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 – 12.30pm PST / 2pm – 3:30pm EST
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Zainab Amadahy is an author of screenplays, nonfiction, and futurist fiction. The most notable of her academic writings is “Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples in Canada: Settlers or Allies” (co-authored with Dr. Bonita Lawrence, Mi’kmaq). Zainab currently sits on the Advisory Council of Muskrat Magazine, where many of her writings appear. Of mixed heritage (African American, Tsalagi, and Seminole), Zainab lives in Nogojiwanong, Ontario, Canada and has authored works of fiction and nonfiction. Now semi-retired, she has worked in community arts, nonprofit housing, Indigenous knowledge reclamation, women’s services, and migrant settlement. For more on Zainab and to access some of her writings check out swallowsongs.com.
Sharon Jinkerson-Brass is a member of Key First Nation in Saskatchewan. She was part of the “sixties scoop” but she reunited with her family in the 1980’s. Sharon received her cultural teachings from her beloved Anishinaabe grandmother Rebecca, who was a midwife and traditional healer. Sharon’s cultural heritage has inspired all of her art and way of living.
For 30 years, Sharon has been a community leader working for social change for the Indigenous Community in the areas of arts, culture, health, and community development. Recently, Sharon was among 30 Matriarchs who were honoured for their community work by WAVAW, and she is a published author. Sharon is currently working on multiple multi-media projects in the Indigenous community on topics related to health, re-matriation, and cultural healing. Sharon believes that a relevant, sustainable cultural foundation is the key for wellness for her people and all people.
Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) was born and raised on Galiano Island and grew up in the commercial fishing industry. Since leaving the industry, Rosemary has worked as a storyteller, playwright, and filmmaker. Rosemary’s passion is in bringing youth, Elders, and ancestors together through storytelling. Her stories are deeply rooted in her family history and the changes she has seen that impact our west coast.
The recipient of the 2009 Vancouver Mayor’s Award recognising her as an emerging artist in community arts, Rosemary has applied her talents in dozens of theatre, film, and performance projects throughout Canada. Rosemary was the 2014 storyteller in residence for the Vancouver Public Library. Georgeson has been recognised for her collaboration and sharing of stories with the award-winning play and CBC radio documentary Women in Fish. Rosemary’s latest work “The Water We Call Home” launched in July of 2022 at The Yellow House Arts Centre on Galiano Island. It has now moved across the water to Steveston BC and is installed in The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum.
Bruce Sinclair is a Metis theatre artist, teacher, student of the nehiyawewin (Cree) and Michif languages and is currently based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Bruce formed an artistic entity, miyoteh performance, that will develop and produce works based on working with Indigenous artists, youth, elders, the nehiyawewin\michif languages as well as artistic collaborations with diverse communities.
Bruce teaches drama at the University of Saskatchewan to SUNTEP\ITEP students, acts, directs, writes plays\stories and strives to merge artistic practice with life.
ahki meyimo (do your best)
