A meaningful gift in support of Indigenous women!
More info about this volume: http://thesoundofmyheart.weebly.com/vol-1.html.
More info about this volume: http://thesoundofmyheart.weebly.com/vol-1.html.
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A meaningful gift in support of Indigenous women!
More info about this volume: http://thesoundofmyheart.weebly.com/vol-1.html. Come Celebrate the creative resistance and resilience of Indigenous women at our Manistee launch of this Amazing Collection of Wring and Visual Arts! Local artist Cecelia LaPointe will be reading her poems followed by an open mic! Everyone is welcome to sharing their writings, songs or visual artworks that honour and celebrate Indigenous women at our open mic! 1 - 3 pm Sunday Nov. 17 2013 Aki Maadziwin Tribal Community Center, 2953 Shaw Be Quo-Ung, Manistee, MI Free to Attend, Everyone is Welcome! Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 2 is a collection of creative writings and visual arts by Indigenous women alongside their allies from many nations across Turtle Island. It is made possible by over 60 writers and artists reflecting and sharing their lived experiences with regards to their relationships with the land, birth mothers, families, communities, and themselves. This is part of our multi-city launch in fall 2013 in cities including Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa and Manistee (Michigan, US). About the artist: Cecelia Rose LaPointe is an Anishinaabekwe of mixed heritage residing in Naaminitigong (Manistee, Michigan) but is a part of Kchiwiikwedong (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community). She is a published author, poet, writer and healer. Cecelia was previously published in the anthology Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought (Fall 2011), and the astrological datebooks We’Moon 2012 – Chrysalis, and We’Moon 2013 – The Other Side. She is also the author of the children’s story book Ajijaak, published through Four Colours Productions. Cecelia’s poetry has appeared in online publications, magazines, booklets, and chapbooks including: DIY Life Zine, Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 1 & 2, Kimiwan Zine, Matrix Magazine, Native Literatures: Generations, Poets’ Night Out, Red Ink Magazine and Revista Ixchel. You can read her poetry, writing and ramblings on her website – www.anishinaabekwe.com. For more info, visit The Sound of My Heart Collective website: thesoundofmyheart.weebly.com Tanisi! Come Celebrate the creative resistance and resilience of Indigenous women at our Edmonton launch of this Amazing Collection of Wring and Visual Arts! 5 artists and writers Lana WhiskeyJack, Faith Turner, Heather Shillinglaw & Lisa Bourque Bearskin will be joining us for a discussion of their contributions. 1:00-1:45pm Saturday Oct. 5 2013 Rooms 217 & 219 at Telus Centre, 111 Street 87 Ave NW University of Alberta Campus, Edmonton Facebook event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/711355762212267/ This launch is part of AMIQAAQ "Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women" symposium organized in conjunction with Walking With Our Sisters - Edmonton Exhibit and supported through the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives funded by Provost office Vice President (Academic). The launch is supported by CUPE Alberta, Blue Quills First Nations College and Director of Leadership of Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada Free to Attend, Everyone is Welcome! Programme: Opening by Elder Rose Matial Gandmother Song by Aunt Alsena Introducing Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 2 Reading and discussion by contributing artists & writers of the book: Lisa Bourque-Bearskin (Cree/Metis), Lana Whiskeyjack (Cree), Heather Shillinglaw (Cree/Dene), Faith Turner (Cree) and Miranda Moore (Anishnabe:Kwe) Sharing from the audience Closing Books will be available for purchase. Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 2 is a collection of creative writings and visual arts by Indigenous women alongside their allies from many nations across Turtle Island. It is made possible by over 60 writers and artists reflecting and sharing their lived experiences with regards to their relationships with the land, birth mothers, families, communities, and themselves. This is part of our multi-city launch in fall 2013 in cities including Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa and Manistee (Michigan, US). About the artists: MONA LISA BOURQUE-BEARSKIN grew up in Lac La Biche, Alberta, and is a member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation. She has been a practicing nurse for over 25 years and is passionate about completing her research studying nursing from a Cree/Metis perspective. She is grateful to the women and her family who have blessed her with life, knowledge and compassion. And thankful for the generous support from the Faculty of Nursing, CIHR-IAPH and the Alberta NEAHR. Lisa is also the Leadership Director at Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada (ANAC). HEATHER’ SHILLINGLAW’s art celebrates her Cree/Dene ancestry as medicine people – she applies aesthetic layers of many mediums about the healing powers of plants. Her art series; ‘Kookums Quilt’ celebrates and draws and the theory of quilting to provide comfort and inspiration through aesthetic explorations of the layers of knowledge shaped by plants and the natural world. She blends the traditional beadwork to communicate how the plant has provided comfort to her family and her community. ‘I hope that my painting will bring a higher purpose of ancestral memory of my culture that is not to be forgotten.’ Heather is an artist, an activist and an arts educator. She also is a guest curator at the Art Gallery of Alberta, and her artwork can be found at the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, in Canadian embassies, as well as internationally. More of her art can be found at www.shillinglaw.ca FAITH TURNER is a Moose Cree First Nation member. Faith and her family currently reside on Moose Factory Island in Ontario. Her passion is writing and the arts with her writing published in various magazines and in an Anthology Book of Poetry and also read on stage in Poetry Readings. Combining the written word with varying topics such as FASD, Suicide Prevention, Residential Schools to bring awareness and understanding of Indigenous culture and people. LANA WHISKEYJACK is an art actionist and multidisciplinary artist from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. Working at decolonization one Cree word and brush stroke at a time; Lana’s art themes reflect her personal experiences and reflections on the paradoxes of being a Cree woman, mother and grandmother, educated by a non-Cree-speaking system. MIRANDA MOORE, LL.B. is Anishnabe:Kwe, Treaty 4 territory, Cote First Nation. She is a proud mother, partner, sister and Anishinaabe helper. Her work and focus has been to challenge and expose colonialism continuously in her own life, and to engage across Indigenous and non-Indigenous arenas and spaces. She has worked and lived within a Treaty 4 Nation where she experienced and witnessed directly how colonialism is being perpetuated by Indian Act leadership, impacting Treaty peoples in a manner detrimental to future generations if not exposed, confronted and eliminated. She is currently completing the lawyer licensing process in Ontario and offers workshops to Indigenous communities that are ready to challenge and eliminate colonialism firstly through acknowledgement, people directed action and true commitment to original laws and values. For more info, please visit: The Sound of My Heart Collective: http://thesoundofmyheart.weebly.com/ Walking With Our Sisters - Edmonton Exhibit:https://www.facebook.com/WWOS.EdmontonExhibit AMIQAAQ III “Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women” Symposium: https://www.facebook.com/events/157279151128643/ See you there! Check out some photos from our Ottawa launches of Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 2!
Come Celebrate the Launch of this Amazing Collection of Wring and Visual Arts! 7:00 pm Thursday, August 22 2nd FLOOR, 251 BANK ST. OTTAWA Double book launch with Louise Vien's new children's book "Welcome to the Roubabbou Collection" Hosted by the Sound of My Heart Collective Sponsored by Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa & 25OneCommunity 6:00 pm Friday, August 23 1155 LOLA ST @ COVENTRY RD. OTTAWA Hosted by Minwaashin Lodge Culture Program Wheelchair Accessible OC TRANSPO BUS #18 Parking Available in the front & back Everyone is Welcome! Local Artists: Angela Ashawasegai, Roberta Donna Della-Picca, Louise Vien and Zainab Amadahy will be attending to talk about their work that is part of this amazing collection. Louise Vien will be present only on August 22. She will also launch her recent published book "Welcome to the Roubabbou Collection", a children's book with us. Join us for some drumming & refreshments while showing community support. Books will be available for purchase. For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/455091164598074/ ** This is part of our multi-city launch in late summer and early fall 2013 in cities including Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa and Manistee (Michigan, US). |
AuthorThe Sound of My Heart is a grassroots collective initiated by a small group of women in May 2013. Our goal is to carry out the Honouring Indigenous Women campaign through the arts of storytelling, poetry, painting, drawing, photography and sound. Our work focuses on continuing our solidarity by raising awareness about Indigenous women. We are committed to help build solidarity between Native and non-Native communities. Archives |