Through her position, she has played a strong role in supporting local and touring artists, as well as running arts programming in the community, including Pender Island’s annual Mosaic Festival.After her last tour in 2019 and subsequent release of Memory & Desire in 2020, Lauren took an informal hiatus to focus on her work in the community, take up sailing, go backpacking, plant a garden, get married, and become a mother. While adventuring and embracing new seasons of life, the desire to create through lyrics and music has always been simmering just below the surface. All of these various endeavours inspire her artistic pursuit, giving depth and breadth to her writing and playing. She has returned to the studio to explore new ways of collaborating and recording in the midst of regular rhythms, exploring new musical directions with the piano-driven folk pop foundation for which she is known.