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AltogetherLisa – aka Lisa Webster-Gibson

Altogetherlisa is a multi-dimensional artist in spoken and written words, visual arts and music.

As a spoken word artist and poet

Performing and writing as ‘AltogetherLisa’, she had her debut performance at the 2010 National Campus and Community Radio Conference to resounding success. She qualified for the 2018 Victoria Slam Team and most recently competed in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships 2021 as a ‘storm poet’ with an honourable mention for outstanding poem, ‘Little Old Lady Hands’. She is a regular feature with both Nanaimo’s Wordstorm and the Victoria Poetry Project. Her poetry has been published locally, in the Nanaimo News Bulletin and on Corvus.

2021 also saw her participation in the Kingston Indigenous Language Nest Kenikororo:roks Art and Storytelling workshop. This workshop resulted in a video poem written in Mohawk. She is continuing to study Mohawk in order to write within its framework and the Haudenaushonee worldview of peace and connection to the earth.

In 2021, she also completed the Interdisciplinary Arts Course hosted by the Pacific Association of First Nation Women and is participating in the creation of a multi-disciplinary art installation as a member of the Raising Aunties Arts Collective. One of her roles in this project will be to draft poetry to accompany the art created through the Aunties Collective through ekphrasis.

As a Volunteer and Arts Producer  –

She is a board member of the Vancouver Poetry House and chaired Poetry Gabriola Society for six years (2008 – 2014), producing many shows and hosting the Third Thursday Open Mic. She is also a regular co-host on the radio show / podcast ‘Wax Poetic’ with RC Weslowski.

As a visual artist

Lisa’s collage is based on the use of animal bones and dead things.  She transforms what we perceive as loathsome and gross into beauty and intrigue.  The skull of a racoon transforms into a butterfly; while the skulls of mice couple with the jawbones of salmon to become at what first glance appears to be a delicate and refined rosebud.

As drummer of Gabriola based ‘beachbilly’ / ‘folktronica’/ ‘hillpunk’ band, SHED –

Lisa imposes a sense of solid, metronomic-like rhythm upon the assorted beats and musicians that make up this project.  Shed’s first CD, “Plugged In, Electrified and Totally Wired”, was released in the summer of 2010, while “Screen Life” debuted June  2013. Most recently, SHED has performed in the Nanaimo’s Celebrating Downtown concert series.

Lisa Webster