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Bernadine Fox is a graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (now ECU). She is an award-winning mental health advocate and an artist (portfolio), writer, social activist, and public speaker in Vancouver BC who constructs narratives that explore various social issues in need of voice. For the past three years, Bernadine has produced and hosted an on-air radio program Re-Threading Madness (formerly Both Sides Now) which dares to change how we think about mental health. Bernadine Fox endured sexual and physical abuse as a child, and later at the hands of her therapist and abuser. Despite the lifelong trauma, PTSD, Chronic Fatigue and Osteoarthritis, she selflessly chooses to share her story and use her voice to shed light on the issues of mental health and abuse of power. A mental health advocate for 30+ years, she now volunteers for TELL, an organization that provides resources and support for those healing from exploitation by their therapists or doctors. Bernadine is also the Assistant Curator at the Britannia Art Gallery. Britannia is a unique community gallery servicing an equally unique neighborhood. Fox raises her grandson and resides in a forest with three cats, three rats, and a few ghosts.
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If you wish to book Bernadine for a speaking event please use the contact form.
Bernadine Fox is a graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (now ECU). She is an award-winning mental health advocate and an artist (portfolio), writer, social activist, and public speaker in Vancouver BC who constructs narratives that explore various social issues in need of voice. For the past three years, Bernadine has produced and hosted an on-air radio program Re-Threading Madness (formerly Both Sides Now) which dares to change how we think about mental health. Bernadine Fox endured sexual and physical abuse as a child, and later at the hands of her therapist and abuser. Despite the lifelong trauma, PTSD, Chronic Fatigue and Osteoarthritis, she selflessly chooses to share her story and use her voice to shed light on the issues of mental health and abuse of power. A mental health advocate for 30+ years, she now volunteers for TELL, an organization that provides resources and support for those healing from exploitation by their therapists or doctors. Bernadine is also the Assistant Curator at the Britannia Art Gallery. Britannia is a unique community gallery servicing an equally unique neighborhood. Fox raises her grandson and resides in a forest with three cats, three rats, and a few ghosts.
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If you wish to book Bernadine for a speaking event please use the contact form.
Bernadine lives and works on the ancestral and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As a white settler, she extends her gratitude and appreciation to the Indigenous people who have been living and working on this land from time immemorial.
