Matt Rogalsky

Bio (from website) As a settler-identifying Canadian, I live in Kingston Ontario Canada, also known as Katarokwi, on territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee which were stolen by earlier generations of settlers. I am grateful to have received a lot of insight and understanding from Indigenous friends and colleagues, into principles of ethical living and making, and I am doing my work in light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report and action items. My background is quite international so I often have trouble saying where I am from. Born in Umuahia, Nigeria in 1966 at the cusp of the Biafran War, I was taken back to Canada where Ottawa was home base, but then moved to peninsular Malaysia as a 5 year old. Returning again to Canada, I had Southern Ontario and Manitoba summers and winters, and then moved with my family to Nairobi Kenya, as a teenager. Returning to Canada we relocated to the Vancouver area. Since then I have lived in the USA and England for extended periods, but the last 20 years I have been based in Kingston/Katarokwi with my partner of 37 years, raising a son who was born in England and is now in his twenties and making great music of his ow... more...