Misha Bower

My new show MEETINGS is part of TAP Centre for Creativity’s Unscripted Series in London, live in the gallery November 23, 2023. Here’s the invite from TAP:

Join us for a special night of Unscripted: The Music Series featuring a new live show called Meetings by local musician and writer Misha Bower. A blend of music and storytelling, Meetings is set in a shifting support group context where Misha plays a series of characters confiding to their peers—the audience. For each character, she performs a monologue and song that crystalize a unique moment of personal disclosure. The song portion of the show features accompaniment by Pete Hurst, a local sound technician who has put himself on the other side of the mixing desk to revisit his musical roots as an accompanying guitarist.

Audiences should know that Meetings highlights human journeys threaded with addiction, trauma and loss. It has a dynamic emotional tone that is automatically tender, but searches equally for vulnerability and the unexpected comedy so central to the art of coping.

The Unscripted conversation will be hosted by Josh Lambier, Artistic Director of Words Festival, Director of the Public Humanities at Western, and collaborative pillar in the London arts community. Unscripted is an opportunity for lovers of music, storytelling and theatre to experience a multi-arts performance and discuss creation and collaboration across artforms.

“Some of the narrator’s insights are expressed so beautifully that if you heard them over and over…you would memorize them or, if there were people around, start demanding silence for them…” -Lee Sheppard, The Rusty Toque

“All of the stories here…have a broken-in quality that sucks you right in, like you’re finally learning the backstories of all the regulars at a small-town bar…”  –David Berry, The National Post

“[A] series of emotionally complex visions rich with colloquial dialogue…” 
–Andrew Patterson, The Coast

“A cast of guarded characters surveying the barriers they’ve created, but never fully understanding why these barriers are created in the first place. Preventing the trespassing of the bad, but also the good. Photo-realistic renderings of lives at impasse and the unclear way forward…”
–Dylan T. Green, Weird Canada

“This is an excellent collection of short stories by a Canadian renaissance woman… I’ve seen her perform as a gifted actress and here she is writing these captivating stories that seamlessly blend witty humour and earthy gravitas.” -CBC blog post What’cha Readin’?

“It is charming, but more than that. Absolutely unique, and engaging…”
–Lynn Crosbie

“These stories can be frustratingly truncated—often ending just as we’ve fallen for their subjects… [H]er ability to carve tragedy, humour, and insight into each vignette leaves us wanting more. And that’s a good thing.” 
-Mark Teo, This Magazine