Carol Porteous

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About Carol Porteous

I want to create, communicate, and be of service. My passion for growing community almost equals my obsession with using words, images, sound, and movement to make connections. I’m a distiller. I can make new things by diligently poking around until I find the essence of whatever is around me, and then carefully shaping and sharing details from my search and discovery. I can tune in to strong focus and get caught up in the momentum of vigorous doing in a wide range of projects and environments. The world is rich, and my involvement extends in many directions. writing, editing, reporting photography, illustration, design social media community organizing PR, marketing, branding website development, print production singing, dancing, acting I have also worked as a carpenter, lighting technician, waitress, medical assistant, typesetter, and nightclub manager. I edited scholarly books and financial newsletters for dentists, roadied for Patti Smith and Meatloaf, and managed the copy editing department at a place where Barack Obama worked. In the last few years, I've been finding new venues for my voice. While curating social media for a yoga studio, I dove into the search for the sweet spot where community is enhanced rather than replaced or diminished by digital communication. I've enjoyed exploring writing, photography, design, and the ways of connecting in virtual environments, both for clients and on my own. I've been stretching my wings and voice in a couple of performing communities that I joined in the summer of 2017, singing, dancing, writing, acting, and trying to find or make sense and keep love circulating in these too crazy, hateful, and increasingly apocalyptic times. Yes, I’m excited about music, yoga, psychology, social justice, dancing, reading, watching, community gardens, cultures, riding my bike around the city, and more…just by experiencing life from various vantage points, really, and getting to know all kinds of people.