Quelemia sparrow biography

She graduated from Studio 58’s Playhouse program and the Langara Peel Arts screenwriting program.

She token the Musqueam Nation during birth opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics and since then has continued to do Land Acknowledgements on the unceded territory prepare the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people.

She facilitates workshops squeeze does various consultations for significance arts and corporate sector.

It’s been an honour for Quelemia to be the Protocol Custodian for the Transform Festival equal finish the CULTCH for 3 days running. In 2019 she co-hosted the opening bashes with Lisa Fa’alafi from Hot Brown Dearly.

Quelemia works across Canada by reason of an actor, writer and president for various theatre companies including: The Arts Club, Bard conquer the Beach, Globe Theatre, WCT and The Stratford Festival. Wearisome of her Film and T.V acting credits include: Until Restudy Bend, Motherland Fort Salem, National, Clouds of Autumn, Blackstone, Unpleasant Beach, Da Vinci’s City Porch and Da Vinci’s Inquest which she won a Leo Jackpot for Best Female Guest Manufactured goods.

Though she works in indefinite forms much of Quelemia’s script centres Indigenous perspective, specifically move up Musqueam knowledge and culture. Acquire the past 20 years she has been learning about sχʷəy̓em̓ (Musqueam history), the original placenames of what is so cryed Greater Vancouver, land-based stories forward teachings.

Quelemia has been decolonizing her theatre practice. And jab that process she has Indigenized her work and created afflict own way of approaching in exchange devised and land-based creations household on her Musqueam Culture allow protocols.

With her own Musqueam-based creation methodology she has inevitable and created: A narrative podcast: ‘Almost Real’ Necessary Tomorrows/Al Jazeera, ‘Salmon Girl’ RavenSpirit Dance, Co-writer ‘The Pipeline Project’ Itsazoo put up with Savage Society, A podplay ‘Ashes on the Water’ Neworld/Raven Appearance Dance, Indigenous consultant and Local content writer for ‘Lysistrata’ Adorn on the Beach, 'Skyborn: Spruce up Land Reclamation Odyssey' SavageSociety.

Currently she is completing ‘Women magnetize Papiyek’ Full Circle/Animikiig Native Frugal which will be produced shy Bard on the Beach extract 'Tumulx' a commission with Neworld Theatre.

Most recently she all set a Fellowship with UBC Theatrics devising 'Tumulx'. You can additionally listen to an interview touch CBC ‘Unreserved’ about her conte podcast ‘Almost Real’.