RECREATING COMMUNITY TOGETHER

Brianna LaPlante is an Anishinaabe/nehiyaw/Michif fine artist and muralist from Fishing Lake First Nation. She holds a BFA from First Nations University of Canada. Based in Regina, she works across various mediums, including painting, muralism, sculpture, and design, and she is known for her community-focused art, including the Basketball court mural at The Yard, a metalwork installation for the Regina YWCA and contributions to the First Nations University of Canada legacy mural. She led a mural project at 33 Central School focused on Treaty 4 education, and she curated the Dunlop Art Gallery exhibition "my language has no word for 'artist'," which explores the role of Indigenous artists and language.

LaPlante is a passionate advocate for using art as a tool for community, healing, and education. She strives to create and maintain culturally relevant projects, programs and relations that foster community growth in art, connection and wellness. Her work tackles themes of resilience, reclamation and healing, the duality of urban life and ceremony, and the journey from surviving to thriving.

Aniasonwa Ebuka Favour is a multifaceted creative whose poetic voice bridges the personal and the political, weaving narratives that reflect the complexities of identity, justice, and the human experience. Born in Nigeria and currently based in Canada, Favour began writing poetry as a powerful means of self-expression, community healing, and social commentary. With a style marked by lyrical precision, emotional depth, and thematic boldness, Favour’s work explores themes such as migration, resilience, gender equality, mental health, and global development. Whether performing spoken word before live audiences or crafting intricate verses for the page, his poetry reflects a rare ability to turn everyday experiences into universal truths.

Favour has performed and shared his work in diverse settings—from grassroots community gatherings to international development forums such as UNITE 2030, where he also served as a Counselor championing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His creative voice is not only artistic but deeply activist—using poetry as a tool for education, empowerment, and policy engagement .A lifelong learner and advocate for change, Favour blends his poetic journey with his background in engineering, innovation, and global citizenship—constantly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be both a creator and a changemaker. He believes that poetry isn’t just written—it is lived, shared, and used to shift narratives.

Kana Nemoto is a dance artist and movement educator with 15+ years of experience in ballet and contemporary dance. She holds a BSc. in Health Science and is enrolled in a MSc. Kinesiology thesis program. She is a certified and experienced somatic practitioner of Mitzvah Technique and Itcush Method. She is dedicated to sharing the depth of human capacity to express itself through Dance and to exploring the knowledge and possibilities of the human body through bodywork.

Mohana Das is Artistic Director of Nirvana Dance Creations. She is a classically trained dancer in Odissi, Kathak, Manipuri, Rabindra Nritya, Bharatanatyam dance forms. She has also trained in Classical Jazz and Chau. In Saskatchewan she has held an artist residency with New Dance Horizons and performed in their Stream of Dance and Secret Garden Tour events and most recently in Starry Night. She has also performed with the Regina Symphony Orchestra and for the India-Canada Association of Saskatchewan. Additionally, she has appeared in Rollercoaster, a music video by Nyasha which was released by SaskMusic. Recently, she performed and showcased her production, Rhythm of Life, at the North American Bengali Conference-2025 in Toronto.

Sara McCreary is a Métis artist and graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Regina’s Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance. Her research creation practice includes sewing, quilting, beadwork, embroidery and natural dyeing to revive and adapt material culture for contemporary Métis life. She approaches making as a tactile relationship rooted in visiting, collaboration and story. Through wearable art and modern materials, she works to restore visibility to the flower beadwork people and reclaim what it means to live a Métis life today.

As On Cue’s Indigenous Liaison, Sara works with artists in the Recreating Community Together collective. She meets regularly with participating artists to support the development of their performance work, assists with scheduling and communication, and maintains notes on the evolution of individual projects. She also helps connect artists with On Cue’s RCT Elder, along with other community members and knowledge holders who may contribute to the artists’ creative process. Sara’s role centres on relationship building, care and collaborative growth within the collective.