Dima is a Lebanese artist, activist, puppet maker and educator currently based in Santa Cruz. Through performance, film, land based rituals and  immersive experiences, her work is often collaborative, shape-shifting, seeking loopholes between oppressive structures, and practicing art’s capacity to uplift, weave relationships and lines of solidarity that cultivate a collective imagination for a more intuitive, heartful world. Prior to beginning the Environmental Art and Social Practice program, she was co-creating street performances and interventions with Zayraqoun collective, leading community art programs with Catalytic Action design Studio, teaching at Horshna forest school, reforesting, and beginning her land based research with the Museum for the Displaced.