Created By

RoseMary Georgeson

Co-Creator

Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) is a filmmaker an unapologetic story-catcher that shares stories that don’t fit into a spreadsheet. This newest work is a four-film journey into climate change through Indigenous eyes: where we are, what we’re facing, and where this road is taking us. These stories lead with community, Elders, and youth at the center, because that’s where the truth lives—and where solutions do, too.

She was born and raised on Galiano Island and grew up in the commercial fishing industry. Since leaving the industry, Rosemary has worked as a storyteller, playwright and filmmaker. Rosemary’s passion is in bringing youth, Elders and ancestors together through storytelling. Her stories are deeply rooted in her family history and the changes she has seen that impact our west coast.

The recipient of the 2009 Vancouver Mayor’s Award recognizing her as an emerging artist in community arts, Rosemary has applied her talents in dozens of theater, film, and performance projects throughout Canada. Rosemary was the 2014 storyteller in residence for the Vancouver Public Library.

Georgeson has been recognized for her collaboration and sharing of stories with the award-winning play and CBC radio documentary Women in Fish. Rosemary’s latest work “The Water We Call Home” launched in July of 022 at The Yellow House Arts Centre on Galiano Island. It has now moved across the water to Steveston BC and is now installed in The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum.

Lara Aysal

Co-Creator

Lara is an organism under the sun.

She is also a climate justice and human rights activist, performance artist, and facilitator of community-oriented projects. She has collaborated with a variety of communities in South Africa, South America, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and so-called Canada worked across borders with international theatre companies and facilitated research projects in development and conflict settings with refugees, prisoners, ethnically diverse, and Indigenous communities.

She is one of the co-founders of AA+A Contemporary Performance Research Project and Ray Performance Collective. Before moving to Canada, she taught first- and second-year acting classes at Beykent University and published individual and collaborative ideas on Conference of the Parties (COP20), civil disobedience, theatre in conflict zones and poems on possibilities of hope.

She is interested in the role of theatre in addressing, organizing, and taking action within the climate justice context through decolonizing methodologies. She finds joy in experimenting with tools of theatre to disturb everyday life.

She is currently working as the Core Artist/Communications Director at The Only Animal Theatre Society while doing her Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Program