Storytellers Festival 2007 March 12 - 17

Acts and Words
featured performance artists: Vancouver's Tshimsian/Cree Skeena Reece, Saskatoon's Adrian Stimson, and Calgary's Blood Terrance Houle, along with local spoken word and rap artists.
Date: Monday, March 12 - 8:00 pm
Location: The Exchange, 2431 8th Avenue
Admission: Free

Winter Tales
Traditional Saulteaux and Cree stories with Margaret Cote and Leona Tootoosis.
Date: Tuesday, March 13 - 7:00 pm
Location: Albert Library, 1401 Robinson Street
Admission: Free (Limited seating)

Jerry Saddleback
Cree traditional storyteller from Hobbema, Alberta, with stories that are both spiritual and complex.
Date: Wednesday, March 14 - 7:00 pm
Location: Kenosee Room at the Regina Inn, 1975 Broad Street
Admission: Free

Sacred Performance
with "Wicayuonihamb/Honouring" by Kevin Haywahe, "The Hoop Dance" by Terrance Littletent, Peyote songs by Meyasin Oma, and other special guests.
Date: Thursday, March 15 - 8:00 pm
Location: Darke Hall, College Avenue and Scarth Street
Admission: $ 10.00/ticket, at door

Michif Panel
Lena Poitras, Ralph Brazeau, and Edwin St. Pierre.
Date: Friday, March 16 - 1:00 pm
Location: Regina Public Library film theatre, 2311 - 12th Avenue
Admission: Free

Dr. Dawn Martin Hill
"Internalizing Colonial Representations-Deconstructing the Myth" and screening of films "Jidwa: doh-Let's Become Again" and "Mothers of our Nations".
Date: Friday, March 16 - 7:00 pm
Location: Cannington Room at the Regina Inn, 1975 Broad Street
Admission: Free

Musical Performances
Sierra Noble, Métis fiddling sensation from Winnipeg, and Juno nominee Leela Gilday, Dene singer and songwriter from Vancouver. Two of the hottest musicians' in aboriginal country.
Date: Saturday, March 17 - 7:00 pm
Location: Mackenzie Art Gallery, TC Douglas Building, 3475 Albert Street
Admission: $10/ticket, at door

Dr. Dawn Martin Hill
Dr. Dawn Martin Hill (Mohawk, Wolf Clan) holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology, and is one of the original founders of the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University in Hamilton. Dawn's research includes Indigenous knowledge and aboriginal women, spirituality and Indigenous traditional medicine, residential schools and the contemporary practice of aboriginal traditionalism.

Dawn is a prolific writer and has written extensively on the Lubicon Lake Band of northern Alberta and their struggles for a land base. She is also a film maker and will be showing excerpts from "Jidwah:doh-Let's Become Again", a film about the Indigenous Elders Summit 2004 held at Six Nations. It includes footage from the Unity Ride and Run. Some of the elders speaking in the film include Tom Porter (Mohawk) and Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Lakota). She will also show an excerpt from "Mothers of Our Nations".