All Write in Sin City

Sorry About the Fire with Colleen Coco Collins

June 09, 2024 Kim/Irene/Sarah Season 10 Episode 158
Sorry About the Fire with Colleen Coco Collins
All Write in Sin City
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All Write in Sin City
Sorry About the Fire with Colleen Coco Collins
Jun 09, 2024 Season 10 Episode 158
Kim/Irene/Sarah

Colleen Coco Collins is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director, in forestry, fossil preparation, and renovation; as an autism support worker, teacher, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing, music, and art practice centers on temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, and more. Collins has studied at universities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New Zealand, and Ireland. She lives in rural Mi’kma’ki, Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. Sorry About the Fire is her poetry debut, published by Biblioasis. 
https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/sorry-about-the-fire/

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Colleen Coco Collins is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director, in forestry, fossil preparation, and renovation; as an autism support worker, teacher, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing, music, and art practice centers on temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, and more. Collins has studied at universities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New Zealand, and Ireland. She lives in rural Mi’kma’ki, Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. Sorry About the Fire is her poetry debut, published by Biblioasis. 
https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/sorry-about-the-fire/