[Indigsol] New Sun Conference - Carleton
Angela Schleihauf
aschleihauf at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 12:40:14 PST 2008
★ !!! ANNOUNCING !!! ★
*The 7th Annual New Sun Conference
on Aboriginal Arts
Reaching Back + Reaching Out *
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Room 5050, 5th floor, Minto Centre, Carleton University
*PRESENTERS:
*
*Michael Greyeyes*, actor/choreographer
*Santee Smith*, dancer/choreographer
*Taqralik Partridge*, lyric-poet performance artist
class=Section2>
*Tracey Deer*, documentary film maker
*Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly)*,
heritage language conservationist
*Elaine Keillor*, ethnomusicologist and pianist
★★★
Opening and closing by Elder *Jim Albert
*
★★★
Registration: students $25; non-students $35 ($30/$40 at the door)
Includes a gourmet luncheon of Native cuisine
and a dance performance by *Santee Smith
*
Limited Seating ★ Pre-registration STRONGLY advised
Free parking ★ OC Transpo nearby
To register call 613-520-2600, ext. 4035, or e-mail allan_ryan at carleton.ca
For a registration form and more information visit www.trickstershift.com
*
A presentation of the New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
*with the support of the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and the New
SunFund administered by the Community Foundation of Ottawa
_____________
*BIOGRAPHIES OF PRESENTERS
*
*Michael Greyeyes
*
Michael Greyeyes is a dancer, actor, and choreographer, and Assistant
Professor in the Department of Theatre at York University where he teaches
movement for actors. He began his professional career as a classical ballet
dancer with The National Ballet of Canada and the company of Eliot Feld in
New York. As an actor he has worked on stage and extensively in film and
television for the last fourteen years. This past year he was invited to
create new dance works for the Dusk Dances festival in Toronto and for
Nozhem: First Peoples Performance Space and Trent University's Indigenous
Studies Program. The theatre work developed for Trent was a duet,
co-choreographed by Santee Smith, which will tour across Canada in 2008 and
is an invited dance work for the 2008 Canada Dance Festival held bi-annually
in Ottawa. Professor Greyeyes wrote, choreographed and appears in the film,
*Triptych*, directed by Byron McKim with an original score by Miquelon
Rodriguez. The film is part of an original series developed for Bravo! and
subsequently broadcast on APTN.
*www.michael-greyeyes.com
www.soaringheartpictures.com
*
*Santee** Smith
*
Santee Smith is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director from Six
Nations, Ontario. She attended the National Ballet School and holds a
Masters in Dance from York University. Santee was an integral part of the
Aboriginal Dance Project, *Chinook Winds, *at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
In 1996 she began creating and performing her choreography including works:
*Kaha:wi, Here On Earth, Midwinter Dreaming, A Constellation of Bones, The
Threshing Floor, Woman in White *and *A Story Before Time*. She presents her
work nationally and internationally and is the recipient of several awards
for excellence in dance. She is the founder of Living Ritual: World
Indigenous Dance Festival. Currently, Santee is in the process of creation
and production for *Transmigration* with Odawa composer Barbara Croall, and
*L'Histoire de Soldat *in partnership with Theatre Aquarius and the Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra. She is touring nationally with *The Threshing Floor
*for the CanDance Network's Indigenous Dancelands, and *Fragmented Heart *which
in June will be performed for the Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts
Centre.
*www.santeesmithdance.com
Taqralik Partridge
*
Taqralik Partridge is a spoken word performer, throat singer and writer from
Kujjuaq, Nunavik, (Nothern Quebec). Now living in Montreal, she has
developed a unique style that is grounded in traditional Inuit storytelling
and blended with gritty urban speak to tell contemporary stories that evoke
the challenges of being Inuit in modern Canadian society. *The Nunatsiaq
News *has written, "When she performs, you can never tell what you'll hear
next: an amusing satire perhaps, a delicate lyric, or a raucous barrage of
high-speed lines, delivered straight from the gut." Taqralik recorded
her *Eskimo
Chick *piece for the compilation CD distributed with *Spirit Magazine*'s
2006 spring music issue and is working on a debut CD. She is communications
director of the Avataq Cultural Institute, a non-profit organization
dedicated to protecting and promoting the language and culture of Inuit in
Nunavik.
*www.myspace.com
Tracey Deer
*
Tracey Deer is a filmmaker from Kahnawake, and obtained her degree in Film
Studies from Dartmouth College, graduating with two awards of excellence.
She began her professional career with CanWest Broadcasting in Montreal and
later joined Rezolution Pictures of Montreal. She was co-director of *One
More River*, a film that documented the emotional and political turmoil
within the Cree Nation when they signed a new deal to allow more
hydroelectric damming on their land. The film won the Best Documentary
Award at the Rendez-vous des Cinema Quebecois in 2005 and was nominated for
the Donald Brittain Best Social/Political Documentary at the Geminis. The
film was broadcast on APTN in March 2005. Her second film was *Mohawk Girls
*, which she wrote, directed, and filmed, about the lives of three Mohawk
teenagers growing up on the Kahnawake reserve. It was co-produced with
Rezolution Pictures and the National Film Board and won the Alanis Obomsawin
Best Documentary Award at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in
2005. Her latest projects are a feature documentary called *Club Native*,
examining the concept of modern Native identity, and a feature documentary
about a Mohawk immersion elementary school, with Mushkeg Media, as well as
two short fiction films currently in development with her production
company, Mohawk Princess Pictures.
*Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly)
*
Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly) is from Skidegate, on Haida Gwaii,
otherwise known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Dr. Kelly is an Assistant
Professor in Carleton's School of Journalism and Communications and serves
with Elaine Keillor as co-director of CIRCLE, the Centre for Indigenous
Research, Culture, Language and Education. Clealls was one of fifteen
researchers designated by Canadian Heritage as authorities on language and
cultural revitalization to advise the government on strategies to perpetuate
aboriginal languages in Canada. Dr. Kelly has developed unique electronic
recording and editing systems for creating language resources, and has
trained aboriginal community members in the use of these systems to record
their own elders. Clealls was co-investigator, editor and a writer for the
*Native Drums *and *Native Dance *websites developed and facilitated by
Elaine Keillor.
*www.nativedrums.ca
http://nativedance.ca
*
*Elaine Keillor**
*
Elaine Keillor is an internationally known concert pianist, and a
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Carleton. With all of the
theoretical requirements completed at the age of ten, she remains the
youngest ever recipient of the Associate diploma in piano from the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She has made numerous highly acclaimed
recordings as well as being a prolific writer, and has received a variety of
prestigious awards. Hired by Carleton as a specialist in Canadian music,
she developed and taught the first university course in Canada to explore
First Peoples' musical expression. Throughout her career Dr. Keillor has
amassed a vast collection of this musical expression, which forms the bulk
of the material now available through two websites. Dr. Keillor headed the
teams that produced *Native Drums* (2005) (www.nativedrums.ca), a
comprehensive, educational, and information website on musical expressions
of the First Peoples within Canada, and its sequel (http://nativedance.ca
<http://nativedance.ca/> <http://nativedance.ca/> ) on *Native
Dance*(2007). These are joint projects of Canadian Heritage's
Canadian Content
Online Program and Carleton University.
*PROGRAM
*
8:30 - 9:15 Registration
Coffee/juice/muffins
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome, *Allan J. Ryan
* New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and
Culture
Opening prayer, Elder *Jim Albert
*
Welcoming remarks, *John Osborne,*
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University
9:30 - 10:20 *Tracey Deer*, documentary filmmaker
10:25 - 11:15 *Elaine Keillor, *ethnomusicologist and pianist,
and
*Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly), *heritage language
conservationist
11:15 - 11:30 Nutrition Break
11:30 - 12:20 *Taqralik Partridge, *lyric-poet performance
artist
12:30 - 1:30 Buffet luncheon of Native cuisine, Fenn Lounge,
Residence Commons:
• Bannock bread with whipped maple butter
• Grilled root vegetable salad
• White and wild rice salad with clams
• Roasted sweet and Yukon potatoes
• Acorn and butternut squash
• Venison and buffalo ragout
• Pan seared Arctic char with creamy
lobster bisque
• Pumpkin and blueberry pie with vanilla
pod whipped cream
1:30 - 1:45 *Santee Smith *in performance: an excerpt from
the dance
production, *Kaha:wi*, Fenn Lounge
2:05 - 3:00 *Michael Greyeyes*, actor/choreographer
3:05 - 4:00 *Santee Smith, *dancer/choreographer
4:05 – 4:20 Concluding remarks
Closing prayer
*The 7th Annual New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts:
Reaching Back + Reaching Out
*
The signature image for the 7th Annual New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts
dramatically symbolizes this year's theme, Reaching Back + Reaching Out. The
photograph of dancer Santee Smith is a rich visual metaphor for a communal
act of reaching back into the past to affirm the strength of traditions, to
honour the knowledge of elders, to rescue stories from the shadows, and to
revitalize art forms for a new generation. The photographic image is no less
a metaphor for reaching out beyond the Aboriginal community to a myriad of
other communities in a spirit of generosity and celebration.
At this year's conference Six Nations dancer/choreographer Santee Smith will
perform an excerpt from her work, *Kaha:wi*, and discuss the challenges and
rewards of a life in dance. In tandem with her presentation, well known
actor/choreographer Michael Greyeyes will screen the film, *Triptych*, an
exploration of residential school fallout which he wrote, choreographed and
performed in. Film is also the favoured medium of Kahnawake native Tracey
Deer whose documentary treatments of urban Aboriginal youth have earned her
a devoted following. Her recent award-winning film, *Mohawk Girls*,
resonates with the experiences of youth far beyond the Aboriginal community.
No less compelling are the smart and sassy lyric poems of performance
artist Taqralik Partridge, whose wry observations of urban Inuit life surge
with a restless rhythm and energy. The rhythms and energy of contemporary
Aboriginal life are given added context and historical depth by heritage
language conservationist Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly), and
ethnomusicologist and pianist Elaine Keillor, who will trace the development
of the encyclopaedic websites, www.nativedrums.ca and http://nativedance.ca.
It promises to be a most rewarding day.
All my relations,
Allan J. Ryan
_______________________________________________________________________
*The New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts: Backgrounder
*
Since its beginning in 2002, the New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts has
brought together in a public forum individuals from various First Nations,
Metis and Inuit communities, as well as the non-Native community. Presenters
have included those with expertise in photography, painting, sculpture, film
making, musical performance, curating, arts education, literature and the
culinary arts. Themes such as "healing through the arts," "transforming
traditions," "engaging authenticity", "interweaving communities" and
"survivance" have been explored in a collegial and communal atmosphere that
encourages dialogue on important cultural and artistic issues. The
conference honours, and seeks to raise public awareness of individuals whose
work affirms contemporary Aboriginal experience and contributes to increased
cross-cultural understanding. All conference presentations have been
archived on video and DVD and can be borrowed from the Carleton University
Library.
Allan J. Ryan was appointed as the New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and
Culture in July, 2001. The first of its kind in Canada, the Chair is
situated in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton. It was made possible
through the support of the New Sun Fund, administered by the Community
Foundation of Ottawa.
Allan J. Ryan, PhD
New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
Associate Professor, Canadian Studies/Art History
Carleton University
1202 Dunton Tower
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Canada
Ph (613) 520-2600, Ext. 4035
Fax (613) 520-3903
E-mail: allan_ryan at carleton.ca
<mailto:allan_ryan at carleton.ca><allan_ryan at carleton.ca>
Website: www.trickstershift.com
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