Jennifer Schine is a sound artist and researcher based in Vancouver, BC.

she also loves collaborative projects, listening to sounds, and hanging around On boats.

Over the last decade, I’ve worked in non-profits, consulting, conservation, social justice, philanthropy, and the arts. As the Founder and Principal of Pacific Research & Communications, I support community-led initiatives and communication strategies in BC, Canada, and beyond.

As an artist, I’m a big fan of public engagement and have extended my academic work into film, radio, electroacoustic compositions, and art installations. I produce podcasts like Call To Mind and radio, such as Ecology of Sound: Hildegard Westerkamp for CBC Ideas, which has been rebroadcast internationally.

My goal as an educator is to use art and teaching as a conduit to connect artists with scientists. I teach courses and workshops in both urban and rural environments, including Podcasting: The Story From Hear at Hollyhock and as a sessional instructor of anthropology at the University of Victoria.

I’m honoured to be a 2021/22 Action Canada Fellow alumni and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in Vancouver, BC (please visit www.jenniferschine.com for counselling services).

Previously, I served as a Director of the Salmon Coast Field Station, a Director of the Western Front artist-run-centre, the Soundworks Editor of the BC Studies Journal, and was the Pacific Community Lead at MakeWay (formerly Tides Canada). I hold a Master of Arts in Acoustic Communication from Simon Fraser University, a Master’s of Counselling Psychology from Adler University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Victoria.

I'm interested in collaborations, creative processes, and our connections to community, to each other, and within ourselves. Please reach out and say hello!

SKILLS/SERVICES

Jennifer facilitates authentic, productive dialogue, representing cultural values and traditional knowledge and practices. She has experience in multi-stakeholder facilitation, qualitative research, data analysis, report writing, and audio/podcast projects for clients in various fields. Her approach includes fieldwork, interviews, focus groups and workshops, mapping, storytelling, and soundscape methodologies.

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Example Projects

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA - CALL TO MIND PODCAST (2022-present)

Call to Mind - A podcast recorded by caregivers of family members living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

If you’re a caregiver, welcome! We made this podcast with you in mind. We hope these audio diaries, generously shared by others, help you feel heard—and perhaps even inspired by their strength, resilience, emotional vulnerability and rich insights.

If you’re not a caregiver but know someone with dementia, either personally or professionally, we hope these stories give you a deeper understanding and empathy for the family caregiving experience.

Join host Mariko Sakamoto, assistant professor of nursing and researcher with the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria, for the second season of this multi-award-winning series of intimate stories recorded by spouses, children and grandchildren journeying alongside a loved one living with dementia.

This second series, launched in January 2025, is part of a UVic research project led by Mariko. It’s exploring storytelling, different ways of listening, and the power of being heard.

Produced by Jenni Schine, sound design by David Parfitt, and Executive Producer, Suzanne Ahearne.

SEA TO CEDAR - YOUTH LEADERSHIP PADDLE PROGRAM Coordination (2017-2018)

Youth Leadership Paddle Program (now run by A̱ka̱la Society) is a 10-day program, including a 7-day canoe expedition, for Musgmagw Dzawada’enuxw youth (ages 13-18), and is offered at no cost to families. Centred out of the remote community of Gilford Village (aka: Gwayasdums) in the Broughton Archipelago, BC, youth learn how to safely and responsibly use the ocean environment and outdoors for recreational, educational, and leadership use. Youth participants who complete the program have the opportunity to achieve Lake Canoe Skills Intermediate Tandem and Coastal Canoeing Skills Intermediate certifications. 

First peoples cultural council - Arts program review - final report 2017

In 2016, FPCC, with the support of the BC Arts Council, conducted a program review of its two arts funding programs – the Aboriginal Arts Development Awards, and Aboriginal Youth Engaged in the Arts. More than 200 artists, arts organizations and jurors participated in one of the 10 regional community meetings (held in Williams Lake, Prince George, Vancouver, Chilliwack, Courtenay, Victoria, Westbank/Kelowna, Prince Rupert, Fort St. John, and Tofino), 14 telephone interviews and/or the online survey. The program review asked community members about the needs of the Indigenous arts community in BC, and FPCC’s performance in supporting the arts and artists in the province. 

Squamish Lil'wat cultural centre - cultural audio journey (2012)

The Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre commissioned an Indigenous eco-tourism project, a self-guided audio cultural journey through the Squamish and Lil’wat First Nations. Along the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, a route stretching north from Vancouver to Whistler, listeners can experience the KA YÁCHTN / K’ALHW Á7ACW / WELCOME FROM THE SQUAMISH AND LÍL’WAT FIRST NATIONS and learn oral history, supernatural beings and place names. This project was created in collaboration with the Aboriginal Youth Ambassadors Program.

"Witness through our eyes, the place where we have thrived and existed since time immemorial."

Radio/Sound

At the heart of my work is the act of listening. I want to activate my audience's ears to change how we hear the world around us. I do this through soundwalks, sonic explorations, and audio storytelling. 

ecology of sound: hildegard westkerkamp

Soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp hears the world differently than most people. Where many of us might hear noise, she uncovers extraordinary beauty and meaning. It's all in how we listen to our environment. CBC Ideas host, Paul Kennedy joins Hildegard Westerkamp on a soundwalk through Vancouver's downtown eastside, and explores how opening our ears to our surroundings can open our minds. 

Produced by Jenni Schine in Vancouver and Nicola Luksic in Toronto (2017). 

end of the line

They call him “the wise man of the woods”. Jenni Schine calls him a friend. 80 year old Billy Proctor lives off the grid in Echo Bay, BC, the heart and soul of a settler community with just seven full time residents. 

Produced by Jenni Schine in Vancouver and Steve Wadhams in Toronto (2014).

Radio Art/Soundscapes

cONVERSATIONS WITH BILLY PROCTOR

As part of Music for the New Wilderness, an intimate audio work based on conversations with Billy Proctor, a lifelong resident of the Broughton Archipelago BC. As an elder who has witness the transformation of BC’s coast, Billy is known as an important knowledge keeper and “the heart" of his settler community called Echo Bay.

Ethnomusicology professor, Ellen Waterman wrote a review about the concert series in Contemporary Music Review (2016). Adam Basanta's composition is another art/ethnography collaboration.

Sound installation at The Cultch commissioned by the Western Front for Music for the New Wilderness concert series (2014).

Streamwalkers

Streamwalkers is part of Field Guides for Listeners two-year art residency at the Salmon Coast Field Station (SCFS). In the fall of 2017, Jenni and Jay White joined stream walkers from the Mainland Enhancement of Salmonoid Species Society as they counted spawning pacific salmon in the many rivers, streams, and tributaries that lead into the ocean. 

Article and soundwork in BC Studies Journal here.

Commissioned by the Naniamo Art Gallery as part of Landfalls and Departures: Epilogue (Listening to the Sea) group exhibit (2018).

Soundwalks

A soundwalk is an acoustically interesting route that gives our ears priority over other senses. In its simplest sense, it is walking and listening. Sometimes the walk is mediated, sometimes it's not. Sounds can also be added to the soundscape to highlight the soundscape /sonic environment. Vancouver New Music puts on free public soundwalks with the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective every fall and spring.