Featured Image: Partial view of Another Dream, a multi-media installation featuring Herd by Douglas Walbourne-Gough and Returning by Deantha Edmunds. Visual design and creation by Erienne Rennick. Photo credit: Jane Walker Indigenous artists and writers are leading a cultural revival and gaining momentu...
Image Credit: Protected Spectrum (painting) Artist: Avis Blackbird Birds Flutter When the snow coats the branches and ground They think the hidden birds are leaves Until the flicker of the wind reveals the concealed convocation Gatherings and pow wows we rally Raising resilience Hibernating until the wo...
All photos by George Hupka When award winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory was younger, she was taken to visit a buffalo ribstone outside of Regina, where she saw boulder petroglyphs that have existed for thousands of years. It was an experience th...
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...
