November 28 to December 3, 2022
Jade Music Festival presented by TD

Jade Music

Artist

Vanessa Lefan

JMF CONCERT     12/2 FRI
18:30 @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Conference – THE ELEVATION OF CHINESE LANGUAGE MUSIC IN CANADA
12/1 Thur
13:30 @ ANNEX

樂凡 (Van Lefan, she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in rural northern Taiwan, where she spent her childhood playing in farm fields, growing food with her grandparents, cultivating a deep sense of connection to the natural cycles of life. In these early years she was drawn to many forms of creative expression including music, movement, poetry, and visual arts. To her family, songs are the language of love, celebration, struggle, and sadness. When her hometown became industrialized, Lefan watched helplessly as those fields she knew turned into factories that poured toxic dyes into streams once filled with life. When Lefan was 11 years old, she immigrated to the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam & Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, where she currently resides. 

These life experiences, along with her journeys with plant and fungi teachers, greatly influenced her passion in environmental and social justice. 樂凡 sees art as a powerful vessel for healing, idea sharing, storytelling, and connecting communities in ways beyond language. Her debut album “What Holds Us Together?” is a sonic journey that synergizes folk, pop, world music, experimental soundscapes and poetry. Together, these stories weave an immersive tapestry of ancestry, identity, ecological reverence and social justice . Her work holds a mirror up to the audience as both an invitation for self inquiry, and a collective call to action. 

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