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MAPPING INDIGENOUS ARTS LEADERSHIP IN CANADA

Presentation by France TrépanierArts Organisations and Businesses PanelWise Practices in Indigenous Community Development Symposium, September 15, 2012

+INDIGENOUS ARTS: Historical Context

+INDIGENOUS ARTS: Historical Context

“Europeans found art everywhere. In hundreds of flourishing vital cultures, Art was fully integrated with daily life... The First Europeans found hundreds of languages in use - not dialects but languages. And in every language, our Artists created philosophical argument and sacred ceremony, political discourse, fiction and poetry.”

Doreen Jensen, 1992

+INDIGENOUS ARTS: Historical Context

+INDIGENOUS ARTS: Historical Context

“I once hear an elder say that the greatest crime in this land was not that the natives had their language and culture beaten out of them in boarding schools – the great crime was the people who came here did not adopt the culture of the land”

Mike MacDonald, 1998

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ART PRODUCT

ART MARKET

distribution Marketing Sales

ART PRODUCTCreative economy CULTURAL INDUSTRIES

Tourism industry

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ART PROCESS

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY exploration

CRITICAL THINKING

ART PROCESSCultural mediation EXPERIMENTATION

Relationships

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INUIT CIRCUS COMPANY

WISE PRACTICE IN INDIGENOUS ARTS LEADERSHIP

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+ARTCIRQ

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+ARTCIRQ

+ WAPIKONI MOBILEMOBILE AUDIO-VISUAL STUDIO TRAVELLING TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WISE PRACTICE IN INDIGENOUS

ARTS LEADERSHIP

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Indigenous Nations in Quebec

10 First Nations and the Inuit Nation

55 Aboriginal communities

Half of the Aboriginal population is under 30

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WAPIKONI MOBILE

Fully equipped itinerant audio-visual and music recording studios

2000 participants to film and music workshops

360 musicals creations

450 short films

More than 40 awards in national and international festivals

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