February Sixteenth Nineteen Forty-Seven
Friday May 3 at 1:00pm - Experimental Program
(Gabriola Island, 4:00 minutes)
Inuk Elder Levinia Brown tells how she was born while her family was travelling by dog team across the open tundra. Hand-stitched cutout stop motion animation in the style of her own artwork illustrates her oral history.
Jessica ᒦᖒᐊᖅᑏ Miinguuaqtii
Jessica ᒦᖒᐊᖅᑏ Miinguuaqtii is an interdisciplinary Inuk artist, educator, community builder and emerging filmmaker, specializing in decolonial wellness and expressive arts practices. Jess is passionate about sharing her own healing and cultural reclamation journey through storytelling, and supporting others to do the same.