Join us for a reading and candid discussion of the events that occurred in famed jazz musician Nikita Carter’s life that made her realize that changes had to be made to live an authentic life.
Location: Room C420
Type: 2SLGBTQIA+ Programming
Moderator: Trevana Spilchen
Reader: Nikita Carter, Both Sides of the Great Divide (Transgender Publishing)
About The Moderator
Trevana Spilchen
Spillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler educator, parent, musician and spoken word artist of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They are the 2024 recipient of the Zacheus Jackson Memorial award, won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. They served as the coordinator of the Vancouver Poetry Slam from Sept 2021-23 and have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last, Tales of Trans-formation has sold over 200 copies. They are the SOGI (sexual orientation & gender identity) coordinator for the Delta School District and sit on the executive of the BCTF. Trevana has a Masters in Social Justice Leadership in Education from UBC and has been facilitating workshops on gender all over the province for the last 9 years. Most importantly, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 6 yrs to 24 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola, Orange Crush, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer!
About The Reader
Nikita Carter
Nikita Carter is a writer, performer/composer/producer/educator whose fifty year career has primarily focused on the discipline and practice of musical improvisation, composition and interdisciplinary collaboration. The breadth of her work includes extensive work with dance, spoken word, Intercultural music, electronics and interdisciplinary media. As a composer she has written more than one hundred works for a wide variety of instrumentations from piano and saxophone quartet, to large ensembles. Ms. Carter is a trans woman and has a unique understanding of gender, music and story-telling.
