{"id":17353,"date":"2024-12-02T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wildroots\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:44:21","slug":"wildroots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/fr\/digitaldramaturgy-ddi\/montreal\/montreal-projects\/wildroots\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/em> theatrical fantasy that glimpses into the journey of a young Canadian Caribbean woman as she explores spiritual connection to self through a unique series of events orchestrated by her Ancestors; specifically, the protagonist Sankofa. Held within a dream, song, dance & folkloric customs set the tone for this learning session as she confronts challenging parts of herself that she must work through. Taking a deeper look this play at the differences in how one may go about questioning old belief systems, cultural and societal norms.<\/p>\n

Le mode de gu\u00e9rison devient le fond sur lequel cette histoire s\u2019enracine. Une approche et une perspective interdisciplinaire permettent d\u2019explorer davantage comment les traditions interg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnelles peuvent se pr\u00eater \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte de soi et \u00e0 la gu\u00e9rison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Jamila Shani Joseph aka Jai is a multidisciplinary creative from Montreal, Quebec. Her background in Afro-Caribbean dance, Classical Ballet, Modern, Jazz and branched out in her early 20’s adding Singer\/Songwriter to her resume and in the last 5years adding Emerging Actor and Playwright. Jamila has been a performance artist and choreographer for over two decades and the merge of these styles have been at the forefront of her creative practice. She has always found herself part of the performing arts community, always looking for new opportunities to expand her creative and artistic skills and knowledge. A past recipient of Black Theatre Workshop\u2019s Victor Phillips award in 2002, Jamila has continued performing, creating, and studying her crafts. With the need to expand and explore her creative expression Jamila sought out safe environments that allowed her to be a creative black woman, in all her interdisciplinary ways and shades. 2017 \u2013 2019 were highlight years as she had the pleasure of joining the acting casts of ‘How Black Mothers Say I Love you’, (actor) written by Trey Anthony (Black Theatre Workshop 2019) & Nicole Brooke’s a Cappella \u201cmusical odyssey\u201d ‘Obeah Opera’ (actor, dance performer, vocalist) (ASAH Productions 2019) in Toronto, with her debut stage role being back in 2017 where is portrayed ‘Lady in Purple’ in the Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls…”(McGill University’ Tuesday Night Caf\u00e9 Theatre) & the 2018 iteration of the same play produced by the cast ourselves (Les 6 Productions). <\/p>\n

    Theatre has opened her eyes to the possibilities of honing her skills as a playwright and in finding her milieu within her practice that merges modern, folk, and fantasy within the stories she tells and writes. Jamila strives to explore, develop and flourish works that are impactful in representing Black Canadian voices. <\/p>\n

    Currently, Jamila is continuing to hone her artistic practice and voice by curating her own path to creative freedom and development. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Nalo is a Montreal-based artist, set, costume and prop designer of Caribbean origin. Her designs evoke rich associations through vibrant colour relationships, textured surfaces and varied materials. She uses this vocabulary to express underlying historical, cultural and psychological dimensions of stories enacted on screen and stage. Since she emerged from the Black Theatre Workshop Artist Mentorship Program\u2019s 2017-2018 ensemble, Nalo has worked with numerous theatre and dance companies that include Black Theatre Workshop, Geordie Theatre and We All Fall Down on productions that explore themes of cultural identity, tolerance, acceptance, and hopeful futures. Recent projects include Simone Half and Half, directed by Quincy Armorer (Black Theatre Workshop\u2019s Black History Month school tour presentation, February 2020); The Negroes are Congregating, directed by Natasha Adiyana Morris (A Piece of Mine Arts & Theatre Passe Muraille co-production, March 2020); Da Kink in my Hair, directed by Ray Hogg (An Arts Club Theatre Company production, April 2020 opening canceled due to Covid-19). <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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