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
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