Featured Image: Bre Johnson/BFA.com “BalletCollective offers a pathway into the art form, for both artists and audiences alike. It’s not a one-way street, however; for our artistic collaborators, the entire exercise is meant to engage them in the work of another art form, necessarily evolving thei...
Photos by Stoo Metz Photography Mi’kmaw playwright, poet and ecologist shalan joudry’s Winter Moons stokes the embers of a contemporary dance theatrical show by honouring ancestral survival through Mi’kmaw legends and star stories at Neptune Theatre co-presented with Prismatic Arts Festival in Halifax,...
All Photos courtesy of Figure 1 Publishing Canada’s largest ocean watershed begins in the Hudson Bay region. Its pulsing waterways are like veins stretching across Ontario and beyond, intersecting and gathering strength as they flow through dense forests and wetlands. The water moves through populated u...
There’s something evocative about being in the forest at night. Rooted in Indigenous Teachings, the First Nations Garden in Montréal’s Gardens of Light 2024, is a contemporary poetic experience from September 1 to October 31, 2024. Through Indigenous Storytelling – the words and recordings of Innu poet ...
On a sweltering 40-degree summer day, Chuna McIntyre, a Yup’ik storyteller and dancer, is dressed in full regalia and performs a traditional song and dance inside the Louvre Museum, accompanied by the rhythmic beat of his hand drum. He is honouring a Yup’ik mask with his dance, offering a traditional gr...
Feature Image: Chief Willie Sellars digs a grave for community member Stan Wycotte who took his life on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. (Credit: Emily Kassie/Sugarcane Film LLC) Spanish is a small town on the north shore of Lake Huron, approximately 120 kilometres west of...
On a recent summer trip to North Vancouver, I spent a morning at Polygon Gallery, which is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Not only did I get to see the Patkau Architects striking building i...
This year’s 60th annual Venice Art Biennale marked the first-ever solo exhibition of an Indigenous artist from Turtle Island. Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, transformed the American pavilion with his unabashed array of colours. Curated by Kat...
The farewell season of Moosemeat & Marmalade airs on APTN. Photo Credit: Dean Azim APTN’s much-loved food docuseries “Moosemeat & Marmalade” has come to an end after seven seasons. Since its debut in 2015, the Leo award-winning show produced more than 90 episodes, exploring communities from acro...
