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Pop-Up Pow-Wow 2.0 (Friendship Dance Event)

In partnership with Wall-to-Wall Festival and Sākihiwē Festival
                 
English / Ojibwe / Cree
Pop Up Pow Wow Vol.2 / Ozhiseg Pow Wow Vol.2 enwaadeg / Nimihítowin Pow Wow Vol.2

Part of Nuit Blanche Winnipeg / Aanind iwe Nuit Blanche Winnipeg / Atit óki oci Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

Sept 28, 2019 (Times and areas TBA. (Check our web for details) / Sept 28, 2019 apii ji-wiindeg. Inaabin nimaagoniganinaang ezhiseg / Sept 28, 2019(ispík éko ité kita wicikatéw. (Anté itápi ká nókopaniki masinhikéwina awasimé kiskénitamowina oci)

Kick off of block party 6 pm, pow wow 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Outside block party in front of 211 PACIFIC AVE
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Please join us for Urban Shaman’s second year hosting a pop-up, out-door, non-competitive, family-friendly pow-wow located in the heart of Winnipeg. The body of Indigenous regalia and dance encompasses a rich tradition of kinship and spirituality. Bring the family down to our mini, one day, non-competitive, urban pow-wow trail presented by Urban Shaman Gallery in partnership with the Wall-to-Wall Festival and Sākihiwē Festival.

CALL TO DANCERS WHO JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN!
Dancers we want you to come out and show your stuff!!! A performance of 45 minutes (thus the pop up aspect of the event) of non-competitive dance, we hope the pow wow community understands this is a kind of Friendship Dance event and to bring the spirit of unity and fun to the gathering.  All welcome!

Musicians Bios:

Image: Sons of the Drum. Courtesy of Sons of the Drum.

Sons of the Drum is a traditional drum group formed in 2014, from Roseau River that have performed all over the continent, from Toronto to Albuquerque. Members of the collective are Bill Atkinson, Darcy Wayne Henry, Frank Daniels Junior, Garrett Ryan Henry, Jordan Starr, Jordan Seenie, Matt Mousseau, Nina Assiniboine Francis-Henry, Tyson Keith Henry, and Travis Henry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQK7x8K6d80

Boogey The Beat is an Anishinaabe DJ and Producer from Winnipeg, Canada who blends traditional Indigenous songs with modern electronic beats. His DJing skills have landed him on stages for the Indspire Awards, Canada Day 150 Main Stage in Ottawa, National Aboriginal Day LIVE presented by APTN, and multiple festivals across Turtle Island. https://soundcloud.com/boogeythebeat

About our partners:

Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival:
https://www.walltowallwpg.com/about/

Sākihiwē Festival:
https://www.sakihiwe.ca/

Nuit Blanche Winnipeg and Mb Culture Days

Image above from last years Pop Up Pow Wow at the Forks. Photo courtesy of Urban Shaman Gallery

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery acknowledges the support, throughout the year, of our friends, volunteers, community and all our relations, NCI FM, Wawanesa Insurance, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts.  ~Miigwetch/ Hai Hai/ Ekosi / Merci/ Thank you

Please contact for interviews:
Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery
Daina Warren (Director) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Or Liz Garlicki (Outreach Coordinator) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
203 – 290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2
T 204.942.2674       W http://www.urbanshaman.org

Second installment at the Urban Shaman Santa Fe Satellite Gallery

The satellite space is hosted by Vital Spaces

Kent Monkman
Dance to Mischief
Dates: August 14 to September 28, 2019

and performance…
Laura Ortman
Ortwoman Wild Waves
Date: August 14, 2019
Performance: Wednesday, August 14 at 6:30pm

Kent Monkman
Title: Dance to Mischief
Dates: August 14 to September 28, 2019
Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 14 at 6pm
Location: Urban Shaman Santa Fe Satellite Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico;
Vital Spaces at 220 Otero Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist Statement
Move over J.Lo and Cher! Miss Chief Eagle Testickle has a new sexy video of her club track: Dance to Miss Chief - a playful critique of German fascination with North American “Indians” that is guaranteed to make you want to get up and shake your booty! This remix of contemporary and vintage footage celebrates Miss Chief’s on-screen romance with leading man, Winnetou, fictitious “Indian” from Karl May’s German Westerns.

Biographies
Kent Monkman, born in Canada in 1965, is a Cree artist who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-traveling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples.

With Miss Chief at center stage, Monkman has created site-specific performances at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Compton Verney, and the Denver Art Museum. His painting and installation works have been exhibited at numerous institutions including the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the National Gallery of Canada; the Des Moines Art Centre; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; the Musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France; the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Maison Rouge, Paris; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Monkman’s second nationally touring solo exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, will visit nine museums across Canada until 2020.

Monkman’s award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various international festivals including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale and the 2007 and 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Many of his media works are made with his longtime collaborator, Gisèle Gordon. Monkman has been awarded the Indspire Award (2014), the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2014), the Bonham Centre Award (2017), an honorary doctorate degree from OCAD University (2017), and the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017).

Laura Ortman
Title: Ortwoman Wild Waves
Date: August 14, 2019
Performance: Wednesday, August 14 at 6:30pm
Location: Courtyard of Vital Spaces / Urban Shaman Santa Fe Satellite Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico; Vital Spaces at 220 Otero Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Performance Description
“…Ortman’s music is known for compositions that alternate lyrical intimacy with layered improvisation, often experimenting with four-track tapes and remixing her own audio catalogue in an evolving dialogue with herself. “I try and create music for your most solo moments,” she says…Her practice does have a strong connection to visual art, going back to before she moved to New York in 1997. “I used to try to create painting and installation work about being isolated, of being singular,” she says. “Then I started making my own music for the installations, to fill them up. Then, at last, I decided that the sound was what was really moving me.” She still describes what she does as “sculpting sound”…”- Artnews, Ben Davis, May 23, 2019.

Biography: A soloist and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) works across recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks, and has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Caroline Monnet, Michelle Latimer, Martha Colburn, and Loren Connors. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and pedal steel guitar, often sings through a megaphone, and is a producer of capacious field recordings. She has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008 Ortman founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast. Ortman is the recipient of the 2017 Jerome Foundation Fellowship, the 2016 Art Matters Grant, the 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, the 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency and the 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency. She is also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Ortman lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Special thanks to Amber Dawn Bear Robe (Urban staff alumni and friend) for helping with this event and Vital Spaces.

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery acknowledges the support, throughout the year, of our friends, volunteers, community and all our relations, NCI FM, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts. 
~Miigwetch/ Hai Hai/ Ekosi / Merci/ Thank you