Workshops and lectures
Encounter with the Ma’ohi culture of French Polynesia
THURSDAY, JUNE 18 at 5 pm / MAISON DES ÉCRIVAINS, 3492, AVENUE LAVAL
Litterama’ohi
With Flora Devatine, author and poet
Flora Devatine is an author and poet from the Tahitian peninsula. Her writing, nurtured by her personal experience, reveals her ties to the oral tradition and raises the question of which language to write in. Through excerpts of the journal Littérama’ohi – Ramées de Littérature polynésienne which she founded with a group of writers, Flora Devatine lets us discover what is at stake for her Ma’ohi culture.
A meeting organized with the support of UNEQ, L’Union des écrivains du Québec
Host: Joséphine Bacon, Innu poet
MONDAY, JUNE 15 at 12 noon / INRS, 385 E. SHERBROOKE ST.
Ma’ohi Dance and Literature
With Jean-Daniel Tokainiua Devatine, teacher at French Polynesian Art Crafts Centre, doctoral candidate in ethnology
The festival of traditional Polynesian songs and dances is the climax of Heiva-i-Tahiti, a great gathering at which the traditional activities are on show and the subject of competitions every year. Preparations for the dance events require a significant human effort; troupe leaders and choreographers seek out Polynesian authors to write the script for the show. This recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon is rooted in the initiatives of writers such as poets, founders of literary journals and theatrical authors. Mr Devatine's talk will centre on this development, while attempting to explain it. This is an updated version of a lecture first presented at Quai Branly Museum in Paris, in 2007.
Talk presented with the support of UQAM First Nations Circle, GIRA, the DIALOG network and Recherches amérindiennes au Québec.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20 at 9:30 am / CAFÉ L’ESCALIER, 552, STE-CATHERINE ST.
Tahiti to Wendake, the poetry workshop
With Flora Devatine and Jean Sioui, authors and poets
This poetry workshop provides a rare meeting of two continents very far apart on the globe but whose Indigenous peoples have much in common. Flora Devatine and Jean Sioui, respectively from the Tahitian peninsula and Wendake, provide us an experience of creation and writing, plunged into the diverse cultures and identities of the First Nations and the Ma’ohi people.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED : genevieve@nativelynx.qc.ca
GIRA: A Colloquium
JUNE 17, 18, 19 2009 IN MONTREAL AND KAHNAWAKE
Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous cinema / Visiones indígenas sobre las Americas / Regards autochtones sur les Amériques
An event presented in the framework
of theFirst Peoples' Festival
Programme and information: www.gira.info
This event will be an opportunity to build bridges between the academic world and the world of Aboriginal cinema, as well as people from the cultural scene in local Aboriginal communities. It is intended to create a unique space for meetings, exchanges and networking.
Talks by researchers and round tables of filmmakers and Aboriginal cinema professionals allow a better understanding of the role Aboriginal experiences and cinematographic insights play in what the Americas are and what they can become.
Alanis Obomsawin (filmmaker, Canada), Steven Leuthold (Northern Michigan University), Audra Simpson (filmmaker, United States), Beverly Singer (University of New Mexico), Laura Milliken (producer, Canada) and José Alfredo Jiménez (filmmaker, Mexico) will be among the guests at this transcontinental event!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
4 pm to 6 pm: Opening conference and cocktail (by invitation)
THURSDAY, JUNE 18 (INRS, 385 E. Sherbrooke St., Montreal)
10:30 am to 5 pm: Talk and round tables : production, direction and dissemination of Aboriginal cinema. Social and political cinema.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19 (Kateri Hall, Kahnawake)
10 am to 5 pm: Forum, talk and round table: Inter-American encounters via Aboriginal films. Aesthetics of Aboriginal films.
ALL ACTIVITIES FREE OF CHARGE!
This event is presented by the Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Amériques in partnership with Réseau DIALOG, Land InSights and the Kanien’kehaka Ohkwawénna Raotitiohkwa cultural centre.
Workshop, The Long and the Short of it
FROM JUNE 16 TO 20
Telefilm Canada's new program Place aux histoires autochtones / Featuring Aboriginal Stories targets the emergence of dramatic feature films coming out of the traditions and current lives of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. This sets a clear goal for young emerging filmmakers from these communities. Professional workshops will better equip them to complete feature- length films, whether fiction or documentaries.
16 JUIN, DE 11H30 À 14H / Midi-conférence : « Scénarisation et documentaire : contradiction dans les termes ? »
En compagnie de :
Colette Loumède, productrice exécutive du Studio documentaire A - Programme francais de l'ONF
Marielle Nitoslawska, cinéaste et professeur à l'Université Concordia à Montréal
Erica Pomerance, réalisatrice, scénariste et productrice
Sur réservation seulement : genevieve@nativelynx.qc.ca
17 JUIN, DE 9H30 À 11H30 / Atelier de tournage en HD
En compagnie de Rachel-Alouki Labbé, réalisatrice
Sur réservation seulement : genevieve@nativelynx.qc.ca
17 JUIN, DE 11H30 À 14H / Midi-conférence : « Le premier long-métrage de fiction : HD et petit budget »
En compagnie d'Isabelle L'Italien, Coordonnatrice projets de résidence chez PRIM
Sur réservation seulement : genevieve@nativelynx.qc.ca
19 JUIN, DE 9H30 À 10H / Présentation du programme de Téléfilm Canada « Place aux histoires autochtones/Featuring Aboriginal Stories »
Au Kateri Hall, Kahnawake
One Year After The Apology For Residential Schools: What Has Changed?
THURSDAY JUNE 11 AT 2 PM / LE GÉSU, SALLE D’AUTEUIL
Speakers:
Ellen Gabriel , President, Quebec Native Women Inc.
Béatrice Vaugrante, Director, Amnisty international, francophone section
Ghislain Picard, Regional Chief, Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador
Carole Lévesque, Director, Dialog
In collaboration with:
