“Wahkohtowin: Everything/Everyone is Connected”

ONLINE Spoken Word recording will be posted on our web till July 2022

Shayla Elizabeth, poetry (poet featured in image with artwork by Norval Morrisseau “Sacred Snake of Good and Evil”)

with Aaron Dumas, djembe; and Jolene Wilson, Traditional Singer

Honouring LAND

Bio

Shayla Elizabeth is a mixed-blood Iniwé (Cree) writer, poet, storyteller, Spoken Word artist, who has been a member of the Indigenous Writers Collective, MB, since 1999. Her work has been published in Contemporary Verse 2 lit. journal, the Indigenous paper “First Perspective”, and featured on CBC radio and NCI FM, among others. She has been published in Manitowapow: Writings from the Land of Water, edited by Dr. Warren Cariou and Dr. Niigan Sinclair. She also has participated at Speaking Crow, a poetry open-mic. She was most recently published in RED RISING magazine, “Matriarchy” issue.

Thank you to our friends at Video Pool Media Arts Centre for their support of this event