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.

Kim and Larissa discuss collaborating

This is a series of still images, from video footage taken by Gwen Armstrong, fellow participant in the Arrivals Co-Lab Residency. Fresh into her ALP work, a young Jude Wong found herself wandering through Vancouver’s China Town, and met with her Father at the Wong Benevolent Society.

Making a necklace in honour of Sarvia Villagante aka my Aunty Neneng

A response to the idea of balancing ourselves. How do you practice self care? How does your self care extend into your community? How does your self care impact your ability to collaborate effectively?

How can we view conflict as a decolonising force within creative collaboration? How can we build our capacity to embrace conflict as normal? Cover image: beloved womyn

A collaborative Seed made by Jiv Parasram, Asitha Tennekoon, and Anju Singh.

This is a poem inspired by Sarah Rossy’s poem “Eat the Fruit” and connects with a drawing I did of my ancestor during the Ask the Mountains online arrivals process in 2022.

Images created during our Seedpool; Moving Together Arriving Together residency at Prismatic Arts Festival 2023 in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Poetry from Arrivals 2024

Self-portrait in charcoal with deconstructed essay

from my work as a cofacilitator … musing on this concept and its metaphors, responding to some call within me to redefine it. that a container does not restrain or restrict. The soil is the container life grows from

Shyamali Khastagir was an extraordinary painter and activist. She is also, simply, my Mashi (aunt). This is one of my attempts to paint like her. This day I was just trying to draw eyes and find the flow of lines. When I looked closer, there was so much more.

What might have made your ancestors laugh? What makes you laugh?

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

1. A poem weaving my ancestor’s experiences in the Red River settlement, including their involvement in the Riel Resistance and and my own experiences teaching inside a federal prison. 2. Painting / Drawing: Ancestral Figure and Child – Reaching Back

This is a song that found its way to me as I was attempting to create a libation ceremony for my Ancestors lost on the journey from St. Vincent to Balliceaux and from Balliceaux to Roatan.

ALPSP – Seed Collab #3 – FIND MUTYA sound, inspired by Ruby Singh’s Image, Desi Futures 1, A Sikh temple spaceship that runs on harmonics. Eternal question to self…what empowers a community, what helps a culture harmonize and lift up?