All in Arts Commons Presents
Wunmi Idowu is an accomplished dancer, choreographer, instructor, performer, and producer, as well as the Founder and Director of Woezo Africa Music & Dance Theatre Inc., and the creative force behind Unganisha: Explore.Connect.Dance. In this episode of This Feels So Real, Wunmi speaks about the importance of being an authentic ally to the Black Lives Matter movement and her drive to create a better world.
Fueled by the whimsy of childhood imagination, Avril Lopez evoked a child-like state of imagination with her exhibition in the Lightbox Studio in Arts Commons. Six months later, we catch up with Avril Lopez as she takes her practice all the way to Ontario.
We caught up with Jeff Boyd, RBC Regional President, Alberta & The Territories, as well as a member of the Arts Commons board for the past two years, to get his perspective on how things have changed since COVID-19, and the direction RBC is taking in this brave new world.
Our doors may still be closed and our physical artist exhibitions might be postponed, but our incredible artists in our RBC Emerging Visual Artists Program are still hard at work at home. What does that look like? We caught up with several of our artists about what their physical space looks like, and what their personal experience has been.
Uma Samari is a poet, spoken word artist a Masters student in Educational Leadership and a Kindergarten teacher. She has been featured in both the Love Notes cabaret and We Gon Be Alright cabaret at Arts Commons. In this conversation Uma speaks about rest, Ramadan, and re-setting while she’s at home.
This activity draws inspiration from Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark project, a collection of beautiful photos of endangered animals, to guide you through creating simple mixed media animal masks with your family.
Melanee Murray-Hunt is a writer, actor, filmmaker, curator, and host who doesn’t shy away from big questions and big problems. In this brief conversation, Melanee considers how self-isolation could help us build collective empathy and why she’s currently obsessed with mystery novels.
Born and raised in the small town of Bashaw, Alberta, local non-binary artist Kyle Simmers focuses their work on creating connections between the disparate worlds of queer and rural identity.
