Weaving New Legacies of Knowing
Presented by the Co.ERASGA EXchanges Program: “We are pleased to announce accomplished director, dramaturge, writer and cultural animator Diane Roberts as EXchanges 2025 guest, in collaboration with Arrivals Personal Legacy. This workshop invites you into an exploration of your root cultural voice, rhythm and performance. Through this offering you will be invited to enter an […]
Re:Sound. Re:Awaken. Re:Connect.
Meet the team of brilliant contributors to this webinar! Join three Indigenous matriarchs as they share how an African and Indigenous inspired co-creative process for attuning to the deeper frequencies of their Ancestral memory is awakening within them exciting new ways to source and tell their stories. Date & Time: Saturday, 29 March 2025, 11am […]
Village Stories Webinar Series Returns
We’re back for another Village Stories gathering, via Zoom on Saturday, 29th March as part of the Talking Stick Festival! As a fitting celebration of International Women’s Month, Re:Sound. Re:Awaken. Re:Connect brings together three Indigenous matriarchs, Zainab Amadahy, Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, and Rosemary Georgeson, as they share their creative and personal journeys of how the Arrivals […]
Meet Ali and Ken!
Ali Marghoub and Ken (Shoujun) An are MBA students at the John Molson School of Business (JMSB). Ali holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering and has experience as a project cost estimation engineer and financial consultant. Ken has a background in literature with 12 years of experience in the publishing industry and is currently working […]
Artists of Moving Together / Arriving Together
The artist team went all out in creating a unique toolkit that reimagines what it means to decolonise creative partnerships and collaboration within the arts sector – and beyond. Learn more about some of the artist’s experiences, and start with our featured Seeds. Lydie Dubuisson: Every Arrivals journey is an awakening in itself. An awakening […]
Hexsa’am / To Be Here Always
Hexsa’am / To Be Here Always: Six Questions was created by Artistic Founding Director Diane Roberts, with composer/sound designer and video editor Troy Slocum. In an interweaving sound narrative in dialogue with the environment, artists Siku Allooloo, Navidu Taylor, Marianne Nicolson, Diane Roberts, Althea Thauberger, and Lindsey Willie answer 6 questions about art, identity, longevity, and […]
What is Arrivals Legacy Voice?
Most Arrivals Alums will know the Arrivals Personal Legacy process, developed over 20 years ago by Diane in collaboration with Heather Hermant, Danielle Smith, and Rosemary Georgeson. This began Diane’s journey of offering a new/old grounding for artists based on African and diaspora ways of knowing/being and doing. In 2015, in residency with the Moving […]
The Arrivals Belonging Experience With Black Theatre Workshop
ALP Arrivals Alum and BTW Artist Mentor Warona Setshwaelo chats with Artistic Founding Director Diane Roberts. Learn about the origins of the Arrivals Personal Legacy Workshop; hear about personal experiences from Arrivals Alums Thalia Urbani, Jason Selman, and Christine Rodriguez; hear from facilitators Julie Tamiko Manning, Lopa Sircar, and Benita Sarah Bailey; and enjoy the […]
River Stories / Ocean Song
Co-Presented with Vancouver Moving Theatre as part of Heart of the City Festival Journey with us in a deep-rooted exploration that invites cross-cultural exchanges, performative story-making and creative dialogue where ancestral histories and contemporary realities meet. These events are for you if you’re interested in discovering your culturally storied body in a dance between self […]
Hot Pot Talks!
Jen Sungshine and David Ng of Love Intersections welcome Diane Roberts, Rosemary Georgeson, and Neelu Anand for a warm conversation about food, culture, and more! There are more episodes in the Hot Pot Talks series, check it out!
