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The Art Gallery of Alberta respectfully acknowledges that we are located in Treaty 6 Territory and Region 4 of the Metis Nation of Alberta. We respect this as the traditional and contemporary  land of diverse Indigenous Peoples including the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Beaver Cree, Nitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux/Ojibwe and Dene Peoples. We also acknowledge the many Indigenous, Inuit and Métis people who make Alberta their home today.

AGA Sidewalk Cinema

Number of matches for the tag AGA Sidewalk Cinema: 13

I am a self-taught animator, visual artist, sculptor, and tattoo artist. For over ten years I travelled throughout North America on my own educational adventure, trading work as an apprentice for the knowledge of artists I admired. I normally hide meaning and personal history behind horror and fantasy, so drawing directly from my own life experience to create RKLSS was a challenge. 

I am a mixed-race person with First Nations heritage who does art. My mom has status with the Caldwell Nation, near Leamington, Ontario. Her side is mixed with Black and Potawatomi. The Potawatomi helped Black Americans escape from America during the slavery era, and my ancestry is born of that history. The Caldwell Nation has traditional homelands around Point Pelee National Park. Since 1790 they have been in legal battles with the government on getting lands back to the people, which they finally won in November 2020.

Timiro Mohamed is an award-winning Somali-Canadian spoken word poet whose practice is rooted in responsible storytelling. She is passionate about creating platforms for BIPOC artists and as part of her tenure as the 2019-2020 City of Edmonton Youth Poet Laureate, she spearheaded a poetry mentorship program. She is the youth programs manager and artist in residence at a local non-profit.  the co-creator of the virtual open-mic series The Chatroom and is a Poetry Editor for the literary magazine: The Drinking Gourd which highlights the voices of Black Muslim writers. Timiro has competed nationally at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and is the co-author of the chapbook Water. Timiro has had the opportunity to perform for the Edmonton city council, has present alongside former Premier Rachel Notley, and has opened for Grammy-nominated artist Yasiin Bey.

Omar Farah is an Edmonton-based Somali-Canadian Poet and community builder who is passionate about creating platforms for collaboration and using his work to communicate his experiences. He is involved in the local community as a member of the Sahabah Mosque board and as a member of the Mosquers Film Festival executive team. Omar is the former Edmonton Slam Champion, a TedX Speaker, winner of the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, and a finalist in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. He has performed across Canada and the United States from small local cafe’s to theatres. His style of rhythmic, complex at times, yet relatable poetry analyzes the world at large from the perspective of the African diaspora and aims to transform the biggest of critiques.

Mustafa is in his last year of Software Engineering, but he has found a great passion in videography. He was born in Toronto but was raised in multiple countries, and that is what made him who he is.

Faisa Omer is a portrait photographer and videographer based in Edmonton and Ottawa, Canada. She spent time at the Algonquin College Photography Program in Ottawa where she learned the technical aspects of studio photography. Faisa's parents immigrated to Canada in the early 90s to escape the Somali Civil War. She uses photography as a tool to amplify voices to those in racialized communities. Faisa's work has been recently exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery as well as the Alberta Art Gallery for the Sidewalk Cinema. She also enjoys fashion photography using black models in the form of family and friends in her dining room. When she is not taking photos, Faisa is employed as a Mental Health Counsellor for the RAJO Project; the Somali Youth and Family Empowerment Project in Edmonton. She is also the oldest of seven children and loves to spend her free time with family.

Abdulhakim is a 25-year old Somali-Canadian poet, comedian and business student at MacEwan University. He has a strong passion for spoken word poetry and performs at various community local community events. He placed first in the Edmonton Youth Poetry Slam as well as second at the 2013 Annual Rising Youth Poetry Slam.

Jamie-Lee Girodat completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in 2016 and is currently in her final year of the Master of Fine Arts program in Printmaking at the University of Alberta, where her interest in genetic history and scientific developments informs her practice in print media, ceramics, and animation. She has presented work at Concordia University in Montreal, Jyväskylä Art Museum in Jyväskylä, Finland, the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Art in Lodz, Poland, and Illinois State University in the United States. Recently, she had a solo exhibition at Casa Gallery in Lethbridge and is a recipient of the Joseph-Armond Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship- Master’s (SSHRC-CGS-M), the Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) and is a two-time recipient of the Arts Graduate Scholarship.

Patricia Anne Duquette is a multidisciplinary artist with a long career in the performing arts that expanded to include live-action film, media art, visual art and immersive interactive artworks. In addition to co-founding arts and social justice festivals she has written, produced, directed, coordinated, and performed in countless productions over the course of more than three decades. This project, created in honour of her matrilineal ancestry, marks her first foray into animated film.

Cobra Collins (She/Her) is a Mixed Indigenous and Métis poet of significant height, from Grande Prairie in Treaty 8, Cobra is currently based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) - Treaty 7 Territory. 

Cobra was the captain and coach of Calgary’s 2015 and 2016 Slam team, representing that city on a national level at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and was a member of Calgary’s Inkspot Spoken Word Collective, home of Calgary's official poetry Slam.

Cobra has participated in several Nationwide Spoken Word festivals, as well as collaborated with artists of different backgrounds for dance (Fluid Movements Arts Festival) and performance festivals (IKG 1 ! Live Performance Festival). Cobra was honoured to be shortlisted as a nominee for Calgary's 2016 and 2018 poet laureate. Above all things, Cobra truly believes that our words can change us.

Madeline M. LeBlanc (B.1998 Edmonton, Alberta) is a playful artist, utilizing film, dress-up and painting. “It’s childish” has been used by the mature to demean validity. Fundamental to our existence and our capacity for playfulness, wonder and vulnerability - is at the heart of childishness. The child, unacknowledged, takes place in all seriousness at all levels of society. My work aims to question sophistication as a consequential force. I explore human emotion, humour and imagination to invite reconnection to the child inside of ourselves.

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The Art Gallery of Alberta respectfully acknowledges that we are located in Treaty 6 Territory and Region 4 of the Metis Nation of Alberta. We respect this as the traditional and contemporary  land of diverse Indigenous Peoples including the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Beaver Cree, Nitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux/Ojibwe and Dene Peoples. We also acknowledge the many Indigenous, Inuit and Métis people who make Alberta their home today.