Cultural Activities

Malorie Yawenda Picard, a member of the Wendat Nation, was born in Trois-Rivières, grew up in Sherbrooke, and now works barefoot on the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. After studying journalism, she is currently pursuing a research-creation master’s degree in literary studies at UQAM. Her thesis project is titled Oral Poetry to Offer a Visual Art Experience to Blind Individuals. With her rock band Big Messe, she presented the first phase of her interdisciplinary performance work, the punk opera Les rouges pour la fin, at OFFTA – Festival of Living Arts 2024. The piece was written in situ at a Wendat art center. A multi-non-disciplinary artist, her current creative drive moves between geopoetics and mediation, aiming to decolonize ways of perceiving the world.