish Nation artists and storytellers.
CITY/TOWN: Bowen Island BC
DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH: Windsor, Ont.
ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: French Canadian
EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: Singing
AWARDS: Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice Award
BOOKS:
The Song Spinner (Red Deer Press, 1994)
Science, Wisdom, and the Future: Humanity's Quest for a Flourishing Earth (Collins Foundation Press, 2012)
Becoming Intimate with the Earth (Collins Foundation Press, 2013) $19.95 978-0-9884382-2-4
They Ask Me Why I Sing So Loud (Collins Foundation Press, California, 2017)
Whale in the Door (Caitlin, 2017) Photos by Richard Duncan $24.95 978-1-987915-48-8
[BCBW 2017] "Music"
Articles: 1 Article for this author
Science, Wisdom, and the Future: Humanity’s Quest for a Flourishing Earth
Article (2012)
Pauline Le Bel of Bowen Island is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a singer with five CDs of original songs. She is known for her portrayals of the "little sparrow"; Edith Piaf and her interpretations of the music of Jacques Brel. In 2001, she performed her one-woman show, The Way of the Goddess: Songs Honouring the Divine Feminine, at Vancouver's Sacred Music Festival. She writes a blog integrating science, song, nature and spirit. Her new book is Science, Wisdom, and the Future: Humanity's Quest for a Flourishing Earth (Collins Foundation Press $22.95).
978-0978844172
[BCBW 2012]
