Fwd: Indigenous events this fall

[Julie]

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Objet: Indigenous events this fall

Hello all!

Hope your semester is starting out well!

A few items/events below for your interest and fall planning. Please circulate to your colleagues!

Ekoshi

Michelle

John Abbott's Decolonizing Pedagogies Group ( A model we can emulate at Dawson?)
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/decolonizing-the-classroom-at-john-abbott-college

CICan 2017 Indigenous Education Symposium Oct 26-27, 2017 in Thunder Bay Ontario                                https://www.collegesinstitutes.ca/event/cican-2017-indigenous-education-symposium/

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World will show at the Parc Cinema this Sept 8-14. This feature documentary by Montreal's Rezolution Pictures explores the role of Native Americans in popular music history. It won the award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance and two awards at Hot Docs. MUST SEE!

Skeena Reece // Dayna Danger + Émilie Monnet at Oboro September 16-October 21

Artists Émilie Monnet and Dayna Danger collaborate together with Brenda Lee Marcoux, Gail Colder, Violet Rose Quinny, Crystal Star Einish and Jenna Guanish to create Wishes / Souhaits. Stars hold a place of special significance in all our Indigenous cultures: they can be ancestors, hand-sewn on blankets to honour people, be a part of our names, or to wish upon. Wishes / Souhaits is a photographic and sound immersive installation that explores the possibilities of dream and imagination to envision ourselves in an empowering way. If we could imagine a star self into existence, who would that person be? Wishes / Souhaits is part of a larger interdisciplinary community arts project with the Native Women Shelter of Montreal. http://www.oboro.net/en/activity/wishes-souhaits

DANCERS OF DAMELAHAMID (Vancouver)
Flicker - West Coast dance performace at 5e salle
Margaret Grenier
https://placedesarts.com/en/event/dancers-damelahamid-flicker
Dancers of Damelahamid is an Indigenous dance company based in British Columbia. For several decades, the company has taken a present-day approach to traditional repertoire, developing a contemporary choreographic practice that honours its First Nations roots and preserves this sung and danced heritage for future generations.

Arrangements and reservations can be made with:
Claire Oliver
Audience Development Coordinator
Danse Danse
4530, St-Laurent #305 - Montréal - H2T 1R3
T 514 848.0623 | F 514 848.0953
cla...@dansedanse.ca
DANSEDANSE.CA

5 shows (November 14 to 18) at 8 p.m. at the Cinquième Salle de la Place des Arts.
A matinée is available on Friday 17th of November at 1:30 (but a reservation of 125 seats is required to confirm the matinée).

For a school group of 15 and more, the cost is $26 all included (per ticket).
1 ticket free for every 15 tickets purchased.
 
And for a group of 10 and more (not students) it’s $36 all included (per ticket).
 
The company will talk to the audience after every show.
 
A workshop with the company is on Thursday 16th or Saturday 18th of November from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the MAI with 2 dancers of the company. The workshop is movement-based with discussion on the cultural significance of Coastal Indigenous movement techniques as well as the importance of story and language within the dance form.  300$ for a maximum of 40 participants.

A participatory lecture moderated by Mikana http://www.mikana.ca/  will take place on Friday 17th of November from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the 5e Salle de la Place des Arts - free. The aim will be to exchange views with the public on issues of cultural heritage, cultural transmission, cultural practices, indigenous arts and cultures and, more broadly, indigenous realities (common history, contemporary relations, etc.).


Michelle Smith
Journeys Coordinator
Cinema/Communications
Dawson College
Steering Committee,
First Peoples Initiative
514-961-4047