Nicola Harwood is a queer Anglo/Gaelic Canadian artist. Her background is in theatre and performance, particularly collaborative creation, feminist work and community engaged practice. Her most recent work is in interactive media installation. She is also a playwright and memoirist. Her work seeks to uncover the hidden histories of land, women and queers while engaging with the notion of home as contested territory. She loves to write comedy and tragedy and her work often veers at breakneck speed between the two. She recently began painting. For a complete project record see her CV here.
Nicola was born in Kelowna, BC, Canada which lies within the unceded territories of the Syilx speaking people of the Okanagan Nation. She has spent significant time living in Nelson, BC which lies on the border of the unceded territories of the Sinixt peoples and the Ktunaxa Nation. This area remains her spiritual home.
Nicola has taught at San Francisco State University, the University of Victoria, Selkirk College and currently lives in Vancouver, Canada and teaches Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on the traditional, shared and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations.
She is also a certified Inside-Out Prison Exchange instructor, teaches inside prison and has a long history of work with youth at risk and autistic youth including group home work, foster parent experience and many theatre and art making projects with youth. Her human rights practice is constantly evolving and she works to be trauma informed and decolonial. She is a proud mother, grandmother, auntie, and sister. She feels honored and privileged to work on this land.
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