This fall the Gemini Awards will honour the best in Canadian English-language television, and a handful of Aboriginal nominees are competing for some pretty significant hardware in the Program and Performance categories. Neil Diamond’s remarkable documentary Reel Injun is up for Best Social/Political Documentary Program. Don Kelly, host of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network‘s Fish […]
As promised, here are all the Indigenous artists screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which gets underway Thursday, Sept. 9 and runs for a total of 11 days. Non-Torontonians should look for these movies down the road at an Indigenous film festival near you, if not a mainstream theatre. Each film title […]
Not sure why I’m so tickled by this, but during a recent arctic tour Canada’s Prime Minister reportedly got down to some local drumming in Inuvik, NWT. And I’m pretty sure that’s newly appointed Minister of Indian & Northern Affairs John Duncan right beside him. If anyone has video of this pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease send it our […]
In this installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discuss the website “BEAT NATION” – home of hip-hop Indigenous-style – and touch on a debate over the appropriateness of hip-hop being used to share Aboriginal cultures. Rick also talks about Australia’s Desert Art Centre which uses YouTube […]
Since launching our weekly segment on THE WORD on STREETZ-FM, North America’s first and only urban Aboriginal radio station, I’ve been keeping my eye out for related content on the Web. And if you’re new to hip-hop Indigenous-style, or want a greater sense of how the music is part of a broader cultural movement, a […]
