Closing Event  • Friday July 21, 2017 @ 6-9pm • Studio 111 LAND, LAND, FOREVER (RELATIVE, RELATIONSHIP, REMEDIATION) paintings by annie ross from O’Kinadas Kelowna (Grizzly Bear Walk) Please bring a personal haiku, about your research and creation, to share aloud. Relative: all living Beings are related to all living…

Keynote Address: 12 noon, Wednesday July 19, University Theatre (ADM026) captikʷɬ: Imagery in Okanagan Oral Story. Video Link Student responses to keynotes: http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-goel-kenney-hothi-sahebnassagh/ http://rmooc.ca/hubs/dispatches/keynote-responses-michael-turner/ http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-lily-li-on-jeanette-armstrong/ http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-skylar-schmidtke-sarah-dawn-jessica-souto/ http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-lily-li-cristalle-smith-melissa-weiss/   An overview of how the Syilx language as a polysynthetic language works with images lifted directly from the living world.  It is…

Keynote Address: 1:30 pm, Wednesday July 19, University Theatre (ADM026) Indigenous Sovereignty VIDEO link Student responses to keynotes: http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-goel-kenney-hothi-sahebnassagh/ http://rmooc.ca/hubs/dispatches/keynote-responses-michael-turner/ http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-skylar-schmidtke-sarah-dawn-jessica-souto/ http://rmooc.ca/resources/keynote-responses-lily-li-cristalle-smith-melissa-weiss/ Indigenous sovereignty also requires the sovereignty of Indigenous knowledges in order for people to work toward building respectful relationships with others and with the environment. Ontological freedom (sovereignty)…

The School of Badger was a collaborative performance intervention by Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau and Adrian Stimson.  Jessie Fosty and Tomas Jonsson had the opportunity to sit with Elder Badger (Belmore) and Little Badger (Blondeau) and discuss this provacative performance.  This interview can be heard here: A statement on The School…

  DRAWING CLASS FOR POETS for David Garneau and for Julie Okot Bitek Figures gone to ground Figures in contrast Ground (plain?) (line?) Figure Form is contained Between lines Lines contain space Something forms Points comit to paper Points connect in line Line commits to proportions Proportions commit to something…

An important aspect of the O k’inādās residency is the opportunity to share knowledge and processes of creating with students in the studio courses. Special guests to Troy Twigg’s performance class, Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and Rebecca Belmore offered insight into states of process, dispelling romanticized ideas of art production. …

Taught by Troy Emery Twigg, recently appointed the Artistic Director of Making Treaty 7, The first Indigenous theatre course at UBCO was a 6-week intensive that asked students to engage with Indigenous performance art praxis. The resulting four group collaborations were performed during an open event where artists, scholars, thinkers, organizers,…

  The fifth panel of the O k’inādās residency featured presentations by Charles Campbell, Beth LaPensee, Jackson Two Bears, Srimoyee Mitra and Michelle Lavallee. For this panel a new structure was suggested. Circling back to the guiding precept of O’kinādās of walking on the land, the organizers suggested that instead of…

…on moments shared. Communal meals, exchanged conversations, artistic and professional debates, inspired creative thoughts, new friendships, wine and bread. All these moments topped with the gleeful, joyful chaos-making of children in the midst. This past weekend was full: triple gallery openings and a shared exhibition opening feast on the downtown…

The O k’inādās residency began with an in-the-round introduction of participants, facilitators and guests. Ashok Mathur and Katherine Pickering led an overview to the calendar of events -an evolving, dynamic document- as well as material and networking opportunities. The mix of practical and conceptual orientations hinted at the infinite potential to…

Leah Decter, Ayumi Goto, and Peter Morin travelled across Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec to ‘perform canada’ at the Encuentro event in Montreal in June, 2014. Part of their performance was to reduce a wooden canoe to its composite parts through sawing and hammering, eventually gifting the ribs to various audience…

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,…

hard to say whether the recon canada walk for reconciliation was a harbinger of things to come or an elision of these most important details of life. Regardless, there were thousands who braved the rain, bore umbrellas, and marched over viaducts and into chinatowns to express solidarity. There was light…

  NET-ETH: Going out of the Darkness is a group exhibition of over twenty contemporary and traditional First Nations artists, among them are Indian Residential School survivors and their descendants whose work is a powerful testimony to their personal healing process. NET-ETH is a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Musqueam dialect) metaphor for “the…

In response to recent information releases linking the Sun Peaks Resort with TRU’s Alliance for Mountain Environments,   Tania Willard, member of the Neskonlith Indian band and recent participant in the Reconsidering Reconciliation arts residency,  posted this response: I want to point out for those who are not aware that…

Maybe it’s the immense variety of colours produced by Alex Janvier in his paintings, but it seems that the intensity of colour this weekend at the Janvier Gallery opening in Cold Lake was reflected everywhere. The green of the marsh just beyond the Janvier Gallery and property was stunning, as…