Diane Roberts, Danielle Smith and I co-direct Toronto’s backforward collective, where we do creation and pedagogical work. This stems from our collaboration doing and teaching the Personal Legacy process, created by Diane Roberts,\u00a0 ancestries-based creation and research for community healing, community-engaged creation and intergenerational and intercommunity dialogue. Together we ran a summer intensive in 2008 with ten emerging Toronto community artists. We also co-facilitated The Arrivals Personal Legacy Project through urban ink, when Diane was its Artistic Director, with groups of community-engaged artists in cities across Canada. The work included The Arrivals (Co)Lab (2009), a week-long intensive with representatives from all participating cities, and a public performance\/ceremony in Vancouver. I continue to collaborate with Diane, Danielle and many of the more than 100 artists that have taken part in Arrivals workshops, across Canada and around the world.<\/p>\n
I was a Resident Artist and then an Associate Artist at urban ink productions<\/a>, Vancouver from 2006-2013. urban ink is an Aboriginal and intercultural theatre and production company founded in 2001 by Marie Clements. Diane directs my show ribcage: this wide passage<\/em><\/a>, an urban ink production. My contribution at UI also\u00a0 included arts facilitation with the From Where We Speak project<\/em>, a community writing and performance initiative bringing together emerging writers across generations from two B.C. island communities for joint creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some notes about my work with backforward collective (Toronto) and urban ink productions (Vancouver).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7,2,9,8,5,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}