Tanya Lukin Linklater Keynote + Meaningful Engagement: IndigeDIV

Hosted by Raven Spirit Dance congruent with the Dance Centre’s biennial Dance in Vancouver (DIV), the series brings artists, presenters and audiences together to discuss, share and witness how Indigenous artistic expression is a vital part of our community and it’s deeply rooted values are the foundation that can hold us all up. There is a circle under all that colonization built, RSD invites you to sit in these circles to listen and share.

KEYNOTE WITH TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER (3–4pm)
Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performance collaborations, videos, and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is compelled by relationships between bodies, histories, poetry, pedagogy, Indigenous conceptual spaces and Indigenous languages, and institutions.

CONVERSATIONS: BUILDING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS (4–5:30pm)
How are meaningful relationships built between presenters and Indigenous artists? What is the depth of these relationships and how can bone deep change shift the infrastructures we work in to better support Indigenous expression in the arts community? This discussion between attendees and panelists; Cole Alvis (Métis-Irish/English heritage from the Turtle Mountains in Manitobah), Lindsay Lachance (Anishinaabe ancestry), Joyce Rosario (PuSh Festival) and Donna Spencer (Firehall Arts Centre) will walk us through a consideration of our responsibilities as presenters with our curatorial visions and how this contributes to our evolving community and artistic landscape. Moderator, Holly Bright, Crimson Coast Dance Society, Snuneymuxw Territory, Nanaimo, BC.

We acknowledge that this event takes place on ancestral traditional and unceded Coast Salish Territory. Unceded means that this land has never been surrendered, relinquished or handed over in any way. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation.
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