In conjunction with Clouds for Breakfast, CICA Vancouver presents a panel discussion on the intersections of art, healing, and storytelling, bringing together Daisy Parris, Rosemary Georgeson and Xu Wang:
📅 Date & Time: Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 Location: CICA Vancouver, 228 Abbott Street, Vancouver
This panel will explore the role of art as a process of healing, reflecting on how creative expression can help us confront, release, and reshape personal and collective experiences. We will discuss the power of storytelling and Indigenous healing practices, including oral traditions, weaving, and visual storytelling as pathways to resilience and cultural preservation. The conversation will also consider the ways that artistic practices engage with memory, emotion, and transformation, inviting reflections on how artists navigate these themes in their work. Additionally, we will explore the intersections of art and therapeutic practice, opening space for dialogue on how creativity can support processes of reflection, healing, and connection. At its core, this discussion will emphasize the ways art fosters collective healing, co-creation, and deeper relationships with self, community, and the world around us.
Get to Know the Panelists:
Rosemary Georgeson
Image courtesy of Jessica Hallenbeck
Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) was born and raised on Galiano Island and grew up in the commercial fishing industry. Since leaving the industry, Rosemary has worked as a storyteller, playwright and filmmaker. Rosemary’s passion is in bringing youth, Elders and ancestors together through storytelling. Her stories are deeply rooted in her family history and the changes she has seen that impact our west coast. The recipient of the 2009 Vancouver Mayor’s Award recognizing her as an emerging artist in community arts, Rosemary has applied her talents in dozens of theater, film, and performance projects throughout Canada. Rosemary was the 2014 storyteller in residence for the Vancouver Public Library. Georgeson has been recognized for her collaboration and sharing of stories with the award-winning play and CBC radio documentary Women in Fish. Rosemary’s latest work “The Water We Call Home” launched in July of 2022 at The Yellow House Arts Centre on Galiano Island. It has now moved across the water to Steveston BC and is now installed in The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum.
Xu Wang:
Image courtesy of Brynley Odu Davies
Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Their direct text-based works and abstract paintings draw from a vernacular shaped by experience, relationships, and the peaks and valleys of human existence. Parris brings intimacy, insight, and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking viewers through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, constructing self-portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast-moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.
Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset, UK.
Why This Matters:
We acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded territories of the Indigenous peoples of unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and recognize the significance of Indigenous storytelling, healing practices, and community care in this conversation. This panel offers a space for meaningful dialogue on how art acts as a vessel for both self-reflection and collective healing. By bringing together diverse voices, we seek to explore the ways creative expression fosters resilience and growth, deepens understanding, and strengthens our connections to self, community, and the world.
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🎟 Special Events & Programs: Some events, like workshops and guided tours, may have additional fees, but this panel discussion is included in the cost of general admission ($15).
💛 Accessibility: CICA is committed to making art accessible. If cost is a barrier, please reach out to us about subsidized admission options.
⚠️ Advance Registration Required: Spots are limited, so please register in advance to secure your place at the panel discussion.