ABOUT THE ARTIST



Lenore Herb has been practising eco-social art for more than 30 years.
She is a pioneer of poetry, music and environmental videography,
filmmaker, curator, producer, poet and serious environmental advocate.

Working with a coalition of environmental groups,
in 1989, aided in successfully stopping the
Ashcroft / Cache Creek hazardous waste incinerator.

Co-wrote with Dermot Foley "Garbage War on the Future"
supported by Vancouver Citizens Action Network
the Yalakom Ecological Society, Western Canada Wilderness Society,
Cache Creek Area Citizens United, Catalyst Eduction Society,
Greenpeace, Cache Creek Landfill Legal Defense Fund
and which is as true today as it was then,
due to the prolific waste and resource greed of our society.

From 1989 - 1990, Waste Management Director  (S.P.E.C.)
1990 - 1995  President of SPEC  (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation)



during which time she led successful campaigns
 to revise the GVRD Waste Management Plan and

hazardous waste reduction policies
ie: successful campaign against
 the industrial sized Hazardous Waste Incinerator at UBC,

successful campaign against the (engineers already signed contract)
refuse derived fuel (RDF) plant slated for Strathcona

(see also: Hansard page 14)




Her 2004 film "th wizard uv time" made for the poet
bill bissett using his poetry and paintings has shown
in film festivals and she is currently working on a second film
of bill bissett's work "the quiet relief uv bones" and

Part 1"the life and death of dreams"  a film about the
the late seventies art/ music scene of Vancouver

has just finished Part 3 "fire in the belly"
a feminist work dealing with life experience.                     

"Hat Creek" * an eco social piece dealing with the
protection of the BC interior and Hat Creek area,
will not be produced due to lack of funding.

Hat Creek Proposal
see also:
Bite the Hand:
A Feminist Critique of the Canada Council






CURRICULLUM VITAE






PETITION
2006 -
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS WORK
BY SIGNING THE PETITION




already signed by over 700 artists and their families,
is an experimental piece on art as a vehicle for change.

PHASE 1

Artists create change through their art, petitions create a
vehicle for change. This petition is to establish a bus stop
at the Museum ofAnthropology / Chan Centre and as a
result, hopefully a route that will also benefit the poor,
the elderly, the artists and the disabled.
see also:  Letter of the Day and  UBC Daily News



Community Dancers
2001




FIRE IN THE BELLY
2006





th wizard uv time
2004





bovarys children
PART 1:
The Life and
Death of Dreams
1977 -


One of my friends was questioning my title
"bovary's children, the unwanted".
He wondered if it was appropriate.  
Part 1 (work in progress)
is a film about punk/art rock in Vancouver,
what does it matter what it is called.
I call it what ever I want to call it.
I don't have to have an explanation but ....
cont. here


judy kemeny by elizabeth fischer 1977


"the unwanted" speaks to alienation,
the feeling that our work is unwanted. 

Vancouver Art/Punk rock
was a political movement
bringing unwanted issues
to public attention, prisons,
radiation poisoning from nuclear
energy, racism, environment.
In the middle of all that there
was the desire to make
a living by making music.

bovary's children, the unwanted,
or the life and death of dreams part 1

A good description of the Windmill Club is at
PunkHistoryCanada



"the grail"
bill sherck 1986


to view 'bovary's children' also see:

th ventures of doreen grey








BROKENMUZES
2007 -