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We had a beautiful and magical evening with Colleen Coco Collins on Wednesday. After hearing her read and sing, this description of her poetry by Shary Boyle, (another interdisciplinary artist) seems so beautifully apt: ‘Colleen Coco Collins employs vocabulary as a joyful precision tool....her poems vibrate like some kind of ancient rock & roll’. Below are the opening lines of one of her poems, ‘False Umbels’. All these peas just to see if I can skirt the fiat of inheritance slough the heritage of loneliness, you sorting Lego into bins by bad light at this late hour. A runner, a graphing stolon, I loop the L like you, expansively; filigreeing tendrils I tend and stake, and list against. taken in The Undercurrent by @colleencococollins
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Colleen Coco Collins - a beautiful and magical evening taken in The Undercurrent by @colleencococollins
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✨Nighttime Utterances: Colleen Coco Collins✨ 🌀Thursday 1 October, 2026 - 5:30pm🌀 Nau mai, haere mai ki Blue Oyster for a moody evening of poetry and music performance, featuring interdisciplinary artist Colleen Coco Collins (Irish, French, Odawa). Coco is visiting Ōtepoti from rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada, where she lives amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. They work across songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates between temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. Their performance at Blue Oyster will be in two parts: a poetry recital followed by music, with a short intermission between the two halves. Doors will open at 5:30pm. Grab a seat, brew a kapu tī, and browse Coco’s publications before the performance starts at 6pm! ✨Accessibility information✨ This is a free event, no bookings are required. A range of seating options will be available, including rigid chairs and floor cushions. Non-alcoholic beverages and light snacks will be provided.  The gallery area is wheelchair accessible (via a temporary ramp at the front door), however the toilet is not wheelchair accessible. Please email admin@blueoyster.org.nz if you have any questions or access requirements ahead of time; we want you to be able to participate!  ✨Publications for sale on the night✨ Sorry About The Fire, $25 Radicants (in collaboration with Amanda Fauteux and Miranda Bellamy), $15 wooden door hangers, $20 ✨Photograph credits ✨ Colleen Coco Collins, image courtesy of the artist. ✨Kā mihi maioha✨ To Coco, to our beautiful volunteers and trustees of the Blue Oyster Arts Trust! To our funders - @creativenz @dunedincitycouncil @aratoiotepoti @otagocommunitytrust by @colleencococollins
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AF is thrilled to present a night with Colleen Coco Collins (Canada) Colleen Coco Collins (@colleencococollins) [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. Coco has been making things for many years. She has collaborated as a recording and performing artist with musician Will Kidman, and for bands including Status/Non-Status and Julie Doiron. She’s also played with Jon McKiel, Carson McHone, The Burning Hell, Penny and The Pits, Construction & Destruction, and others. Coco's diverse practise extends to libretti and conceptual visual art, and she has co-created with composer Katharine Petkovski, visual artists Sheilah and Dani ReStack, Claire Greenshaw, and Rita McKeogh; poet Luke Hathaway, musician Zoon, and others. Her work has been shown in galleries across Turtle Island (Can & US), the UK, Eire, and in Australia & NZ/Aotearoa. Her published books include the poetry collections Sorry About The Fire and Radicants (with visual artists Amanda Fauteux and Miranda Bellamy). Coco is currently finishing up her solo album, Vulpes, and recently worked as Writer-in-Residence at UNB Fredericton. With support from Nranrā: Allana Goldsmith, Rosie Langabeer & Neil Feather Exploring subtle and complex sounds, the disarming, charming, cardigan wearing westie trio improvises electro-biological music that feels both chaotic and inevitable. Goldsmith’s sounds move effortlessly between melodious phrasing and jagged rupture; Langabeer brings pan/non-tonal keyboard reckonings that flurry and hypnotise; Feather’s approach combines mechanical engineering and gelatinous soundscapes. Together, the capricious trio have an auahatanga entirely their own. Thursday 24 September, 8PM @ Audio Foundation Presales from @undertheradarnz Members Free by @colleencococollins
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The Undercurrent presents Colleen Coco Collins! Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] makes songs born of ache & scrawl, boon & study, ebb & surrender. Keys and wending vocals weave & gleam. PJ Harvey meets ghost notes meets littoral biophonies. An interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, Colleen works in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. Wednesday Sept 30 Doors 6:30pm Music 7pm $10 Tickets available online and at the door! Snacks, a range of refreshing drinks, tea & coffee, and of course...books available for purchase! We’ll see you there ☆ taken in The Undercurrent by @colleencococollins
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An anonymous sender writes about the unmappable grief of an abuser’s death: the anger, the numbness, the fear of haunting, the relief that cannot be named. @colleencococollins answers: you are not haunted. No spectre rues your new bloom. She brings the chickadee, who has other places to go. Shiki on roses- the flowers are easy, the leaves difficult. Basho’s last poem. Diane Seuss on the danger of thinking that our smaller, pain-less selves were better. Grieve not what was in the heavy sack, but that the sack was heavy. Read the full letter at the link in bio. #poetryclinic #colleencococollins #dianesesuss #basho #shiki by @colleencococollins
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Basket Weaving - link in bio This song is a collaborative piece with poet and artist Colleen (Coco) Collins, who is also Odawa. Together we explore the ancestral experience of reconnection. In this instance, to a specific teaching and blood memory; that of the traditional basket weaving process - imagining ourselves on the river bed watching our Ancestors wade into the river to select the right piece of Ash to weave. Here, we question how far we have come as a society and look back in yearning and learning - as we also re-imagine our people gliding through history in Wiigwaas Jimnaan - (Anishinaabe word for Birchbark Canoe). The accompanying video was illustrated and brought to life by my sweet and wonderful neighbour Shaela Kinting - @mutual.admiration.society with help from @garth.laidlaw by @colleencococollins
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‘Unboxing Vid’ is a new video work we made with the brilliant @colleencococollins ! Miranda and I are in Ōtautahi getting ready to share it @cocatoimoroki as part of the group exhibition ‘There is (no) Anthropocene’ alongside @janineranderson and Arielle Walker, @shelleylsimpsonartist , and Virginia Were. Coco wrote 4 poems for this work, and reads them beautifully in the video, which moves through space and time to the mouth of the Petitcodiac river, within the Sikniktuk district of Mi’kma’ki; the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, also known as Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. This is where, in 1838, geologist Abraham Gesner commercialised the mining of the bituminous hydrocarbon Albertite, used to produce kerosene through a distillation process that Gesner invented. Today, apples line the roads to the largely forgotten mine site. Featuring Ceres, Hopewell Rocks, Mastodons, Mud Shrimp, Pandora, and Whales. The title, ‘Unboxing Vid’, is borrowed from Colleen Coco Collins’ poem, ‘Abscission’. Thank you Coco! Thank you @strutsgallery ! Our travel is supported by the New Brunswick Arts Board Notre voyage est soutenue par le Conseil des arts du Nouveau-Brunswick ‘Unboxing Vid’ Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux with Colleen Coco Collins 4K video, words and voice by Colleen Coco Collins 7:27 minutes 2025 by @colleencococollins
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I’m Alive | a new song by Misha Bower & Colleen Coco Collins Link in bio 🪽 Architectures abound: of edifice, of community, of song. Of the heart. Of the hand, mid-gesture, laid across an instrument, meandering a passage… Misha & Coco found their way to this piece thru the architectures of friendship and tenacity. I’m Alive is a collaboration they’ve been scaffolding for a while, passing fragments back and forth between Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia and London, Ontario/Deshkan Ziibiing. please please help (volume 2) is a compilation exploring the architectures of compassion and connection. When imagining the question, “Why should anyone help anyone else?”, one answer might be: Because we’re connected by the shared premise of life. That we are conditioned to forget this - that honouring this fact is not embedded into policies that shape and direct our daily lives - presents a tension between experiencing our shared humanity and an ever-encroaching amnesia of the heart. Many thanks to Mike Sloane for the invitation to join please please help (vol 2). Deep thanks also to Will Kidman & Simon Larochette for their beautiful work bringing the final version to completion. 🪔 xo @meeshleona @colleencococollins Now available as part of the @please.please.help (vol 2) compilation curated by @mike_sloane with all proceeds for @thelondonfoodbank Mastered by @simonlarochette by @colleencococollins
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my poem Bawaajigan was set movingly to music by @katharine.p .. Find me in the future: the hill is steeper, the dream is deeper. The water has risen and is blue. The way is terraced, feet are bare, rushes grasses everywhere. The people are the throb of the earth. Their byre is my basement. I am suddenly there too and then in front full sun fully woken into. Katharine's rendering soars & alights; glisses in ascendency & stills with gravitas. contains, & runs over (-as i did upon hearing it!). is moving, beyond. it is such an honour to work with Katharine, & to feel the poem's shape be deeply understood, & to have such stunning new forms breathed into it .. miigwech, Katharine. & thank you too to the Vancouver Chamber Choir who performed it, helmed by Kari Turunen. & merci @biblioasis_books for publishing the poem .. \\ this text muses the future, and the past, & where they meet & palimpsest & glitch & frict'.. & they do meet. there is ever reckoning, even if rippling across generations. the great roil of 《time》 touches all.. who is manacled will be manumit. tho we must heave to speed the churn!! // #saoirsedonphalaistín vid🔗 in bio 📹 by Katharine [a still of coral-tinged clouds over a darkening northern landscape. deciduous trees silhouetted against a blue sky, descending in size L to R across the frame. a musical score- four staves for four voices- in white font overlays the landscape. a choir sings so beautifully.] by @colleencococollins
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colleen coco collins singing 𝑫𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝑶𝒏 𝑴𝒆 ❤️❤️❤️ at Sappyfest in Sackville, NB, August 3 📷 : Sonia Waraich @adie.eloigne 𝑫𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝑶𝒏 𝑴𝒆 is one of twelve songs on 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘺, the last album Richard recorded before his death last year 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘺 will be released by You’ve Changed Records on September 5, 2024 ❣️ 2xLPs and CDs are available for preorder on You’ve Changed’s website: youvechangedrecords.com @youvechangedrecords taken in SappyFest by @colleencococollins
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. you are being welcomed to the reveille. everywhere petrichor. everywhere turduckens of joy and surety 🪔 i wrote a book. it was published today! [ 🔗 in bio] a posy/anthology/obstinacy of poems. called SORRY ABOUT The FIRE. an apologia, an apology, tho also: ground stood, on loose purchase, across a spectral age. these stars & others wayfared. (everything happens only with others.) love & thank you merci miigwech go raibh maith agat 🤍 @biblioasis_books Vanessa Emily Dan @kisscut @magiclanterns Luke Hathaway Will Kidman this is a story that splinters; ramoses: a pennant waves / a crow swoops / a pine warps in weft / rhizomatic moves ensue / a bog body gasps / and a seedling mews / an elephant seizes / as a gibbet arcs / as caesar paws / --a BIRD IN THE FLUE! / welts rear / furnaces spew / snakes tithe / highways shrug / biers upend / fields stook / lilia seduce / info is chunked / zoetropes ruse / time accordions / roller coasters woo / a boot meets a throat / prometheus gets lit / a dung beetle looks up: charts stars/rolls shit. (free palestine. lift boot.) [image description: frame 1: the cover of SORRY ABOUT The FIRE. red verging magenta, with blue font--Coco's handwriting. two eagles tussle over a fish, wings splayed mid-flight. frame 2: photo by Magali Charron of Coco's hands in motion. her body is unseen. a desk lies covered w lined yellow paper et carnets. handwriting & marginalia abound. a skylight looms. walls are angled, attic-style, & painted white. a candle stands warp. a dust fan/everlasting tree wampum belt made by Coco's Mom is pinned to the wall. it symbolizes the tree of peace at whose foot nations buried their weapons. /hatchets. 3: first off-white page of SATF, the word SORRY emblazoned over a silhouette of the eagles, differently positioned. 4: the book, held open, in sun. the inner text of a poem, Dehiscence. 5: book cover close-up. the eagle dyad, still wrestling; still harbouring appetite. still able to see better than you or me. 6, a video: the night is doing its thing. dark, enveloping. a rural field is quietly afire; glows. fits of grasses are licked by small flames. all sparks. all smolders on..] by @colleencococollins
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