Autumn Offering

Performance Title: Autumn Offering
Artist: Lori Blondeau
Performance Date: Saturday, October 1, 2016 during Winnipeg Nuit Blanche at 8pm
Location: Deer + Almond Parking Lot (across from Urban Shaman Gallery, on the corner of Princess Street and McDermot Avenue) in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Artist Talk with Lori Blondeau
Date: Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7pm
Location: University of Manitoba – School of Art, 180 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba
In Partnership with the University of Manitoba – School of Art, ARTlab

For more information on the Performance and/or the Artist Talk
Please contact Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Avenue
Phone: 204-942-2674
Website: http://www.urbanshaman.org
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Performance Art Information
Please join us during this exciting weekend to witness Lori Blondeau’s beautiful yet moving performance that is inspired from her family’s stories. “My great-great grandfather lived on a diet of pemmican, wild roots, berries and wild game.” Blondeau will be located in the parking lot behind Deer + Almond restaurant to start off their street party during Winnipeg Nuit Blanche. Please contact Urban Shaman Gallery for more information.

Artist Talk Information
Can’t make it out to the performance this weekend? You are in luck! Urban Shaman Gallery and the University of Manitoba’s School of Art are partnering on Blondeau’s artist talk. This is one of the first in a series of talks and cross programmation between our two institutions. Please meet us at the School of Art at the University of Manitoba on Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7pm to hear Lori discuss her work, tell stories and inspire everyone with her thought engaging, multi-disciplinary practice. Once again please contact the gallery for more information.

Biography
Lori Blondeau is a Cree/Saulteaux/Metis artist from Saskatchewan. Blondeau holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, and has sat on the
Advisory Panel for Visual Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts and is a co-founder
and the current director of TRIBE, an Aboriginal arts organization. Her practice
includes both visual and performance contemporary art.