Nikole Adele Rosaria
Nikole Rosaria is a weaver of community spaces for learning, healing, imagining, and creating. She is passionately invested in collaborations that are risking to seed new worlds amidst the decaying structures of an old paradigm; that are laboring for Love to win the day; that are gaining ground in the relational dance of sovereignty and solidarity; and enjoying the magic that’s unleashed as we remember our sacred relationship to all Life. She carries with her the tools of a singer-songwriter and drummer, storyteller, educator, organizer, mother, friend, spiritual companion, and contemplative writer. Cultivating her garden and tending bee colonies teaches her how to be human, how to take refuge in Nature’s regenerative forces, and about the vital need to choose radical hope on behalf of our interbeingness. She lives on a small family farm in Ohio (www.heartbeatgardens.com), she collaborates with national and global networks dedicated to collective awakening, to anti-oppression and decolonial frameworks, and turning prayers into action (www.gaiamandala.net; www.bepresent.org; Macaroni Music). She is a cultural steward of Southern Italian and Sicilian traditional music, and travels to Sicily annually to visit family and study with her teacher. She’s a part of the sprouting collective currently called ‘Macaroni Music’, generating co-learning and Ancestral re-weaving spaces within the Southern Italian and Sicilian diaspora on Turtle Island. Through Mandorla Arts LLC, you can find her teaching, facilitating, consulting and performance offerings.
Cantastoria
Cantastoria is Italian for "story-singer" . There are many names for this across cultures. It is more about listening, than speaking.
May I hear the story-songs of heart and soul of this land and these times, and sing them humble and true.