Panel: Taking Space: Decolonize, DIY Optimism & Listening

BARKING SPHINX PRESENTS: UNWRITTEN WEEKEND

Panel: Taking Space: Decolonize, DIY Optimism & Listening 

With Ta7taliya Michelle Nahanee, Rainbow Robert, and Jesse Gander.

Moderated by Gillian Thomson.

At Red Gate (1965 Main St)

Sunday, September 22nd

3:45PM (doors: 3:30 PM)

Free

Co-presented with act•art•mgt

Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee

Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee is an award-winning unlearning designer and critical Sḵwx̱wú7mesh communications scholar with over 30 years of experience in indigenous-specific creative direction. Through facilitation, seminars, workbooks and games, Ta7talíya shares her Squamish teachings with Indigenous critical theory to catalyze social change, focusing on undoing colonial impacts. She grew up on-reserve in the village of Eslha7an, then within the East Van punk and art scene as a young adult. She carries traditional teachings from her Nation as well as urban Indigenous teachings from what she lovingly refers to as East Van Nation. She works within the intersection of class, culture and creativity. 

https://www.instagram.com/indigenousinclusion

Rainbow Robert

Rainbow hangs out with hummingbirds, and loves to plant flowers. She believes in music, and deeply cares about the people who make it. Rainbow is a dedicated supporter of every astounding layer of the local and international music community, and will move mountains to make amazing things happen. 

She has been deeply involved in the arts and cultural sector in British Columbia for the past two decades, most recently in the role of Executive Director of the BC Alliance for the Arts and Managing Director of Artistic Programming for Coastal Jazz, where she curated the program for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. She has also served in the role of Executive Director of Jazz Festivals Canada, a not-for-profit national arts service organization that represents the interests of and acts as advocate for Canadian jazz festivals and presenters.

Jesse Gander

Jesse’s career began in Vancouver in the 1990s. Still in high school he would spend his weekends travelling around Vancouver recording punk-rock bands on a cassette recorder in their basements and jam-spaces. Since then he has travelled to record albums in Belgium, Bulgaria, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and all over the United States and Canada. Most recently he was in the Yukon Territory recording the Hän Singers, people of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nations, who make music in their traditional language.

www.jessegander.com

www.raincityrecorders.com

https://www.instagram.com/jessegander

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We acknowledge that our work takes place in Vancouver on traditional and unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),Stó:lō and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this place.

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