Curriculum Vitae
Lenore Herb b.1947


2009               update coming


2008               update coming




2007                Performance/Reading of Peter Trower's new manuscript for Peter Trower, Hagars Pub, March
                        EcoArt Presentation: Environmental Policies of the Greater Vancouver Translink Authority and Access for Elderly and Disabled, June 27, 2007
                        EcoArt Presentation: Garbage: War on the Future or Investment in the Future? GVRD Solid Waste Committee July 7, 2007

2006                Exhibition - “PETITION” at the Helen Pitt Gallery June 20 - 24     
                        Performance - "Invocation of the Serpent" June 19
                        Exhibition - Il Festival Internacional de VideoPoesia 2006 Video Bardo - "th wizard uv time"

2006                Exhibition - Spiritual Film Festival, Goa, India - "th wizard uv time"
                        Exhibition - Reel Women International Film Festival 2006 - "th wizard uv time"
                        Exhibition - 2006 Phoenix Film Festival - "th wizard uv time"

2005                Exhibition -Visible Verse 2005 @Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique - "th wizard uv time
2004                Curator "The Writing Is On The Wall" - a show of bill bissett concrete poetry for Kootenay School of Writing
                        Director/producer/editor "th wizard uv time" an experimental film of bill bissett paintings/reading

2001                "Bovary's Children: The Unwanted Part 1" (work in progress)

1995 -              Homesteading, machine operator
2001                Photographic work - “Community Dancers”

1990 - 1994    SPEC(Society Promoting Environmental Conservation) yearly elected President
                        Campaign organizer against the downtown Vancouver Refuse Derived Fuel Plant in Strathcona
                        Co Author “Wake Up and Smell the Garbage” pamphlet translated into Chinese
                        Campaign organizer against UBC Hazardous Waste Incinertor and the import of hazardous waste to the UBC area.
                        Campaign organizer to promote provincial Hazardous Waste Reduction Plans
                        Documentation for Public Meetings on Environmental Issues - Merritt, Aldergrove, Chilliwack
                        Citizens representative to GVRD Recycling Advisory Committee appointed by Van City Council
                        Elected to Board of Directors, Recycling Council of B.C.
                        Elected to Management Committee, B.C. Environmental Network
                        Public Environmental Advocate/ Media spokesperson on waste reduction up to 1994

1988                Exhibition: LOGOS / CONTROL  2nd Artropolis Vancouver
                        Murray Bookchin interview
                        Recycling Advocacy begins in Lower Mainland including
                        Founder, Citizen’s Action Network
                        Editor and coordinator broadsheet: Garbage - War on the Future
                        Waste Management Director SPEC

1983 - 1989    Toxics Coalition, BC Campaign "Ride Against Pesticides" - videography
                        Political Documentaries/Environmental Campaigning
                        Cache Creek Coalition to stop the Ashcroft Hazardous Waste Incinerator - videography

        ---------------------------------Crossing the line from Producer to Participant-------------------------------

1985                Stan Brackage - 4 hr. workshop documentary
1984                Exhibition: Vision/Ear   Video to accompany bill bissett one man show at Vancouver Art Gallery
1983 - 85         Cineworks Board of Directors (one year) plus office and volunteer co-ordinator
                        Director "Sisyphus" and "Prometheus Unbound"- works in progress

1982                Sonic Horses (bill bissett, Dermot Foley, Lenore Herb) Performance/Audio Producer/
                        Black Flag Documentary w/Dan Graham Hoboken NJ
                        The Dan Graham Request Tape - compilation
                        Host San Francisco Video Festival in Vancouver/
                        Legion Benefit for Metro Media: Scissors/Insex/ Los Popularos
                        Allan Ginsburg @ Kits High School/
                        Henry Rollins Interview York Theatre/
                        Producer, Found Under Carnal Knowledge: Valentine’s Day
                        European Holographic Research
                        New Years Eve with Death Sentence and DOA

1981                Exhibition - Winters Tale: The public execution of an Iranian Princess. Commodore Ballroom
                        Nowhere to Play LP Executive Producer/
                        Prometheus Unbound - Art Performance - Video
                        Co-founder Democratization of the Arts, Unit 306 Society with Scott Watson,Todd Davis
                        Exhibition 48184 Video Art show cable 4: producer:  various works
                        Curator, Metro Media, Performances by: Rachael Rosenthal and Company; Allistair Mclean; Bern Porter
                        Producer, William Burroughs and John Giorno @ Italian Cultural Centre/videography of same

1981                Hat Creek Coal Project - videography
                        Hardcore 81: Blackflag/DOA
                        Si Monki - producer - performance art - videography

1980                Exhibition - Moon over Miami - PUSH ART Gallery           
                        Co-rep for V.C.T.A. CRTC intervention vs Rogers acquisition Premier Cable requesting community access stations.
                        Metro Media Executive Director
                        PUSH ART COLLECTIVE cofounder w Lincoln Clarks, Miriam Hyde, Jim Cummings, Bill Sherk, Janice Toulous
                        Bad Night at the PUSH - videography

1979 - 1983     Community Producer for Metro Media
                        Videography list for Music, Performance Art, Writing in Our Time Poetry Festival see page 2/3

1978 - 1979     camera operator for Royal Commission into Uranium Mining

1976 - 1979     Theatre manager for Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique
1976                Art and Set Design for “Snakes”  by Anne Hungerford (first play at the Firehall Arts Theatre)

1966 - 1969      blew ointment press collective - collating and distribution
                         Participant in Sound Gallery and Trips Festival
                         Floating FreeSchool (started by Peter Hlookoff)
                         Knowplace Free School (started by Warren and Ellen Tallman)


Collections

Writing in Our Time and the Best of Times Worst of Times: 1 hour compilation video at:
Simon Fraser Archives

on top uv th world: dvd bio compilation of bill bissett, includes "th wizard uv time":
Kootenay School of Writing 
Simon Fraser Archives

Maxine Gadd reads at KSW:
Kootenay School of Writing

Music Videography

‘78 -     Active Dog, Subhumans at the Windmill
‘79 -     Bludgeon Pigs, Haters
‘79 -    .08  Randy Pandora and Catheriine McTavish
‘79 -     AKA , Human Remains
‘79 -    Subhumans in Edmontion Rock against Racisim
‘79 -     K-TELS + Dead Kennedys  @ VECC
‘79 -    KTels @Windmill
‘79 -     Female Hands
'79 -     Tunnel Canary, .08, AKA, Henry Kaiser, Si MOnki
‘79 -     WW III BrainEaters studio
'79 -     Pointed Sticks
'79 -     Private School
'79 -     Rock Against  Prisons#2 - AKA, Tunnel Canary,  Rabid
'79 -     Rock Against Prisons #1 - Private School,  Modernettes
'79 -     Rock Against Prisons #3 - Rabid, Devices, Braineaters, Subhumans
'79 -     nterview with The Police circa ‘79
'79 -     Vacant Lot - DOA with Chuck Biscuits Female hands
'79 -     aug 18  Helens Pitt  Si Monk8i, AKA(with Alex Varty)
'79 -     Pointed Sticks - interview by Dimwit 10 min
'80 -     Tin Twist, Payolas, yng Canadians
'80/81(?) Pink Section @Odd Fellows
‘80 -     AKA Pneumatic Window
‘80 -     Band called E, .08
‘80 -     Canaduh Day - Subhumans, Budgeon Pigs, Rabid, No Exit
'80 -     DOA, UJ3RK5, Subhumans @arcadian hall june 1,
‘80 -     Modernettes
‘80 -     Modernettes @ Smilin Buddha
'80 -     UJ3RK5 @ Arcadian June 1
'81 -     SUBHUMANS - DEAD KENNEDYS @Ed Sullivan Show
'81 -     Hardcore ‘81 Wanker, 7 seconds, Bludgeon Pigs
'81 -     Haters  Dec 19 -81
'81 -     Los Popularos April
‘81 -     MODERNETTES @Legion on Commercial
‘81 -     Negavision
‘82 -     No Album Party - Scissors
            Payolas, Modernettes
            Rock Against Racisim - Modernettes
'83 -     Sept ‘83 - Subhumans
            Si monki @Soft Rock
            Si Monki, .08
            Subhumans  Live at the Buddha
            Subhumans 60 min
            Tin Twist, Young Canadians, Black Flag @ New York Theatre
            UJ3RK5 60 min
            Young Canadians, Subhumans
'85 -     DOA New years  with Death Sentence



other work

Virgin #1, #2, #3
Subhumans
Grey Madder
Pillars of Prometheus
Logos/Control
Dance of the Gina Show
High Monkey Noon
Vampire
Totems
Placentia Bay
Direct Action / Peace Walk
Michael Chechik's BBQ
Zippy Sings Soft Latin


Whales Escape
Dan Graham Request Tape
The Right to Write Wrong
The Office
Brockton Point
Helen's Pitt
At Home
West Coast Gardening
The Rabbit Test
Winters Tale: The Public Execution of an Iranian Princess
Bad Nite at the Push
Gore Manor
Moon over Miami

Poetry Tapes

bill bissett
Victor Coleman
Steve McCaffery
Bp Nichol
Brian Fawcett
George Bowering
Robert Creely
Diane di Prima
Margaret Atwood
Allen Ginsberg
Margaret Laurence
Frank Davey
Robert Duncan
Edward Dorn
DG Jones
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Joanne Kyger
Marian Engel
Daphne Marlatt
Lionel Kearns
Gary Snyder
Robert Kroetsch
Michael McClure
Eli Mandel
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Ann Waldman
John Giorno

Prose

William Burroughs


Recent Films

“the wizard uv time”   2004
"fire in the belly" 2006