Jessica McMann Performance

Mary Winspear Centre Presents: Jessica McMann
Alberta-based Cree multi-disciplinary artist – Niya Tour

Tuesday, May 20 
Doors 7pm Show 7:30pm 

Jessica McMann is an Alberta -based Cree (Cowessess, SK), multi-disciplinary artist. She is in the process of reclaiming her birth name and will be soon working under the name Virginia Jessica Sparvier-Wells. She interweaves land, Indigenous identity, history, and language throughout her dance and music creation/performance practice. A classically trained flutist, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Her work fuses together traditional language and dance with her own contemporary experiences as an Indigenous woman and Two-Spirit person.

Jessica currently resides in Cochrane, Alberta, where she works for the City of Calgary as Curator of Indigenous Art. She is also co-founder and co-director Wild Mint Arts, an Indigenous arts company and is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards (2017).