Source: calgaryherald.com --- Saturday, December 31, 2016
You can call Jasmine Fairbairn a Loose Moose homecoming princess, but she is coming home for one night only. When she was 18, Fairbairn moved to Australia to be with the man she met online. Seven years after they began living together, they married so they could start a family and now they are the proud parents of two sons. Fairbairn credits the Loose Moose with giving her the courage and desire to be an improviser and eventually a standup comic, so she wrote a show called Swimming the Seas of Failure to show her gratitude. “I’ve been doing standup in Australia for the past two years and I wanted to do something to bring to the Loose Moose so I created Swimming the Seas of Failure, which is essentially all the stuff I didn’t have a chance to say when my boys were babies,” she said. “It wasn’t that I didn’t have stuff to say or that I didn’t want to share these insights. I was just too tired being a mom.” Fairbairn was a 15-year-old Henry Wise Wood student when she first ventured down with friends to volunteer at the Loose Moose. She instantly found a home away from home. “I was really lucky to find a mentor in Ken Gardener who is what we call a Loose Moose lifer,” says Fairbairn. “ I asked Ken to open my Loose Moose show. I don’t know what he’ll be doing because he dabbles in so many things but I wanted him to be part of my return because he helped make all this possible.” Fairbairn started out at the Loose Moose in 1995 and was ...
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