Joyce Rosario

Curator & Facilitator

Joyce Rosario is a performing arts curator and facilitator who lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver BC) and is the first generation of her Pangasinan family to be born on this territory. She is a certified facilitator of the Critical Response Process and recently completed advanced training with Liz Lerman and John Borstel. In January 2022, she joined the City of Vancouver as a Cultural Planner on their grants team after spending the pandemic as a freelancer with organizations such as The Cultch, Museum of Vancouver, Canada Dance Festival, and Fascinator Management.

Previously, Joyce spent over 15 years in programming and senior leadership positions in Canada, including PuSh Festival, New Works and Made in BC – Dance on Tour. She studied Theatre Production/Design at UBC following her first foray in performance as a teenage participant in a ‘new genre’ public art project by Suzanne Lacy.