Amber Goodwyn

Amber Goodwyn is an interdisciplinary artist with active poetry, music, performance art, and film practices.

Amber’s poems have recently appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Pinhole Poetry Journal, Peach Fuzz Magazine and BAD DOG Mag, among other places.

For her music project, Natural Sympathies, Amber works in concept album cycles with expansions into performance art and other disciplines. Natural Sympathies has won several awards including the 2021 Golden Sheaf Award for Performing Arts & Entertainment from The Yorkton Film Festival, the 2020 Best Web Series award at Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards, the 2018 Electronic Music Artist of the Year at the Saskatchewan Music Awards, as well as two SK Arts Independent Artist grants, and various other accolades.

Amber’s films and videos have screened at several festivals including Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Antimatter [Media Art], Montreal Festival de Nouveau Cinema, The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, among others.

Amber has lived in different places, including Montreal and Nassau, and resides in oskana ka-asastēki (Regina, Saskatchewan), Treaty 4 territory. She is currently working on a chapbook manuscript as well as a new album with her band Natural Sympathies.

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amber.goodwyn@gmail.com

Living, working, and writing to you from Treaty 4 lands. Treaty 4 is home to the Anihšināpēk, nêhiyawak, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota peoples as well as the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation.

POETRY

READINGS & POETRY PERFORMANCE

Show with respectfulchild, JJL, Osmathus. Expanded poetry performance to open the evening. Presented by Static Frequencies at Knox Metropolitan Church, Regina, SK (October 2025)

‘Poetry and a Pint’ with Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Amber Goodwyn, Andrea Martineau, Elaine McArthur and Eric Gabriel. Presented by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brew Pub (May 2025)

‘SECRETARY’ Poetry Performance – Saskatchewan Festival of Words’ Performers’ Cafe, Moose Jaw, SK (January 2025)

‘SECRETARY’ Poetry Performance – Darkest Night: An Evening of Sound Art and Poetry, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK (December 2024)

AWARDS & FUNDING (selected)

2025 – Showcase Travel Grant for Natural Sympathies, Creative Saskatchewan
2025 – Showcase Grant for Natural Sympathies, FACTOR Canada
2021 – Golden Sheaf Award for Performing Arts & Entertainment, The Yorkton Film Festival
2020 – Best Web Series, Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards
2020 – Saskatchewan Music Awards nominee – Best Electronic Artist of the Year, Alternative Album of the Year, Album of the Year
2020 – Arts and Culture Nominee, YWCA Women of Distinction Awards
2019 – Independent Artist Grant, Media Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2018 – Electronic Music Artist of the Year, Saskatchewan Music Awards
2018 – Arts and Culture Nominee, YWCA Women of Distinction Awards
2017 – Independent Artist Grant, Music, Saskatchewan Arts Board

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

  • Strange Heavens – A collection of poetry in chapbook form. Poems written between 2012-2013, self-published for QCWDD #1 (March 2014)
  • Sound Check – Music column for Prairie Dog Magazine, a free, alternative bi-weekly newspaper (2013-2015)
  • “If You Love Some Zine, Let it Go” Broken Pencil, Fall 2010
  • “Questions for Dresses: Astria Suparak” Worn Fashion Journal, 2007
  • “Mike Rollo’s still | move.” Splice Summer 2004

DISCOGRAPHY

Natural Sympathies – Nowhere / Twin Spruce EP (Lava Cheetah) – September 2022
Cobra & Vulture – Vesuvius at Home (Lava Cheetah) – March 2022
Natural Sympathies – At the Limits of Earth (Lava Cheetah) – February 2022
Natural Sympathies – Four Accordions (2020) (independent) – April 2020
Natural Sympathies – Porous (Grey Records) – November 2019
Dialtone – Dialtone EP (independent) – September 2019
respectfulchild – respectfulchildren remix compilation – August 2019
Natural Sympathies – Strange Heavens EP (Prairie Shag Records) – June 2017
Natural Sympathies – Moon Landing Remixes (Pop Quiz Records) – June 2017
Natural Sympathies – All Wrong Single – June 2016
Cobra & Vulture – Grasslands LP (independent) – January 2013
Cobra & Vulture- Vocare EP (independent) – April 2012
Cobra & Vulture – Seer EP (Independent) – July 2011
Nightwood – Carta Marina LP (independent) – October 2009

TOUR (SELECTED, NATURAL SYMPATHIES)

2019

  • YWCA Women’s March (January, Regina, SK)
  • Winterruption Music Festival (January, Regina, SK)
  • The Exchange (May, Regina, SK)
  • Amigo’s Cantina (July, Saskatoon, SK)
  • Grind Central Festival at The Exchange (July, Regina, SK)

  • Regina Folk Festival, Deejay set (August, Regina, SK)

  • Sled Island Music Festival (June, Calgary, AB)

  • The Aviary (June, Edmonton, AB)

  • Festival Hall (June, Calgary, AB)
  • Rah Rah Farewell show at The Exchange (December, Regina, SK)
  • POROUS Album / Film launch at Silt Studio (November, Regina, SK)

2018

  • Black Cat Tavern (December, Saskatoon, SK)
  • Saskatchewan Music Awards (November, Regina, SK)
  • SoundsLike Festival (October 5, Saskatoon, SK)
  • The Regina Folk Festival (August, Regina, SK)
  • The Gateway Music Festival (July, Bengough, SK)
  • Grind Central Records Festival (July, Regina, SK) 
  • The German Club (February, Regina, SK)
  • Winterruption Festival (January, Regina, SK)

2017

  • The Exchange (December, Regina, SK)
  • Femme Wave Festival (November, Calgary, AB)
  • T+A Vinyl and Fashion (October, Regina, SK)
  • Swamp Fest Music and Arts Festival (September, Regina, SK)
  • German Club (July, Regina, SK)
  • Sled Island music Festival (June, Calgary, AB)
  • Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre (June, Regina, SK)
  • O’Hanlon’s (May, Regina, SK)
  • Amigo’s Cantina (April, Saskatoon, SK)
  • The Mercury (March, Regina, SK)
  • Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre (January, Regina, SK)
  • PAVEDarts (January, Saskatoon, SK)
  • Drone Factory (January, Regina, SK)
  • Creative City Centre – Pop Up Downtown (September, Regina, SK)
  • Drone Factory (September, Regina, SK)

INTERDISCIPLINARY & CURATORIAL

  • The Love Project – 32 minute audio art piece using anonymous survey responses about the nature of love. Created for the holophon listening station at the Art Gallery of Regina. (2024)
  • Anonymous Love Data Collection Project – an anonymous twenty-question survey circulated on-line and on paper to collect material for Natural Sympathies songwriting and other art projects. (2023)
  • Weather (White Noise Palace) – performance installation created with the support of the Holophon’s Mentorship Program. Presented at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival (2015)
  • Mare Internum – A live audio art durational performance inviting passerby to listen to the sound of the ‘internal ocean’ through a large sea shell, amplifying the sound of Goodwyn’s own body, and that of her baby’s heartbeat. Created in collaboration with Ian Campbell and supported by Holophon. Costuming by Lisa Wicklund from Seed and Amber Goodwyn. Presented at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival, CVAF Holophon Audio Arts concert + CVAF street fair, Regina, SK. (2014)
  • Queen City Walking Distance Distro – A free, collaborative neighbourhood art distro in Regina, SK. The QCWDD operates out of and delivers to downtown areas and is a free, contributor-based neighbourhood art distro created in the spirit of underground art exchange and dialogue. (2014)
  • Slowdance Night – A special event featuring slow dances all night long. Co-hosted with Sherwin Tjia. Various locations in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa and Regina, in collaboration with the Montreal Fringe Festival, Worn Fashion Journal, New Dance Horizons. (2008-2009, 2014)
  • IF IT IS SO / TO BE SO IN / GO IN TO IT / AS IT IS SO / IT IS IN US / IS IT AS IF / IT IS OF ME – 16mm Loop Projection Installation, CTRL Lab, for Film Pop/Pop Montreal Music Festival, Montréal, QC. (2008)
  • Curator of the Daughters of Joy video program featuring work by Jackie Gallant & Dayna Macleod, Elin Gustafson, Nicole Koschmann, La Mathilde, Terryll Loffler, Shana Macdonald, Peter Miller, Kathleen K-R, Anita Schoepp and Scott Stark. Presented at the Montreal Fringe Festival + The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, NY (2007)
  • THREADS Joint art show with Anita Schoepp at Galerie L‘Espace, featuring original works by the two artists (2007)
  • BECAUSE WE DIDN’T FIND WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR, WHAT WE FOUND DIDN’T EXIST WITHOUT US 16mm Loop Projection Installation, CTRL Lab, Double Negative, Montréal, QC. (2007)

FILMOGRAPHY

Porous (Producer, HD, 27:36, 2019)
Wives’ Tale (Director, Super 8, 3:00, 2013)
Polyp (Director, Super 8, 2:50, 2010)
River Eyelid (Director, Super 8 to DV, 4:00, 2010)
Paper Nautilus (Director, 4:00, 16mm, 2005)
Lyric for our Home Song: video sketch (Director, DV, 3:00, 2005)
Lyric for our Home Song (Director, Super 8, 4:00, 2005)
distance is relative (Director, 16mm, 5:00, 2004)
sunday afternoon (Director, Super 8, 3:00, 2003)
Salt (Director, National Film Board of Canada, DV, 79 minutes, 2000)

SCREENINGS

2019

  • Silt Studio, Porous Film Launch and Immersive Installation Event, Regina, SK

2015

  • The 8 Fest.  Toronto, ON

2014

  • Antimatter [Media Art].Victoria, BC
  • Unscene: film and video from Saskatchewan. Presented by the Regional Support Network and curated by Amber Christensen – Videofag, Toronto, ON
  • Tiny Magic: film and video from ten Saskatchewan artists. Curated by Amber Christensen. Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Regina, SK

2013

  • One-Take Super 8 Event. RPL Film Theatre. Regina, SK
  • Projection Super 8: En Plein Air, La Place de la Paix du Quartier des Spectacles, Montréal, QC

2010

  • Le PhOsphène // ciné-club. Montreal, QC
  • Potertr. Curated by Yen-Chao Lin, Montreal, QC

2009

  • The Canadian Film Institute / Café Ex (in partnership with Saw Video), Group screening – The Films of the Double Negative Collective, Ottawa, ON
  • Pacific Cinematheque (Dim Cinema: Programmed by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk), Group Screening –The Films of the Double Negative Collective, Vancouver, BC
  • International Biennale of the Poster in Mexico, The Films of the Double Negative Collective, Xalapa, Mexico

2008

  • The Lighthouse Series, The Films of the Double Negative Collective, Curator: The Loop Collective, The School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON
  • Antimatter [Media Art], Images in the Back of the Head: The Films of the Double Negative Collective, Victoria, Canada, 2008
  • Images Festival, Toronto, ON
  • Super Reel Dames Film and Video Festival, La Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC

2007

  • Cinema Project, “Carte Blanche” program, curated by Brett Kashmere, Portland Oregon 
  • Cog Collective, London, England

2006

  • Xalapa Animation & Experimental Film Festival, Xalapa, Mexico
  • Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC
  • 19th Annual Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, ON
  • 2005
  • Ex-Centris (Cinéma Parallèle), The Double Negative Collective, Montreal, QC
  • Cinema Paradiso, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2004

  • Double Negative Collective, National Film Board Theatre, Montreal, QC
  • 4th Annual One Take Super 8 Event. DVD Catalogue. Published by The Town Celebrity Image Corporation. Regina, Saskatchewan
  • 2003
  • 4th Annual One Take Super 8 Event, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK

2000-2002

  • The Blinding Light! Cinema, Vancouver, BC
  • Vancouver Reel to Real Youth Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
  • The Columbus Film and Video Festival, Columbus, OH
  • Montreal Festival de Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC 
  • The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, St. John’s, NFLD

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2021-2025: Regina Folk Festival, Artistic Director

2016-2021: 91.3FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio, Program Director, Executive Director

2020 + 2025 Polaris Music Prize, Juror for National Music Prize

2020 Swamp Fest Music Festival, Member-at-large, Board of Directors, Programming Committee

2009-2018 FACTOR, Juror for National Music Funding

2018-2019 Creative Saskatchewan, Juror for Provincial Music Funding

2017-2020 Girls Rock Camp Regina, Camp Instructor and Performer, Board of Directors (2017-2018)

2016-2017 Holophon Audio Arts, Member-at-large, Board of Directors

2014-2016 Dunlop Art Gallery, Advisory Committee

2004-2010 DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE, Founding Member, Film Programmer

2003-2009 LICKETY SPLIT ZINE, Founder & Publisher, Independent arts journal about sexuality

2006-2008 AUDIO SMUT (CKUT Radio McGill), Radio host and programmer

EDUCATION

2005

Bachelor in Fine Arts, Film Production (with Distinction), Concordia University

2002               

Diplôme d’études collégiales, Creative Arts, Humanistic Education                Certificate, Dawson College

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