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Professional Summary
Jennifer Kuspira (JennyQ), is an artist and author. She is a creative soul who has always been enthralled with a good story, creativity and poetic expression. Most recently, she has been commissioned to provide and display a collection of her art at La Vieille Banque, a fine Italian restaurant located in Dorval Quebec. Her first children’s book Sweet Treat: A Willy Wuz Adventure was published in 2019. She is a contributor to the anthology of short stories, poetry and prose called Empowered Hearts (2017).
Early in her career, JennyQ worked in television as a freelance script, production, and camera assistant as well as a talent wrangler with various production companies including Radke Films, Shaftesbury Films and YTV. She is a devoted Developmental Services worker with Kids Country Club, a respite home for medically fragile children.
Her formal education includes a specialty program she attended at H.B. Beal in London, Ontario (1991-1992), for broadcasting. There she learned the art of editing video and audio to create short pieces and how to present herself in front of the camera. She earned a combined honours degree in Drama and Communication Studies at the University of Windsor (1997). Many of her current skills and art forms are self-taught and evolve from her mosaic of experience, knowledge, curiosity, creativity and imagination.
JennyQ spends her spare time boxing to stay fit, listening to music (loves Jazz), writes and shares stories at various storytelling events to connect with her community.
JennyQ Kuspira : Artist, Author, creative Content Maker
Contact JennyQ :
Email: jennyqkuspira@gmail.com
Cell: 226-500-4663
IG: JQKCreations
Artist:
- Current Commission: To Be Mounted Mid February 2021
- La Vieille Banque, a fine Italian restaurant located in Dorval Quebec.
- Private Commissions of Positivity Posters / Art Posters: September 2020-Present
- Seven original creations for customers.
- Requested four donations for a silent auction to raise money for HOPE House (Guelph Ontario).
- Guitars for Kids Guitar Artist: November 2020
- Creative art decorating a guitar to be auctioned in 2021 at a fundraising event for this non-profit agency that gives children access to music lessons and guitars.
- Part of this project includes a partnership with the IDEA EXCHANGE that will showcase my guitar throughout the year. (Preston is my venue).
Author:
- Kerry’s Place Autism Services contract October - December 2020
- Employed as a guest facilitator - each month I research, write and then perform content to a designated theme selected by the agency.
- A Pasta Twist: written and performed in October 2020
- Christmas Breakfast: Written and performed in November 2020
- Employed as a guest facilitator - each month I research, write and then perform content to a designated theme selected by the agency.
- Stories & Stuff: A Facebook Live show for kids March - July 2020
- An independent initiative to provide educational, entertaining and engaging content three days a week for kids and their families during the early stages of the Covid Pandemic. (many episodes are posted to my YouTube channel)
- Picture This: 3 original stories written and inspired by photos submitted by viewers (The Window That Woke My Soul, The Four Smiles, Harley & Kiki).
- Poetry: an assortment of poems throughout this run of the show.
- Stories on the Spot and Story Cubes (stories improvised on the spot with audience participation.)
- An independent initiative to provide educational, entertaining and engaging content three days a week for kids and their families during the early stages of the Covid Pandemic. (many episodes are posted to my YouTube channel)
- Kids Country Club Blog: Regular Content Creator and Contributor (June 2020 - present)
- Kids Country Club has a blog to connect with the families we support. The blog provides information, ideas for activities and updates that are important to the families we provide respite service.
- Staying Inside, An Opportunity For Fun (November 17 2020)
- Pasta, Pasta, Pasta (October 20, 2020)
- A Little Autumn Relaxation (September 22, 2020)
- Enjoy The Summer moments (August 11 2020)
- Happy Canada Day (June 30, 2020)
- Kids Country Club has a blog to connect with the families we support. The blog provides information, ideas for activities and updates that are important to the families we provide respite service.
- Sweet Treat: A Willy Wuz Adventure: Published 2019
- The first book in a series of adventure books that invite young readers to enjoy worldly adventures with Willy Wuz. This first book features Willy’s adventure on a dairy farm, in Ontario Canada. (Oxygen Publishing Independent imprint).
- Featured speaker and author participant at the Author Fest Fundraising event in Montreal, QC supporting the Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation (October 2019)
- Inspiration for Stories&Stuff Facebook Live show.
- The first book in a series of adventure books that invite young readers to enjoy worldly adventures with Willy Wuz. This first book features Willy’s adventure on a dairy farm, in Ontario Canada. (Oxygen Publishing Independent imprint).
- Empowered Hearts Courageous Writers Connected by Words: Published 2017
- An anthology of short stories, prose and poetry featuring 25 emerging Canadian writers. My contribution includes eight pieces of various forms of writing.
- The White Box (short story)
- Ships Passing in the Night (prose)
- Coach Demon (poetry)
- An anthology of short stories, prose and poetry featuring 25 emerging Canadian writers. My contribution includes eight pieces of various forms of writing.
Storyteller:
- Guelph Guild of Storytellers (GGS) Executive member 2015 - Present
- I am a member of the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and part of the executive
- My role is to help host, prepare and share stories through our regular season called Tales from the Hill (Sept-May) and our Summer Sessions, Tea N’ Tales (June - August).
- The Man in The Moon: Written and performed to video November 2020
- A short piece inspired by the kids at the respite home, a bedtime story
- I am Laura: A GGS Story July 2020 (A Canada Day event)
- My contribution to the GGS first ever virtual event.
- I researched, wrote and performed a piece highlighting Laura Secord and her story.
- History Haunts: A Guelph Civic Museum Halloween Event October 2018, October 2019
- The Guelph museum created an event that brings local history alive for Halloween by staging actors/storytellers for guests who tour from one story to the next. These ghost stories are researched and created by various Guelph Guild members.
- Nurse Jenny (2018): Based on the history of the Guelph Reformatory, I created the story of Nurse Jenny, a devoted and passionate Blue Bird.
- My Baby (2019): Based on the history of Lena Rosas Von Schulum, the owner of a Bawdy house in Guelph in the 1870’s.
- The Guelph museum created an event that brings local history alive for Halloween by staging actors/storytellers for guests who tour from one story to the next. These ghost stories are researched and created by various Guelph Guild members.
- Metamorphoses: Tales of Transformation March 2017
- A world storytelling event presented by the Baden Storytellers Guild.
- Bag of Butterflies: an original piece about the journey of a man named Gus who figures out how to find happiness with his bag of butterflies.
- A world storytelling event presented by the Baden Storytellers Guild.
