Shelley Chartier being interviewed for Indictment: The Crimes of Shelley Chartier | Image source: ImagineNative.org Indictment: The Crimes of Shelley Chartier is a complex and fascinating true crime story that raises important questions about our justice system. Sensationalized in the international medi...
Scene from Waru | Image source: ImagineNative WARU (2017) is a series of gritty single take short films focused on the aftermath of a Māori boy’s death due to child abuse. These eight compelling stories were all created by Māori wāhine (women) using this simple yet formidable formula: one day and one sh...
Sandra Laronde in Miigis | Image source: Red Sky Performance Sandra Laronde, (Teme-Augama Anishinaabe – People of the Deep Water) is the dynamic creative and cultural leader behind the boundary pushing contemporary Indigenous dance company Red Sky Performance. This year Red Sky presents three comp...
Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong won Best Animation film at Montreal First Peoples Festival | Image source: tiff.net Présence Autochtone/First Peoples’ Festival wrapped up this week celebrating not only the First Nations and Indigenous presence in and surrounding the city of Montreal, but also th...
Xemi Manibusan | Image source: Carlos Bernate, ICMTN Director, actor and writer Xemi Manibusan fights for accurate and respectful Native Two-Spirit representation in the D.C arts scene Xemiyulu ‘Xemi’ Manibusan is an Indigenous, Two-Spirit theatrical director, actor and author in Washington D.C. redefin...
Award-winning Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s collection of writings This Accident of Being Lost is a provocative and relevant adventure of poetry, song and prose. A journey in getting lost, in all kinds of ways, Simpson’s work is incredibly economical, with each word seeming...
Indigenous poetry has always been a place of unearthing, witnessing and healing. Gregory Scofield’s Witness, I Am (Nightwood Editions, 2016), embodies a Cree Sacred Story, revisions Metis identity, and evokes the critical issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women through poetics. Scofield, who is R...
Photo Credit: TSO/Jag Gundu Tagaq’s voice evokes the land and sky, as the ancestors move through her. Inuit throat singer and artist Tanya Tagaq is a life force. At the world premiere of Qiksaaktuq with Toronto Symphony Orchestra for New Creations Festival on March 4 at Roy Thompson Hall, she was...
Interland Memories no.3. Digital Print, 2014 | Image Source: WIOT Magazine Our communities are much like the ecosystem of rivers and lakes. Without new ideas flowing in, they cannot sustain bimaadiziwin. As an artist who is lucky enough travel and do residencies all over the world, one of the most meani...
Bad Medicine, 84″ x 126″, Acrylic on canvas, 2014 Kent Monkman is brilliantly critical of Canada 150 in his latest exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (Currently headed to Calgary on a three year national tour). Monkman has deployed Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his drag que...
