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Naty Tremblay

Creative Helper - Multi-Media Artist, Facilitator & Community Organizer for Healing Justice

Naty Tremblay believes deeply in the radical & transformative power of the arts leveraged for community rooted education, organizing, healing and visioning. Naty’s experiences as an identical twin, a poor muskrat french-metis farmer, a rambler, and a gender-queer feminist have greatly shaped their creative social change practices. Naty has co-created a broad body of interactive multi-media stories, performances & workshops, gatherings & community-engaged artworks exploring identity & power, regenerative reciprocity, healing justice & magics of the natural world. Naty has a BA of Integrated Media for Social Change from OCADU.

They co-founded the Xpace artist-run center & The People Project, an organization doing creative activism LGBTQ youth. Naty has coordinated media, community arts & transformative justice programs at Sketch Working Arts for 8+ years, building creative leadership capacity with poor young people. Naty is the Executive Director of Rittenhouse: A New Vision, Canada’s oldest abolitionist organization, supporting Transformative Justice capacity building with communities impacted by violence & criminalization.

They are a proud member of the Drawing with Knives shadow puppetry troupe, The Switch Collective - creating political multi-media street performance, and the Trans Healing Arts Collective – visioning spaces that center the healing & creativity of Trans* peoples.

www.facebook.com/naty.tremblay
www.facebook.com/DRAWING.WITH.KNIVES/
www.facebook.com/TheSwitchProjectToronto
www.thesmilingroom.ca/
www.rittenhouseanv.com
www.sketch.ca