This Seed, in response to Zainab Amadahy’s ‘Stuck in Time’, natty abdou’s ‘entanglement as birthright’ and Diane Roberts’ ‘Úwaradaguágüda/Balance’ is an imagining of what it would be like to encounter joy as a partner in the creative dance.

Kim and Larissa discuss collaborating

Short Story

How did no one tell me we are made of mountains? What a secret to keep.

Tracking some of the sweet things I consumed in this week. Jan 6th -12th , 2025

Offered without any desire to missionize or colonize your beliefs.

Mutya and Larissa get to know each other through data.

A team guided by Diane Roberts and Gerry Trentham came together to first participate in an Arrivals Personal Legacy Process and then follow with an interdisciplinary creation period using Gerry’s Fields process and Art of Peace aesthetic within Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff’s sculptural landscape.

sensing into the birth right of roots systems & their entanglement as a source of wisdom – natty abdou shared a seed & zainab amadahy got curious – how are entanglements & healing connected? it has sparked an on-going dialogue that is still unfolding & rich in its questions, paradox & openness

A short video reflection on the shoreline in Nova Scotia.

Braided and Spiraled wire structure suspended on the land on a cold winters night. My sister June is receiving these still images and video images, that I am directing her to take for the first time. This collaboration reminds me about our connections in these wild webs we weave together/apart.

Kim and Larissa discuss collaborating

By Lydie Dubuisson. Created during the Arrivals’ Seedpool; Moving Together Arriving Together residency at Prismatic Arts Festival 2023 in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.

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An inter-dialogue with my Board about what it means to decolonise Board practices.

Adora and Larissa discuss the arts

A solo reworked piece of old and new sounds. How do we listen with our hearts? How do we open our bloodlines and hearing wide enough to receive the words and messages our ancestors and beloveds are trying to convey to us? How will we respond, when they do?

I felt compelled to be in the forest, my grand mother and great grand mother on my mother’s side speaking to me. So much sorrow in my heart from many recent losses. Then, a new beginning…

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

Equoni. Be like the river that runs past my house.