O.Dela Arts

Inside , 60 short films by Canadian dance artists from across the country await to be discovered. Explore them now! https://c.nac.ca/3nGIjpK --- À l’inté...rieur de , 60 films de cours métrage par des artistes de la danse de partout au Canada attendent d’être découverts. Ne tardez pas! https://c.nac.ca/3gVb8xj #DanceCapsuleDanse In partnership with/en partenariat avec F O R M & Dumb Instrument Dance Stefan Nazarevich

On until the 16th!

One week from today! O.Dela Arts Artistic Director Olivia C Davies will read alongside Elise in this play reading of Tombs of the Vanishing Indian by Marie Clements. Hope to see you there!

DANCE TOWNHALL Réunion générale de la danse Breaking Down Recovery & Federal Support We dive into the federal budget, providing what you need to know for sec...tor recovery. Wed May 12, 2021 | Zoom 10:00-11:00am Pacific 1:00-2:00pm Eastern 2:00-3:00pm Atlantic This 1-hour meeting will include: A presentation of dance sector specific opportunities by Global Public Affairs. What the budget changes mean for dance organizations & individuals across Canada. Other related pertinent sector information; vaccine roll out, benefit programs and Covid-19 related updates. Open floor discussion to support your questions. #REGISTERNOW! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dance-townhall-reunion-generale -- Réunion générale de la danse Explications sur la relance et les soutiens du fédéral Nous examinerons le budget fédéral et vous fournirons l’information essentielle sur la relance du secteur. Le mercredi 12 mai 2021 | Zoom 10 h à 11 h, heure du Pacifique 13 h à 14 h, heure de l’Est 14 h à 15 h, heure de l’Atlantique Au programme de la réunion, qui doit durer une heure : Exposé de Global Public Affairs sur les soutiens prévus pour le secteur de la danse. Ce que les changements au budget signifient pour les organismes de la danse et les personnes impliquées dans le secteur au Canada. Autres renseignements relatifs au secteur, programme de vaccination, programmes d’avantages et autres nouvelles sur la covid-19. Discussion à bâtons rompus et réponses à vos questions. Inscrivez-vous maintenant! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dance-townhall-reunion-generale -- #townhall #dancemeeting #sectorsupport #recovery #federalbudget #supportfordance #artscommunity #dancecommunity #danceincanada Image Description: Graphics and text detail the above caption info.

Tonight! I'll be chatting with Indigenous musician Olivia Shortt and guests as we look at how we make create safer spaces for artistic creation, production, and collaboration. Free event! Hosted by Canadian New Music Network / Réseau canadien pour les musiques nouvelles 4pm PST / 7pm EST

Shooting Gallery Performance Series screening of new O.Dela Arts production, Xwáýxway Swoon ~ A Love Song, happens today and will be available on the website all week-long! Created, performed and edited by Olivia C. Davies with music by Michael Red and filmed by Ed Spence at Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada, September 2020. Massive shout-out to Maxine Chadburn for including me in this curation and to the team at Shooting Gallery Performance Series and Future Leisure for a...ll the support! Check out the full week of fantastic offerings and donate what you can $0-$40 for unlimited viewing of films, plus live streams and an audio tour from artists including Stéphanie Cyr, Deanna Peters, Fleurie Hunter and more! Weblink in comments #performanceart #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #contemporaryindigenous #experimentalart #shootinggalleryperformance #futureleisure #odelaarts See more

RE-POST via DanceHouse Free event Thursday, November 26th Check out the popular Speaking of Dance Conversations titled Future Memory, presented in partnership with SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs.... Checking in with artists whose work has graced the DanceHouse stage in the past, we will hear from a range of perspectives and voices pondering the future while retracing their memories. This first session will include a well-rounded international selection of exceptional and diverse artists we have been honored to present in the past twelve years. Join us in welcoming Jacob Boehme from Australia (Insite Arts), Sonia Destri Lie from Brazil (Companhia Urbana de Dança), Vanessa Goodman from Vancouver (Action at a Distance) and Hervé Koubi from France (Compagnie Hervé KOUBI) on November 26 at 11am PST. Note that this event is live at 11am PST on November 26. A recorded version of the event will be made available afterward

Screening tonight through this week! Xwáýxway Swoon ~ A Love Song, new dance film production by O.Dela Arts

Next up! Heart of the City Festival presents Talking Truths: Matriarchs Uprising this Thursday, November 5th at 10am PST / 1pm EST virtual circle conversation. Please register through Eventbrite / contact [email protected] for more info / link. Celebrating four tour-de force women who inspire me as we talk about resilience and social goodness as experienced through a career in the arts. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/talking-truths-matriarchs-upris

This Thursday, November 5th join Talking Truths: Matriarchs Uprising virtual circle conversation, presented by Heart of the City Festival https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/talking-truths-matriarchs-upris

Super excited to host an amazing group of women for Matriarchs Uprising Roundtable tomorrow, Friday, October 16, 2020 starting at 12pm PST / 3pm EST -- email [email protected] for link! Featuring Dancers of Damelahamid, Starrwind Muranko, V'ni Dansi, and Jeanette Kotowich - co-presented by Dance Studies Association and SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

I love documenting life as I have lived and experienced it. That’s why I named my podcast Life Seen Through A Sista’s Eye. . . Subscribe to Life Seen Through... A Sista’s Eye Podcast on your favourite podcast platform, set up notifications so you never miss a dope episode, share with friends and strangers and leave a review on iTunes. Get the full unedited interviews/story sessions on Patreon www.patreon.com/sistazai . . If you know it’s time to hear a Black woman’s experience, voice and Afrofuturistic big ideas uncensored, Life Seen Through A Sista’s Eye is for you. I am taking up all of that space, with that big cat energy - follow the podcast on Instagram @eyeofthesista. . . This is a photo welcoming baby Sista Zai Zanda into the family and the family home. As you can see, Baby Zanda was born in Southern Africa with a glistening silver spoon in her mouth. Shout out my grandparents and parents for gifting me with this experience of living it up Black & Bougie. Mind you, that photo was taken before Zimbabwe had even gained political independence. Yes, Black & Bougie living it up in a very racist White settler colony is an experience of its own that deserves to be documented. My dad actually bought my mom the latest model Citroen in bright yellow as her push present (gift to honour her carrying me for nine months). To this day, daffodil yellow remains one of my favourite colours. That little White Datsun in the background? That is my mum’s first car - the car I eventually learned to drive in and it’s still around and much older than I am. This is the life I was born into and raised in and so that is where the herstory lessons begins, naturally, in a Black middle-class suburb called Marimba park aka Wakanda. . . I explore my self-created Afrofuturistic hashtag #BlackBougieAndQuestioningCapitalism as I have fun and challenging conversations with Africans from across the world around one big question - what does it mean to be African in the 21st century? . . How are Africans worldwide actively decolonising our minds, changing our relationships to predatory and extractive capitalism while creating our own empowered identities as we take back full ownership of telling our stories, in our own voices and on our own terms? Tune in to the podcast find out from an Afrofuturist Storyteller. All links in bio or www.linktr.ee/sistazai See more

Matriarchs Uprising Roundtable Happening Friday, October 16, 2020 starting at 12pm PST / 3pm EST. Email [email protected] for link

This Friday!! Hope to see you there in our virtual gathering. Use promo code DIGITALCOMP for free access to the event.

Dancing on the Edge is commissioning new works for the 2021 festival http://www.dancingontheedge.org/covid-commissions/ Deadline is tomorrow, September 30th, 2020