Biography
Laura Barron is a Vancouver-based musician, writer and community artist whose career as a flutist has brought her from solo appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra to artist residencies in Zambia. She now harnesses her experience as a performer and teacher in her role as the Founder / Executive Director of Instruments of Change, where she has been able to have her greatest reach and impact designing experiences that empower underserved individuals to become instruments of change in their own lives as they find their creative voices. Most meaningfully, she started the Vancouver branch of Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project, where she works with single mothers escaping violence, to co-create original songs for their children. Also an in-demand producer, she curates 50+ public activations annually for Vancouver’s transit system with Art Moves. Holding a doctorate from McGill, she served as faculty at the Universities of OR, WI & N. AZ, and continues to mentor emerging artists as a facilitator of numerous interdisciplinary collaborations, including with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s From Harm to Harmony climate action art initiative. Here, she has also co-created Come Home – an Ancient Forest Lullaby with tree activists across Canada, as one of her many creative projects intended to impact social change. And she brings all of her professional experiences together in her new writing project, The Space in Between, a novel based on the healing power of music.