Fostering Open eXpression among Youth [FOXY]

Fostering Open eXpression Among Youth (FOXY) is an organization with the mission to bring non-Indigenous and Indigenous young women together in Northern Canada to have open conversations about sexual health, relationships and sexuality. They are located in the Territories of Canada and focus their programming towards all young women in the North to provide them with resources and conversations that will allow them to make decisions about their lives, bodies and sexuality.

Perceptions: KC Adams Photo Series

The project, spearheaded by the city’s Urban Shaman Gallery, showcases the work of visual artist KC Adams. With Perception, Adams asked prominent indigenous Winnipeggers to pose for two photos: “I want you to look right into the lens. I’m going to say something. I don’t want you to react. I just want you to think of the words.”

Adams’s art is being displayed “on billboards, in storefronts and in bus shelters. On Jets game nights—those rare nights when the city’s largely white, suburban population floods the downtown—massive images will be projected onto buildings. By fall, financial backers, including the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, hope the project will stretch to the suburbs and the University of Manitoba’s south-end campus. This is just the start. Perception will inaugurate an annual indigenous art project in a city divided along racial lines, which has long struggled with deeply rooted racism.”

URL: http://www.kcadams.net/art/photography/PERCEPTION.html

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/winnipegs-new-art-project-stares-down-racism-in-the-face/

Indigenous Teacher Education Program: Queen’s University

The Queen’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program (ITEP) recruits both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students with a university degree who are interested in Indigenous education.  The program focuses on Indigenous-specific and student centered learning, application of Indigenous perspectives and world view (theory and practice), problem solving with peers, and supervised teaching in a First Nations or provincial schools.

Algonquin College: The Mamidosewin Centre

The Mamidosewin Centre is an Ottawa-based service administered through Algonquin College. The aim of the center is to “create a welcoming space for Aboriginal students on campus, as well as offer an opportunity for students, staff and faculty to learn more about Aboriginal culture.”

Level Changing lives through law: Indigenous Youth Outreach Program

Level is a “Canadian charitable organization that levels barriers to justice by disrupting prejudice, building empathy and advancing human rights.” The Indigenous Youth Outreach Program responds to the TRC’s Calls to Action to eliminate the over-representation of Indigenous youth in the justice system.

The Halluci Nation

The Halluci Nation (formerly, A Tribe Called Red) is a native DJ/ Producer crew based in Ottawa.

From their Press Kit: “As they enter a new cycle, Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation, takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell, to describe the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human. As a visionary artist and activist, Trudell recognized the connection between his accomplishments and what ATCR did intuitively through music and art.”

Red Slam Collective

The Red Slam Collective is a Toronto-based “5 member artist collective expressing their creativity through their Okra (story) and their Owena (word) in the spirit of Indigenous oral traditions using contemporary poetry performance through the development of creative writing through visualization, music, and multi-media” (http://rpm.fm/artist/red-slam-collective/).