Greetings all,This message, is intended for those who are either registered as an undergraduate or graduate student in Indigenous Activist Art at the UBCO Summer Indigenous Intensive program (July 21 – Aug 1, 2014) , or artists-in-residence, guest artists, or visiting scholars who are attending some part of our course and artist…

So, technically, yesterday was the final day for the action-portion of rmooc! Today’s posting reflects what may be the last build of the site before we turn it toward an archive of sorts, and then see how it may transmogrify for the work to be done. We end, fittingly enough,…

« Back to Events Event: Technology and Reconciliation: Legacy of Indian Residential Schools Start: September 11, 2013 10:00 am End: September 11, 2013 12:00 pm Category: UBC Events Organizer: Kathryn Berry Email: kathryn.berry@ubc.ca Updated: August 29, 2013 Venue: Video Conference and Webinar The UBC Learning Circle is an ongoing, community-driven…

Yes, it’s official. Alex Janvier’s gallery opened today at the new Cold Lake location on the English Bay reserve. Amazing building and site, and of course, the art that fills the space is pure genius. So much work from such a talented artist, and it’s exciting to see it inhabiting…

Following, a draft of the program for this event in Saskatoon. Cultures of Reconciliation: Academic, Artistic, Activist A Humanities Research Unit Event FREE ADMISSION; OPEN TO EVERYONE Location: Graduate Student Centre, University of Saskatchewan, and Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon Time: September 26-27, 2013 Participants include: Roy Miki, Jennifer Henderson, Pauline Wakeham,…

This is an hour-long performance on the second-last day of the Reconsidering Reconciliation artist residency. We posted an earlier clip, but this is the real deal thanks to videographer Gabe Archie. Powerful viewing. And here is David Garneau’s response to this performance, a poem he read at the closing of…

Mimi Gellman talks about her time making art, creating, in the horticultural gardens at TRU. The paintings she produces are a direct result of her experience with the land and territory here.

Peter Morin enlists the assistance of Adrian Stimson, Leah Decter, Clement Yeh, Mimi Gellman, and Ayumi Goto to sing to the drums he has made during the residency. While they sang, he read out a Martin Luther King speechto think through questions of oppression, resistance, equality.

Jaimie Isaac talks about the 16 light boxes she is building in the Reconsidering Reconciliation residency, looking back at family and residential schools. Jaimie is here as part of a multi-generational contribution — she arrived with her partner and son and shortly thereafter her mother arrived and was followed just…

Thanks to Roewan Crowe and Rosanna Deerchild for pointing us to this WFP story. A chief who was a Canadian Museum for Human Rights adviser says the issue of an aboriginal genocide never came up during discussions with museum officials. Sagkeeng Chief Donavan Fontaine said he decided to speak out…

Some of the artists from the Reconsidering Reconciliation residency group went to visit fellow resident Stephen Foster in his home town of Kelowna, where he was also showing a particularly intriguing exhibition of his at the Kelowna Art Gallery. Remediating Curtis: Toy Portraits is an exhibition of new work by…

Cheryl L’Hirondelle, resident artist at recon/recon, works in new media, songwriting, community organization among many other media. One of her projects has been working with women in prison, workshopping songs with them, and eventually producing a video that represents this process. While in the residency, Cheryl enlisted the other women…

One of our resident artists, Tania Willard, is also an accomplished curator, and most recently she has co-curated the Beat Nation show at the Kamloops Art Gallery. This is from a tour she gave to the resident artists. Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture June 29 to September…

Mike Arnouse, elder from Adams Lake, visits the studio of Peter Morin and Gabe Hill.

“We were so far away…”: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools (full pdf) Curatorial Text by Heather Igloliorte Sharing their Stories In 2008, a group of courageous Inuit residential school Survivors shared their experiences with the Legacy of Hope Foundation with the hope of contributing to the healing process for…

Some thoughtful words about rMOOC from the “Abject” blog, stating, in part:  the rMOOC site itself behaves a lot less like the venture capitalized disruptions we usually read about, instead drawing on the form’s Connectivist roots, and more explicitly modeled on recent manifestations such as DS106 and #ETMOOC. That should not be so…