Joyce Rosario is a performing arts curator and facilitator based in Vancouver BC.
She is currently a Cultural Planner with the Grants and Awards team in Arts, Culture and Tourism at the City of Vancouver. Prior to civil service, she spent the pandemic as a freelancer with organizations such as The Cultch, Museum of Vancouver, Canada Dance Festival, and Fascinator Management. She is a certified facilitator of the Critical Response Process and completed advanced training with Liz Lerman and John Borstel in 2021.
Previously, Joyce spent over 15 years in programming and senior leadership positions in Canada, including PuSh Festival, New Works and Made in BC – Dance on Tour. She studied Theatre Production/Design at UBC following her first foray in performance as a teenage participant in a ‘new genre’ public art project by Suzanne Lacy.
Joyce lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver BC). She is the first generation of her Pangasinan family to be born on this territory.