love + liberation in all things
Céline Chuang (she/her) is an inter/transdisciplinary writer, designer, and facilitator whose work engages memory, land, and lineage and seeks to iterate and imagine freer futures. Her nonfiction has appeared in places like GUTS, The Funambulist, and The Waking (Ruminate Magazine). She has written for broadsheets for The Blackwood Gallery (“what the river reveals: remembering like the water”) and Or Gallery (“Be not afraid of the ruins / for within, being birthed / new worlds”), and been featured in three anthologies: Currents (Ricepaper Magazine), Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization (Commonword/Orbis), and A Liturgy for All Bodies (edited by Kimmothy Cole). She is fascinated by the unearthing—or perhaps re-earthing—of hidden tellings and knowledges, the narratives crawling round the hem of history or banished from the centre of power.
In her design work, Céline seeks to craft visual and verbal vocabularies that communicate content with accessibility, ease, and pleasure. Her graphic design tends towards the vibrant, illustrative, and DIY, with a specialty in print and layout. She has collaboratively designed, planned, and facilitated programs, events, and workshops in service of contemplative healing justice, anti-oppression, intercultural communication, and others. Céline is also a community arts facilitator who has hosted workshops emphasizing voice, lived experience, and creative expression, most recently with Megaphone Magazine. She works to integrate ritual and mindfulness into her planning, design, and facilitation practice to nurture spaces—and cultures of—transformation and tenderness.
In her art-making and illustration work, Céline explores notions of the sacred, visionary, and regenerative, especially through plants and the living world. She has worked as an associate with anti-racism consultancy company Co: Culture Collective, nonprofit Flavours of Hope, and Geez Magazine. She has performed poetry in churches, bars, cafes, and seminaries, organized for housing justice, and one time a tweet she wrote about the racist & sexist defaults of the Dead White Men™ English literary canon went viral. However, she is most proud of her co-owned lil’ local mostly used bookstore, overflowing garden, food and fermentation experiments, and lifelong neighbourhood auntie calling.
Raised by the river in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 territory (Calgary, Canada) to hyphenated Hakka-Hokkien immigrant parents, Céline has ancestral & familial connections to Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Meixian and Fujian, China. After nearly a decade on the unceded land of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) in so-called Vancouver, she now lives in amiskwaciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton), under the same big prairie sky as her childhood.
If you are interested in working with Céline or booking Céline for an event, you can email her at celinetranquilitychuang [at] gmail.com. (Please note: Response time may be slow.)