Poetry readings with Colleen Coco Collins & others

Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. Sinag Fernandez is an artist and artsworker from the Philippines, now based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through painting, writing, and curating, she explores interpersonal intimacy and the mnemonics of diasporic homing. Arihia Hall (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Tuwharetoa) is a kura kid and poet who uses spoken word as a vessel to explore and uplift kaupapa Māori. Her work is deeply rooted in identity and whakapapa, often weaving reo, waiata, and karakia into her writing and performance. Arihia is a member of Ngā Hinepūkōrero. Together, their rōpū have shared their stories across Aotearoa and the globe. Mahalia Salesa is a Tongan (Kolofoʻou, Havelu), Sāmoan (Satapuala) and English (Wintringham) student, poet and multidisciplinary artist residing in Tāmaki Makaurau. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Images: (1) Colleen Coco Collins, photo by Colin Medley. (2) Sinag Fernandez. (3) Arihia Hall. (4) Mahalia Salesa. All images courtesy of the subject.