Jo Ledingham has an MA in Dramatic Literature from UBC and has been covering the Vancouver theatre scene since the mid-80s. Her reviews and articles have been published in the Georgia Straight, Canadian Theatre Review, Vancouver Courier, North Shore News, Westender and online at Review from the House, Plank Magazine and the Murray Paterson Marketing Group; she was the regular theatre critic for The Vancouver Courier for almost thirty years until cutbacks at the paper eliminated the position. Alas, the Courier and the Westender are now gone.
For the purpose of park expansion at Belcarra Regional Park, Metro Vancouver Regional District evicted her and her neighbours from a group of old waterfront cottages on Indian Arm where Jo had lived for more than five decades with a woodstove, various dogs, a couple of boats, a bunch of crab traps and too many plants. She now lives in Port Moody without a woodstove, dogs, boats or crab traps. She still has too many plants.
B/W image: David CooperArt isn’t created or consumed in a vacuum; it doesn’t exist without purpose, cause, or urgency. In a world of turmoil, the performing arts serve to illuminate, to incite, to resist, to remember and honour, and to soothe.
Norman Armour, Artistic and Executive Director
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
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