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Emma James

5 (Rosa Mundi)

 

Emma James (She/Her) is an emerging queer theatre artist from St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Currently in her fourth year of Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of Performing Arts, Emma is pursuing a BA Honours in Acting with a certificate in dance and movement. In 2018, Emma was awarded the Stephen Graham Bird award from Theatre New Brunswick and in 2019, received the AFBS / Ferne Downey Scholarship in Acting. In her career, she strives to use her platform as an actor, director, mover, and creator to highlight the voices of Atlantic Canada’s most silenced inhabitants. Recent: Isolate Nights (Villain’s Theatre), La Calandra,  Ephemera (FSPA), Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, The Rocky Horror Show  (Dalhousie Theatre Society).

This show has been created in Mi'kma'ki, Anishinabek, and the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut'ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations and the Métis Nation (Region 3) Likewise, the platforms we use are based in Indigenous lands and benefit from the riches of these lands. The Zoom's headquarters are located on the land of the Ohlone, and the Vimeo's headquarters are located on the land of the Munsee Lenape.

Whose land are you on?: Native-land.ca

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As colonisers, acknowledging our privilege is the first step

toward dismantling white supremacy.

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Support the Sipekne’katik Fishers by calling or writing to the Saulnierville Chief of Police and demanding an investigation into the harassment of Mi’kmaq fishers.

Support the Justice of Chantal Moore movement:

https://www.change.org/p/new-brunswick-city-council-justice-for-chantel-moore

Donate to the Wet’suwet’en protestors:

https://raventrust.com/campaigns/wetsuweten-2/

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