You Are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World, Smokii Sumac’s debut poetry collection, is a place to rest awhile and find honest expressions of hope, grief, rage and falling in love. In You are Enough, the specificity of daily life in Michi Saagig territory (coffee and the Odenabe) moves alongside...
Debbie Bapiste and Jade Tootoosis | Image Credit: Melissa Kent, CBC Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, opens the Hot Docs 2019 International Documentary Festival in Toronto on April 25. Nîpawistamâsowin is a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of the cost of the death of Colten Boushie by Director,...
Scene from The Grizzlies | Image source: Mongrel Media The Grizzlies is an inspiring, and piercing look, into the lives of youth in Kugluktuk, a Nunavut community with one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world. Even though we get introduced to Kugluktuk through the eyes of settler teacher Russ...
Host of Moosemeat and Marmalade, Art Napolean | Image source: Mooswa Films The popular docuseries Moosemeat and Marmalade has returned to APTN in 2019 for another exciting season whereby co-hosts Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes explore the rise of the new Indigenous food scene. This year the duo also get exp...
Cover of Dutcher’s album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa | Image source: jeremydutcher.com After winning last year’s Polaris Prize for his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, Jeremy Dutcher has been nominated for this year’s Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year. Growing up in the...
The Lesley Hampton Collection | Image credit: Ted Belton Values-Based Innovation Indigenous Entrepreneurship is a forty-hour workshop for Indigenous women, two-spirit and non-binary creators working in fashion, textile and craft. The five-day program caters to turning creative practices into freelance b...
Art by Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch | Image credit: Shannon Webb-Campbell Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call Home the Salmon w/Help, a collaborative installation, honours the power of art, action, and ceremony. Featuring work by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour and Dayna Danger, Christi Belcourt, and Isaa...
Author, Carol Daniels | Image source: Inanna Publications & Education Inc. Cree and Dene author Carol Rose Daniels latest Hiraeth (Inanna Publications), a collection of poetry, upholds the strength and resilience of First Nations and Métis women and how the impact of the Sixties Scoop ruptured a se...
Jules Koostachin at book launch at the Pow Wow Cafe in Toronto | Image credit: Mahiigan Koostachin Jules Koostachin is one of those authors who started writing intuitively in an attempt to process pain and, coincidentally, created a medicine from which we can all benefit. It’s hard not to honour someone...
Crystal Johnson aka Crystal Love in Black Divaz | Image source: imaginenative.org Black Divaz dives into almost nearly uncharted territory, giving audiences a glimpse of what it’s like to be a drag queen in Indigenous Australia. Directed by Adrian Russell Wills, the film follows six contestants in their...
