How can we show up whole to a conversation about where we're headed without spending time with where we come from? Multidisciplinary artist and musician Corrina Keeling began unraveling these questions by visiting with the songs, stories and languages from their ancestors of Gàidhlig, Breton, Acadien, Queer, and Unknown Origin, working to reconcile their relationship to their own cultural identity while living on stolen land. ‘Bodies of Water’ emerged as a way to share this work. The show weaves together features original songs, traditional music, dance, poetry, live digital painting, projection mapping, and reclaimed ancestral languages, to express the grief of what’s been lost, and to share the healing impact of reconnecting with what’s still alive. Diving deep into the spaces between departure and arrival & between what is anchored and adrift, ‘Bodies of Water’ is a reminder that we all belong somewhere. We hope that this story of re-remembering might help us all to imagine what it might feel like to be in right relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with the lands and waters where we live.

Featuring Corrina Keeling , Jessica Dawn Keeling, Jillian Christmas, Jess Vaira, Hayley Gawthrop, Kealoha Noelani, Gillian Thompson, Jody Mariko Okabe, Bre McDaniel, Aaron Hamblin, Ian Cromwell, Martin Reisle, and Vanessa Yuen.

This work is presented with deep gratitude and reverence for the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh and Squamish peoples, who have been in relationship with the land and water here since time immemorial, long before our arrival. We share this work with the hope that it might contribute a tiny drop in the ocean of healing and redress.