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CBC New Indigenous Voices short Forgotten screens at its sixth fest in August

Posted: 18 Jul 2018 01:41 PM PDT

CBC New Indigenous Voices film Forgotten, from Jesse Spence, Alexis Leask and Andy Lown, screens next month at the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival in Ottawa.

Forgotten follows Levi who lives a simple life until escalating visions, too strong to ignore, lead him to reconnect to his Indigenous heritage.

The fest takes places August 8 to 12, 2018.

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CBC New Indigenous Voices is funded by: Title, Presenting and Tuition Sponsor CBC; Program Partners Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage, the Centre for Aborginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD) and Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsor Manitoba Film & Music; Industry Partner the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC); Industry Supporters IATSE and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival; and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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Shelley Niro one of 50 Indigenous women participants in Resilience billboard project

Posted: 18 Jul 2018 01:34 PM PDT

Resilience, a new art project from curator Lee-Ann Martin and produced by Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), features artwork by 50 indigenous women supersized on billboards throughout Canada.

Shelley Niro (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) is one of the featured artists – view them all.

The Resilience billboard exhibition is a response to Call to Action #79 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: the integration of “Indigenous history, heritage values, and memory practices into Canada’s national heritage and history.”

Resilience takes place June 1, 2018 to August 1, 2018 on 81 billboards from coast to coast.

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