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

This video is of a collaboration between Rosemary Georgeson, Jonathan Langdon and Julie Tamiko Manning that took place in September 2023, at The Final Steps, a monument on a pier in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where each have ancestors that crossed this threshold between land and water.

A spontaneous expression of a song my grandmother could have taught me… To hear it, you had to be there.

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.

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

Travelling between two worlds. The Sea, it’s history and my ability to stay the course.

Response to “What is a Seed?”

A short video reflection on the shoreline in Nova Scotia.

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

Short Story

Wire bent into a spiral with handmade braids. Some of the wire and pink braids have been repurposed from River Stories/ Ocean Song installment. Remembering where I have come from to radically liberate myself.

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

A Creation Story

It begin with a blank page for the forgotten languages of where I came from. It ends with a blank page for the forgotten languages of the land where I settled. These are the languages that live within me.

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?

Kim and Larissa discuss collaborating

A preachy essay that I hope has some value.

Zainab’s first response to Larissa.

The Arrivals journey was an opening up. Without seeking her, my maternal grandmother came to me. During the embodiment exercise our worlds collided, her presence merging with mine. With this video I aim to illustrate the meeting of two selves, two timelines: her, the past; and I, the present.