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Visit some Alumni gatherings around emerging themes as they connect the dots, share their work, and tell their stories
Re:Sound. Re:Awaken. Re:Connect. (29 March 2025)
Register here for your free spot!
Join our 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.
Artists: Zainab Amadahy, Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, Rosemary Georgeson
Moderator: Bruce Sinclair
Date & Time: Saturday, 29 March 2025, 11am – 12.30pm PST / 2pm – 3:30pm EST
Discover how communal ways of attuning to the wisdom of ancestral memory within the embodied Arrivals creative process have sparked ideas and exchanges, creating opportunities to experiment with exciting new forms of artistic expression that remain rooted in past legacies while speaking to both the present reality and future imaginings.
Who is this for?
We warmly welcome anyone with an interest in the transformative potential of culturally rooted artistic processes, including:
- Artists of any discipline(s) and social change leaders who want to learn more about how to deepen and re-route their practice in community
- University professors and researchers with an interest in exploring ways that interdisciplinary arts can contribute to discourse and learning in your curriculum
- Arts organisation leaders seeking to meaningfully engage and promote the voices of Indigenous and racialized artists
In our original 3-part webinar mini-series (May 2024) we hear from culturally rooted artists and activists based in Canada, the US, Africa, and West Asia/North Africa who share their experiences of the Arrivals work and the ways that it has informed and transformed their relationships, creative processes, and work.
This exploratory series aims to provoke discussion around the transformational potential of the Arrivals process, developed by Artistic Director Diane Roberts, as a tool for: deepening creative practice, enhancing research and learning; supporting health and wellness; exploring history, social justice, immigration; and inspiring the process of decolonisation.
From Family Trees to Origin Stories (02 May 2024)
Intersections between the Arrivals work and family revelations, relationships, memory, and tradition.
Panellists Olivia C. Davies, Diane Roberts for Nikki Shaffeeullah, Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff, Sarah Rossy share their creative and ancestral journeys, and explore intersections between the Arrivals work and family revelations, relationships, memory, and tradition.
Moderated by Dr Larissa Lai
Length: 1:46:03
The Art of Healing (16 May 2024)
The potential for the Arrivals process as a tool for healing intergenerational trauma, and alongside clinical, therapeutic and spiritual healing practices that contribute to better mental, physical, and emotional outcomes.
Panellists Jude Wong, Zainab Amadahy, Mon Iker, Peter Ọlálékan Adédòkun uncover how the Arrivals process addresses intergenerational trauma, and its potential as a tool for physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual healing for them in their work.
Moderated by Dr Ray Hsu
Length: 1:37:39
The Return Home (30 May 2024)
Tracing the pain of exile from and return to ancestral lands, and examines how the Arrivals work might help navigate personal and communal grief and amplify the voices of artists in communities increasingly polarised by war.
Panellists Dima Alansari, Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, Lopa Sircar, Natalie Tin Yin Gan share frankly about the challenges of exile and the pain and joy of returning to ancestral lands.
Moderated by Dr Honor Ford Smith
Length: 1:54:54
Head to the SeedPool gallery to see more creative connections by Arrivals artists around their emerging ancestral stories.
We welcome new partners who would like to host, co-present or sponsor a workshop. If this appeals to you, get in touch at info@arrivalslegacy.com.
Explore our workshops page and register your interest by joining our waitlist.
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Past Stories
