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Nora Decter is a writer and educator who grew up on Treaty 1 Territory in the North End of Winnipeg. She is the author of two novels: How Far We Go and How Fast (Orca Book Publishers, 2018) and What's Not Mine (ECW Press, 2024). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction.

Nora has been teaching writing at post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada for the last ten years. She was honoured to serve as the 2024-2025 writer-in-residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, where she worked with a record number of writers from across Manitoba.

She lives in Winnipeg, near the foot of Garbage Hill.

Joseph is a Winnipeg playwright, composer and designer. His works include the play How the Heavens Go, and the musical Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, which received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding New Musical. A veteran of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, Joseph is a two-time winner of the Harry Rintoul Memorial Award for Best New Manitoban Play, and the author of several hit Fringe musicals including Bloodsuckers!, Illuminati, and Lucrezia Borgia. He is a Playwriting graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

As a composer, arranger and sound designer, he has worked on several Winnipeg productions, including Jabber and Danny, King of the Basement for Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Ordinary Days for Winnipeg Studio Theatre and Liars at a Funeral for Prairie Theatre Exchange.

A lifelong computer geek with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Joseph is also an avid coder, and is currently exploring the world of video game development and interactive storytelling.

I am a lifelong student of music and the guitar, and have made my way most recently as a cover artist and performer, while also working on my songwriting and recordings soon to be released. I have toured extensively and enjoyed playing with some of the finest musicians in the country for the finest people in the country, and i find both wherever I go!

Originally from Alberta, but with Latino roots, and Francophone relatives, I was exposed to a very wide variety of musical, cultural and artistic influences. Since then music continues to capture my imagination, especially in its simplest forms, the songs we love. This journey has led me to learn a large repertoire in many styles from many eras, and is especially to the benefit of my clients and listeners at any occasion.

In the same why I enjoy interpreting great songs, I like to craft my own songs, laboring over the extensively to make memorable and to the point hooks and themes that engage and energize. Fans of classic roots americana will be right at home with my music, although eclectic tastes are not neglected as we foray in jazz, latin, pop, r&b and soul music.

I am available with my merry band of misfit musical manics, for all types of performances and occasions including private events, parties, matinees, club sets, rodeos, fairs and otherwise. Please follow my Instagram for all the latest and PM for booking info!