Amanda N. Ramsay
Interdisciplinary Storyteller
Welcome, Amanda works on a lot, contributes small things in a lot of places, and sometimes even launches her own projects. If you are looking for something in particular, please scroll below to find what you are looking for.
About Amanda
Creative Badass.
Amanda Nicole Ramsay is a Northern British Columbia, Canada-based interdisciplinary storyteller.
As a woman and single mother living with disabilities, Amanda enjoys diving into complex themes of internal growth, personal autonomy, and exploring the nuances of women's lives that don't always make it into literature.
Amanda is most interested in work that changes the world, people's hearts, and prepares the world for the future (our children).
Amanda would also like to thank the coastal nations that are leading the way with strength and integrity in matters of environmental protection, human rights, and intergenerational growth and reconciliation.
Amanda especially admires the work of the Tsimshian people, especially the Gitga'at First Nation, the Metlakatla, the Lax Kw'alaams, the Kitsumkalum, the Kitselas, the Xai'xais (Kitasoo) people. In addition, Amanda also greatly admires the work and cultures of the Gitxsan, the Nisga'a, the Heiltsuk, the Haisla, the Haida, the Wet'suwet'en, and the Nuxalk. She hopes that her own work builds bridges and creates stronger relationships in northern communities.
Projects & Work
Profile - Jill of Many Trades
For the last few years, Amanda has been researching and writing content for a podcast she is relaunching this spring called West Coast Acadian.Amanda's primary form of creative and artistic expression is writing and prose. She's even self-published books to teach herself how to.Amanda creates through painting and sculptural pieces, primarily in acrylics, Amanda sculpts and textures using multiple media including foam, soft stone, reclaimed materials, cardboard, softwoods, and fibres.#staytuned.
1. Coming Soon - West Coast Acadian, the Podcast
Amanda says:
"I make smart, intimate audio content that feels like a kitchen-table conversation among women, and sometimes we capture video."If you would like to support the work on this podcast, CLICK HERE to be taken to the Podcast Webpage.
2. FolkWoman Publishing & Fine Arts
When Amanda publishes or wants to sell her art online, she posts it under the psudonymn FolkWoman, FolkWoman Ramsay, or FolkWoman Publishing.Under this name Amanda makes visual art, sculptures, digital art, colouring pages, stickers, and others. She also creates and designs things for West Coast Acadian, and sometimes those items are for sale through these channels as well.
3. Performer & Creative Communications
Amanda is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in writing, performance, and playwriting. She's deeply interested in directing and producing now, supporting other artists and creative groups.As a spoken word artist and storyteller, Amanda has performed for over three decades now, blending personal narrative with themes of gender, folklore, and cultural memory.She has been singing since before she could speak, training in opera and classical music and performing in choirs and as a soloist. Her theatrical experience began at age seven with Theatre Northwest, which started her own the path of performing in productions like Dracula: The Musical?, It's a Wonderful Life "Radio" Show, and Elves.Eventually Amanda wrote and directed her own play, Endurance, for Whitehorse’s Homegrown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2011.She gives talks and workshops on gender, the arts, and uses her platform to explore women’s voices in history and myth.
Where Is Amanda From?
Amanda was born in a small industry town called Kitimat BC on the traditional territories of the Haisla. Amanda has also lived, worked, and gone to school in over a dozen communities but always returns home to the Pacific North-North West.Currently Amanda lives in Terrace, on the shared traditional territories and unceeded lands of the Tsymsyen peoples.BC where she is raising her son, attending events, and witnessing our communities' realities.As a settler woman living here, Amanda acknowledges the traditional, unceeded, and sometimes treaty territories of the following nations who she calls neighbours: Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Gitxsan, Heiltsuk, Haisla, Haida, Tlingit, Sekani, Wet’suwet’en, Metis, Takla, Ts’il Kaz Koh, Nee Tahi Buhn, Skin Tyee, Cheslatta Carrier, Carrier Sekani, Lheidli T'enneh, Kluskus, Nazko, Fort Nelson First Nation, Dease River First Nation, Daylu Dena, Taku River Tlingit, and others along her life's adventures.Amanda will often say "We live in a postcard," and that wouldn't be true without the work and advocacy of our local first nations, councils, and matriarchs; and moreso, the leadership of a diverse cast that keep our communities alive.
Contact
Coffee..Collab..Advocate..Witness
Amanda has a flexible but busy schedule. If you would like her to attend an event, collaborate on a project, speak on something, or offer opinion, please reach out and contact her. While she admits to hiding under rocks and in tunnels, Amanda does in fact like people a lot.Please fill out this form and give her a picture of what you are looking for. Amanda loves detail.Hate forms? Email her directly at WestCoastAcadian (at) gmail (dot) com.
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