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dancing life with gypsum cliff

A seed by: natty
Project: MT/AT ToolKit - Collaborative decision-making and co-creation
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natalie abdou I give thanks to the various lands that are a part of my lineage and being, that care and sustain me daily and the first peoples of these places and spaces – Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat (Southern Ontario) Mi’kmaq (Nova Scotia), Ohlone (California) & Nubian, Kemet (Egypt). I am a community facilitator, artist, life-long learner, earth-tender and creative soul. I love to learn alongside others for the purpose of community creation and transformation. I have spent the last 15 years connecting and collaborating with diverse communities in North America and Egypt, co-creating learning environments that are founded upon shared values of diversity, love, respect, creativity and self-empowerment – embracing a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. I see participatory learning, the arts and embodied wisdom practices as portals of transformative capacity, providing space for our souls to dance, breathe and unleash the deep wisdom that resides within, in service of personal, collective and systemic transformation. Alongside this, my personal journey of spirituality and creative expression weaves within it the themes of personal and ancestral healing alongside collective and paradigm shifting visions. I am currently collaborating with Bloom Consulting (Toronto), Branch Out Theatre (Toronto), the Coady International Institute (Antigonsh, N.S.), Interplay (Oakland, CA) and va

Disciplines:

Theatre, Interdisciplinary Arts, Dance, Arts for Social Change, Storytelling, Poetry
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This is an original seed

a spontaneous dance

a moment calls

the answer unknown

there is always a risk

& even greater potential

for something vibrant to be gifted

in return for one’s courage

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a stunning crisp day

cold & fresh

soon the full moon would rise

and take up the whole sky

yet in this moment the blue is inviting like the ocean

and then

a moment strikes the heart

a jolt of colours & textures

an earthly asthetic

that sends ripples through the bones & waters of my being

proud pine on blue sky amidst cream gypsum & murky fundy muddy waters

i can’t help myself

of better yet i help myself

by trusting the impulse to go and meet this bold stretch of land

to be and dance with her

it is always a risk

to trust the impulse

to take leap

to be courageous

to be willing to both hear

and listen

to the call

and again then

to answer it unknowingly

and let the intelligence of spirit

do the rest

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i hear

let if flow

the rest i don’t know

and a vibrant aliveness lives in this place

of presence & tension

of risk-taking & magic making

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