[Indigsol] 2 events, 1 film, 1 thesis, 2 notices

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Bouzhou Aanii ... Hello and welcome!!


Today we have six things to tell you about:
- Nov 8: Red Slam Jam
- Nov 15: Building for Future Generations Art Auction & Gala
- Documentary: Honour Your Word - Algonquins of Barriere Lake
- Thesis: Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against Federal Land Claims Policy
- SAW Video grants: Aboriginal Voices Production Fund
- Research call-out: Former & Current Aboriginal Civil Servants


More details and links below for each in order:


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Red Slam Jam - Ottawa

Friday November 8, 2013
Richeleau-Vanier Community Centre
(300 des Peres Blancs)
10am - 5pm & 6:30pm - 9pm

Honouring Aboriginal Veterans & Residential School Survivors

All ages event, pay what you can at the door
Take route #5

Including:
Hip Hop Performance by UNITY (JAH & Brock Lewis)
Contemporary & inter-tribal dance
Panel of residential school survivors
B-boy and hip hop workshop
Free harvest stew and bannock
Open Mic

Full schedule:
https://www.facebook.com/events/528177147259332/


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Building for Future Generations Art Auction & Gala
Friday November 15

You are invited to Building for Future Generations Art Auction & Gala:
18th Annual Odawa Art Auction & 2nd Annual Youth For Northern Communities
Gala. Last year, we raised $10,000 at the Joining Hands for Our
Communities Gala for the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society and
Odawa. This year's goal will be to begin building Ottawa's first
Aboriginal Education Centre.

The event will take place November 15, 2013 at St.Elias Banquet Hall (750
Ridgewood Ave) with art preview starting at 5pm and dinner at 6pm. We
welcome your support and look forward to seeing you at the event.
Individual tickets are $50, students $35 and special VIP tables are $800.
All donations and art work are appreciated.

Facebook event link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/643842152316817

Please share widely!!


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Honour Your Word
Director: Martha Stiegman • Documentary Feature • 56m • Canada

Premiering today, November 3, at the American Indian Film Festival

Marylynn Poucachiche and Norman Matchewan faced tear gas and police batons
when they joined their parents on the barricades to defend the Barriere
Lake Algonquins’ traditional territory in the 1980s. Little did Marylynn
and Norman  realize they would still be on the barricades over 20 years
later, this time with their own young children at their sides.

Honour Your Word, is the dramatic story of a tiny First Nations community
in Quebec with big strength of character and determination, and follows
new Algonquin leaders, as their community fights to protect their land,
way of life, and their language.

Trailer:
http://vimeo.com/71470916

Extended sample scenes (9 1/2 min)
http://blip.tv/martha-stiegman/honour-your-word-sample-scenes-4720994


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On Jurisdiction and Settler Colonialism:
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the Federal Land Claims Policy

In September, Barriere Lake Solidarity activist and PhD candidate Shiri
Pasternak successfully completed her thesis project at the University of
Toronto.

The result is a 305-pg thesis, available online in PDF format:
http://shiripasternak.com/Pasternak_Shiri_S_201309_PhD_thesis.pdf


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ABORIGINAL VOICES PRODUCTION FUND
Up to three grants awarded per year
Deadline: November 15th

The Aboriginal Voices fund is a production support program for First
Nations, Métis and Inuit artists who wish to express themselves creatively
through the medium of video. Applicants may be at any stage of their
careers: emerging, mid-career or established.

Each successful applicant receives:

a one-year producing membership at SAW Video
up to $1,200 in access to SAW Video production and post-production equipment
a $250 credit towards any SAW Video workshops
up to $300 cash
Questions? See the General Criteria section, the SAW Video Grant
Guidelines and Application Form, or contact the administrative coordinator
at 613-238-7648 or sawvideo at sawvideo.com.

(NOTE: There is also the Cultural Equity Production Fund, for visible
minority artists, with the same deadline)

LINK:
http://www.sawvideo.com/news/grants-aboriginal-voices-cultural-equity-production-funds


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Remembering the Civil Service Research Study:
A note from Alisha Seguin, Carleton University


This academic year I will be conducting an oral history project, titled
"Remembering the Civil Service: Aboriginal Labour Experiences in the
Post-War Ottawa Civil Service." Information from this study will be used
towards writing an MA thesis at Carleton University and the project has
been approved by the Carleton University Research Ethics Board.

This initiative is designed to help self-identifying First Nation, Métis
and Inuit individuals share their stories about what it is like to work
for the Canadian federal civil service in a student, temporary or
permanent position. This is an important activity to participate in,
because these voices as workers are currently missing from Canadian labour
history. Sharing memories of the civil service will allow for greater
public and academic recognition of Aboriginal contributions to the
Canadian economy and the country that we know in the present. It will also
help scholars understand the transition period Canada went through to make
the civil service a more representative workforce. Interview materials
(audio records and transcripts) may be deposited in Archives and Research
Collections (ARC), the archive at Carleton University so that these
stories may be accessed in person and/or digitally. This may become a
valuable cultural resource for interviewees and the communities to which
they belong. Anonymity is available and sometimes recommended to those
interviewed. In these cases, participation will still be extremely
valuable.

More information about the study is available on the following website -
http://www.rememberingthecivilservice.com - or my twitter page
- https://twitter.com/AlishaSeguin

This study aims to interview all interested First Nation, Métis and Inuit
workers who have held a student, temporary or full-time position in the
Canadian federal civil service.


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