Kim Farris-Manning

MA Student

Kim Farris-Manning is a fun-loving queer arbor-artist: composer-performer (UVic ’18), nature educator, and arborist/forest technician (La Cité ’23). Kim’s artistic and arboricultural practices are deeply connected, feeding and nourishing each other. They are currently developing an exhibit celebrating forests as part of their MA in Music and Culture and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies at Carleton University. They are the founder/Artistic Director of Queer Youth Choir, and collaborative pianist for Tone Cluster and Queer Cadence. Named one of “Six Emerging Canadian Composers to Keep an Eye On” (Ludwig van Toronto, 2022), their work has been experienced across Canada, the USA, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Kim is part of folk-indie duo YELLOW, and is a founding member of the Paramorph Collective, who launched their debut album on Redshift Records in 2023. You can find them in drag, or up a tree, as Kin of Chlorophyll.