Khalilah Alwani

Research, Creative Practice, Storytelling

She/They
Lkwungen Territories

Khalilah Alwani (she/they) is of mixed Sindhi and Gaelic ancestry and grew up on the lands of the Coast Salish. Khalilah is grateful to live on the beautiful, unceded, ancestral homelands of the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, where she builds her home and community. Strengthened by the ecosystems, lineages and relationships she is a part of, her current creative work lies at the intersection of ecological restoration, family history research and storytelling, cultural creative practice, sangha building and ceremony.

As a dancer, she is committed to the practice of her ancestral folk dances, preserving these creative practices of ceremony within the diaspora. As a researcher and writer she is interested in creative ways of storytelling and is currently working on an oral history family storytelling project. In both areas Khalilah explores how remembering ancestral land-based ways of being can support our collective work of decolonization, collective care and climate action.