Photo: Keesic Douglas There is a certain kind of natural method acting that happens, just because of the nature of the character, and my own personal life, so it kind of stirred up the mud. Mi’kmaq actor Glen Gould has been getting some well-deserved and hard earned attention lately. In early November 2...
The experience of the healing power of story is the greater gift within the script. There are moments of silence—cleverly built into the script—that open you up. Four years ago Kevin Loring’s Governor General award winning play Where The Blood Mixes debuted at Victoria, British Columbia’s Belfry Theatre...
Photo: Joanthon Potskin Awowakii means “Crossing over, a term that is applied to men who live as/or have transitioned into a woman.” Sable Sweetgrass is a name that not only rolls off the tongue nicely, it is very likely a name we will hear more of. Sable started writing in Grade 6 when she got ...
Republished with permission from RPM.fm What does it mean to be Indigenous in the 21st century? More importantly, what does it sound likeThese are questions we’ve been asking since RPM started and every day we see the evidence all around us. Native artists are everywhere—making incredible music, buildin...
All Photos: Mark Dusseault …the nation is in great need to see strong and inspiring Native women—who swim in their abilities and live strong, if not difficult lives. While the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women continues to grow, iconic Indigenous playwright Tomson Highway’s The Rez S...
I’ve had everything from people throwing their beer bottles at me and screaming, and people angry, and people crying their faces off like really crying from right in their heart. I’ve had laughing. I’ve had boners. Tanya Tagaq Chats with Native Waves Radio Host Janet Rogers about spirit, music food, and...
In this photo: Lindsay Eekwol Knight w/DJ Kookum A Showcase of Indigenous Female Hip Hop Acts While the East Coast vs. West Coast Hip Hop debates continue to rage, it’s the female Hip Hop artists who are still vying for a place in the upper echelons of the genre. So it’s important, for the artists ...
Robbie Antone’s Blues Machine. Photo: Caroline Holm In our culture storytelling is a way to preserve our history as Anishnaabe people. Wasauksing First Nation is a small island with a big voice. The fourth annual Storyteller Concert was held at Wasauksing’s community arena in August 2014. The Anis...
Photo: CBC.ca …she was this conglomeration of all these different women in my life, you know, aunts, and my mom and my own Grandmother, just women in my life that I witnessed growing up surrounded by a lot of alcoholism. So I just pulled all these different sources and put them into Gail Stoney. JD: Wha...
Photo: Dawn Avery Performs at Spirit Moon Well Living House 2014 The more I learn the language, the more it changes me. The whole vibration of the sounds, and also the worldview embedded in the language is so profound, that even just learning one word and using it in your life, really can change you… .....
