Sharing is Caring: A public conversation between Maasai dance artist, Fernando Anuang'a (Kenya) and local vocalist, poet, Sonnet L'Abbé

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Friday, January 24th, 2025
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sharing is Caring is an annual opportunity to get to know guest artists programmed as part of African Connections through an intimate conversation. Enjoy the Vault menu while engaging in this ‘circle’ conversation. The conversation is as provocative as it is informative, highlightighting the life and artistic statement of Anuang’a, while it meanders the curiosity between two talented humans, the artist and the evening’s facilitator, Sonnet L’Abbé. Audience to Artists exchange will be invited.

Be sure to also register for Fernando's workshop (Jan23) and Port Theatre performance (Jan 25)

FERNANDO ANUANG'A, an atypical dancer, an autodidact, is supported and inspired by the Maasai songs, ancestral memory, and vocal rhythmic power in his gestural vocabulary and his stark, stunning physical storytelling. His work explores the question of how to evolve Tradition towards Modernity without obliterating one’s tracks, without betraying one’s roots. His work calls on the collective memory, the oral memory. Traditional Future is loyal to the moran, the young warrior, and to the village land, as symbolic roots.

Dr. SONNET L'ABBÉ is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry: A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, and Sonnet’s Shakespeare. L’Abbé is on the editorial board of Brick Books, where they worked with d.m. bradford on their Griffin-nominated début collection, Dream of No One But Myself, as well as with Erin Robinsong, Jan Conn and Emily Skov-Nielsen; L’Abbé also sits on the poetry editorial board of The Malahat Review. They currently work at the intersection of poetry, jazz, spoken word and songwriting while teaching Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University.

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