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ANDPVA Newsletter
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For more information on ANDPVA events, feel free to give us a call 416.535.4567 ext 101
The RED Revue
The RED Revue takes place on the fourth Friday of every month. Feel free to stage a new work, a work in progress or old standards.
The point is to experiment, to have fun and to test your stuff on a new audience.
Lets all come together and share in this great imagining, called Indigenous arts. Come and keep dancing our revolution.
Entry by donation at the door
This Months RED Revue features: The Johnnys
Venue @ 9:30pm: TBA
To sign up for the Open Arts Mic portion of the night contact:
David DeLeary
416.535.4567 ext 105
andpvaoutreach@gmail.com
Check our website for updates: www.andpva.com
COME VISIT OUR OFFICE
EVERY saturday morning from 8:00am-12pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Suite 171
Toronto, Ontario
Indigenous artists are invited to sell their work in andpva's office space at the Wychwood Barns Saturday Market.
Free to set up for members
$10 a table for non members
Contact: David DeLeary
andpvaoutreach@gmail.com
416 535 4567 ext 105
Any artist can use andpva's space to give a workshop. Please provide us with examples of your work,
a statement about the workshop and price list. Keep checking your email and Facebook for future workshops!
Groups
Our members can pitch starting an arts groups and gain access to our space for meetings. Anyone can
participate in the arts group.
ANDPVA Community Sing-Along !!
Ongoing EVERY Tuesday night!
Beginning on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 ANDPVA’s Community Outreach Coordinator (and guitarist) David DeLeary will be leading a Community Sing-Along at our office at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on Christie St. in Toronto. This will be a fun event for all skill levels and is an opportunity for people to come out and sing popular songs (non-traditional) in a no-pressureand fun environment. Lead by veteran musician David DeLeary, participants can bring songs to sing and share with the group and you don’t have to be a musician to do so!!
Just bring a CD and typed lyrics (double-spaced) and David will learn the song so that you and the group participants can sing to it. If you do play an instrument, you are welcome to bring it and play along!!
Here’s the details:
ANDPVA Community Sing-Along
Tuesday Evenings: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
ANDPVA Office, 601 Christie St, Suite 171 (S. of St. Clair)
FREE!!
Contact:
David DeLeary
Community Outreach Coordinator
(416) 535 – 4567 ex: 105
andpvaoutreach@gmail.com
ANDPVA GUITAR LESSONS
Call the andpva office for more details: 416-535-4567
Poster Design by: Hiro Chavez
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Dear Community Member,
Please consider renewing or becoming a member of andpva, The Association for Native Development inthe Performing and Visual Arts.Purchasing your membership with ANDPVA will ensure that we provide you with the following services and resources:
Ability to vote at ANDPVA Annual General Meeting,Use of ANDPVA office facilities i.e.. Computer, internet, fax & copier ,Website Listing on our Online Directory & Artist links & E-Newsletter, Event postings, promo and marketing of artists works & Calls for SubmissInvites to all ANDPVA events, Ability to rent our in house Film Editing Suite & Camera Kit
Admittance to Masters Classes, Workshop discounts, special rates
Membership Categories:
INDIVIDUAL MEMBER - $30 (voting) FAMILY MEMBER - $35 (voting) SUPPORTING MEMBER - $80 (voting) ORGANIZATIONAL - $100 (voting)
Video Production Gear Daily
ANDPVA has high quality equipment for our members to use on a rental basis.
Camera, Video, Lighting, microphone, tripod kits, projectors and much more!!!
Please call for weekly, organizational rental prices or an equipment list
416.535.4567 ext 105
Reneltta Arluk
Reneltta is of Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Chipewyan-Cree descent originally from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. Raised by her grandparents on the trap-line until school age, Reneltta traveled around the North with them to communities such as Fort Providence all the way up to what was then called Snowdrift now Lutsel K’e. Being raised in a nomadic original environment gave her the skills to become the artist she is. Reneltta’s life ambition is to continue going down the road of an artist and she believes it natural that stories be maintained through the way of theatre. For all theatre is, is dramatic storytelling. To keep our culture alive we must transform our identity into something that rings true to everyone everywhere, to become universal.
For over ten years Reneltta has been a part of or initiated the creation of Aboriginal Theatre across various parts of Canada and overseas. As a student at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario Reneltta began exploring the techniques of incorporating her personal stories into an ensemble. In Whitehorse, Yukon she was an integral part of the ensemble of Raven’s Tale theatre. Raven’s Tale showcased the diversity of the Yukon by telling the traditional stories of the land and culture including an adaptation of Raven Steals the Sun. The cast was made up of many First Nations of the area as well as Indigenous peoples from other parts of Canada, including herself. From there Reneltta continued pursuing her acting in a more formal education. In 2005, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts – Acting degree from the University of Alberta. Reneltta became the first Aboriginal woman as well as the first Inuk to graduate from that program. Her training and life experience has brought her to many places since. From being a part of Copper Thunderbird, the first Aboriginal play to be on the main stage at the National Arts Centre in eighteen years, where she became a premier recipient of their David S.R. Leighton Fellowship Award, to overseas where she toured northern Greece for six months performing Utopian Floes as part of Caravan Tall Ship Theatre’s eclectic and culturally diverse cast and crew. As a resident in Edmonton, Reneltta coordinated the first annual Rubaboo Aboriginal Arts Festival in 2009.
Reneltta recently produced her first play, TUMIT, under her theatre company, Akpik Theatre. With a personal exploration of relationships and breaking cycles, TUMITgave Reneltta the opportunity and experience to take her storytelling one step further. Beginning at Nakai Theatre’s 24-Hour Playwriting Festival to a draft being read at Edmonton’s NextFest and being work shopped with O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk and Public Energy in Peterborough, Ontario to a final work shopped production in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories with support from the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, TUMIT premiered in Edmonton as part of Workshop West’s International Canoe Festival in 2011. Reneltta is currently in the process of writing her next play about Tookoolito, guide and friend to Charles Francis Hall, as Playwright-in-Residence at Gwaandaak Theatre in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Reneltta is fortunate to continually work as an Actor/Storyteller/Playwright/Producer throughout Canada and Internationally. As her mother says, “keep your culture alive.” Reneltta plans on doing that for a very long time.
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I'm wondering who I can talk to about funding for a female youth
choreographer to organize and train her own dance troupe?
Is there anyone there who would advise us?
Here are a couple of good funding sources for community arts, arts education and dance projects. All of these suit your project. I would call Bushra Junaid or Sara Roque at the Ontario Arts Council for further assistance. Think about the goals of your project and read the eligibility and purpose sections of the grants and choose the best program that fits your project.
Here is the link for Aboriginal Arts Education Projects
http://www.arts.on.ca/Page91.aspx
Your project may fit into Community Arts:
http://www.arts.on.ca/Page95.aspx
Your project may fit the Dance Initiatives Program:
http://www.arts.on.ca/Page124.aspx
There are also National grants you could apply for:
Grants to Aboriginal Dance Professionals:
http://canadacouncil.ca/grants/dance/nb128321100968391227.htm
The Artists and Community Collaboration Program in Dance
http://canadacouncil.ca/grants/dance/ei129096093364242808.htm
Also try your local city arts council.
These grants have deadlines and after submitting you may wait a full four months before hearing about funding.
Quick turn around sources of funding for these projects are harder to find. I would try private donations from Individuals committed to the cause
or corporations who have donated to the cause you are committing your artistic talent to. They will most likely need information on your work
and the work of the organizations and communities you are partnering with. Start on the phone, follow up with email, try to get a face to face and always bring materials to leave in their hands.
You can also get a one hour free consultation from the Dance Umbrella of Ontario
http://www.danceumbrella.net/home.htm
Because you are working with Youth you could also go to Canadian Heritage
Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth:
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/eng/1267288013718/1268447188590#a1
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Call for Open Arts Performers!!!!!!
The Open Mic at the monthly RED Revue is open to Indigenous artists from all disciplines and is a regular
feature of ANDPVA's monthly event.
Poets, writers, musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers are encouraged to briefly present their work on ANDPVA's
Open Stage (please limit material to between 10 - 15 minutes of running time in total).
Here's the Details:
May 27th, 2011
Open Arts Mic- All art forms welcome!!!
For more information or to sign up for The RED Revue contact:
The ANDPVA office
416 535 4567 ext 101
JOIN US FOR THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING RED!
www.andpva.com
APTN Aboriginal Day Live Flag contest, deadline for entries May 13. Entries should reflect the rich diversity of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples in Canada. http://www.aboriginaldaylive.com/flagcontest
Governor Generals's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2011
www.canadacouncil.ca
Nomination deadline: June 1, 2011
James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Award
Each year, the award program recognizes up to six Aboriginal youth for their creative writing talent, Creative writing pieces may include, but are not limited to , short stories, poems, essays, plays or songs. Submissions must be original work created by the student. All submissions will be judged by an independent selection committtee. Recipients will receive a cash award of $2, 500 each.
Submissions forms and more information are available on the Ontario Honours and Awards Secretariaat website at www.ontario.ca/bartleman, or by phone at 416 314 7526
Toll free 1 877 832 8622
Nomination deadline is May 31, 2011
Dreamcatcher Gala to Put Fashion in Spotlight
CALGARY EVENT OFFERS ASPIRING MODELS CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Have you ever dreamed of strutting your stuff under the lights, on a catwalk in a high-end fashion show? Would your dream include sharing the stage with Ashley Callingbull, a Miss Universe Canada in 2010? Now some of your modelling dreams can come true as the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation and Treaty 7 present a Black Tie Gala Event on June 16th at the BMO Centre at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, featuring musical guests The Funk Brothers.
WALK THE WALK: Try Out for a Modelling Cameo!
Live your dream... as Artifaax Productions holds a special ‘model casting' call for local male and female talent. Join us for auditions at the Marriott Hotel in Calgary on Tuesday, June 14th, from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m., and you could have your shot at the opportunity of a lifetime to be one of four young women and/or men chosen to walk the walk at the Calgary Gala Event that will also feature your favorite VIP celebrities including actor Adam Beach (Cowboys & Aliens, Windtalkers, Smoke Signals, Flags of Our Fathers) actor Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas, Insomnia, Flicka 2) and straight from the set of Twilight, Brandon Pelltier... and more!
This Artifaax Production is called “It's About Honour – Grand Entry”, a fashion presentation celebrating the traditions of powwow through a dance memorial to the past and a grand entry to the future! Starring The Baker Twins, Maddy McCallumand with special guest models Ashley Callingbull and Linsay Willier.
For information and details on how you can apply for this once-in-a-lifetime modelling opportunity, please contact fashion designer Denise Brillon at artifaax@yahoo.ca
CRAFT EXHIBITION DEADLINE EXTENSION
Ontario Crafts Council
Growing Ontario's Craft Community - NORTH
Friday, May 27 at 5:00 p.m. (EST) is the new extended deadline for the Ontario Crafts Council’s juried exhibition (Masterworks North, previous deadline of May 6).
We are encouraging submissions from emerging, Francophone, Aboriginal and new Canadian artists and craftspeople.
A restructured version of the Masterworks North Call for Entry will soon be distributed.
Once you have received the new Call for Entry, do not hesitate to contact the following individuals for assistance in preparing your application:
For assistance with your artist statement and biography, please contact Jude Ortiz, Northern Coordinator, at Jude.Ortiz@algomau.ca or at (705) 949-2301, extension 4222.
For assistance with formatting the digital images of your work, please contact Sarah Marusyk, Northeastern Ontario Assistant Coordinator, atSarah.Marusyk@algomau.ca or at (705) 949-2301, extension 4229.
NCCT is currently recruiting for the Board of Directors, please contact 416-964-9087 for more info
Red Slam Mentorship Position
Red Slam Collective in partnership with ArtStarts is currently looking for a youth between the ages of 16-29 years for a mentorship position within our S.L.A.M. I AM community arts engagement project facilitated by Red Slam Collective artists at the Maria A. Shchuka Library located at 1745 Eglinton W in the Eglinton and Dufferin area. S.L.A.M. I Am is one of 5 community arts engagement programs under the artistic direction of Red Slam Collective founder Mahlikah Awe:ri the purpose of the program is honoring and reclaiming our Warriorism through Spoken Lyricism Arranges Meaning or (SLAM). Integrating the diverse principles of the medicine wheel teachings, participants explore lyrical and musical composition, choreopoetry, break dancing and graffiti illustration inspired by their own anti-colonial journey both as individuals but also as a collective. Universal themes such as:
East: Loving Your Roots
South: Self-Determination and Diverse Truths
West: Global Mobilization
North: Earth Knowledge
The selected youth will be paid by ArtsStarts to set-up, assist and clean up after each weekly session which is currently running Wednesdays from 3pm-6pm.If you are interested in community arts engagement this is an opportunity to be mentored by one of the leading community arts engagement facilitators on the current arts scene Mahlikah Awe:ri.
Please email us at redslamcollective@gmail .com by Tuesday 5pm. Name. Phone Number. Email Addy. And a short bio about your own involvement is the arts and or working with children and youth, and why you would love to be a RSC Mentee.
Selected mentee will begin this Wednesday May 11th.
Aboriginal Education Outreach Program Assistant
Please forward resume and (3) references by 4:00pm May 25th, 2011 to:
Cindilee Ecker-Flagg, Cultural Program Coordinator
16 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario. M5R 2S7
Fax: (416) 964 – 6375 cindilee.ecker-flagg@ncct.on.ca
We thank all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.
Visit www.ncct.on.ca for more information
EDUCATION
CALL OUT TO ALL ABORIGINAL WOMEN LOOKING TO FUTHER THEIR EDUCATION
York University offers an Acedemic bridging course for Women
Register now! Sponsored by the School of Women's Studies in Cooperation with the Native Women's Resource Centre
New Dates
Wednesdays, 1:00-4:00pm
May 11-July 27 2011
For more information please call Dawn Patrick at 416-963-9963
Attention: Actors, Musicians, Artists, Writers, Dancers, Sculptors, Photographers...All Artists!
This Spring Invest in Your Business
Sign up for The Business of Art
This April, in partnership with 918 Bathurst, Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education, CCCO is offering The Business of Art, a six week course to help artists take control of their career and plan the steps for their success. The Business of Art is:
Intensive practical 6 week course taught by industry experts, Classroom sessions and homework assignments, Entrepreneurial concepts for a successful career
The class will be held at 918 Bathurst St., conveniently located near the Bathurst St. subway on Wednesdays from 6 PM - 9 PM, beginning April 20th and continuing until May 25th.
You will: Discover how writing a business plan gives you more power to create, Identify your current and potential audiences and how to communicate with them, Learn the joys of "financial planning" (yes, really!) and how it can reduce your stress, Explore brand "you", Learn how basic record keeping systems can help make grant writing and reporting a breeze
Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (SOADI)
SOADI is a non profit organization dedicated to diabetes awareness and prevention.Through wholistic, culturally based programs SOADI’s goal is to prevent type 2 diabetes and its complications. SOADI provides workshops, presentations, displays, resources and more centred around wellness. SOADI also has a foot care program that includes foot care subsidies, an Education program that offers cultural workshops and front line worker training and a Youth Program, Reztore Pride. Please visit our website for further details www.soadi.ca
Or contact Amanda Lipinski for the Toronto Region 416-203-0133 toronto@soadi.ca
For more information please contact: Robert Fenon at 1.800.625.8579
Mayworks – Festival of Working People and the Arts. Visual art, performance, workshops, music, film & video.
May 7 – 15 www.mayworks.
All events are at 601 Christie Street, Artscape Wychwood Barns
Visit www.bcurrent.ca for more details
Jumping Moose
Venue: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George Street (University of Toronto campus)
Performance Run: May 12-15, 2011
Thursday, May 12th at 1:00 PM matinee and 8:00 PM (Opening Night)
Friday, May 13th at 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 14th at 2 PM matinee and 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 15th at 2:30 PMmatinee
Below is a brief synopsis of the play"Jumping Mouse".
Synopsis :
In this adaptation of a traditional story, young Curious Mouse and her best friend Companion Mouse set off to follow their dreams on a brave adventure to the Sacred Mountains. Along the way, they meet a host of lively characters, and discover the true meaning of courage and friendship. Jumping Mouse was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Theatre for Young Audiences Outstanding Production in 1998. CIT's production features original songs and music by Marion de Vries and Columpa Bobb, Musical Direction by Alejandra Nunez and Choreography by Troy Emery Twigg and Amanda Chaboyer.
A poster of the show will be distributed sometime around mid-April. But for now, we are just in the process of getting the word out into the community about the matinee shows which are being directed specifically for school-age audiences. Thank youonce again for helping to promote our wonderful new show. If you have any questions and/or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself, Rose Stella or Brian Norton.
 
Executive Director Executive Assistant
Wanda Nanibush Leslie McCue
Community Outreach Coordinator
David Deleary
Thanks to everyone who helped during the RED Masquerade!
Artists who donated work
Aimee Rochard Arthur Renwick
Bear Thomas Brent Nogonosh
Charm Logan Dana Claxton
David Morrisseau Don Chase
Erika A. Iserhoff Eva Rose Tabobondung
Hiawatha Osawamick Jason Baerg
Jeff Thomas LauraLee K Harris
Mark Bruder Mark Jacobson
Maulicia De Torre Gorcia Melissa Benson
Nadya Kwandibens Nancy Howell
Richard Migwans Robert Henry
Rusell Nogonosh Saul Williams
Tania Gafner Tannis Nielsen
Phillip Young
Volunteers
Alex Williams Dixie Jackson
Elaine Brindley Eva Rose Tabobondung
Lindy Kinoshameg Lucy Rivers
Marcie Riel Reno King
Rod Nanibush Trip Pheonix
Doners
Diana Alli
Emilie Corbiere
Terry Gardiner
The Old Spaghetti Factory
The Ontario Science Centre
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