Stone & Sky | Music & Arts Series, Coming Together: Coming Together: collaborative arts based reconciliation celebration

June 15 @ 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm

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As we approach the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s final report and 94 Calls to Action, and with the deepest respect for recently deceased the Honourable Murray Sinclair, who led the Commission, we feel it behooves Stone & Sky to revisit Call to Action #83:
We call upon the Canada Council for the Arts to establish, as a funding priority, a strategy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to undertake collaborative projects and produce works that contribute to the reconciliation process.

Participating artists include:
Word: Gord Grisenthwaite
Gord is nłeʔkepmx, a member of the Lytton First Nation, and has earned an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor (2020). His second book, Tales for Late Night Bonfires was released September, 2023 and his first, Home Waltz, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for fiction. His work has appeared in Prairie Fire, FreeFall, Exile Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, Prism International, ndnCountry, Offset 17, Bawaajigan: Stories of Power, and Food of My People.

Dance: Christine Friday
Christine Friday is deeply rooted to her family’s ancestral hereditary lands, Friday’s Point which includes surrounding lands and lakes that make up her family’s tribal hunting grounds, located within the unceded lands of the Wabi Mkwa family. She lives on Bear Island, in her community of Temagami First Nation. Christine is Anishinaabe Kwe, she is a proficient resilient Indigenous storyteller.

Word: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is author of Ghost Lake, which won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award in Published English Fiction, and of Wrist, an Indigenous monster story written from the monster’s perspective (both from Kegedonce Press). He is co-editor of Bawaajigan – Stories of Power, a dream-themed anthology of Indigenous writers (Exile Editions). He is an artist and filmmaker who works in a variety of mediums including audio and video, and drawing and painting.

Collaboration: JP Longboat& Patricia Fell
JP Longboat is Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk), Turtle Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River, he grew up along the River Ouse, Haldimand Deed territory, Ontario. JP has a BFA degree in Visual Arts from the University of Michigan and Ontario College of Art and has worked as a visual artist, graphic designer, actor, storyteller dancer and choreographer. He brings depth of skill, practice and knowledge to this endeavour as well as a vision rooted in understanding and honouring the diversity of Indigenous culture. His work emanates from the cultural traditions of his people: language, land and territory, teachings, and stories shared within Longhouses and lodges, gatherings and ceremonies. JP’s creative process is grounded in Indigenous artistic experience, practice, and legacy.

Patricia’s career as a professional artist for more than 30 years has embraced award winning design for the theatre, education, and the promotion of social injustice issues. Her extensive background in community based arts initiatives places her in an educated position from which to project a unique and achievable production outcome. Her body of work includes experience in design for the theatre, installation art, performance art, production management, and all levels of theatre and live performance administration.

The Quarry on Pelee Island

20 East West Road
Pelee Island, ON, N0R 1M0

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