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Overview
About Me
Currently hosting in:
⚜️Quebec City in Quebec province. (I live with my housemate Madeleine and her cat Carol in a central neighborhood called Saint-Sauveur)
I previously hosted in:
⚜️ Montréal, Québec
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
🇲🇽 San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
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Who do I host and get along well with?
🧠 Creative and neurospicy empaths
🐌 People without fomo or bucket lists
🦋 People on a quest to become
⛲ People who participate rather than consume
💐 People who prefer kindness over righteousness
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Here are some tips for writing a good request:
📸 Have clear recent face pictures (2 at least)
📝 Get references (by going to cs events or cs hangouts)
🕵️♂️ Fill out your profile (with thoughtful text)
💥 I should get a sense that we will connect somehow (so be personal when writing)
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🔗 Do not leave my home without having shared any human-to-human quality time.
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Here are some articles related to who I am:
⚜️📰https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/791635/langue-maternelle-habiter-au-vietnam-pour-se-decoloniser
⚜️📰https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/807182/idees-regarder-ru-tant-quebecois-origine-vietnamienne
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
🏠 WHY I HOST
Happiness is only real when shared.
✈️ WHY I TRAVEL
I travel to study design embedded in past and present cultures...
Interests
🎸 I am infinitely curious about musical traditions. So far I've learned musical traditions from the Appalachian region, Veracruz, Turkey, Bali, Brazil, Georgia and Hanoi. Let's jam!
🗣️ I'm a language nerd. I'm the kind of guy who reads about grammar before going to bed. I hope to write a descriptive grammar of Laurentian French (spoken along the Saint-Lawrence River.)
🖍️ I used to draw all the time when I was young and became an animator as a career. I teach visual arts and can help you unlock creative thinking.
🎥 I studied cinema. Do you want film recommendations?
🧗 When traveling to cosmopolitain cities, I always bring my climbing shoes. Bouldering is my favorite sport. It's challenging, brainy, non competitive, fun, and a good workout! Up for a daily climb?
🎭 A comedian couchsurfing host introduced me to the art of stand up comedy in Brazil... I then got into improv theatre when I came back to my hometown. I now play in shows from time to time.
- capoeira
- politics
- chess
- bouldering
- woodworking
- snowboarding
- skateboarding
- boxing
- hockey
- animation
- anthropology
- psychology
- linguistics
- ice skating
- stand up comedy
- urban planning
- choir
- calisthenics
- acrobatics
- natural building
- brazilian jiu jitsu
- impro theatre
- contact improv
- movement culture
- documentary photography
- knowledge sharing
- community development
- traditional music
- vipassana meditation
- non violent communication
- cohousing
- uxdesign
- documentary filmmaking
- children rights
- tektonik
- georgian polyphony
- indonesian gamelan
Music, Movies, and Books
🇫🇷🎥 Franco Cinema : Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Gaspar Noé,
🇬🇧🎥 Anglo Cinema: Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, David Lynch
🇩🇰🎥 Scandinavian Cinema: Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier
⚜️🎥 Quebec Cinema: Michel Brault, Denys Arcand, Pierre Perrault
🇮🇷🎥 Iranian Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Matthew Rankin
🏳️🌈🎥 Queer Cinema: Xavier Dolan, Almodovar, Luca Guadagnino
🇲🇽🎥 Mexican Cinema: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Tiberio Cuarón Orozco
⚜️🎧 Quebec/Canada Music: Leif Vollebekk, S Carey, River Tiber, Doldrums, Les louanges, Jérôme 50, Men I Trust, Karkwa, Louis-Jean Cormier
🇺🇸🎧 USA/British Music: Animal Collective, Foals, Thom Yorke, Nico Muhly, James Blake, Fleet Foxes, King Krule, Sampha, Jai Paul, Daniel Cesar, Jose Gonzalez, Gus Dapperton, Kingo Halla, Omar Apollo, Mac Demarco, Toro y Moi, Jon Hopkins, Panda Bear, Moses Sumney, Shlomo, Douglas Dare
🇧🇷🎧 Brazilian Music: O Terno, Tim Bernardes, Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina, Gilberto Gil, ...
📖 BOOKS: A Pattern Language (Alexander), Chairs are where People Go (Misha Glouberman), Light at the Edge of the World (Wade Davis), Impro (Keith Johnston) Theatre of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal), Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paolo Freire), ...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
🥣🫂 🧑🌾🏘️ 💞 After visiting the "Soup!" project in Detroit City, Michigan, USA, I was inspired to import the project to my hometown in Montreal. I grew vegetables and turned them into soups. I then invited my neighbors for monthly dinners where they would have to vote for a local project lead by an individual in our community. The money raised during the event was granted to the project that the community deemed most important at the moment. This event ran for many years and was called "Soupe Locale". Provincial and municipal governments supported the project and today it exists in different parts of the Quebec province and contributed to hundreds of microfunded projects, stronger neighborhoods and a rise in civic participation.
🏡🏡🏡 I co-founded a non-profit that develops the very first out-of-market and perpetually affordable cohousing projects in Montreal (www.villageurbain.org)
Teach, Learn, Share
I love learning about science
I love teaching about urban planning, design, communities
I love sharing about project ideas
What I Can Share with Hosts
🍷🍜 I'll invite you out to new places in your own city! I don't cook so I will invite you for a dinner at some restaurants.
Countries I’ve Visited
Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, Canada, Mexico, United States, Viet Nam
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