Monday, February 11, 2019

2018 Updates in 2019 from In Your Pocket video to more blue deviling and Big on Bloor Festival





Big on Bloor Festival: Pillow Play







With Pillow Play artists Nila Gupta and Natalie Wood create a participatory sculpture piece that invites participants of all ages to construct comfort and meaning out of everyday objects such as pillows. Follow the link here Pillow Play.


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June 2018 - Artist in Residence for York University student association's Pride Float - in collaboration with AGYU


Pride float with a message #gotbloodtogive and Whose party whose blood!


Blue Devils!




Sketch for the float and working on making the float at York University









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June 19/ 2018 - In Your Pocket Screening of TIME AFTER TIME

In your pocket: Time after Time June 19 2018 actors and directors after the Screening
Video Time will Come - 6 mins
Time Will Come is a 5.53 minute experimental video that dramatizes in dance, movement and metaphor the narrator's quest to find her heart. This video looks at the impact of loss, pain and stress experienced by many black & racialized people and offers up a solution. To keep on searching for our hearts, our softness and our joy until that time when we find them. This was screened for In your Pocket: Time after Time at Buddies in Bad times. It stars Danielle Smith and Kyshia Williams, Camera work from Amber Williams-King, with editing consult from Nila Gupta and Emily Wood-Gupta. This was filmed on an iPhone 6s. The link to the video is here - Time Will Come