Artist Bio

Therapeutic Storyteller has shared her performances and led workshops in countries like Spain, French Polynesia, EUA , England and Peru where her audiences experience moving and surprising journeys through her loving craft and singing voice. Her performances and workshops encourage participants to understand storytelling as a performing art through chromatic language, play, masks, dance, song, spontaneous creations and contact with the listener.

Mera speaks and sings fluently in English, Spanish. She trained as a professional storyteller at Emerson College (U.K, Sussex) and as a Therapeutic Storyteller in Boston, Massachusets at Merriam Hill Centre under the instruction of Nancy Mellon. Mera is also a Body Psychoterapist with a thesis on anxiety management . Has worked for Downstage Calgary , The High Performance Rodeo , The Arts Commons Education Program as facilitator, mentorship for The Calgary Shakespeare Company, Canadian Mental Health Association and ATA Summer Convention 2023 and Workshop leader for the Education Program at Mount Royal University October, 2023.

Mera currently works in her Opera Prima “The Strategy Of War “ Splendour and Magic of Aztec Mythology with the spectacular production of Downstage and collaboration of Arts Commons . As well, she is doing the groundwork to open her own School of Storytelling in Alberta.

Mera believes storytelling reinforces the importance of listening to one another and is a path for human development, inclusion, reconciliation, healing and understanding.

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