Workshop Facilitator: Jason Jacobs

Jason Jacobs's artistic interest is informed by his practice as an amagqirha-in-training and a Nama-Khoi-indigenous descendant living and practising in Kharkams. He understands dreams as lived/living spaces for healing and the embodiment of ancestral knowledge, which informs his reading of dreams (and translating them) as an indigenous healing practice and methodology. Working with dreams as spaces for healing, roots questions in the shame of loss as defining markers of his indigenous identity formation. Jacobs intentionally engages with this inherited and lived shame, acknowledging it as an ongoing path to healing (an act in progress and a call to action). Jacobs relies on the transformative potential of indigenous storytelling in his one-person play titled Kraal, to confront this shame of loss by writing and performing his own story-healing about a tragic hero character who is imagining new futures for his community.