DARC: Ode'min Giizis

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Ode'min Giizis

Seven Day Multi-disciplinary Aboriginal Arts Festival
June 17 - 24

We invite you to the Ode'min Giizis Festival, a seven-day multi-disciplinary Aboriginal arts festival in Peterborough, Ontario. This year's festival will feature performances by Aboriginal 'trailblazers', Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tomson Highway (Rez Sisters), Elaine Bomberry (Rez Bluez), NYC based a cappella trio Ulali, Keith Secola (NDN Kars), Gary Farmer (Dead Man, Pow Wow Highway) and local shining women musicians Missy Knott (Curve Lake First Nation), Drea Nasager(Peterborough), Sean Conway(Curve Lake First Nation) and Sarah DeCarlo (Peterborough).

Events Schedule:

June 17th-7pm VISUAL ART EXHIBITION: Opening 'Nogojiwanong' featuring regional Native artists curated by WILLIAM KINGFISHER ( at The Art Gallery of Peterborough & showings at Black Honey, Kubo, Blue Tomato, Catalina)

June 17th- 10pm CONCERT GARY FARMER w BROCK STONEFISH & THE BATTLE RIVER BLUES BAND. At the Historic Red Dog Tavern $10.

June 18th-8pm PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION: 'Rez-Erection' Curated by WANDA NANABUSH. Belle Sauvage, Buffalo Bill & Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Set Up Camp by LORI BLONDEAU and ADRIAN STIMSON. With films by KENT MONKMAN at Artspace (378 Aylmer ST. N)
In partnership with Artspace.

June 18th- 10pm DANCE PARTY DJ madeskimo and Bear Witness, Kubo Lounge (413 George St. N.)

June 19th-8pm CONCERT: Peterborough Native SARAH DECARLO, DREA NASAGER, KEITH SECOLA and THE BAND OF WILD INDIANS. Market Hall (336 George Street N.) $15.

June 20th-8pm CABARET: The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito and Rose. TOMSON HIGHWAY on piano & singer PATTY CANO performing 14 songs from 2 of Mr. Highway's musical plays. Opening act MISSY KNOTT. Market Hall (336 George Street N.) $15.

June 21 GATHERING /POW WOW.
Sunrise Ceremony 7 am @ Del Crary Park.
Community Procession-11am. Meet infront of Peterborough City Hall and travel to Del Crary Park- Look for Toronto's RED PEPPER SPECTACLE ARTS 12-foot puppets! All Welcome to participate.
GRAND ENTRY 1pm. Followed by Pow Wow with story-tellers, drummers, dancers, hoop dancers, smoke dancers, Kehewin Dance Troupe, canoeing, vendors, and a 30 foot performance tipi. (George Street Del Crary Park)

June 22nd-7pm FILM SCREENING: 'Waterlife' Directed by KEVIN McMAHON and featuring JOSEPHINE MANDAMIN. Market Hall (336 George Street N) $10.

June 23-8pm ARTIST TALK: an intimate evening with ELAINE BOMBERRY in conversation with multimedia artist, activist, Academy award winner, singer/songwriter, BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE. Market Hall (336 George Street N) $20.

June 24th-8pm CLOSING CONCERT: BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE with NYC-based acappella trio ULALI In partnership w/ Peterborough Festival of Lights. Del Crary Park.

Tickets can be purchased at Showplace. For further details please refer to publicenergy.ca, or contact Patti Shaughnessy @ 705.745.1788 email. admin@publicenergy.ca.

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About DARC

Decolonization and Anti-Racism Circle (DARC) is an organization made up of Peterborough community members that work with the goal of building solidarity across differences for social change. We use a broad range of tactics including public education, social support, advocacy, and direct action to address historical and ongoing injustices that affect racialized and Indigenous peoples. We recognize that structures of oppression including patriarchy, ecocide, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism and racism are interconnected, mutually reinforcing and embodied in institutions. We believe decolonization 'at home' is an integral part of the struggle for global justice and self-determination. Decolonization is only effective by taking action through consensual efforts and building solidarity across intersecting identities and communities that are affected by structures of oppression.

DARC can be reached by email at darcpeterborough@riseup.net

Basis of Unity

As people who identify as Indigenous, as people of colour and/or as mixed-race persons, we come together with the recognition that there is a need for a network of support and advocacy in order to address covert, everyday racism and the climate of exclusion that does exists within Peterborough. By aligning ourselves with other social justice organizations we are better able to address intersecting concerns such as gender, culture, poverty, immigration, sexual identity, status, difability ('differently' abled), age, and life experiences (e.g., class, HIV serostatus, physical and mental health status etc.). By maintaining an organizing unit comprised of people who identify as Indigenous, as people of colour and/or as mixed-race persons we hope to encourage leadership among racialized and Indigenous people and to help nurture the mental space necessary to be able to recognize, criticize and address experiences of racism. In these ways we can work towards community wellness, anti-racism and decolonization!

Guiding Principles

By using a non-hierarchical structure and consensus decision making practices, DARC strives to serve racialized and Indigenous communities by first addressing their lived experiences rather than focusing on White guilt and White privilege. DARC will do this by:

- Recognizing the need to unite and actively fight for mutual self-determination through a movement led by racialized and Indigenous peoples.
- Understanding that services and effort to organize are most successful when they involve the communities served, DARC seeks to support and promote the active participation, leadership and experiential knowledge of racialized and Indigenous peoples throughout its structure and work.
- Understanding and addressing everyday covert racism, and how it creates a climate of exclusion.
-Fostering a deeper analysis of the ways in which colonialism, imperialism, ecocide, patriarchy and other structures of oppression continue to impact the lives of racialized and Indigenous people in different ways.
- Appreciating the collective histories of struggle against racial and ethnic discrimination as well as other forms of oppression that we work to resist through organizing, supporting and advocating for our diverse communities.
- Acknowledge the importance of uniting Indigenous and racialized people in common struggles while recognizing our different communities, histories, and experiences of oppression and resistance.
- Work in solidarity across differences by collaborating with other community based organizations to address intersecting identities and oppressions.
- Recognizing that Canada is on stolen Indigenous land, and working in solidarity to challenge and confront a colonial system based on dispossession, genocide, racist laws and illegal borders!