As a member of Generation X, I feel the need to establish a little youth-adjacent credibility before I can answer this question.
These artists interpret the stories of the Qur’an to apply them to modern life, meet differences in beliefs with compassion, and work to create safe and welcoming spaces for their communities.
As Mapuche storytellers, Waikil and Ketrafe fuse their Indigenous backgrounds with their love and passion for contemporary music.
It was especially significant for this group to perform on Canada Day, July 1, with the ambassador of Canada to the United States in attendance.
For Indigenous artists like McGilton, ancestral knowledge can only be maintained with the intention to uphold and use it within Indigenous communities.
For the Pataxó people, body painting reflects the lived constellations of past and present and of human and more-than-human worlds.
Although you can skate alone, its power is in convening and bringing community together.
