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Date: Friday, December 14, 2018
Time: 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
Location: 4th Floor, 245 McDermot Avenue, Creative Manitoba
Price: $10 (registration required) / Artist and under-employed subsidies available. Please contact Arlea at indigenous@creativemanitoba.ca
Lunch is provided
Registration Deadline is Thursday Dec 13, 2018 at NOON
Hosted by Creative Manitoba Indigenous Programs, Smoke Signals is a gathering of community-engaged artists and arts leaders examining the importance of Indigenous voices in art and media. By reclaiming our roles as oral historians, we find our power through speaking out.
Our goal is to gather around the foundation of our traditional cultural teachings, transmit our Indigenous world view through the power of art and signal the dangers of cultural appropriation. We will spend the day exploring the power of words and intentions in the art world as storytellers and as Indigenous peoples.
With special guests: Elder Albert McLeod, David Garneau, Rosanna Deerchild, Lita Fontaine, Daina Warren, Jessica Dumas, Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie and more to be announced! Hosted by Adeline Bird.
All welcome: The Smoke Signals gathering is for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, students and creatives working in the non-profit service provider sector and in commercial art galleries:
- Artists – visual, literary, craft, performance, etc.
- Art Galleries
- Art and Media Students
- Educational Institutions
- Commercial Galleries
- Artist collectives
- Activist Groups
- Non-profit artist service organizations
During the day we will:
- Understand the historical role of artists within the Indigenous community
- Learn the protocols for engaging Indigenous artists
- Recognize how the arts have the unique ability to transform and galvanize community
- Discover the strength of speaking out and telling your own story
- Acknowledge the unique Indigenous perspectives in our art and media worlds
- Understanding the importance of reclaiming our narrative in the media
- Shed light on the controversies of cultural appropriation in the art world
Schedule:
10:00 am–10:30 am: | Registration & coffee/tea |
10:30 am–11:00 am: | Introductory remarks (Adeline Bird) and Opening Ceremony (Elder Albert McLeod) |
11:00 am–12:00 pm: | Cultural Sensitivities and Protocols in the Art World (Lecture, Elder Albert McLeod) |
12:00 pm–1:00 pm: | Buffet lunch & networking |
1:00 pm–2:00 pm: | Gathering together: Reclaiming Our Narrative (Keynote, David Garneau) |
2:00 pm–2:15 pm: | Break |
2:15 pm–3:15 pm: | Transmissions: Neechies in The News (Conversation, David Garneau, Rosanna Deerchild and Jessica Dumas) |
3:30 pm–4:30 pm: | Signalling Danger: Cultural Appropriation in the Arts (Panel, Lita Fontaine, Daina Warren, Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie) |
4:30 pm: | Closing |
OUR ESTEEMED GUEST BIOGRAPHIES
Elder Albert McLeod is a Status Indian with ancestry from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Metis community of Norway House in northern Manitoba. He has over twenty years of experience as a human rights activist and is one of the directors of the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba. Albert has managed youth programs at Ka Ni Kanichihk and more recently at the Youth Peacebuilding Project at Menno Simons College. To honour his wide-ranging contributions over the past 30 years to Two Spirit people and Indigenous people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as for his community-based advocacy and dedication to human rights for all genders, The University of Winnipeg proudly presented Albert McLeod with an Honorary Doctor of Laws in spring 2018.
Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than 20 years, most recently as host of CBC Radio One’s Unreserved, a show that shares the stories, music and culture of Indigenous Canada. Rosanna is a veteran broadcaster, having worked at APTN, CBC, Global and NCI-FM, where she hosted All My Relations. She has also hosted The (204) and the Weekend Morning Show on CBC Radio One and appeared on CBC Radio’s DNTO. She is an award-winning author and poet. Her debut poetry collection ‘this is a small northern town’ shares her reflections of growing up in a racially divided place. It won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, ‘calling down the sky,’ is her mother’s Residential School survivor story. Rosanna is a co-founder and member of the Indigenous Writers Collective of Manitoba and has also contributed to numerous Indigenous newspapers. A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of North End, Winnipeg.
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December 14, 2018
10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Venue: Creative Manitoba - 4th Floor, 245 McDermot Avenue
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Cancellation policy
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Registrants may cancel up to one week before the event to receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued to registrants who cancel within one week of the event start date. No refunds will be issued for registrants who do not attend.
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