echoes

Join Emily Dundas Oke, Assistant Curator at Burnaby Art Gallery, for a guided tour of the exhibition echoes, recorded on July 15, 2023 at the Kamloops Art Ga...

Geo Neptune explores the history of the term "Two-Spirit" and who it pertains to. Does it mean two genders? Can anyone use it to describe themselves? InQueer...

Author and Indigenous elder Ma-Nee Chacaby talks about Two Spirit identities.

An inside look at the origins of the term "Two-Spirit," and the centuries of colonial violence and prejudice Two-Spirit people have faced. https://bit.ly/2SHQf9g

This dazzling display of song and dance is part of an annual world class event, the Kamloops Pow Wow. This is one of the largest gatherings in Western Canada...

Youth from the Nlaka'pamux Nation ask, what does your culture mean to you? This film was made by youth in Lytton, BC, with the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Coun...

Manulani Aluli Meyer

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Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist who works primarily in photography, printmaking and video. Scott has recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (2012), Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and was awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency 2013, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. Benesiinaabandan has been awarded multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council. Benesiinaabandan has taken part in several group exhibitions across Canada and the United States, most notably in Harbourfront’s Flatter the Land/Bigger the Ruckus (2006), Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2008) and with more recent solo exhibitions, unSacred, at Gallery 1C03 (2011) and in Sydney, Mii Omaa Ayaad/Oshiki Inendemowin (2012). Ideas Digital Forum nurtures new frameworks for engaging contemporary Canadian Art. Bringing together over a dozen artists, scholars, inventors, curators and thinkers, the forum provides an opportunity to gain insights on the intersection of art and digital technologies and how we meaningfully integrate them into our spaces. Held on October 12 and 13, 2018 at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario.

Sunday, December 10th, 2017 4:00pm @ SAW Video 67 Nicholas Street Ottawa, ON To close the exhibition 2167: An Indigenous VR Project, SAW Video Media Art Centre was very pleased to host a presentation and discussion with Montreal-based artist Scott Benesiinaabandan. Scott was joined by curator Danielle Printup who moderate a discussion with the artist about his work Blueberry Sky Under a Martian Sky, commissioned for the 2167 project. Scott Benesiinaabandan Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist that works primarily in photography, printmaking and video. Scott has recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (2012), Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and is most recently been awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency 2013, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. He is currently in Montreal, and recently completed a Canada Council New Media Production grant through OBx Labs/Ab-tech and Concordia. Danielle Printup Danielle Printup is an Onkwehonwe, Anishnabe-kwe from Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, QC with maternal roots in Ohsweken, ON. She studied Art History at the University of Guelph and went on to intern at the National Gallery of Canada before completing the Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices at the Canadian Museum of History. She has worked at Galerie SAW Gallery, the Indigenous Art Centre, and is currently based in Ottawa, ON. She curated the group exhibition Material Experiments for the 2015imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Most recently she worked with artist Hannah Claus as a curatorial advisor for the group exhibition Traces: Indigenous Artist Moving Through Memory which is on display in the Sussex Courtyards until March 2018.

Indigenous artist Scott Benesiinaabandan wants more Canadians to recognize the Anishinaabe language when they hear it being spoken. It's the theme of his piece featured at the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Insurgence/Resurgence exhibit. To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.457006 ​ »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS Connect with CBC News Online: For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: http://bit.ly/1Z0m6iX Find CBC News on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1WjG36m Follow CBC News on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1sA5P9H For breaking news on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1WjDyks Follow CBC News on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Z0iE7O Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 75 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.

Various works of Scott Benesiinaabandan, concerned mostly with issues affecting Indigenous communities locally and internationally.

Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour our co-curator and artist for our “Two-Spirit Sur-Thrivance and the Art of Interrupting Narratives” exhibition led an insightful panel Discussion with Preston Buffalo...

Chapter 10 | Two-Spirit Resistance | Written and read by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour. Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour is a band member at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc and is the elected family member to the Traditional Family Governance Council for the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation. He teaches at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. His primary course is Aboriginal Decolonizing Social Work Practice. He regularly contributes to the international two-spirit community through writing, art and other activism(s) and he will be beginning his doctoral work in winter 2018 through a cohort program and partnership between TRU and the Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa (New Zealand) – decentering social work practice with Secwepemc land and spiritual based pedagogies. | Produced by Banchi Hanuse at Nuxalk Radio | nuxalkradio.com.

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Jeffrey is Tk'emlupsemc and 4th Gen. English Settler. In the current moment of the TRC Calls to Action, projects of Indigenization/ Reconciliation and the poignant and timely unsettling of LGBTQ Pride Parades internationally by Black Lives Matter, Jeffrey unsettles allyship's first moment of encounter with "the real" work, and its inherent performances of settler colonial moves to innocence by, of, and for exalted settler subjects.

Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call Home the Salmon w/Help, a collaborative installation, honours the power of art, action, and ceremony. Featuring work by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour and Dayna Danger, Christi Belcourt, and Isaac Murdoch, the exhibition ran at Never Apart, an urban queer art gallery in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, until September 22, 2019.

This year, as Canada 150 converged with Montreal’s 375th anniversary, one critic looked to artworks that offered a space for decolonial reimaginings

Jeffrey join us from British Columbia to chat about the importance of the “Two-Spirit Sur-Thrivance and the Art of Interrupting Narratives” exhibition, his role as...

We chat with Jeffrey McNeil Seymour & Dayna Danger the artists behind the Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call Home the Salmon w/Help Exhibition.

We are pleased show the insightful and important panel discussion by Jeffrey McNeil Seymour & Dayna Danger the artists behind the “Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call...

The Winnipeg artist's goal is to create space for people traditionally excluded from galleries and mainstream media and to represent them in new ways.

Danger was part of the Kindred Spirits project will be featured at this year's Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver.

Talking with Dayna Danger, McGill’s Mellon Indigenous Artist in Residence for 2022, is nothing if not a rollicking, fascinating adventure. Veering this way and that, a scheduled 20-minute Zoom i

The Department of Art History and Communication Studies and Mellon Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) welcome artist Dayna Danger as the second Indigenous Artist in

Dayna Danger is a visual artist who claims space with her human scale work to challenge perceptions of power, representation and sexuality.

Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec.

ECHOES FROM A NEAR FUTURE Sept 16 - Dec 17, 2022

By juxtaposing modernist abstraction with banal building materials on the one hand and sacred geometries on the other, Monnet confronts the First Nations housing crisis where crowding, poor air quality and boil-water advisories threaten health and quality of life