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EVERYTHING HAS A STORY
Storytelling Bundle Workshop with visiting artist Marjorie Beaucage

Friday, March 8, 2019
2 - 4 pm
Room W480, Centre for the Arts building
No Registration Required, Everyone Welcome!

A time to make medicine together. A time to connect the dots in our own stories. Stories are medicine. Come make some.

While on-campus, Marjorie Beaucage is speaking in the Art NOW series at noon in the University Recital Hall on March 8.  More information here.

About the Artist

Marjorie Beaucage is a filmmaker, cultural worker and educator. Her work has been screened in bingo halls and at City Hall, from Northern Labrador to New York. She is a change agent, both in her own life and in the lives of those around her. At 70, during a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico in 2017, she reflected on a lifetime of art and activism and wrote about her life. While there, she experimented with Circus Arts and Spoken Word as new forms for sharing her life stories. 

In the early 1990‘s, Marjorie Beaucage was a co-founder of the Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance. As a "Runner" she worked as cultural ambassador to negotiate self-governing partnerships and alliances with the Banff Centre for the Arts, V-Tape, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, which resulted in the development of new Indigenous Arts programs. She also programmed the first Aboriginal Film Festival in Toronto, Reel Aboriginal, at Harbourfront Centre in 1992.

Beaucage has always challenged the status quo to make room for different ways of being. She has taken on mainstream institutions like  the NFB’s Studio D and Studio 1, TVNC (Television Northern Canada) and Telefilm Canada, Arts Councils, advocating for spaces for Indigenous Peoples to have their own voice, be visible in media, and explore storytelling traditions in contemporary ways.

Image courtesy of artist.