This article unravels the meaning, purpose, and working philosophy underpinning Arrivals Legacy Voice, which is an emerging practice coming out of the Arrivals Legacy Project=. Arrivals Legacy Project founder Diane Roberts (Garifuna, Caribbean Canadian) engages her collaborators in reflection on specific moments of discovery and emerging themes and/or collisions that have influenced and continue to influence the ongoing development of our shared practice. The voices of storyteller and film-maker Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish), voice and speech instructor and Rolfer Lopa Sircar (Bengali, Canadian), voice/movement educator and inter-arts creator/performer Gerry Trentham (Scottish, English), and facilitator, writer, and systemic and experiential therapist Jude Wong (Chinese, German, Danish) address the central question: What new legacies breathe us forward, and what must we leave behind? Using the generative methodology of Legacy Voice, Diane and her collaborators draw on the personal to reveal their passion for un/recovering root cultural practices as a liberation from colonial performative inheritances.
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