NISK intergenerational project takes flight in Montreal
“We are in the time of prophecy: the youth are going to take Indigenous wisdom and resurrect it through their art and their stories because they are going to inherit what we leave behind.”
Arts & Culture
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The imagineNATIVE festival at 20
At the awards ceremony for the 20th imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival this year, Cree artist Kent Monkman – while giving out an award named in his honour – quipped that the featival was getting old, old enough to have sex.
Violent Ground picks up three awards for recent album
Many Indigenous stories have been passed down generations as songs. For Indigenous hip-hop group Violent Ground, music is still a way to share stories about their lives and experiences growing up in the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach.
Film depicts Kuujjuaq in the 1940s and 1950s
The highly anticipated Inuit-focused film Restless River premiered October 12 at Montreal’s New Cinema Festival to a lively reception.
Myriam Verreault discusses the making of Kuessipan, an Innu coming-of-age film
“The question, ‘How do I define myself as a person?’ has always been one that has fascinated me,” expressed filmmaker Myriam Verreault, director of Kuessipan.
Footprints: A Walk Through Generations gets prestigious showing at Museum of History
For as long as there have been Cree, the Cree have been defining their landscapes.
The tops and no bottoms of Osheaga
Descending into Parc Jean-Drapeau’s festival crowds and dust in the sweltering heat for three days of incredible music and ambiance that is the Osheaga music festival has become a summer ritual.
Montreal First Peoples Festival wows record crowds with international flavours
As the sun set on another successful Montreal First Peoples Festival, held August 6-14, it was time to reflect on what was perhaps the biggest and best edition so far
Indigenous company tells the origin story of the universe through dance
Ever since she was a young girl growing up in the northern Ontario community of Temagami, Sandra Laronde has explored the power of human movement.
Hardcore music and living take their toll on Exploited frontman
Wattie Buchan has a sharp memory of Montreal for a show he never played.