Sarah Prosper
Sunday, September 17, time TBD: Performance.
Bonavista Biennale has invited Sarah Prosper for a land-based residency during the last week of the Biennale. Prosper will spend time across the Peninsula, connecting with land, water, lifeforms and communities. The residency will culminate in a new performance work, presented on the Biennale’s closing day, Sunday September 17.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wisunn na Sarah Prosper (she/they/nekmow), Mikmaw/L’nu e’pite’s of the We’kwistoqnik (Eskasoni) Mi’kmaq First Nation. Amalkewinu (dancer) holds a BSc Therapeutic Recreation, Masters in Leisure Studies student, and a proclaimed community artist of the Wabanaki east coast. Her first works created as an artistic director and choreographer is the Merritt Award winning show SAMQWAN in 2021-2023 at Highland Arts, Neptune, Stratford Festival and 2023 Canada Games. Prosper community work varies in community need, often she shares her curated a workshop “Moving in Mi’kma’ki.” Prosper collaborates, creates, and moves with ms+t no’kmaq, all her relations, in a fluid identity uplifting pursuit. An award winner of the 2022 Nova Scotia Indigenous Artist Recognition Award and performs and creates on National stages in collaboration with world renowned artists. Prospers practice encompasses an Indigenous/Mi’kmaq lens that deepens the threads of respect and reciprocity to dance, movement, social sciences, social justice, mental health & the land.