Carla’s natural curiosity, love of storytelling and building community is the perfect recipe for a documentary filmmaker. For more than a decade Sinclair has played a role at Empty Cup Media (ECM), stationed in a Oshawa, Ontario. ECM is a boutique production company collecting and shaping stories from inspiring people to share with the world. … Continue reading Carla Sinclair
Author: The Wild Nellies
Britta B.
Britta B. is a spoken word poet and arts educator. Her works have been featured on TEDx, The Walrus Talks, CBC Radio’s Day 6, Ask Her: Talks (presented by The Stephen Lewis Foundation), Toronto Star’s The Kit: Compact Magazine and the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2017, Britta was an artist-in-residence for the spoken word … Continue reading Britta B.
Gretel Boose
Gretel Boose is a ceramic sculptor. Her work addresses the universal search for meaning, fulfillment, and acceptance in a time that offers less and less opportunities for involvement and physical engagement other than a click of a button on a keyboard. This life style can easily become a way of separating ourselves from our natural … Continue reading Gretel Boose
Geetika Dance Company
Geetika Dance Company was started in 1989 by Geeta Leo as a free community outreach program for the Caribbean and South Asian diaspora located in Scarborough. As the network in the community expanded, Geeta moved her program to Durham Region and, along with her daughter Premika, established one of the first dance schools in Canada … Continue reading Geetika Dance Company
Lisa Lightbourn
Lisa is an award winning documentary producer/director, editor, DOP with over 20 years experience working in live television, web and documentary production. As an independent documentary filmmaker her passion lies in telling stories that effect social change and give focus to issues and people that test the limits of the human heart. Her most recent … Continue reading Lisa Lightbourn
Joan Jothi Saldanha
Joan Jothi Saldanha is a professional artist, photographer, certified Sacred Leader with Sacred Women International, and community wellness advocate. Through these practices, Jothi engages the community around issues of mental health, wellness, connectivity, diversity, and representation. She creates and holds space in which folks can feel heard and supported while they journey, explore, discover and … Continue reading Joan Jothi Saldanha
Saskia Tomkins
Saskia Tomkins, from the UK, moved to Ontario in 2007 with her family, bringing with them a wealth of musical talent and experience. Saskia’s musical abilities on bowed strings are wide ranging, from classical to Celtic, to Django-jazz, to songwriter accompaniment. After seeing Stefan Grappelli perform 3 times, she completed a BA in Jazz and … Continue reading Saskia Tomkins
Gwen Tuinman
Gwen Tuinman is a novelist, short story writer and creator of Wild Nellies . Fascinated by yesteryear and the landscape of human tenacity, she fashions troubled characters shaped by nature, nurture and circumstance. Born and raised in rural southern Ontario, she currently resides in Durham Region. Her fiction work has been published in The Renaissance Anthology, Wunderlit Magazine, and … Continue reading Gwen Tuinman
Georgia Fullerton
Georgia Fullerton (BA, ExAT) is a fine artist, arts-educator and expressive arts therapy practitioner. She is on the board of directors for OEATA (Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association) and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. Her dynamic art explores the relationship between the real and imagined, and reveals her emotions, memories of her girlhood and Jamaican … Continue reading Georgia Fullerton
Elise Kubsch
Elise Kubsch is an award-winning poet and educator whose writing explores women’s issues and female empowerment. She finds inspiration in her work with young people in the classroom and in her Girl Power Group and Writing Club. Fostering creativity has always been a priority for Elise. She has facilitated numerous poetry and memoir writing workshops … Continue reading Elise Kubsch
