Photo by Heather Rappard courtesy of The Khyber Centre for the Arts

 Carmel (they/them) is a community worker/ educator, experimental violinist, queerdo and arts maker. They have collaborated on The Khyber Centre For The Arts board for three years, and have been working alongside EVERYSEEKER informally for the past two years and formally as a board member for the past year. Carmel aims to weave their passions of innovative and magical sound arts and trauma informed education and procedural based work to these creative spaces. They recently transitioned from a  five year term coordinating South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre to working as the support services coordinator at the Youth Project, they also enjoy their work as a sex educator at Venus Envy-- seeing a direct link between this community work and access to creative spaces/ arts community. Carmel is passionate about contributing to building a sustainable bridge and relationship between the artistic sector and anti-oppressive organizing in Halifax. Carmel actively collaborates with local initiatives with the aim to create wider 2SQTBIPOC support systems locally. 

Carmel will be hosting an anti-oppression workshop on June 10th at 1pm ADT via Zoom as part of our programming. Register below to receive link!