Douglas Walbourne-Gough is a poet and mixed/adopted status member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation from Elmastukwek, which is colonially known as the Bay of Islands in western Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and a PhD in Engli...
Feature Image: Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Outside Looking In) A celebration of Indigenous dance, music and visual art will take center stage at Toronto’s Meridian Hall as award-winning Anishinaabe artist Tamara Podemski produces Outside Looking In’s 17th Annual Showcase. T...
Few writers are as prolific as literary virtuoso Billy-Ray Belcourt. His work is boundless –a brilliant mediation of the body, queerness, love and kinship. As a member of Driftpile Cree First Nation, Belcourt holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, and also received a Rhodes Scholarship and an Indis...
On March 8 International Women’s Day, the 4-part documentary series Women of This Land, premiered on CBC Gem. Directed by Stephanie Joline, Women Of This Land is a co-production between Princess Space Monster Films and Peep Media’s Jessica Brown and Jackie Torrens in association with CBC Maritimes, with...
In my hands I held centuries. When I was visiting the Nova Scotia Archives in Wikumkewiku’s September 2023, I looked over treaty documents under the helpful, watchful gaze of the archivists who worked there. The faded signatures of the 18th century Peace and Friendship Treaties were illuminated by warm...
Based on a collaborative audio-visual exhibition of the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) Calls to Actions, Treaty Space Gallery and CIMADE Lab’s “94 Calls to Action,” which runs from January 15 to February 2, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, invites viewers to record a Call to Action in order to add their vo...
Featured Image: Inuit throat singer Nina Segalowitz and Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark, TheWords and Music Show:Enkonkara Tonhase – Let Me Tell You A Story. Photo by Shannon Webb-Campbell, 2023. Colonial borders and academic pedagogy like to keep things separate, to compartmentalize. To define...
Feature Image: Migration Cycles (2002). Lithograph (14/20). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Collection, The Rooms. When I travelled to Ktaqmkuk this past summer to see Mi’kmaw-settler artist Jerry Evans’ retrospective Weljesi at the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s, I stood before his...
Feature Image and all images: Rotary Arts (https://www.facebook.com/RotaryArtsCentre) Sheilagh O’Leary’s solo exhibition, A Sea Change, at the Tina Dolter Gallery at the Rotary Arts Centre in Corner Brook, Ktaqmkuk (or what is colonially known as Newfoundland and Labrador), honours her Mi’kmaw matriline...
Feature Image: Installation view of Emmitukwemk : The Visit, 2023. Image courtesy of The Blue Building Gallery. Photo: Ryan Josey. One month before internationally renowned Mi’kmaw artist Ursula Johnson was preparing for a three-month long residency in Venice, Italy as part of a Fellowship with Ocean Sp...
