Performed

Over the years, Lesley-Anne has read widely and shared about her life as a writer. She often invites audiences to collaborate in spontaneous interactive poem-making.

Performed

UPCOMING EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES:

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PERFORMANCES TO DATE:

GRADSTONBURY Postgraduate Celebration, Queen’s University Belfast, SU Wee Bar, Thursday August 7, 2025. Doors at 5:30, show at 6:00 pm.

BELFAST AND BEYOND at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Tuesday, May 20, doors open at 5:30 pm, 6:00 start. With poems from Philip Metres, Milena Williamson, John James Reid, Shakeema Edwards, and Lesley-Anne Evans.

SOMETIMES THE LINE STARTS ELSEWHERE Ekphrastic Pamphlet Launch, The Seamus Heaney Centre in partnership with The Ulster Museum, The Ulster Museum, Belfast, May 1, 2025

Queen’s Writer’s Society Open Mic, Sunflower Public House, Belfast, Oct. 9, 2024

Valley Voices Poetry Festival, Brown Bag Reading with poet Virginia Dansereau, 11:45 am to 12:45 pm, Saturday, November 2023, Kelowna, B.C.. (live performance)

Showcase, Seamus Heaney Summer Poetry School, with cohorts and faculty, July 2023, Belfast, NI. (live performance)

The Joy of Poetry, an evening of readings, book sales and signings, with feature poets Robert Humphries, Fern G.Z. Carr, and Sally Quon, April 27, 2023, Kelowna, B.C. (live performance)

The Joy of Words, book launch and reading for Mute Swan, celebrating three new poetry collections, with fellow poets Bruce Meyer and Bruce Hunter, April 22, 2023, Toronto, Ontario. Live Stream recording. (live performance)

‘Memories of Self-Isolation’, a Cantata, by Canadian composer Frank Horvat, for the Vancouver Bach Choir, Snapshot 2, April 6: Covid Positive, Nov. 2022, Vancouver, B.C. (live performance)

The Scribblers Story Project, voicing actor for Abbess Lillian, Summer 2022 (podcast series)

Eh! Poetry Podcast, by Jason E. Coombs, Testimony One: On Account of a Ripe Brandywine Tomato, June 2022 (podcast)

The St. Thomas Poetry Series, Mute Swan Toronto Book Launch, Apr. 2023
 (live performance)


League of Canadian Poets, InVerse, Feature, April. 2022 (online reading)

Inspired Word Cafe, Mute Swan Book Launch, Kelowna, BC, Apr. 2022 (live performance)


Parkland Poets, Feature, Feb. 2022
, (online reading)

League of Canadian Poets, New Members Reading, Feb. 2022
 (online reading)

The Art Bar, Feature Reading, Online, Feb. 2022 (online reading)


Spiritual Directors International, Presence Journal, inaugural Featured Poet, Mar. 2021 (online reading)

Inspired Word Cafe, Dec. 2020 (online reading)

Naramata Centre, Gathering Poems for Winter, Guest Poet, Dec. 2020 (readings for two online sessions)

Bernadette Wagner Book Launch “The Dry Valley” from Radiant Press, Mar. 2020 (local reader, event organizer)

Take Back The Night Rally, Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society, Every Road is a Highway of Tears, Sept. 2019 (performance)

Metro Community, Advent Liturgy Co-Commission, Dec. 2016 (readings)

New Canadian Opera: LAKE of TEARS — Librettist, Premier, Nine Performances at Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, Feb. 2016 (commissioned libretto/performance/installation) with Composer Imant Raminsh

Global Music Fest for Global Citizen Kelowna, Third Space Coffee House, Feb. 2016 (reading)

Inspired Word Cafe, episode #1, #4, #7 televised on Shaw TV, Dec. 2015, Jan. 2016 (feature/reading/interview)

Steve Bell Concert, Metro Community Fall Fundraiser, Heraldry, Oct. 2015 (reading)

Inn From The Cold Banquet, Apr. 2015 (reading)

365 Portraits Celebration, Third Space Coffee House, Mar. 2015 (reading)

Make Love Poems Collaboration and Live Poetry Show, heART School, Kelowna, Feb. 2015 (installation/performance/interactive poetry created with audience)

OUR Coffee House, Artists for Creative Alliance, Featured Poet, Jan. 2015 (reading)

Central Okanagan Women’s Resource & Education Foundation, Candlelight Vigil for Women, Dec. 2014 (reading)

Okanagan Express Write Out Loud, from Page to Podium, Oct. 2014 (reading/presentation)

Nourish Cafe, Pop-Up-Poetry: soul food for the lunch crowd, Sept. 2014 (reading)

SOPA Fine Arts Speak Easy, June 2014 (reading)

Creative Aging Awareness Day @ Rotary Centre, June 2014 (reading)

Inspired Word Cafe, Featured Poet, May 2014, Dec. 2014 (readings)

Purple Vine Club, heART School, Kelowna, Jan. 2014 (reading/presentation)

Trinity Mosaic Advent Service, Dec. 2013 (commissioned new work and readings)

Hope Centre, Willow Park Church, December 2013 (reading/presentation)

Okanagan Regional Library, Mission Branch, Oct. 2013 (reading/presentation/interactive poem created with audience)

ARTSCO “60 Artists in 60 Spaces,” Pulp Fiction Coffee House, Kelowna, Sept. 2013 (reading/interactive poem created with audience)

Culture Days Kelowna, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Sept. 2013 (performance)

Festivals Kelowna Street Performer, Summer 2013 (performance/busking)

Lille Gard Festival, Bo.ttega Farm Inn, Kelowna, Summer 2013 (performance)

The B.C. Society of Landscape Architects Annual Conference (300 + delegates), Vancouver, Spring 2013 (Pecha Kucha presentation/reading)

The Grace Experience, Bo.ttega Farm Inn, Kelowna, Spring 2013 (music/poetry performance)

Trinity Mosaic, Kelowna, Fall 2012 (performance)

Trinity ReThink Senior High, Kelowna, Summer 2012 (performance)

Quinta Ferriera Estate Winery, Oliver, Summer 2012 (reading)