About
Alumni
Our growing Alumni Village is an active community of artists and creators who are passionate about digging deeper into the rich soil of their cultural heritage to cultivate new creative insights.
We collaborate with artists and creators working from a variety of mediums at the emerging, intermediate and senior levels, including: diverse Indigenous and Intercultural communities, arts and community organisations. Our growing village of artist alumni is generative and generous – passionate about co-creating from a place of authenticity, curiosity and integrity.
We are diverse in practice, ancestry and creative process, united in our desire to authentically connect with and find joy in our creative and cultural inheritances through a dynamic, collaborative, embodied process that is centred around the principle of a village spiral.
With a common language and process with which to explore and exchange their experiences, our community of artists is inspired to preserve and disseminate them by balancing traditional cultural expression with contemporary artistic practices.
Alumni
Meet some of our alumni
Name
Artistic Discipline
Current Home
Ancestry
Link
Tamara Aisha Brown
Theatre, Music
Montreal, QC, Canada
Black, Mohawk, Malay, European, Latina
Claire Love Wilson
Movement, Theatre, Dance, Music, Singing/Songwriting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Scottish
Pauline Sok Yin Hwang
Dance, Healing Arts, Writing
Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China
Han Chinese, from Guangxi/Guangzhou, Malaysia
Erika Del Carmen Fuchs
Photography
Toronto, ON, Canada
Mexican-German, Mestiza
mia susan amir
Writing, Interdisciplinary Performance, Voice/Vocals, Education
Vancouver, BC, Canada, unceded and occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh territories
Born in Israel/Occupied Palestine, mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazi
Paola Jani
Visual Arts
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Canadian, Indian, African
Zainab Amadahy
Arts for Social Change, Film, Healing Arts, Literary Arts, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Music, Journalism
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
African American, Cherokee, Seminole, Portuguese, Amish
Starr Wind Muranko
Theatre, Dance, Healing Arts, Storytelling, Chidren/Youth - Creative Arts
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cree (Moose Cree First Nation), French and German/Prussian
lee williams boudakian
Visual Arts, Theatre, Interdisciplinary Arts, Film, Video, Writing, Performance Art
Vancouver unceded Coast Salish territories, BC, Canada
South West Asian-Armenian, Liverpudlian
Valerie Sing Turner
Theatre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Asian
Monique Saphonia Desir
Visual Arts, Poetry, Dance, Spoken Word, Writing, Emceeing, Videography
Arcata, Humboldt County, CA, USA
Haitian, Irish, French-Canadian.
Glenda Suneeta Braganza
Theatre, Film, Television
Toronto, ON, Canada
Goa, India (incl. Portugal, Mozambique, England)
Jessica Hallenbeck
Film
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dutch, Irish, Eastern European, Jewish
Marika Warner
Theatre, Dance, Film
Toronto, ON, Canada
Black, mixed (Trinidad, Barbados, Germany, Poland)
I am forever thankful to Diane Roberts and The Arrival Personal Legacy Process. It has transformed my artistic practice and who I am today. The process allowed me to dig deep, connect to my ancestors and the trauma they experienced but also connect to a community of talented artists who are on the same journey. More than ever, I feel empowered to explore and write fearlessly.
Recipient of the 2022 Jovette Marchessault Award for Playwriting
National Theatre School Playwriting Mentor and instructor
The Arrivals process speaks strongly to much larger conversations today. It makes us look at our history and understand some of the brokenness of today. It’s hard to walk through life with that nagging feeling that a piece of you isn’t there, that you are not complete and have no idea what is missing.
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