Title: Administrative Assistant
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: leslie@grunt.ca

Name Pronunciation: First name: LES-lee, Middle name: Ken (rhymes with den, pen), Last name: Chu (like to “chew” food).

Biography

Leslie Ken Chu, Administrative Assistant, is a writer and arts organizer of Chinese descent living, working, and playing on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyə̓m, and Səlilwətaɬ Nations. He has worked in live event marketing and publicity at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and Rickshaw Theatre. He currently serves as a juror for the Polaris Music Prize and Prism Prize. He also co-curates an annual sound art residency program through the Media Arts Committee and is an active co-founding member of Canadian music journalism co-op New Feeling.

Contact Information

Email: leslie@grunt.ca

Visual Description

I am a 5’9” Chinese man in his mid-30s, usually wearing mostly black, including graphic t-shirts of bands and Vancouver-based visual artists. I have black-rimmed glasses, short black hair, and usually no facial hair. I often wear a black, worn-down leather jacket.