Skill Set

I began by volunteering with Shambhala, eventually finding my way to build for the Labyrinth the first year it existed before it became the grove. Since then I have thrown countless small events, as well as 9 years of building a grassroots festival from the ground up. My role primarily for our festival now is construction and bookings. I also have experience with psychedelic harm reduction and security, have been a carpenter for over a decade, posses a degree in psychology and hold space for people to have psychedelic trips, encouraging breakthrough spiritual moments of understanding, while helping to avoid mental and social pitfalls through the experience. I have worked for festivals as Sound tech, speaker builder, infrastructure construction and maintenance, gate, stage tech, garbage cleaner, door person, and once did shambhala’s shambassador program. Besides all that, I also make music, Emcee, I’ve been a bboy for over 15 years, and teach popping, animation, and bboy classes at a studio, as well as festivals throughout Canada. I am a good party guest, tidy, friendly, and encourage a positive, friendly, helpful atmosphere and love cooking for my neighbours. Oh, and I’ll stick around and help wrap cables properly at the end if my familial obligations don’t supercede.

OK here’s the music and dancing:

Originals:

Dance:

Mostly a freestyle dancer, so there’s not much footage of performances, but I did the Lieutenant Governor Arts Awards Gala performance here in Saskatoon, have taught over 1000 hours of classes, trained most recently with Mr Wiggles (who worked with Missy Elliot and Michael Jackson), and have found new hip-hop-rooted inspiration. I may try to take some footage, but here’s some old photos and a very old collaborative project I did with a couple friends.

Emcee

Very little footage, I am a party rocker, story telling freestyler with a great sense of humor. Here’s me telling a story about something that happened last night on a rainy day. This is from 2024.

Thanks to my wife, and my friends (Prasun and Kayla), all my dancer friends, everyone that’s ever shown me a song ever, the bboys and bgirls, as well as my parents who introduced me to Michael Jackson and Sting; all of whom without SnakeMan and this mountainous love of music wouldn’t exist.