As part of Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present a music workshop lead by musicians and storytellers Kinfolk Nation!

This workshop invites writers at all stages and experience levels to engage in a learning and sharing environment.

No registration necessary—spots are first come, first served. This event is free to attend.

About the workshop: The sound of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a Bantu cultural philosophy meaning I am because you are. This is a collaborative, musical, storied, improvisational experience where we explore finding the harmony between our individual voices within the collective song. Understanding that a constellation is more beautiful than a one shining star, we engage with the value of community connections between ourselves and our lived environment.

About Kinfolk Nation: “Something like a beautiful whisper. A whistle in the night and a song in the light, Kinfolk Nation creates dreamspaces through the exploration of a New Jazz—the sound of Ubuntu.

Kinfolk Nation is an artist coalition documenting the experiences and stories of contemporary Africans/ Caribbeans/ Spirits, and the kindred spirits they cross paths with.

We are building a nation, people! We are building a nation.

Everybody is welcome but only if you have love.”

You can learn more about Kinfolk Nation by clicking here.

The Alternator Centre is located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts and is wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are gendered stalled washrooms, with a single, gender neutral and wheelchair accessible washroom available.

Our programming is made possible by the City of Kelowna, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.

We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work in the unceded, ancestral territory of the Syilx people. It is a privilege to be able to put on events as uninvited guests on their land.