Emilie Jabouin

Janisa 

Tanya Turton

Shantel Miller

Queen Kukoyi

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We are meant to experience joy, ease, and liberation. What better way to cultivate that than to use our creativity? In 2022 six Black artists share liberatory experiences that revived creativity and self expression. These experiences will included:

1. Redefining Care: Centring Adornment & Collective Care with Tanya Turton Participants used adornment as a tool for grounding.  

2. Ancestral Sounds with Martha Kariuki Participants explored the relationship between our bodies and our ancestral sounds and reconnected practices of embodied ancestral knowledge.

3. Yanvalou Song & Dance Experience with Emilie Jabouin “Do gwe means to pour water or give blessings. Participants learned how to coordinate a song with one of the basic Yanvalou rhythms and embody the movements. 

4. Sound-Body Experience (Songwriting and Singing) with Janisa Participants discovered their natural sound-body and learned how to use it to deepen their artistic practice.

5. Letters to Me (Collage-making) with Queen Kukoyi Queen Kukoyi presented "Letters to me", an Afrofuturistic meditative space that employed visual arts, mindfulness, and storytelling to facilitate discourses that spoke to reclaiming our joy spaces.)

6. Express Yourself with Shantel Miller Participants used colour to develop greater self expression.