Winnipeg, MB – The cross-Canada touring art and film installation pîkiskwe-speak: An Invitation to Conversations in Reconciliation comes to the City of Winnipeg's Millennium Library starting Thursday, December 6, 2018.
Hosted by Winnipeg Public library, this collaborative arts project features the dramatic mixed-media triptych Lost My Talk, artwork by Alberta-based Indigenous artist Lana Whiskeyjack, and the award-winning documentary film Lana Gets Her Talk by Beth Wishart MacKenzie.
The art and film explore the intergenerational wounding of Canada’s Residential School system and the power of art and Indigenous pathways to heal the wounding. The artists engage communities in conversations of reconciliation through art - conversations aimed at writing a new chapter, painting a new vision, and creating a new protocol for Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in Canada.
Artists Lana Whiskeyjack and Beth Wishart MacKenzie open pîkiskwe-speak with a special screening of Lana Gets Her Talk and a community conversation in reconciliation facilitated by Elders Barb and Clarence Nepinak.
Opening event details:
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium, 251 Donald St.
6:30 p.m.: Reception with artists & art exhibit
7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.: Film screening & community conversation in reconciliation
The opening event and the exhibit are free to attend, and all are welcome.
The art and film installation will continue in Millennium Library’s Blankstein Gallery and adjacent Indigenous resources area Wii ghoss through to January 13, 2019.
Learn more about Residential Schools at: Winnipeg Public Library – Residential Schools
For more information about the tour, see: pikiskwe-speak.ca