photo by eli farinango
I am a creator, mostly using interdisciplinary performance to express what sprouts from within, pulling the invisible and everydayness to the surface. With a curiosity to explore and combine various mediums, I aim to create art presenting process as finality. Chosen themes revolve around blackness, memory, healing, ancestral knowledge, identity, and home. I am also the founder and dramaturg of I WOC UP LIKE DIS, a platform for queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour to dig into healing while enabling dialogue through performance-making workshops.
My lates works include interactive installations showcased at the VAV Gallery, performance-making workshops facilitated at Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, YUNI • U N I, an interdisciplinary performance showcased at Espace 8, co-created with Samantha Nyinawumuntu, which I produced, directed, performed, and dramaturged. and co-created with Samantha Nyinawumuntu, and my solo show, Quest in My Head, presented at the Watah Theatre in Toronto.
My artistic background includes mentorship from d’bi young anitafrika at the Watah Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, and community-based theatre trainings. I am currently undertaking an MA in the Interdisciplinary program at Concordia University. My MA’s research aims to reveal how the performance-making process of investigating and rewriting one’s personal story along queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour (QTBIPOC)-only peers can foster community-building/healing. My social worker lens with an anti-oppressive practice allows me to hold the intrinsic connection between healing and community as a priority angle.
Check out my youtube channel for the raw me, exploring the everyday, and myself. ☺