Ep. 37: Conversatorio on North American Storytelling
September 23, 2020
“Do we need a North American Storytelling Agreement?”
From the RUTAS 2018 International Festival, this is a candid conversation about how stories move across territories, what they mean to us, and how we share them.Aluna invited Keith Barker, Denise Bolduc, Falen Johnson and Alex Williams to have a conversation about this, with Trevor Schwellnus moderating this panel.Conversatorios are curated conversations recorded live in front of the RUTAS and CAMINOS festival audiences, that are just as relevant today as they were then. The festvials are produced by Aluna Theatre in partnership with Native Earth Peforming Arts.
Show Notes:
- Falen is co-creator / co-host of The Secret Life of Canada Podcast – and now hosts Unreserved on CBC radio
- The Pass System, a documentary written, produced & directed by Alex Williams
- Louis Riel, Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, and central figure in the Red River and North-West resistances
- Bill C-31, a bill to Amend the Indian Act
- Keith Barker’s play This is How We Got Here
- The Indigenous Culture Fund was set up in response to calls for action from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation in 2017. Artists and supporters protested it’s funding being cut a year later.
- Denise was the Creative Producer of Tributaries, the opening event of the 2017 Luminato Festival featuring over 60 artists who pay tribute to the resilience of Indigenous women and the power of land and water.
- ImagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
- The Declaration of Indigenous Cinema, written by Åsa Simma (Sámi), with support from Darlene Johnson (Dunghutti)
- Denise mentions a “document manifesto from Quebec”, or the Manifesto for the advancement of Indigenous arts, artists, and arts organizations in Québec from Ondinnok
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