To tailor your own unique creative lifestyle as an artist is a task that requires patience, courage, and passion. It will possibly require you to reject a path that everyone is taking and to be bold enough to make choices that from the outside looking in seem to make little sense or just like bad decisions for your career.
Performer/Mentor/Producer Kritty Uranowski is joining the conversation today on Cue To Cue! She reminded, once again, that this is your life! YOU get to live it!
She is opening up about her journey and how she discovered that by listening to the whispers of her creative voice has led her down a path that is not what she imagined as a young performer but one that is fulfilling, creatively challenging and allows her to use multiple skills and talents.
In this episode:
- The relationship and importance of taking care of one’s mental health and how it relates to performing
- How to navigate the entertainment industry as an introvert
- The power of teaching an how it can deepen your understanding of yourself as an artist
- How to effectively teach different types of learning style as a teacher
- How to keep a student engaged and passionate about their craft and incorporating alternative teaching methods
- How to make major shifts in your career without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Kritty Uranowski: Learn To Express Your Creativity Unconditionally
A little about Kritty:
Kritty Uranowski is a performer, mentor, and producer based in Toronto, Ontario. She is interested in mentorship and alternate music education, teaching and mentoring young musicians and songwriters at Girls Rock Camp Toronto and at her own Baby Pineapple Studio.
After spending over a decade as a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the Toronto musical theatre and rock n roll scenes, She started No Mean City City Collective. No Mean City is a record label and recording collective focused on new artists of all ages and backgrounds, collaborating with more established artists on projects. Focused on lifting the voices of youth, women, gender non-binary folks, bipoc, lgptq+ people and our communities – No Mean City is currently producing workshops, showcases and panels across the GTA focused on making our communities more accessible for people of all generations while still upholding the artistic values of its artists. Our first release, MISS PRISTINE by Toronto teen trio HEX was received with rave reviews upon its release this Spring.
As a performer, Kritty is currently heading her own experimental rock project, Lavender Bruisers – using 80s drum machines and sharp electric guitar/synth combinations to back up passionate torch songs about the physical and metaphorical gore of being a woman.
In addition to Lavender Bruisers, Kritty has a side project called STONES – an improvisational band featuring 7-year-old singer and songwriter Keira ABC and Halifax noise rock veteran Craig Currie. Exploring nature, magic, pastoral imagery and youth through rock and roll. Kritty also performs alongside singer Dorothea Paas and in the band Queen of Swords with Venus Fest founder Aerin Foge
Follow Kritty!
Facebook: @NoMeanCityCollective
Instagram: @kritowski
Twitter: @let_it_bea
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