Moe Clark – tastawayihk dreaming: radical + ritual futurity
01 ⇾ Sep. 04 2026 (Tuesday – Friday)
Weekly rate:$130
English, French & English
This 3-day land-based immersive laboratory will be hosted on the unceded territories of the Algonquin & Kanien:keha’ka nations, on the edge of lake Marois (Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs).
Arrival on-site at 2 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 1st
Departure at 2 pm on Friday, Sept. 4
Overnight accommodation and meals included
Financial compensation for transportation is available. Studio 303 & REPAIRE will help you carpool.
For this workshop, please send your application before July 31th. We will contact selected participants at the beggining of August.
It is an intensive workshop, requiring deep availability and commitment. All are welcome – although we reccommand to have previous experience in voice, improvisation, somatic practices, or related.
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Music, voice or sound #Somatic #Toolbox
© Hayf Photography
Objective
Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships, call backwards into the future of Indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledge, this workshop invites participants to explore present space-time continuums and dream more radical futurities.
Expanding on tastawayihk / in-between (2Spirit) principles, we move across thresholds of body and voice, exploring what wants to be sung and birthed into being. Through heightened sensory awareness and body-voice activations, we attune ourselves to the intimate processes and cycles that unfold within and around us. Expanding on personal, collective and cosmological frameworks, which centre Michif, nêhiyaw and Indigiqueer practices, we deepen into the rich intersections of land and body-based methodologies.
We will explore the interplay of ancestral connections, creative lineages, stillness/silence as resistance, and intuition as emergent tools for liberation.
Content
Animating sovereign sites of the in-between through tastawayihk methodologies, we awaken the circle to set intentions and collectively arrive in ritual space. Drawing from ceremonial healing practices rooted in Michif/ nêhiyaw cultural knowledge, we expand and contract collectively to co-create a container that invites tender softening and spacious reflection.
Throughout our time, land-based creative rituals will be dreamed into being as radical practices for cultivating joy, emancipating grief and collective liberation. Orienting to curiosity, witnessing what’s alive inside, we make present the emergent potential between bodies (human, earth/sky, creature, and cosmic) and practice belonging together.
Working with vocal improvisation, sonic meditations and somatic sensing, we nurture awareness to shifting states of change, like weather patterns, within and around our bodies. Through improvisational practices, we expand on perceptions of silence, breath, toning and vocal mimicry within the multitude of resonating bodies. In small ensembles, circle singing, body-based partner manipulations, image work, and call and response with one another and the land, we examine sensorial relationships as catalysts for transformative states.
Workshop Rhythm
Accessibility Features
Biography
âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis/mixed-settler) multidisciplinary artist, educator, Somatic Experiencing® Practioner (SEP™) and vocalist, Moe Clark (she/they) is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird.
Moe was born and raised in Treaty 7 (Calgary) and is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Currently residing as a guest in Tio’tiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal (QC), Moe works as an artist, land-based creative arts facilitator, oskapêwis (Elder’s ceremonial apprentice), community organizer and SEP™.
A dedicated nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree language) and Michif (Métis language) learner, Moe collaborates intimately with Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers to advance language resurgence through song-based practices.
As a creative arts facilitator and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Moe’s work in community reinforces collective liberation, embodied healing, and intergenerational transmission while supporting thriving futures for 2Spirit/Indigiqueer, QTBIPOC and other marginalized kin. They anchor 2S Michif-Plains Cree medicine wheel/wholism teachings, while reinforcing body-based practices as “land-back.”
Millie is a queer community care worker, doula, cofounder of Community Healing Days, and professionally trained vocalist and theatre artist. Based in Tiohtià:ke, her creative healing practice is grounded in community and draws on her lived experiences as a foundation for peer group facilitation and circle sharing. She works with the full expression of life’s transitions: joy, grief, rage, and everything in between, inviting people to sense and move through the body while honouring what spirit wants to reveal. Originally from Peru, she brings inclusive traditional and cultural practices into her facilitation work.
Millie is excited to join Moe in cofacilitating tastawâyihk dreaming on the land, bringing her experience in movement, embodiment, and body-based practices to the space.
“It allowed me to increase communication with others, use my voice, explore more dimensions of my interests, and push me to ask more questions about my intentions in my practices.”
— Emily
Partners
The workshop is supported by REPAIRE, Culture Laurentides and Studio 303 with financial assistance from the Quebec government via the Intervention-Compétences program, administered by Compétence Culture.
