Quelemia Sparrow
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Quelemia is an Indigenous actor, writer, director, dramaturge and consultant from the Musqueam Nation.
Though she works in various forms, much of Quelemia’s work centres Indigenous perspective, specifically her Musqueam knowledge and culture. Over the past 20 years, she has been learning about sχʷəy̓em̓ (Musqueam history), the original placenames of what we currently call Greater Vancouver, land-based stories and teachings.
She has worked across Canada as an actor, writer and director for various theatre companies including: The Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Globe Theatre, WCT and The Stratford Festival. Some of her acting Film and T.V credits include: Until Branches Bend, Motherland, Tribal, Clouds of Autumn, Blackstone, Cable Beach, Da Vinci’s City Hall and Da Vinci’s Inquest which she won a Leo Award for Best Female Guest Appearance.
Quelemia’s theatre practice is land-based. She has been in the process of de-colonizing her creative process. Through that process she has Indigenized her work and created her own methodology of approaching her devised and land-based creations based on her Musqueam Culture and protocols.
She has written and created: A narrativepodcast: ‘Almost Real’ Necessary Tomorrows/Al Jazeera, ‘Salmon Girl’/RavenSpirit Dance, Co-writer ‘The Pipeline Project’ /Itsazoo and Savage Society, A podplay ‘Ashes on the Water’/Neworld/Raven Spirit Dance, Indigenous consultant and Indigenous content writer for ‘Lysistrata’/Bard on the Beach, Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey/SavageSociety.
Currently she is completing ‘Women of Papiyek’/Full Circle/Animikiig Native Earth which will be produced by Bard on the Beach And Tumulx a commission with Neworld Theatre. Most recently she completed a Fellowship with the UBC Theatre Dept. devising Tumulx. You can also listen to an interview with CBC ‘Unreserved’ about her narrative podcast ‘Almost Real’.
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