Kevin A.
Ormsby
Artistic Director of KasheDance, Curator of Programming at Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO), Kevin A. Ormsby was a nominee for the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize 2023 and finalist in 2021 and recipient of Canada Council for the Arts’ Victor Martyn Lynch – Staunton Award. His research and creative practice exist in constant interrogation and navigation of Caribbean and African Diasporic cultural practices towards methodologies geared to research, creation and presentation. At Intersections of Culturally Responsive Art, Space / Place Making and Communities.
Kevin animates KOLLECTIVE NARRATIVES centering human interactions into artmaking with an authenticity defined by those with whom he intersects. Art making and creation requires deep listening, forecasting and holding of each other, ideas and egos in space. Investigating the intersections of socio-cultural, public policy and the Arts towards diverse ethno-racial narratives in transformative change should include Art-making at the center of social and political development “creativity is a necessity for innovation” - Prof Rex Nettleford
