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SUMMARY:World Water Night: Readings & Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Lee Maracle & Michael BlackstockScreening of S
 amaqan: Water Stories, with Director Jeff BearLee Maracle, granddaught
 er of Chief Dan George, is one of the most prolific aboriginal authors
  in Canada. Her books include Daughters Are Forever (fiction, Raincoas
 t, 2002), Will’s Garden (Theytus, 2002), Bent Box (poetry, Theytus B
 ooks, 2000), Sojourners & Sundogs (fiction, Press Gang, 1999), Ravenso
 ng (Press Gang, 1993), I Am Woman (nonfiction, Press Gang, 1988) and B
 obbi Lee, Indian Rebel (fiction, Women’s Press, 1975). She has recei
 ved the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change Award, and she contributed to Fi
 rst Fish, First People, which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s A
 merican Book Award. Maracle has taught at the University of Toronto, t
 he University of Waterloo, Western Washington University, South Oregon
  University, and many more places.Michael Blackstock is an independent
  scholar, poet, artist, and forester who has served as a member of the
  UNESCO-IHP Expert Advisory Group on Water and Cultural Diversity. He 
 has published two books of poetry: Salmon Run: A Florilegium of Aborig
 inal Ecological Poetry and Oceaness. Of Gitxsan (Hazelton) and Euro-Ca
 nadian descent, Blackstock has a MA in First Nations Studies. His firs
 t book, Faces in the Forest (McGill-Queen’s UP), examines tree art i
 n conjunction with First Nations cosmology, citing carvings, paintings
  and writings on trees within Gitxsan, Nisga’a, Tlingit, Carrier and
  Dene traditional territories.Jeff Bear (Maliseet) produces, writes an
 d directs independent documentaries  with director Marianne Jones (Ha
 ida) at Urban Rez Productions  in Vancouver. Since 2000 Urban Rez has
  produced the 26-part series  Ravens and Eagles, for broadcast on the
  Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, as well as Storytellers in Mot
 ion, a 39 part documentary series about indigenous storytellers, and c
 urrently, Samaqan: Water Stories. The first documentary that Bear and 
 Jones shot together, Burnt Church: Obstruction of Justice won the 2001
  Telefilm/APTN award for Best English Language Production.Bear has wor
 ked in video and television steadily for the last  24 years. He recei
 ved the  2000 Leo Award for Best Information Series as the producer o
 f  First Story, an aboriginal current affairs program broadcast in Ca
 nada on CTV. A past editor-in-chief of Kahtou magazine, he has written
  widely about indigenous political and cultural representation in Cana
 da. Bear speaks the Maliseet language fluently and was raised in Tobiq
 ue First Nation, New Brunswick.\n\nFor more information visit http://v
 illagevancouver.org/events/world-water-night-readings-film-screening
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CATEGORIES:readings, "&", film, screening
LOCATION:Emily Carr University of Art and Design
WEBSITE:http://www.downstream.ecuad.ca
URL:http://www.downstream.ecuad.ca
CONTACT:604.653.4006
ORGANIZER;CN="Rita Wong":http://villagevancouver.org/profile/RitaWong
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