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Jill Binder

Spoken Word Artist & Stuff

About Me


Who am I?

A lover
A dreamer
A poet
A spoken word performer
A life coach / motivator / inspirer / life changer / stop smoking coach
An author
A Vegetarian
An activist
A Visionary


Here's a little more about Jill the spoken word performer:

"For me it's all about those highs - those moments when I'm totally connected to my work and the audience is totally connected with me. It's those magic moments when the dividing line between performer and audience blurs - that's what it's all about. You can't reach people the same way through the written word."

Jill Binder was the host of the popular monthly series WordPlay: Poetry/Music Fusion Playtime for over a year, which broke new ground in T.O. and expanded the boundaries of those brave enough to hit up the stage. (The show is now being run by Yehuda Fisher and has been renamed to WordJam.) She has performed her own works in Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Halifax, Windsor, Salt Lake City, Ottawa, Austin, and London, England. She has a self-published chapbook, Broken Feathers, released in 2001. She is in the anthologies Voices Under the Guise of Darkness Vol. 3 and Speaking in Strange Tongues Vol. 1, and the webzines Tales of Slacker Bonding and SheBytches. She has featured in Vancouver at the May Day Cabaret, Black Sheep Books, and Thundering Word Heard; in Toronto at Poetica, Storytellers and Vixens, Red Salon, Strange Tongues, The Idler, Art Bar, Cryptic Chatter, Night of Sirens, La Parole, Get Your Strapon, Coffeehouse Showcase, Ignite II: Unite, We Still Got Words, Syntactic Sunday, the Erotica Reading at Now Lounge, and Coffeehouse Cabaret; in Windsor at Angels and Devils; and in London, England at Farrago's. She has organized, co-organized and hosted Veggie Voices: Music and Words, she speaks: a celebration of life, The Organic Mic at the Organic Buddha, as well as various Coffeehouse Nights, including her favourite: Dress as your Inner Superhero, not to mention WordPlay, her baby for over a year.


Other places you can find me online:
http://jillbinder.com
http://superjill.livejournal.com
http://jillbinder.coffeehouse.ca


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/24/2006
Band Website: jillbinder.coffeehouse.ca
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Wanna hear me perform my poetry?

I've had crappy quality ones up for the longest time, and now! for the first time ever! I have good quality recordings. Recorded at Urban Studios.Four are on my myspace page.For more Jill goodness,&nb...
Posted by Jill Binder on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:25:00 PST

Rock Star Poet :: Home From First Tour

My first poetry tour went very, very well. You can read my tour report on my livejournal:http://superjill.livejournal.com/470308.html Sometimes, sometimes life is awesome....
Posted by Jill Binder on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:31:00 PST

Jill the Nomad

I have now officially been traveling for more than half of this year. :D Were on month 8, and I havent been home for over 4 months of it.I'm currently in the middle of a 3 week trip across Canada and ...
Posted by Jill Binder on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:19:00 PST

Breakthrough! Huge Relationship Realizations

I have figured out the difference between,wanting your partner to treat you as special and important because you don't feel it yourself and you need it to come from somewhere; andwanting your partner ...
Posted by Jill Binder on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:29:00 PST

Travelling Jill

I have been hanging out in the U.S. for just over 2 months now. Mostly living in Salt Lake City with a boy, and taking trips out of there.I have pictures of Salt Lake City (and my adventures therein),...
Posted by Jill Binder on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:54:00 PST