Rose Water Poet

Amal Ishaque - Poet, Writer, Interdisciplinary Storyteller

Amal Ishaque is a Pushcart Prize nominated Poet, Interdisciplinary Storyteller and an award-winning Arts Educator. Following in the footsteps of multiple poetic lineages, they conjure poetry as a catalyst for collective liberation.

For more on Amal’s work as an Anti-Oppression/Racial Justice Consultant and Facilitator, please visit cambiumarts.com

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[Image descriptions. Photo above: Amal, a brown skinned person, looking at the camera with their head resting on their hand. Background image: a blue, white and red scrarf billowing in the wind on a beach]

Beyond thrilled and honoured to be working with the incredible Erv Newcombe on a year-long Artists in Communities Residency with the Carnegie Community Centre for 2019!

It’s been such an exciting and rewarding few months of creative collaboration with the most incredible community of people in the Downtown Eastside.

Catch up and look for regular updates on our blog here: cambiumarts.wixsite.com/website

Amal lives as a settler on unceded, ancestral & traditional xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories. Support Indigenous communities. Ensure that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is upheld. Donate to the Wet'suwet'en Nation http://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/

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