Ziigimineshin Vendor Call

Beading Symposium: Ziigimeineshin Winnipeg 2020 is calling all beading, and now any medium vendors. Deadline to participate is January 31, 2020

When event happens: Feb 6- 9, 2020
Where: Manitoba Museum, Alloway Hall (171 Rupert Ave)
Cost: $100 table/4 days

Vendors must be Indigenous.

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Info on the symposium…
https://c2centreforcraft.ca/2019/08/21/wpg-beading-symposium-2020/

schedule of symposium
https://beadingsymp.ca/Schedule

fb event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/955710534797128/

Artists talk : “Endurance…..Patience”

Artists talk about their individual works in the group show “Endurance…..Patience”, which opens February 7 in the Main and MFMG
Guest speakers: Carrie Allison, Ruth Cuthand
Date: Wednesday, February 5
Time:  7-9pm
Location: at Forth Café (171 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Group show at Urban Shaman Gallery FB Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/691470638029542/

Endurance…..Patience is programmed in conjunction with the national Beading Symposium – Ziigimine-shin, taking place from February 6-9, 2020 in Winnipeg. Basing Urban Shaman’s group exhibition on the title of Francesca Hebert-Spence’s group exhibition at the Manitoba Craft Council, May the Land Remember You as You Walk Upon Its Surface, four Indigenous artists were chosen as part of Urban Shaman’s group exhibition and each individual explores conceptual politics in relation to the land. In this show, Carrie Allison’s work, Red River Beading (Sîpîy), is the most illustrative example of an enduring desire to produce a beaded project. In an effort to show her reverence for the land, Allison has precisely rendered the pathways of the Red and Assiniboine rivers as they flow through the cityscape of Winnipeg. In addition to this project, she has also brought a video animation titled, To Honour, which is a visual documentation of the beading process as a meditative homage to plant life.

Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1954, and is of Plains Cree and Scottish ancestry. Her works “talk back” to mainstream media and colonial society, addressing the frictions between cultures, the failures of representation, and the political uses of anger in Canada. Her subjects include “white liberal” attitudes towards Aboriginal women, the Canadian response to the 1990 Oka crisis, Mormon-Native relations in Cardston, Alberta (the artist’s childhood home), and more. As an artist, teacher, and cultural activist, Cuthand has been extremely influential for other artists in Saskatchewan, and contemporary Aboriginal artists across Canada. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with both a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Carrie Allison is an Indigenous mixed-ancestor multidisciplinary visual artist born and raised on unceded and unsurrendered Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, BC), with maternal roots in High Prairie, Alberta. Situated in K’jipuktuk since 2010, Allison’s practice responds to her maternal Cree and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Allison’s practice is rooted in research and pedagogical discourses. Her work seeks to reclaim, remember, recreate and celebrate her ancestry through visual discussions often utilizing beading, embroidery, handmade paper, watercolour, websites, QR codes, audio, and video. Allison’s practice is time intensive, repetitive, durational, and thoughtful; she uses beading to connect with histories, narratives, relatives, and ancestors. Her Master’s thesis exhibition, titled Sîpîy (river in Cree) explores connecting to rivers and ancestral lands through intense practice of beading. She beaded two ten-metre rivers, the Heart River and the Fraser River, while also organizing a community project beading the Shubenacadie River to promote and support the work of Stop Alton Gas. The Shubenacadie River Beading Project is a community collaborative project that thinks through notions of kinship, solidarity, and inspiring allyship. The individual pieces were auctioned off to raise funds for Stop Alton Gas’ legal fees.

Image above: (left) Ruth Cuthand (image courtesy of artist). (right) Carrie Allison (photo credit Alexa Cude)

Volunteer Call Beadwork Symposium: Ziigimineshin Winnipeg 2020

February 6 – 9, 2020
9am to 4pm
Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave. Winnipeg MB

Call for Symposium Volunteers:

Ziigimineshin Beading Symposium is looking for volunteers on February 6th - 9th, 2020. Volunteer times are from 9am to 4:30pm.

Age range for volunteers 18 - 100 (or you can still jig ;D. There is walking & standing involved). Benefits on volunteering-free access to symposium depending on hours you do. Though this is an Indigenous focused symposium, all are welcomed to help and join in the symposium.

The symposium will be a four-day event full of fun activities and amazing talks. Ziigimineshin will need volunteers to aid in the following positions: Gathering Transportation, Information Booth, Collection Visits, Elder Helpers, Crowd Management and Meal Volunteers.

Email us for more information at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

About
Ziigimineshin Winnipeg 2020 is the second iteration of the Beadwork Symposia, this one organized by the Manitoba Craft Council (MCC) in partnership with Urban Shaman, Manitoba Museum, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art.
The first Beadwork Symposium: Manidoominensagemin (We are beading) Toronto 2019, was held at the Canada Textile Museum in conjunction with Beads, they’re sewn so tight curated by Lisa Myers. The Beadwork Symposia are intended to contribute to and build on the scholarship around contemporary Indigenous art with a focus on how beadwork builds community; through making and learning together, opportunities will be created for the exchange of knowledge and the building of community.

Contact Symposium organizer Franchesca Hebert-Spence at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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