What transformative teachings, possibilities and joys can be unlocked from properly honouring and metabolizing personal, communal and cultural grief?
How do we better commune with BIPGM artists who are building new futures for themselves, as a loving act of creative and spiritual resistance?
How can we animate our capacity to learn from and with people whose worlds have had to be repeatedly reinvented in the face of violence, derision and doubt?
Throughout May, we’re excited to host Village Stories, a 3-part interactive live webinar series that will explore these questions, and more, through the lens of the Arrivals Legacy Project signature process for unearthing legacy stories.
Join us around the fire as we hear from culturally rooted artists and activists based in Canada, the US, Africa and West Asia/North Africa who will share their experiences of the Arrivals work and the ways that it has informed and transformed their relationships, creative processes and work.
Book your free spot for all or any of these webinars!
From Family Trees to Origin Stories explores intersections between the Arrivals work and family revelations, relationships, memory and tradition- sharing stories of how they inform present activism.
Date & Time: Thursday, 2 May 2024,
2pm – 3:45pm EST
Panellists: Olivia C. Davies, Nikki Shaffeeullah, Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff, Sarah Rossy
Guest Moderator: Dr. Larissa Lai
The Art of Healing highlights how Arrivals addresses intergenerational trauma, and considers its potential relationship to effective clinical, therapeutic and spiritual healing practices that contribute to better mental, physical and emotional outcomes.
Date & Time: Thursday, 16 May 2024,
2pm – 3:45pm EST
Panellists: Jude Wong, Zainab Amadahy, Mon Iker, Peter Ọlálékan Adédòkun
Guest Moderator: Dr. Ray Hsu
The Return Home traces the pain of exile from and return to ancestral lands, and examines how the Arrivals work might help navigate personal and communal grief and centre the voices of artists in communities increasingly polarized by war.
Date & Time: Thursday, 30 May 2024,
2pm – 3:45pm EST
Panellists: Dima Alansari, Sharon Jinkerson Brass, Lopa Sircar, Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Guest Moderator: Dr. Honor Ford Smith
Book your free spot for all or any of these webinars!
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 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 the voices of those at the margins
- Health and wellbeing practitioners and social justice organisation staff who are interested in exploring the role of interdisciplinary arts as a mode of inquiry and evidence.
