CONNECTEDNESS - JUNE 2024
MINGLING
Saturday
7 pm
Monthly Community Gathering: A night filled with music, dance, and other art forms!
Connectedness
June 2024
June 22, 2024
Lead Artist: Nickeshia Garrick
Our last Saturday Mingling before the Summer break! Join us for a community celebration on June 22nd, at 7pm at the Jamii Hub, with live music, dancing, food and arts. Nickeshia Garrick, our lead artist and curator for "JUNE at Jamii" hosts the event! With a feel of a community party, we share food together, enjoy Nickeshia's dancing, surprise performance by fellow community members and live music by Paula Sofía Morales (vocals & guitar), Dhaivat Jani (percussion) and Hiro Tanaka (upright bass). Paula Sofía and her band play soft Latin folk music, featuring gentle acoustic melodies and heartfelt vocals. We promise an evening filled with shared creativity and camaraderie! Join us on Saturday, June 22nd, at 7pm at The Jamii Hub!
Photos by Jae Yang
Nickeshia Garrick
Nickeshia Garrick is a settler on the stolen land of Tkaronto and has performed on this land for over 25 years. They are unapologetically a Black, Queer Artist, who believes in the healing power of breath through raw emotion and movement. Nickeshia received their dance training at the NYIDE (New York Institution of Dance and Education), National Ballet School of Canada (Tkaronto), Toronto Dance Theatre (Tkaronto), and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). Nickeshia is a Dora Mavor Moore, winning and multi-nominated artist who holds a BFA in Dance from Simon Fraser University. Recently, Nickeshia became the Co-Founder of the dance collective CinnaMoon Collective which premiered their full-length work, Surrendered Spirits at Canadian Stage.
Photo by Sabrine S. Hakam