All the art related updates! I will be updating this page every couple of months, but be sure to check this page to see what I am making, writing and doing <3

August 2026

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” is featured in the exhibition titled Laas / Absan / Peldía: Caribbean Cinema Cultures at the Michigan State University Broad Art Museum. The exhibition is curated by Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez, assistant curator; Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez, assistant professor of film studies at MSU; and Diaspora Solidarities Lab fellows Zoe Butler, KV Bailey, Luis Prieto, and Nehemías Toro Padrón.

Here is a description about the exhibition

“The artists featured in Laas / Absan / Peldía: Caribbean Cinema Cultures have engaged with this inherent sense of loss and mourning. The exhibition’s title Laas / Absan / Peldía refers to the notion of loss or absence, stylized in Jamaican Patwah/Guyanese Creole, Haitian Kreyòl, and dialects of the Hispanic Caribbean. The exhibition flows through Caribbean cinema cultures as shared, though distinct, experiences.”

This will be the first time the film is showing in Michigan and alongside artists I admire! Thank you to the curators and my distributor VTape for always matching my film with such beautiful, critical and thoughtful curation. The exhibition opens August 22nd and is on until Jan 30th 2027! If you’re in the Michigan area definitely check out the show

In August I did a self directed residency with La Maison des artistes visuels francophones and created a reading list. The residency titled “If I love you I have to make you conscious of the things you can not see” which looks at James Baldwin’s critique on the role of the artist. In the document you can read about what I was thinking through and the media I have been sitting with prior to the residency, during it and after. This reading list is not set in stone but a starting point to my arts practice that is based in critical citation and honouring individuals that have been pushing for Black Queer liberation for time immemorial.

September 2026

On September 19th for Queer City Cinema “what if we kept it between us?” will be showing in a shorts program at the Regina Public Library. If you are in the Regina area be sure to check out the festival!

On September 25th at the Dave Barber Cinematheque “why some people be mad at me sometimes” will be showing in a group screening for the "Let Light and Truth Flourish" exhibition curated by Jennifer Gibson and Jenny Western. Check this link for more info on the screening and exhibition it self! As an alumni of the University of Winnipeg it feels very special to have this film be shown in very talented company of artists and caring curators!

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” will be playing in Trinidad for the first for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. The festival takes place from Sept 23rd-27th. Super happy that the film gets to play in the Caribbean for the first time. It is playing on Sept 25th & 26th for the Wayward Shorts program.

October 2026

“what if we kept it between us?” is included in the ROSEMARY Gallery exhibition at Platform. Curated by Jaimie Isaac and Suzanne Morrissette. The exhibition is called What if House is a Feeling. “What if House is a Feeling expands ROSEMARY Gallery’s arts-based inquiry into how the people and places we come from inform the works of Mahlet Cuff, Melody McIvor, Rhayne Vermette, Aikaterini Zegeye-Gebrehiwot and Hagere Selam shimby Zegeye-Gebrehiwot. Through their work, these artists respond to the questions: Who are the people and places that continue to hold us up and, How do we involve our families and community in specific and nuanced ways? Drawing upon archive, film and sound these artists help to visually and sonically attend to the underlying qualities and connections that hold together culture and community.”

Grateful and looking forward to seeing the exhibition <3

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” will be playing at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival on October 16th and 18th in the international film competition for the documentary section. Excited for the film to make its Switzerland Premiere!

UTOPIA (an ode to the past, present and future) is playing for the Les Instant Video Film Festival in Marseille, France on October 23rd. If you are in the Marseille area check out the film and the program.