Imaginarium
Co-creator and Host
An oral storytelling journey around the world.
Imaginarium is an exciting new format for dialogue that I have embarked on (2022) with my co-creator, visionary arts leader, artistic director, Sirish Rao. We invoke a long continuum of storytelling to weave present and past into intimate interviews with some of the world’s most noted writers and thinkers. With both of us interviewing guests simultaneously, we present a format marked by empathic probing and active listening. Imaginarium will find a home in podcast as well as live event format at festivals and ideas forums around the world.
Pictured: irreversible entanglements
EXP Series: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Curator-in-Residence
Showcasing innovative artists on the frontier of sonic creativity, I developed the EXP Series during 2022/23 for the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts’ 25th Anniversary Season. It was inaugurated with a wide-ranging selection of concerts and event programs including: Nils Frahm, Colin Stetson, Moor Mother, Saul Williams, Irreversible Entanglements, The Weather Station, Loscil, Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Tarta Relena.
Reclaimed | CBC Music
Creator, Host, and Producer
RECLAIMED is CBC’s award-winning and first flagship Indigenous music show. Showcasing the global sounds of the Indigenous Next Wave, I created Reclaimed to celebrate a new generation of Indigenous artists revitalizing their culture and language through music and song. Reclaimed airs Wednesday at 6 p.m. on CBC Music, Thursday at 11 P.M. on CBC Radio One, Saturday at 5:00pm on CBC Music and 9:00pm on CBC Radio One - and weekly across Turtle Island on SiriusXM 169 and Native Voice One - the Native American Radio Network.
Revolutions Per Minute
Co-Founder and Creative Producer
RPM is a global new music platform, record label, boutique agency, and live music series celebrating Indigenous music and culture from across Turtle Island and around the world. I co-founded and produced the online platform RPM.fm, curated the RPM Live concert series in Toronto, New York, Montreal, and Vancouver, and developed RPM Records releases and artists across Turtle Island.
New Constellations
Curator and Producer
New Constellations is a nation(s)wide tour of music and arts, featuring an interstellar lineup of more than 50 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, that travelled to 13 communities across Canada. New Constellations was led by a curatorial team including Jason Collett, Damian Rogers, and myself, and was produced Revolutions Per Minute and The Basement Revue.
RISE | Viceland
Co-Creator / Showrunner / Series Producer
I co-created and produced RISE, an 8-part documentary television series for VICELAND exploring Indigenous struggle and resistance in the Americas. RISE premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Series, as well as a Reel Screen Diversity Award.
Rebel Music | MTV World
Indigenous Advisory Board Member
Around the world, young musicians, activists and others are risking their lives to demand change and battle oppression and injustice. One country at a time, the acclaimed documentary series, Rebel Music illuminates and amplifies the untold stories of these fearless artists rising up against social and political barriers to forge a better future. Rebel Music shines a light on the real young people who are wielding the unlimited power of music and art to connect, inspire and ignite action.
New Forms Festival
Co-Founder
New Forms Media Society is a non-profit media arts organization co-founded in 2000 by Malcolm Levy, Jarrett Martineau, and Rachel Flood. Each year the New Forms Media Society hosts the annual New Forms Festival (NFF). Through promoting collaborations between Canadian artists, international artists, and those working in the technology sector, NFF facilitates in the production, display and growth of new media, music, film, installation, and performance art based practices. Since its inception, an integral element of the NFF is the recognition of independent and groundbreaking artists, and those contributing to a broader understanding on new genres of art making.