REFLECTIONS FROM COAST SALISH TERRITORIES
Special excerpt
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Booklet details: size: 6 × 9, 80 pages
This booklet is a special excerpt from Conversations and Essays on Dance in British Columbia
REFLECTIONS FROM COAST SALISH TERRITORIES is full of insightful generosity and knowledge sharing from these esteemed artists / cultural leaders:
Tstassaya White
Curator Tsatassaya White, BA, is a curator, event planner and community mobilizer of the Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) and (Opetchesaht) Nuu-chah-nulth Nations. She holds a master’s in Indigenous languages and linguistics from Simon Fraser University. To learn more about her work, click HERE
photo: Sean Fenzl of Fenzl studio
Haa’yuups
Haa’yuups is the Head of Takiishtakamlthat-h Earthquake House, of the Tlikuulthat-h clan, of the Huupa’chesat-h First Nation. He has been a ceremonial and ritual leader for more than fifty years. Haa’yuups enjoys a reputation as a singer, painter, dancer, composer, carver, poet, historian, teacher, and writer. He has been researching Nuuchaanulth emtii, traditional names, for more than sixty years. He has been busy working with and for museums since 1967. Haa’yuups is the proud father of four sons, three grandsons, and one great-grandson. At this point in his life, he is focused on passing his knowledge on to interested youth.
Haa’yuups is holding their House’s ‘taayuu-isim’ “keep words in a straight line” - “talking staff” and standing in front of a wall of petroglyphs (rock carvings) just upriver from their home, Emin “Navel” or “Belly Button.”photo: David Goatley of Shawnigan Lake.
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
Lindsay Delaronde: I am a Kanienke’haka woman from Kahnawa:ke. For the past eighteen years, I have been a grateful, active, and contributing guest on Lekwungen territory, Victoria, British Columbia. I hold a master’s degree in fine arts and a master of arts from the Indigenous Communities Counselling Psychology program at the University of Victoria. I am currently enrolled in a PhD program in the School of Indigenous Governance at UVic and am the founder and artistic director for the Visible Bodies Collective. https://lindsaydelaronde.ca
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Emily Dundas Oke
Emily Dundas Oke is a Nêhiyaw, Scottish, English, and Métis curator and editor who lives on the West Coast. She is the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Art Gallery and has previously held positions at The Capilano Review, Massy Arts Society, the Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Kamloops Art Gallery. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and visual art and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been an artist-in-residence at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania and Access Gallery, located on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ Nations. Her work is guided by reciprocity, resurgence, and collaboration.
Emily Dundas Oke. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Andrew Peter / Qwun Qwinuhw with his son
Andrew Peter: I am a leader in the Quwus+sun Tzinquaw dance group. I became a Tzinquaw dancer through one of the original Elders: my grandpa, the late Ray Peter, who asked me to join in 1994. I started as a dancer and then took over being a lead singer. I have travelled worldwide, and my hope and dream is to bring the position in Tzinquaw to my son to carry on the traditional song and dances. To learn more about the Quwus+sun Tzinquaw dance group, click HERE
Andrew Peter / Qwun Qwinuhw with his son. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Margaret Grenier
Margaret Grenier is Executive and Artistic Director of Dancers of Damelahamid (https://damelahamid.ca/). Margaret has directed and produced the Coastal Dance Festival since 2008. She holds a master of arts in arts education from Simon Fraser University and a BSc from McGill University. She is a recipient of the 2020 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Margaret Grenier. Photo by Chris Randle.