Wunmi Idowu is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, filmmaker, performer, and producer and the Founder and Director of Woezo Africa Music & Dance Theatre Inc. Since 2006, Woezo Africa has been passionately dedicated to bringing the history of African culture to the masses through traditional and modern modes of performing arts, including dance, music, theatre and storytelling.Looking to buttress her arts management and leadership skills, Wunmi graduated from the Haskayne School of Business’ Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP) in 2019 and the Rozsa Executive Arts Leadership (REAL) program in 2021 with the Rozsa Foundation. As a producer, Wunmi has organized both local and international productions, including Africa Jo, UNITY: Dance Across Africa, Woezo Africa’s annual Black History Month event UNGANISHA: Explore. Connect. Dance, two successful runs of the Woezo Africa Festival in collaboration with the Guild of Nigerian Dancers (G.O.N.D) and Ijodee Dance Center in Lagos, Nigeria, as well as the 2020 and 2021 Woezo Africa Cultural Festival in Calgary, Alberta. Wunmi’s accolades in the art industry span winning the People's Choice Performing Arts in the category of Dancer of the Year at the 2016 Obsidian Awards. The 24th Annual Immigrants of Distinction Award and the Canada Vendors Entrepreneur Award in 2020, both of which were for the category of Arts and Culture. She won the Afro-Canadian (AC) Community Leader of the Year Award in 2020 and was a recipient of Avenue Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2021. Wunmi was recently recognized on The Nigerian-Canadian Association of Calgary’s (NCAC) Wall of Honour for her outstanding artistic and cultural influence to the City of Calgary. As a member of the Cultural Instigators and the Calgary Arts Development Community Working Group on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Wunmi is helping to co-design Calgary Arts Development’s EDIA procedures, policies, statements, granting requirements, and other various EDIA needs determined by their leadership and staff. By pushing for increased visibility of ethnically and culturally diverse artists in Alberta, Wunmi hopes that perceptions will shift around who participates in the arts. Through dynamic, cutting-edge work that captures the imagination of a range of audiences, her hope is to enhance the creative economy in Calgary,