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Presenters

Farah Fancy is an arts manager, artist, community worker and consultant who for over 20 years has been using an ethnographic process to create socially engaged dance, music, and theatre performances. As a result she founded Le groupe herencias with a mission to promote, educate and collaborate with the artists and community she works with to find new ways to explore our heritage and identity across gender, religion, class, generation and culture. For example, she is the General Manager of choreographer Julio Hong, who fuses contemporary, ballet and folkloric forms to explore identity; Rencontres/Encounters theatre ensemble a socially engaged project that uses relationship building to overcome difference; Rumbakwa, an afro latin electro band that is inspired by refugee experiences in Quebec; and the conception designer for Elders Makes Waves movement with RECAA ( Respecting Elders, Communities Against Abuse). Farah also works with a number of organizations and institutions to consult on how to art can be used as a tool to resolve structural problems within organizations, foster economic development, and facilitate cultural understanding.