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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nadia Myre and Skawennati
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for a special artist talk featuring artists Skawennati and Nadia Myre\, two leading figures in contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. This event celebrates their landmark solo exhibitions currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada: Welcome to the Dreamhouse and Waves of Want. These exhibitions offer a rich look at each artist’s evolving practice and their influential contributions to Indigenous visual culture\, digital media\, and storytelling. \nModerated by artists and Studio Arts Professor\, Hannah Claus\, this conversation will bring the two artists in dialogue\, offering insights into their respective creative journeys\, conceptual frameworks\, and shared commitments to community\, memory\, and futurity. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS: \nWelcome to the Dreamhouse tells the story of Skawennati’s dynamic artistic trajectory as she envisions Indigenous people in the future. Rooted in Haudenosaunee storytelling\, her avatars\, costumes\, machinimas and prints playfully imagine and create a place where Indigenous people thrive. \nWaves of Want looks at Nadia Myre’s artistic and critical process over the past two decades\, including exciting new works recently created in France. Navigating complex histories of nationhood and memory\, her work fosters profound dialogues on collective identity\, resilience\, and the politics of belonging. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nSkawennati creates art from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman\, and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments)\, textiles and sculpture question our relationships with technology\, and highlight Indigenous people of the future. Recipient of a 2022 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant and an Honorary Doctorate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design\, Skawennati co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)\, a research-creation studio-lab at Concordia University in Montreal. She is also on the boards of Rhizome\, and of daphne: Montreal’s first Indigenous artist-run centre\, which she-co-founded. Originally from Kahnawà:ke\, Skawennati resides in Montreal. \n  \nContemporary artist Nadia Myre is an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation\, who lives and works in Montreal. For more than two decades\, her multi-disciplinary practice has included stitchwork\, photography\, video\, sculpture\, textiles and installation – inspired by community participation and relations\, while also exploring themes such as resilience\, language\, memory and longing. Myre’s art examines what is misunderstood\, unseen\, or lost in transformation and translation\, and reflects shared experiences of nationhood\, belonging\, and isolation. \n  \nHannah Claus is a transdisciplinary artist of Kanien’kehá:ka / English heritage who engages Onkwehon:we epistemology to highlight ways of understanding and being in relation with the world. A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow and 2020 recipient of the Prix Giverny\, recent group exhibitions include: Wheturangitia at The Dowse\, in Aotearoa\, the touring exhibition Radical Stitch at the McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina\, and Plastic Heart at the University of Toronto Art Gallery and the Centre Culturelle Canadien in Paris\, France. She is an Associate Professor\, Frameworks and Interventions of Indigenous Art Practice in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University\, and Research Chair\, Onkwehonwené:ha. She is a member of Kenhtèke. \n  \n  \n🗓: July 3\, 2025\n🕒: 6 PM\n📍: York Amphitheâtre EV-1.615 \n🔗 : Zoom link
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-conversation-nadia-myre-and-skawennati/
LOCATION:York Amphitheatre EV-1.615
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Animating Indiqueer Futures
DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the IFRC is inviting you to attend a series of events on the theme of Indigiqueer Joy! In the context of queer and Indigenous communities\, joy is not merely an emotion but an act of resistance\, survival\, and a framework for building liberatory futures. In this series\, you will explore: What is revealed when we tell our own stories? How can we reclaim and craft our own narratives collectively? And how can speculative fiction allow us to envision alternative futures? \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThis first event of the series will be a screening of five contemporary Indigiqueer directed/produced animated shorts\, followed by a hybrid panel with filmmakers Caeleigh and Keara Lightning (Studio Ekosi) and Glenn Gear on their respective films\, Kimotiwin: The Act of Stealing (2023) and Katinngak (Together) (2020). This conversation will be moderated by Milo Puge and IFRC Research Coordinator Hanss Lujan Torres. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and open to everyone! \n  \n🗓: July 15\, 2025\n🕒: 6 PM\n📍: York Amphitheâtre EV-1.615
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/animating-indiqueer-futures/
LOCATION:York Amphitheatre EV-1.615
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Crafting Indigiqueer Futures: Zine Making Workshop 1
DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the IFRC is inviting you to attend a series of events on the theme of Indigiqueer Joy! In the context of queer and Indigenous communities\, joy is not merely an emotion but an act of resistance\, survival\, and a framework for building liberatory futures. In this series\, you will explore: What is revealed when we tell our own stories? How can we reclaim and craft our own narratives collectively? And how can speculative fiction allow us to envision alternative futures? Drawing from both his experience in comics-making and the themes explored by the screened animated shorts\, IFRC Communications Coordinator Milo Puge will be leading two zine-making workshops exploring the nuances of joy. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n Participants will be invited to create their very own zines using collage\, drawing\, and/or writing with a collection of art supplies. They will be given open prompts to interpret joy and future in reflection\, collective conversation\, and making. \n  \nThese workshops are free and intended for Indigenous and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ people. \n  \n🗓: July 18\, 2025\n🕒: 1-3 PM\n📍: IFRC HQ EV 10.705 \n🎟️ Please register here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/crafting-indigiqueer-futures-zine-making-workshop/
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