Live music starts at 7:00 pm | $5 Cover | All Ages

The Carrot Friday Nite Live presents the Paula Kirman

Paula Eve Kirman is a singer/songwriter who writes and performs music with a message. She has been performing her original work in Edmonton since 2007 at a variety of festivals, social justice events, and cafes. She became interested in both music and social justice at a young age, in part due to being raised on her mother's love of 60s folk music by the likes of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Peter, Paul and Mary. After receiving her first guitar at 13, Paula immediately began to teach herself how to play and write songs. Paula's lyrics and poetry are especially known for having themes of social justice, and has been a contributing factor to a number of awards she has received for her activism. Her songs have been finalists or semi-finalists in a number of competitions. In particular, “Summer,” about an unhoused woman, was a finalist in the 2017 International Songwriting Competition. In the spring of 2021, Paula took part in Soloss, a community care network developed through a partnership between REACH Edmonton, InWithForward (a Vancouver social design agency), and the City of Edmonton's RECOVER Wellbeing initiative. The team was prototyping the Losstender position in Edmonton, based on ethnographic and other research by all of the partners over the previous three years with street-involved Edmontonians. Paula created songs for the three unique people who chose to share their stories with her, as lasting artifacts of their encounters and to help them on their healing journeys through feeling heard and helping to address unmet needs through song. The songs were released in May of 2021 on the EP Losstending. Paula recently released two full-length albums: The Crow, a folky collection of some of her best-known songs and which originally began with Bill Bourne as producer before his untimely death, and Corners, a more upbeat collection of songs Paula began recording at home during pandemic restrictions. Both projects were completed with the help of producer and musician John Armstrong. For Paula, music is a way of reaching a wider and more diverse audience with her messages of peace, human rights, women's issues, the environment, and other social justice themes. It is an extension of her life as an activist and community organizer, as well as her career as a journalist, photographer, and filmmaker.

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