DATE: Thursday, February 19th, 2026
TIME: 5pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: 401 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, ON
COST: This event is part of AWE at Night
Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
Experiment with a synthesizer to turn improvised soundscapes into a visual language projected in real time. Then grab paint sticks, pastels, markers and paper to translate what you hear into colour, shape, and lines. Listen deeply, interpret freely, and imagine the sounds of the future.
Anishinaabe (Walpole Island First Nation) & Xicano creative, based in Ontario, is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans hip-hop, film, visual media and installation. Drawing deeply from his ancestral homelands and city-based experience, ishKode’s work centers on collective creativity, connecting land, story, rhythm, image and community.
Being rooted in his conventional role as an emcee/producer from the hip hop culture, he has evolved into a cultural strategist, creative consultant and artist facilitator/educator. He offers workshops, creative consulting, and artist residencies that invite youth and community members to co-create and respond to issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty and creative excellence.
His artistic vision has shifted into a broad interdisciplinary realm: producing immersive sound + film installations, video-media works, live performances with projection and visual elements, and consulting with arts & culture organizations to build creative ecosystems. He couples his city-based hip-hop roots with teachings from his Anishinaabe lineage, acknowledging the interdependence of land, story and community.
ishKode brings a resonant voice to live programming and exhibit installation, merging sonic experimentation with Indigenous storytelling, remixing culture and participatory media. His practice invites the audience into something more than performance: a gathering of knowledge, rhythm and place. He sees his creative work as contributing to a resurgence, not only in Native communities, but in the broader field of arts-culture where the story of the land, of community, and of future imagining is awakened.
In this new chapter, ishKode stands at the intersection of sound and image, heritage and innovation, workshop and installation. He invites collaborators, communities and re-imaginers of culture to join the flow, to move with the beat of the land, to speak through media, to design futures together in the spirit of collective creativity.
