Nickeshia Garrick (b. 1987, Toronto; she/her, they/them) is a settler on the stolen land of Tkarón:to and has performed on this land for over 25 years. They are unapologetically a Black, Queer Artist, who believes in the healing power of breath through raw emotion and movement.
Nickeshia is a Dora Mavor Moore winning and multi-nominated artist who holds a BFA in Dance from Simon Fraser University and is a Co-Founder of CinnaMoon Collective, a Central American and Afro-Caribbean contemporary dance duo that is dedicated to reclaiming and honouring ancestral stories from a decolonial perspective.
Program
the ties that Bind Us, the ties that Bond Us
Led by Nickeshia Garrick, this workshop will be an embodied exploration of the bonds that physically and emotionally bind lived experiences. This workshop speaks to the relationships in proximity to Blackness, which have unfortunately been forcibly bound to colonization, enslavement, and scarcity mindsets. However, the relationships we choose to build with ourselves and each other […]
November 16
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Partners
