Happy to finally share the news .. that has been brewing and developing for quite awhile! This September at the Waterfront Theatre, will be flying over to Vancouver from Montréal with Alvaro Echanove and Henry Garf, joining forces with Davide Sampaolo to present our work "Sombras/Shadows" in the  Vancouver International Flamenco Festival .   A brief synopsis of the project: "Sombras/Shadows is a live music and dance presentation with visual projections that reflects Kara Miranda’s personal journey and Carl Jung’s theories of the shadow self. It’s a parallel search for the intangible shadows of the past and accepting and actualizing our shadow side. The work began as a creative residency with Flamenco Rosario under the mentorship of Mariano Cruceta Serrano." We were also awarded a Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada grant to fund this project and trip! Thanks so much to  Rosario Ancer Flamenco  for her guidance and encouragement, and the festival

Here's some more details: September 9 - Festival Flamenco de Montréal Rue Bernard  JFFD Journée Familia Flamenca FFLAM 2018  2018, 11:45am & 3:30pm September 15 - Festival Flamenco de Montréal 5 à 7 festif Pepito Sangria / Samedi 15 sept/ Club Espagnol Alvaro  Echanove singing, "Quique" on guitar, Kara Miranda and  Dennis Antonyswamy  dancing,  Ahau Marino  on cajon, guest  Ali Omar El-Farouk علي عمر الفاروق  playing Oud * Reservation recommended September 22 - 3pm Vancouver International Flamenco Festival "Las Solitas" Picnic Pavilion stage on Granville Island "Marekito" on guitar,  Jafelin  singing, solos by Kara Miranda, Katia Flores, Yurie Kaneko, "Katalina" Cruz, Jhoely Triana September 23 - 12PM Vancouver International Flamenco Festival Artist Creative Residency Zagar Studio at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street September 23 - 8pm East is East "Chai Gallery" Peter Mole  on guitar, Kara Miranda and 

Here's a pixelized style drawing on an online art post forum when I was 12, inspired by a flamenco poster from Spain. I just loved the bright colours of vivid yellow, orange and green.

Let me start off by saying that I am very blessed with an entire family of talented artists - so my life growing up and Christmas may not be typical. Often times we gift each other hand-made cards and paintings as we can appreciate the amount of time and concentration that went into producing the one of a kind item. So it was with great joy on Christmas to open the present box and discover this amazing doll inside!  Not only is my sister Corinna Jasmine a very talented illustrator and painter, she has picked up the skills of fashion design and is able to figure out complex crafting as shown in these photos. The Doll arrived set up in a beautiful box with several accessories such as a Peineta (Spanish hair comb), Miniature red flowers (shown in one of the photos below), a Mantilla (Black lace shawl to wear over her head) and even a beautiful crushed velvet purple flower for myself to wear. She came with a detachable wig so I can customize her in the future. Can you believe sh

Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël! During the holidays seems to be the time I find most to catch up with side and art projects, and also take the time to reflect on the last year and plan on the time ahead. I'm excited to start using the latest Google Sites creator - after many years of creating websites using WYSIWYG editors, the UI of Google Sites is by far the most intuitive I have used and has great potential. It may not have all the features I need at the moment, but looks like they will be continuing to roll out updates that will allow for even more customization. Hope this will inspire me to post more often!