>> Sunday, June 19, 2011 Weaving Stories of Transformation A presentation featuring twelve women exploring stories of transformation, conflict and resolution through movement. 8 weeks, 12 women with one mission: To weave stories of transformation, conflict and resolution through movement. On June 19, 2011, Native Women in the Arts in association with MataDanZe bring twelve women to share their stories of transformation at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. Based on an eight-week long process, twelve women create, weave and transform their life stories into an inspiring and transformational experience in movement and narrative. Weaving Stories of Transformation, is an evening for audiences to indulge in storytelling through body and voice. The workshop presentation will be accompanied by local live musicians Avo Lelani and Lena Recollect, plus a special presentation by MataDanZe's new multidisciplinary creation Desaparecidas - a memoir of one of the collective's members grandmothers disappearance during the civil war of El Salvador. MataDanZe is a Toronto-based dance-theatre collective of diverse women whose mission is to empower women through movement, and to transform the stigmatized role of women in society through dance and activism. Native Women in the Arts is a not-for-profit organization for First Nations, Inuit and Metis women from diverse artistic disciplines who share a common interest in culture, art, community and the advancement of Indigenous peoples. WHEN: WHERE: COST:
>> Saturday, April 23, 2011 I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind (Excerpt of a work-in-progress) After a successful studio presentation with Vanguardia Dance Projects, I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind will have a second studio presentation of this work-in-progress. This contemporary dance work is an exploration about Native stereotypes that are held commonly in society and portrayed in media. It is also an examination of stereotypes that Native people have about themselves. This new dance work is a means of working with and developing some ideas around the theme of Indigenous stereotypes and expressing them through movement with young Aboriginal dancers. Choreographed by Carlos Rivera, and performed by Sarain Carson-Fox, Waawaate Fobister, Lilia Leon and Carlos Rivera. This studio presentation will also include a Q & A with the choreographer and dancers, and with a performance by Café con Pan, playing traditional Indigenous music from Mexico. WHEN: WHERE: COST:
>> Saturday, April 16, 2011 I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind (Studio Presentation) This contemporary dance work is an exploration about Native stereotypes that are held commonly in society and portrayed in media. It is also an examination of stereotypes that Native people have about themselves. This new dance work is a means of working with and developing some ideas around the theme of Indigenous stereotypes and expressing them through movement with young Aboriginal dancers. Choreographed by Carlos Rivera, and performed by Sarain Carson-Fox, Waawaate Fobister, Lilia Leon and Carlos Rivera. Native Women in the Arts presents this excerpt as part of the Short Works at Vanguardia Dance Projects at Winchester Street Theatre in Toronto. This evening also showcases excerpts from Toronto-based Latin American artists: Norma Araiza (Mexico), Newton Moraes (Brazil), Heryka Miranda (Guatemala), and Olga Barrios (Columbia). WHEN: WHERE: COST:
>> March 31, 2011 Call for Participants Weaving Stories of Transformation is a workshop for any woman with a curiosity for movement and a story to tell. This workshop is designed to expand the confidence of the participants by exploring movement vocabulary that encourages emotional expression in a safe and exciting environment.
Workshop dates: >> Wednesday March 2, 2011 Catalyst Cafe Series: Formerly Nadjiwan The man behind the music is Marc Meriläinen (formerly Nadjiwan). Born in northern Manitoba and raised in the untamed beauty of Northwestern Ontario, Marc knew from an early age he would perform music. Marc went on to achieve much success in both Canada and the United States with the NADJIWAN project. Releasing four records from 1995 to 2008, Marc quickly generated great reviews and found his way on to many radio play lists on both sides of the border including various nominations for Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and Native American Music Awards. Marc's releases have also made their way to the number one spot on various Aboriginal music charts. In addition to releasing his own original music, Marc has composed scores for theatre and television. His work on the production of Agokwe earned him a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination in 2009 for "Best Original Composition". Some of the other theatre productions include; New World Brave, Coyote City and Artifacts. Marc has also provided music and scores for CBC, CTV and APTN. DATE: WHERE: COST:
>> Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Up Close & Personal with Digging Roots After four years of touring in Canada, the US and Europe, 2010 Juno Award winners Digging Roots have released their new recording 'WE ARE'. The musical force behind Digging Roots is the chemistry of ShoShona Kish and Raven Kanatakta. Their convergence of styles is that Digging Roots almost undefinable sound...somewhere blurred between the lines of roots, rock, hip-hop, and blues. Backed by their vintage styled rhythm section Digging Roots have completed their 2010 tour that included dates in the US, Mexico, Australia and Canada. WHEN: WHERE: COST:
>> Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Bush to City, With Guitar in Hand: Sarah DeCarlo Sarah DeCarlo's music is an eclectic folk infusion with roots in punk, rock and doo wop. She brings a sincere and warm stage presence that can evoke not only humour but depth and spirituality. Her songs can be witty but also carry a meaningful critic of environment, the political and self-awareness. Sarah DeCarlo is a singer/songwriter and musician from Peterborough, ON. She has been playing music since 2003 and was featured in Spirit Magazine and on their Warrior Songs CD in 2007. Sarah has shared the stage with up and coming artists such as Cris Derksen and Melody Mercredi as a featured performer at the Ode'min Giizis in Peterborough, and Keith Secola. Sarah works in the north in both Quebec and Ontario and has recently completed two CD Projects with youth and community in the Cree Nation of Wemindji. Sarah works to make art and art resources available to young people in the north. She is a video artist and will soon have her first CD completed and available soon. WHEN: WHERE: COST:
>> November 25 - 28, 2010 La Pocha Nostra Workshop Guillermo Gómez-Peña conducted an intensive workshop on performance art with performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, and students from across Canada who were interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. The workshop included 21 participants between the ages of 23 – 60 years old who came from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. This cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational workshop involved performance artists, actors, dancers and students from diverse ethnic communities and artistic backgrounds including First Nations, culturally diverse and new generation artists. The 21 participants in the workshop focused on the development of performance-based interventionist strategies using voice, movement, space, objects, writing, costume and the creation of personas. Participants were exposed to La Pocha Nostra's most recent performance exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. DATE/ TIME: Nov 25 - 29, 2010 from noon - 6 pm COST: $50 VENUE: 401 Richmond St West, Toronto
>> Saturday, October 30, 2010 Dancing the Universe in Flux Preservation, Reconstruction, Restoration is key to the investigative approach to renewal and ritual as cultural existence in contemporary art. Troy Emery Twigg connects to his Blackfoot culture and personal existence in the world and universe. In this performance, Troy changes space into cultural place by this examination of renewal, ritual, practice and language. By connecting Flux and the Native Paradigm to traditional components of knowledge through storytelling dance and song, Troy explores the emergence of truth and takes a close look at the physical and emotional imprints of contemporary society and that of the past. About Troy Emery Twigg He has worked on projects including Iitaohkanaop'pi: The Meeting Place, a joint venture with the Lethbridge Symphony, the University of Lethbridge Education, Music and Art departments, and the Blackfoot Community. He has also been involved with the Centre for Indigenous Theatre productions A Series of Savage Events: A Love Story and Forgive Those Who Trespass. In 2007, his collaboration with visual artist Tannis Neilson entitled Static debuted as a solo piece at the Box Salon in Toronto. He has recently remounted the work as part of the Glenbow Museum's Bares All event and Artstage II for the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge. Troy has created a duet with Toronto choreographer Terrill Maguire and composers' Olivia Tailfeathers and Marsha Coffey titled Pulse, which premiered December 2007. COST: $10 at the door only VENUE:
>> Saturday, September 4, 2010 "Aiya!" Tanya Lukin Linklater will create and exhibit a sound performance utilizing her amplified voice. Her vocabulary draws on experimental song, gutteral sounds, and deconstructed words from Alutiiq language to create a soundscape emanating from her body. About Tanya Lukin Linklater (performer/creator) Tanya trained in theatre and Native American Literature as a Mellon Fellow at Stanford University, where she received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Creative and Performing Arts. She has trained in contemporary Aboriginal Dance at The Banff Centre, the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, and in modern dance and Noguchi Taiso at Mile Zero Dance. She has shown her choreographic and performance art works at LIVE Biennale in Vancouver, Art Nomade in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Expanse Movement Arts Festival in Edmonton, at "Acts of Transfer: Women and Performance in the Americas" at UCLA, at La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario's Fair of Alternative Art Sudbury, Visualeyez: Latitude 53's Festival of Performance Art, Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University, and Mile Zero Dance's Salon Series. She is also a member of Aanmitaagzi, a collective of multidisciplinary artists based in Nipissing First Nation. She is a former board member of Latitude 53, and currently serves on the board of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. VENUE: COST: $7 at the door only
>> Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Catalyst Cafe with Ryan Cunningham Join us to learn more about a new generation of contemporary Aboriginal Playwrights and Theatre creators in Canada. Actor/writer/co-producer Ryan Cunningham will be performing excerpts from new contemporary Aboriginal plays. Ryan will share how Aboriginal theatre introduced him to Aboriginal ceremony and tradition. He will discuss the current landscape of Aboriginal Theatre in Canada, and the new generation of contemporary Aboriginal Playwrights and Theatre creators in this country. About Ryan Cunningham Ryan has performed at numerous venues including: The National Arts Centre (The Ecstasy of Rita Joe), Theatre Project Manitoba (Stretching Hide), Native Earth Performing Arts (Annie Mae's Movement, Dreary & Izzy, Julius Ceasar: Death of a Chief, Weesageechak Begins To Dance festival of new works XVI, XVII, XVIII, XXII), Firehall Arts Centre (playing Bobby Strong in URINETOWN: The Musical. Jessie award for Best Production), Caravan Farm Theatre (I.O.U. Land), Roseneath Theatre (Danny, King of the Basement), Citadel Theatre (Oh, What a Lovely War), For Film and TV: Mixed Blessings, Blue Murder, Earth: Final Contact, Sir Parker, Spinning Out of Control, Mentors. This spring Ryan will begin filming the WWI feature film, Four Saints with Famke Janssen. WHERE: Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street (College & w. of Spadina) Food and Refreshments are available on the menu.
>> Wednesday, January 13, 2010 A Voice Intensive for Aboriginal Women led by Pura Fe in Toronto The Voice Intensive workshop is open to 12 Aboriginal women who are emerging and established singers, musicians, songwriters and music enthusiasts. Participants will explore singing as physical experience, solo and group composition, and learn more about the music industry. Led by renowned singer/songwriter Pura Fe, the participants will receive practical hands-on development that will enhance their confidence and skills as singers. Participants in the voice intensive will be able to experience first-hand the power of live performance by singing as a group during the concert. About Pura Fe DATE: Wednesday January 13, 2010 Concert with Pura Fe in the Evening Wednesday January 13, 2010 Tickets: Call 416-598-4078 or at the door.
>> Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Native Women in the Art Presents Juno-nominated and Nammy award winning singer, songwriter & musician Pura Fé has brought contemporary Native music to the forefront of the mainstream music. Her lush and soulful voice mixes with her lap steel guitar as she fuses the blues with her Indigenous influence. DATE: Wednesday, January 13 TIME: 8pm (doors open at 7pm) VENUE: ADMISSION:
>> Sunday, October 18, 2009 Native Women in the Arts and ImagineNATIVE Presents This intimate portrayal celebrates the role of clan mothers from past to present, while giving voice to the hopes and dreams of an entire community. This is a courageous and uncompromising look into the lives and hearts of women who stood behind the lines of Caledonia and Six Nations. AND Shimasani (Grandma) A Navajo Grandmother reflects on her past, while contemplating the future of generations to come in this beautiful film celebrating life and loss. Please join us. Everyone is welcome. DATE: Sunday, October 18th TIME: 3-5pm VENUE: ADMISSION: PASS PRICES: www.imaginenative.org
>> Thursday, August 27, 2009 (Re)representation a Youth Exhibit (Re)representation was a youth exhibit held at the Art Gallery of Ontario that showcased young artists expressing their own identity and reclaiming their right to define who they are. The exhibition was organized by the One Nation in Unity Youth Program at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto with assistance from Bernard Leroux and Tannis Nielsen. Come join us for an intimate evening of lively conversation with several of the young and upcoming artists featured in the exhibit and explore how Indigenous artists are using art to revision their identity, the importance of art in creating an Aboriginal presence in the city, and catch a glimpse of some of the exciting work coming from young Indigenous artists in Toronto. This cafe also welcomes other young artists in attendance to share their work through poetry, song, and video for a fun and interactive evening. WHEN: WHERE: ADDMISSION: $5 Per Person Food and refreshments provided. Everyone welcome.
>> Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Temagami Artistic Collective Presents Shane Yellowbird is a Cree from Hobbema, Alberta who has become one of Canada's hottest country music stars. His debut album, "Life is Calling My Name" created quite a stir with three Top 10 radio and videos hits to his credit including the most nominations at the 2007 CCMA Awards where he took home the coveted "Chevy Rising Star" award. Wed. July 22, 2009 - Temagami Arena, TICKETS ALSO FEATURING ADVANCE TICKETS The Temagami Artistic Collective gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts, Native Women in the Arts, Temagami Community Foundation, and the Municipality of Temagami.
>> Tuessday, July 21, 2009 Temagami Artistic Collective Presents The Temagami Artistic Collective is pleased to announce top voice and performance coach Micah Barnes will be facilitating a music career workshop at Dream Keepers Café on July 21 10:00am - 6:00pm in Temagami, Ontario. The music career workshop in Temagami will consist of group work and one-on-one sessions geared towards the needs of each participant. All emerging and established musicians, songwriters and music enthusiasts are encouraged to attend. About Micah Barnes Micah is a top voice and performance coach for the TV, film, theatre and recording industries. He is a top "go-to guy", used by managers, labels, producers and directors in the Canadian and US media industries to develop artists and improve clients' voice production in the studio and for live performances. His private coaching and SINGERS PLAYGROUND workshops and seminars have trained generations of new artists to achieve liberation in performances in both Canada and the US. His many credits include the Atlantis feature film "Fugitive Pieces", recording projects with Juno award winning artists such as Lorraine Segato of The Parachute Club, and TV shows including Andrew Lloyd Webber's "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" Registration fee is $25 and can be paid in advance at the Temagami Municipal Office or at the door. ($15 for students, seniors, unemployed). Workshop runs 10:00am -6:00pm and includes lunch. Space is limited! For registration and further information please contact:
>> Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Catalyst Cafe: MorningStar River Singers and Batmend Baashankuu About Catalyst Cafes Please join us. Everyone is welcome. DATE: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm PLACE: COST: $10 Per Person. Please pay at the door only
>> Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Catalyst Cafe with Carlos Rivera About Carlos Rivera He studied at the Government of Mexico City's Cultural Secretary Dance School and the Centre for Choreographic Research (CICO-INBA) at the Mexican Fine Arts Institute. Carlos has been in numerous dance productions in Canada and Mexico as well as a director and choreographer of the Yumare Arte Escenico, a traditional/contemporary dance company based in Mexico. As a choreographer, Carlos draws from elements within traditional and popular culture in contemporary dance. His recent choreographic works include Bosque Sagrado, Jardines y Santuarios, Memorias del Fandango, and From the Aztlan to the Zocalo. Carlos' performance credits include: Caribou Song (Red Sky, presented with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall), and the touring version of Caribou Song which was performed in Switzerland, Australia, Canada, China, Iceland and the United States. He has also performed in Raven Stole the Sun (Red Sky) which toured across Canada, with 11-sold out shows at the National Arts Centre and 16 sold-out shows at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People. He also performed in the critically acclaimed dance productions: Dancing Americas (Red Sky) which closed the 2004 Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts Centre, and Shimmer (Red Sky) which was the highlight at The Banff Centre's 2006 Summer Arts Festival, and sold-out at the 2006 Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts Centre, Vancouver's EARTH Festival and enWave Theatre in Toronto. He will also be performing in Red Sky's latest dance creation, Tono, at the Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre) on June 5, 6, 7, 2009 as part of Luminato. Other credits include: Miinogooweziwin...the Gift, Bones, Throw Away Kids, Light and Shadows, all presented at The Banff Centre. About Catalyst Cafes Please join us. Everyone is welcome. DATE: Wednesday May 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm PLACE: COST: $5 Per Person. Please pay at the door only
>> Thursday, May 14, 2009 Catalyst Cafe with Bonnie Devine About Bonnie Devine History and narrative have been and remain a compelling focus of her art practice. Her work is about stories and the voices that tell them, the bodies that carry them and the land that birthed them. Recent solo exhibitions Writing Home at Gallery Connexion in Fredericton New Brunswick, Medicine River at AxeNeo7 in Gatineau Quebec, and an upcoming exhibition Bad Land at the IAIA Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, incorporate new media, sculpture and installation in abstract narratives that combine the geography and history of Northern Ontario. Her videos have been shown internationally. Her most recent work, the short video A Grim Fairy Tale was screened at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Devine graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and York University and lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. About the two short films: After the screening Devine will talk about Winnetou, the fictional Indian created by German novelist Karl May, and the "Eastern Western" movies based on him. She will also discuss the 19th century ledger drawings from which the imagery in her film is derived. About Catalyst Cafes Please join us. Everyone is welcome. DATE LOCATION www.tinto.ca/menu.html COST
>> Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Contortion and Aerial Acrobatics with Julie Choquette About Julie Choquette Julie will perform a 15-minute piece and will then be part of our participatory café where we will learn more about her life and what takes to be a contortionist and aerial acrobatic. About Catalyst Cafés Everyone is welcome. DATE: Wednesday May 13 at 6:30 pm TIME: 6:30 pm (from 6:30 – 7:30 pm) PLACE: COST: $5 at the door only Mix and mingle at 6:15 pm
>> Thursday, April 2, 2009 Native Women in the Arts Present in Association with The Theatre Centre in Conjunction with Performance Creation Canada Territoires Féminins - Women's Territories Inspired by her Abenaki grandmother, Marie-Claude Rodrigue's contemporary choreographic work, Territoires Féminins - Women's Territories brings a new approach to live performance. Women's Territories speak to the contemporary rites of passage that link women to the changing of seasons. The cycles found in nature - from death to rebirth - are vividly brought to life on stage, with poetry by Judith Duerk, alongside a compelling combination of video, music, costume, scenography, and lighting. These elements take the spectator on a journey to the world of Yin energy. Marie-Claude Rodrigue trained in contemporary dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and at the Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal (LADMMI). For thirteen years, she worked as a contemporary dancer and teacher with the internationally acclaimed O Vertigo danse company. Her passion for the performing arts has led her to include voice work, theatre, contact improvisation, tango dancing, and various somatic release techniques. She is founder and director of Danse Fragments Libres, an organization that reflects on inter-cultural dialogue and the sacred aspect of art. DATE LOCATION COST
>> Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Cheryl L'Hirondelle's Giveaway Join award winning singer/songwriter and interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle (Metis/Cree/German/Polish) as she sings a few songs from her recent 5 song EP (Giveaway) and talks about the the artists' voice and intrinsic conceptual relationship and interconnectivity between all the various creative modes she makes work in. Cheryl L'Hirondelle is an award winning practicing multi and interdisciplinary artis and musician who's creative practice is an investigation of the junction of a Cree worldview in contemporary time and space. Everyone is welcome Date and Time: Location: Mix & Mingle / Doors open at 6:45 pm. Cost: $5 Per Person ~ Please pay upon arrival. Guest Artistic Programmer: Denise Bolduc
>> Tuesday, February 24, 2009 An Agokwe Boy Waawaate is a multi talented actor, playwright and dancer. A proud Anishnaabe from Grassy Narrows First Nation, northern Ontario. He is a graduate and winner of the "Distinguished Performance - Male" Award from Humber College's Theatre Performance Program. He is a recipient of a number of grant awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council. His work "Agokwe" opened the 2008 season at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. His notable performances include: "A Very Polite Genocide" (Native Earth Performing Arts); "Pawaajigun" (Nish); "Death of a Chief" (Native Earth/National Arts Centre); "The Rez Sisters" (Theatre North West); "Schoolhouse" (Blyth Festival); "The Passage" (Pu-Kawiss Productions); "PrideCAB," (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Voices (Mixed Company Theatre) and in the "National Artist Program" (Canada Winter Games 2007 - Whitehorse). Everyone is welcome Date and Time: Location: Cost:
>> Monday, February 2, 2009 Inspiring The Velvet Devil Andrea Menard, a multi-talented Metis actor, singer/songwriter and screenwriter. With a voice that chills your spine, she dazzles on stage and screen, bringing audiences to tears. Her voice is lyrical, raw, and reminiscent of the jazz and blues singers of the 1940's, yet she captures the simplicity of the great folk artists. Andrea Menard is a versatile, powerhouse, mesmerizing in her Gemini-nominated (Best Performance by an Actress) television starring roles, The Velvet Devil and Moccasin Flats. She currently stars in Rabbit Fall and has released two award-winning albums: The Velvet Devil; and Simple Steps as well as her new CD, Sparkle. The Velvet Devil is adapted from her successful one-woman stage play of the same title, performed across Canada including at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa. Please join us. Everyone is welcome. DATE LOCATION COST >> Thursday, November 20, 2008 Bolivia, Canada and the World: An Epic Battle Cynthia Cisneros Fajardo, a Bolivian journalist and activist, has worked with prisoners, the poor and Indigenous peoples and is a participant in the recent historic battle for democracy in Bolivia. Ms Cisneros provided a vivid report on conditions in Bolivia at the grass-roots level and their significance for Canada. The future of democracy in Bolivia and the world is still in flux. In the opinion of Ms Cisneros, Bolivia provides an example to Canadians of democratic action to meet profound social problems, forging a new path for humanity. The presentation was in Spanish with an English translator This event was a co-production between The KAIROS Committees of Toronto, Native Women in the Arts, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity and the Toronto Archdiocesan Council, Development & Peace. DATE: Thursday November 20, 2008 at 7 pm
>> Thursday, October 16, 2008 Native Women in the Arts, Women in Film & Television of Toronto and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival are pleased to co-present: Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn And Back Thursday, October, 16, 3PM Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn And Back is about the long distance between New York City and the Kahnawake reserve outside Montreal that is bridged by generations of Mohawks who call both places home. This personal documentary explores the decades-long connection that Reaghan's family shares with a small neighbourhood in Brooklyn, once known as Little Caughnawaga, that was home to the first wave of Ironworkers who helped build the Big Apple's skyscrapers. Told by the accounts of the women who lived there, Tarbell reveals the untold story of a unique Mohawk community. Preceded A Warrior Woman's Journey: From Six Nations to Oaxaca, directed by Audrey Huntley. This compelling portrait of and modern warrior Doreen Silversmith follows her from her community in Six Nations, Ontario to Oaxaca, Mexico to meet with fellow Indigenous communities and activities, and join in their massive protests against governmental injustice. imagineNATIVE runs from October 15-19, 2008. For more information, please visit www.imaginenative.org. Tickets BOX OFFICE HOURS, LOCATION, AND DATES Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre >> Friday/Saturday, September 26/27, 2008 Songs Above the Treeline Friday, September 26, Songs Above the Treeline celebrates the rarely heard sounds, sights, and talents of five of Canada-s most accomplished women artists who are from the northern landscape - above the treeline. Award-winning musicians include Tanya Tagaq, Leela Gilday, Lucie Idlout, and Inuit throat singers Kendra Tagoona and Becky Kilabuk.
>> September 24 - 27, 2008 Call for Applications Program dates: September 24-27, 2008 Songs Above the Treeline offers the opportunity for 15 Aboriginal women from across Canada to work with award-winning artist faculty in a three-day voice intensive workshop at The Banff Centre. In this practical, hands-on experience, participants will explore traditional and contemporary song creation, singing as physical experience, breath control and capacity, resonance, care of the voice, as well as solo and collaborative compositions. Scholarships available.
>> Thursday, July 3, 2008 Aboriginal identity is complex within the contemporary realities. Aboriginal identity is often more than who the individual is. Family, land and culture is intertwined and equates a collective expression of identity. Government policy and fixed identities have created confusion, frustration and division within Aboriginal communities, fracturing identity. Aboriginal identity is evolutionary. With strong foundations it constantly defines and redefines itself to survive. Is identity what you do or who you are? How can Aboriginal identity be addressed in todayís contemporary society? Please join award winning athlete, motivational speaker and physical trainer, Waneek Horn-Miller (Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation) in a discussion addressing identity and how health and personal well-being can drive one along a journey of self-discovery. Waneek has traveled extensively throughout Native country for the past 15 years working with Aboriginal people of all ages, speaking sharing her personal story, and hoping to inspire them to achieve their dreams. She currently is the coordinator of the First Peopleís House at McGill University. Thursday July 3, 2008 from 6 pm - 9 pm >> Thursday, February 28, 2008 Denise Bolduc is French and Anishnawbe of the Batchewana First Nations, located near Sault Ste Marie. With an extensive background as an artistic director, producer, coordinator and presenter, Denise has also worked as a Multi-disciplinary Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council and as a Music & Dance Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts. Notable recent projects include CopyCamp - an event for artists working on the net and the challenges of copyright, Honouring Theatre - a tri-country theatre tour, and Planet IndigenUs - an international 10 day contemporary multidisciplinary arts festival. Denise was also the Artistic Director/Co-founder of the Aboriginal Music Project ñ a premiere Aboriginal music organization in Canada. Denise is currently in the research/development stage of her first film documentary and is an inspiration to one and all. Come and hear the journey of this incredible woman. DATE LOCATION COST
>> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 The Career Strategies in the Music Biz workshop/lecture is intended for emerging artists in the music industry looking to explore what makes a successful act in the music business and how to best market themselves. Micah Barnes, a seasoned music industry coach, currently working with the organization Singers Playground, will lead this workshop. For those artists who are struggling or feeling stuck, this workshop will outline a doable agenda for achieving their goals. About Micah Barnes Music Biz Workshop/Lecture Wayne Lavallee: Rock n Roll Indian Cowboy DATE LOCATION COST
>> Saturday, December 1, 2007 (post) Colonial Stress Disorder: Imaging a Way Out Curated by Wanda Nanibush This program will feature the screening of six short films by six emerging Indigenous voices within media arts today. The screenings will be introduced by curator Wanda Nanibush with an essay on Post Colonial Stress Disorder and will be followed by an audience/curator Q&A. Wanda Nanibush (Anishinabe-kwe from Beausoleil First Nation) is an independent curator, writer and emerging artist living in Ottawa. Location: Women's Arts Resource Centre (WARC) Gallery *Refreshments will be served. Please join us, everyone welcome. >> March
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>> March 27 - April 1, 2006, 11 am – 4 pm Ten Thousand Waves Dance Intensive and Collaboration Dovercourt Penthouse Ten Thousand Waves is a dance project for twelve women involved in dance and/or movement with a focus on the creation of new original work. Ten Thousand Waves will focus on Aboriginal women’s relationship to the natural world and especially to water – seas, oceans, rivers, fresh lakes, waterfalls and streams. Ten Thousand Waves is interested in exploring this centuries old connection by linking contemporary Aboriginal dance expression to ecological knowledge and integrity. This one week intensive workshop is open to 12 Aboriginal women dancers, choreographers and performers.
>> Saturday March 18, 2006, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Hip Hop Dance Culture & Youth Leadership Native Canadian Centre (16 Spadina Road - Spadina north of Bloor) Free admission Open to all Peoples Please wear comfortable clothing and get ready to sweat! Facilitated by Ruben and Juan Esguerra Ruben and Juan Esguerra quickly gravitated towards Hiphop culture and began to stepdance and breakdance in school organized shows. The more that they saw and read about Hip Hop, the more they felt a connection between the social struggles of their family, and how Hip Hop was really a culture of unity, protest and expression.
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