Alisha Lettman

Alisha is a community-engaged artist, herbalist, and vocalist. With a mother from Sindh and a father from Jamaica, she comes both from neem and calabash. Her work seeks to dismantle systems of oppression on an embodied level while stewarding systems of liberation and pathways for healing.

As an artist, she has led culturally responsive arts and land-based learning projects for youth, seniors and adults of all walks of life. Her projects strive to nurture anti-oppressive communities towards belonging by creativity, enacting a relationship of reciprocity with the land. Alisha currently serves with the City of Vancouver as the artist in residence at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre’s Medicinal Garden, a community teaching resource and source of nourishment and medicine for the neighbourhood. Here, she hosts workshops to engage the public to enact reciprocity with the land, local community, and non-human ecologies.

Alisha is trained in western herbalism and ethnobotany rooted in Ayurvedic and Afro-Caribbean lineages, with years of experience in seed saving and land stewardship. She comes from a line of seed keepers, midwives and herbalists. 

Alisha has performed both her music and poetry at the Vancouver Mural Festival, TD Toronto International Jazz Festival, and the Vines Art Festival. An alumni of the University of British Columbia, Alisha currently resides on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.