Kamala Todd (1)
Kamala Todd
Born in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish land, Kamala Todd is a community planner, cultural advisor and filmmaker of Métis/Cree and European descent. She’s an adjunct professor at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning and has taught at Simon Fraser University, Langara College and the Native Education College. As an Aboriginal Planner with the City of Vancouver, she created Storyscapes, aninitiative that supported Indigenous voices and stories. As a filmmaker, she has collaborated with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society, the Urban Native Youth Association and other community groups. Her credits include Indigenous Plant Divas (2008), Sharing Our Stories: The Vancouver Dialogue Projectand Nehiyawetan, a Cree-language educational series created by her mother, Loretta Todd.
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Indigenous Plant DivaKamala Todd 2008 9 minKamala Todd's short film is a lyrical portrait of Cease Wyss, of the Squamish Nation. Wyss is a woman who understands the remarkable healing powers of the plants growing all over downtown Vancouver. Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, or the gentleness of comfrey, plants carry ageless wisdom with them, communicated through colour, texture, and form. Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language and is now passing this ancient and intimate connection down to her own daughter, Senaqwila.
