60s Scoop Celebration Feast and Social with Twin Flames

Location: Novotel Hotel, Dawn Room 3rd Floor - 4:30 pm doors open to seating for buffet

7:00 pm Zoey Roy

7:30 pm Twin Flames

8:30-9:00 pm End

The Sixites Scoop Network welcomes 60's Scoop surivvors and their families to join us for a feast buffet and evening of spoken word and live music with Zoey Roy and Twin Flames.

We are celebrating our existence and welcoming 60s scoop survivors who have travelled from Spain, the USA, and all over Canada to the Ottawa Indigenous community.

Seating is limited but priority will be given to Elders, 60's Scoop survivors and their families but all Indigenous community members are invited to attend.

Donations towards the raffle table are currently being accepted and you can contact Elaine Kicknosway or Colleen Hele Cardinal at [email protected] to coordinate pick up.

Algonquin knowledge keeper, Fred McGregor will be our emcee for the evening!

Currently based in Ottawa, ON, Zoey Roy is Nehithaw-Dené and Michif and a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She is an award-winning spoken word poet, rap artist, creative producer, and teacher with a passion for preserving the essence of Indigenous narratives. Her work is driven by the possibilities of creating kinship and seeing ourselves in each other. Zoey is a masterful performer with over 25 years of experience. Since releasing 2 albums during the pandemic, Zoey has opened for and performed with various influential artists such as Buffy St. Marie and Rupi Kaur. She has toured schools, conferences, and concert halls nationally and performed abroad at Australia’s BIGSOUND festival and the Dubai Expo 2020. She was also the face of a national Cheekbone Beauty campaign in collaboration with Sephora where her poetry was featured on lipstick cases and her voice in their commercials.Zoey is an experienced teacher who received her Bachelor of Education from SUNTEP at the University of Saskatchewan, Master of Public Policy from Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and she is currently pursuing a PhD addressing how collective songwriting preserves Indigenous languages through York University.

Twin Flames offer a memorable show with the perfect blend of music, comedy and thought-provoking stories. Their synchronicity and love shine through at every show.

They are recipients of 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards, 3 Native American Music Awards, 3 Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards and the 2022 Capital Music Award (Group of the year.) Jaaji and Chelsey met on-set during the filming of APTN's TAM in 2014. In 2015 they created the band Twin Flames.

Twin Flames build bridges across cultures, continents, and styles, and have been celebrated internationally. This, alongside their substantial body of work, make it clear that they have something special going on. In just seven years of recording and performing as Twin Flames, the duo has accumulated over 35 music awards and nominations.

From the beginning, this husband and wife duo has chosen to let their music speak for itself. Jaaji (Inuk from Nunavik and Mohawk from Kahnawake) and Chelsey June (Algonquin, Métis, Cree + Settler) write songs delivered through a mix of English, French and Inuttitut.

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