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Performance
The Talking Stick Festival’s opening gala comes to your homes virtually featuring performances by M’Girl, Ostwelve, Tzokam with Russell Wallace, and Wayne Lavallee
Performance
An 8:30-minute sunrise ceremony to be experienced on the land, at dawn. This sound work invites Listeners to consider what medicine we have to gift the future. A story-seed that begins with a ceremony at the water, this performance-ceremony was created in association with Delinquent Theatre.
Music
Rez Bluez will feature a mix of pre-recorded live performances from blues venues throughout Canada, a radio documentary segment, TV variety series and workshops. You’ll hear some of the most powerful, soulful voices, guitar grooves and foot stompin’ piano, that are all deeply rooted in the blues. Rez Bluez presents the best of Indigenous blues talent from all over Turtle Island.
Performance
UNYA’s Overly Creative Minds (OCM) Program has been providing space for youth to find and strengthen their voice through the arts. Virtual Medicines showcases the tremendous talent and work of emerging artists’ from the urban Indigenous community.
Performance
Catch the full length musical performances from our opening night celebration featuring: Ostwelve, Wayne Lavallee, M’Girl and Tzokam with Russell Wallace.
Performance
Join Indigenous comedian Candy Palmater and a few of her very talented friends for a special edition of her multiple award-winning national variety TV show, The Candy Show—an indulgence in Canada’s best talent!
Workshop Reading
Wolf Cull is about a group of young Indigenous womxn who hunt down the mysterious creature that threatens their community. In Rebel’s dream, Leader, Poet, Brawn, and Wild Card discover unusual tracks and use their skills as artists and hunters to uncover the secret of this creature.
Performance
Nyla Carpentier (Tahltan/Kaska) brings together a virtual poetic evening in honour of “East Van ghetto” poet Zaccheus Jackson Nyce (Blackfoot), the original From Talking Stick to Mic curator. The evening will showcase a variety of poets and styles.
Music, Dance
Join us for the closing of the winter lodge with a live stream performance featuring DJ O Show and DJ Kookum. Plus some surprise guests throughout the night. Come on out virtually to shake a tail feather
Talk
Gather around Shane’s virtual table for sharing art, stories, knowledge and support. Bring your latest project, a doodle, beadwork, or anything else to work on while we chat. You’re invited to talk about your art making process, lead a short skills share, and just enjoy being together.
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This conversation honours the work Indigenous women have done to carry legacy and vision for artistic communities. It also calls us to reciprocal and collective action as artistic Future-Keepers. (Zoom-generated captions will be provided, and a transcript will be available after the event.)
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How traditional teachings and Contemporary Therapy protocols and language can ground our conflict and care along productive, respectful and meaninful paths towards Right Relations. Zoom-generated captions will be provided, and a transcript will be available after the event.
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From the Waters: (In Memoriam) Woody Morrison, Ronnie Dean Harris, Kat Norris hosted by Kim Haxton. Origin stories re-told from the three Host Nations and Relations from Upriver in 4 separate recordings.
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Rez Bluez is a non-going movement of the best of Indigenous blues talent from all over Turtle Island. This is celebrated through live shows in blues venues throughout Canada (pre-Covid),a radio documentary segment, TV variety series, workshops, and as a virtual concert series.
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An invitation to the International Indigenous dance community to circle together and offer our thoughts and dreams to our ancestors during these unprecedented times.
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A Workshop facilitated by Charles Koroneho. Join our exchange of poetic precipitation, a virtual cycle of matter, substance and data rising and falling within an augmented digital ecosystem. Charles Koroneho respectfully acknowledges Altofest 202X for the support of this workshop.
Discussion
How do we honour sovereign recognition into our artistic practice? What are some obstacles, old protocols and new practices that ensure visibility and voice for the local rights and title holders while also ensuring reciprocity, presence, and potency for displaced/ visiting artists?
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Respected choreographers and dance artists contemplate where the dance community is in collective practice— where we’ve come from and what we carry with us as we navigate current cultural, social, and political realities.
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Squamish: Bob Baker, Wes Nahanee, Tracy Williams hosted by Kim Haxton. Origin stories re-told from the three Host Nations and Relations from Upriver in 4 separate recordings
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Recounting past, present and future acts of artistic defiance, nation-building and space-making. This program explores how artistic liberation transforms traditional teachings into the justice-centred decolonial story our future ancestors need.
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