Interpretive Writer
Exhibits and Installations
My role is to help develop the storyline then craft the texts to communicate the messages. It’s essential to find the right voice. Each community, person, and story is distinctive. The words have to ring true. N’in Na L’nu reads as if written by a Mi’kmaw Elder. At the Black Cultural Centre, the voice is that of African Nova Scotians. In 2016-17, on behalf of the Nova Scotia Museum, I researched and wrote biographies of nearly 50 men and women for VANGUARD: 150 Years of Remarkable Nova Scotians.
Recent Projects
We and the Sea: Honouring the Marine Heritage of African Nova Scotians, 2024
Skmaqn—Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst NHSC, 2023
Georges Island NHS and Skmaqn—Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst NHS, 2021-2022
Fortress Halifax, Halifax Citadel, Lord Cultural Resources, 2016-17
Vanguard, Nova Scotia Museum, 2016-17
Colchester Historeum, Truro, Nova Scotia, Concept, 2012; Installation 2015
Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Concept development, 2011-2012
Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, NS, Concept and Installation, 2011
N’in Na L’nu: The Mi’kmaq of PEI – Traveling exhibit, from Concept Development to Fabrication, 2011-2013
Yarmouth and Acadian Shores – exhibits installed at Le Musée des Acadiens, Le Village Historique acadien, Cape Forchu, Yarmouth County Museum and the Église Sainte-Anne Church, 2010
