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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival -  WIÑAYPACHA (ETERNITY)
DESCRIPTION:13th Native Spirit Film Festival 12-20 October celebrates UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 with a rare opportunity to see films by International Indigenous Filmmakers. \nFor Latin American House community members – Children and Parents \nIn partnership with Latin American House we curate a daytime programme to complement the in-house Spanish language classes for 4-12yr olds\, with interactive Storytelling sessions and a selection of film and animation Shorts in Native languages with Spanish / English subtitles. \nOpen to Public \n6.30pm WIÑAYPACHA (ETERNITY) \nWe are grateful to Mr Miguel Choque who has agreed to attend and discuss this Aymara film as an Aymara speaker \nDir. Oscar Catacora | 2017 | Aymara\, Peru | 86’ (Drama) \nNestled over 5\,000 metres above sea level a day’s journey from the nearest town\, the modest farmhouse near the peaks of the Andes is the only place Willka and Phaxsi have called home. Elderly\, more than eighty years of age\, but still mobile\, the couple tends to their beloved herd of sheep as they live a near-solitary existence of subsistence\, with only themselves and their animals for company. As the passage of time and circumstance leave their lives hanging in a fragile balance\, the couple yearn for their long-absent son to return home from the city. \nWiñaypacha is a deeply emotional experience and features stunning cinematography. This landmark film is the first feature filmed entirely in the Aymara language and has swept awards at festivals around the world. The story of Willka and Phaxsi (Sun and Moon in Aymara) will touch your heart and soul. \nNotes: Aymara is a testimonial language – the enunciation in the first person is inseparable from the whole and the environment. Language reinforces identity\, culture and worldview and environmental awareness. \nAWARDS & FILM FESTIVALS\n45 Official Selections and 16 Awards \nBest Film & Best Photography at Guadalajara Film Festival\, Mexico\nOfficial Selection at Mar del Plata Film Festival\, Argentina\nBest Cinematography at Hall of Light Film Festival\, Colombia\nSpecial Mention at Punta del Este Film Festival\, Uruguay\nSpecial Mention at Cine de las Alturas International Film Festival\, Argentina\nOfficial Selection at Festival international du film d’Amiens (FIFAM)\, France\nOfficial Selection at Vancouver Latino Film Festival\, Canada
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-winaypacha-eternity/
LOCATION:Latin American House\, 10 Kingsgate Place 43 Gordon Square\, London\, NW6 4TA
CATEGORIES:Arts,Education,Festivals,Films,Movies
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SUMMARY:Urban NDNZ Triple Bill - 13th Native Spirit Festival
DESCRIPTION:URBAN NDNZ – Native Spirit Festival in partnership with Rio Cinema present three films (1961 to 2019) about Reservations\, Urban life and identity for contemporary young Native Americans. \nTHE MYSTERY OF NOW – 16 minutes\nDirector: Audrey Buchanan\, USA (2019)\nTrailer: https://vimeo.com/312027094 \nIn the short film\, ‘The Mystery of Now\,’ artist and APACHE Skateboards founder\, Douglas Miiles shares socio-political context around the history that lead to life on the San Carlos Apache reservation\, and the personal history of how and why he started a skateboard brand and team of local youth leaders. His advice on cultivating resilience\, creativity\, and joy\, provides guidance in a time that for many feels uncertain\, polarizing and divisive in our living rooms and around our dinner tables.\nhttps://www.audreybuchanan.com \nLEGACY OF EXILED NDNZ – 14 minutes\nDirector: Pamela J. Peters\, USA (2104)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGVfN17IME \nDocuments the lives of young American Indians currently living in Los Angeles\, California\, while functioning as a tribute to the first generation of relocated (exiled) Indians as mandated by the United States Congress through the Relocation Act and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) starting in the 1950s. \nLegacy of Exiled Ndnz \n \nTHE EXILES – 72 minutes\nDirector: Kent Mackenzie\, USA (1961)\nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9xDKMmW8w \nTHE EXILES chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends\, the film follows a group of exiles — transplants from Southwest reservations — as they flirt\, drink\, party\, fight\, and dance.Filmmaker Kent Mackenzie first conceived of The Exiles during the making of his short film Bunker Hill—1956 while a student at the University of Southern California. In July 1957\, Mackenzie began to hang around with some of the young Indians in downtown Los Angeles. After a couple of months\, he broached the subject of making a film that would present a realistic portrayal of Indian life in the community.\nhttps://www.exilesfilm.com\nMilestone Film
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-festival-12-20-oct-urban-ndnz-triple-bill/
LOCATION:Rio Cinema\, 107 Kingsland High Street\, London\, E82
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Film Festival 12-20 October - Long Time No Sea (只有大海知道)
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Long Time No Sea \nThanks to the incredible support of the Taiwan Film Institute & Taiwan Cinema Toolkit\, as part of this year’s Native Spirit Film Festival the Centre of Taiwan Studies is proud to host a special film screening of the multi award-winning ‘Long Time No Sea’ (只有大海知道). This touching story is a must see for anyone interested in Indigenous Studies and Film more generally. \nLONG TIME NO SEA (只有大海知道) Dir. Heather Tsui\n2018｜96min｜Color｜Narrative Feature｜Mandarin\, Tao \n2019 Seattle International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize\n2018 Golden Horse Awards – Best New Performer\n2018 Tokyo International Film Festival – Asian Future \nManawei\, a Yami boy\, lives on Orchid Island with his grandmother while his father is away from home working. He hopes that his father will bring him a new pair of shoes\, but his father’s brief return brings only disappointment. The National Indigenous Dance Competition approaches and a young teacher from Taiwan volunteers to train the school’s dance team with the hope of being transferred back home. While for Manawei\, it is a chance to see his father again. \nInspired by a true story\, the director reiterates the reclaiming of traditions through the children’s preparation for a dance competition. The grandmother-grandson relationship that is drifting apart is brought close again as Manawei sings and dances in traditional ethnic costume. Bathed in the spirit of “our culture\, our pride”\, the film depicts an authentic\, rarely seen side of Orchid Island\, and engages issues of family relationships\, love\, abandonment\, and grandparenting problems against the backdrop of the Yami cultural fault line. All characters except the teacher are portrayed by non-professional actors from the Yami clan. \nOrganiser: SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies \nContact email: ml156@soas.ac.uk \nSponsor: Taiwan Film Institute & Taiwan Cinema Toolkit \nSOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Webpage: https://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/events/18oct2019-screening-of-long-time-no-sea-.html
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LOCATION:SOAS Khalili Theatre\, Torrington Square\, nr Russell Square Bloomsbury\, London\, WC1H 0XG
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SUMMARY:MĀORI TO MAASAI-13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Taratoa Stappard \nGIIWE: THIS IS HOME\nDir. Merle Robillard | 2019 | Cree\, Canada/New Zealand | 30′\nBrent Mitchell\, was taken from his Ojibwe home in Great Falls\, Manitoba in a practice referred to as the Sixties Scoop. He was brought to New Zealand by his foster parents where he suffered physical and emotional abuse and was sexually abused by someone outside the family. Brent travels from New Zealand to Winnipeg\, Manitoba to reconnect with his family\, home and culture. He also begins the process of healing from scars inflicted upon him by this colonial policy. \nUNDER THE KOROWAI\nDir. Brandon Te Moananui | 2018 | Māori\, New Zealand | 11′\nDoctors in Western medicine aren’t often trained in what to do when someone is being visited by their long-dead ancestors. But for many Māori\, this is a lived experience. Under The Korowai looks at Te Whare Marie\, a kaupapa Māori mental health service provider that is combining tohunga-led spiritual and cultural therapy and clinical methods to help young Māori understand\, rather than fear\, their gifts. \nGRASS ROOTS\nDir. Hannah McOwan | 2019 | Māori\, New Zealand | 11′\nMeet the Māori wāhine (women) behind Hikurangi Enterprises\, a cannabis co-op looking to revitalise their community in Ruatōria\, a Ngāti Porou stronghold with a long and turbulent relationship to the plant. \nSUNKEN SOIL\nDir. Kelsie Ahmat | 2019 | Noongar\, Australia | 6′\nGrounded by hope. jolted by fear\, equipped with courage. A young Indigenous Noongar woman pauses in the present\, acknowledges the past and is ready to step into her future. \nEMKHATSINI (BETWEEN) Q&A WITH DIRECTOR TARATOA STAPPARD\nDir. Taratoa Stappard | 2018 | siSwati\, Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland) | 15’\nA woman finds herself\, lost in the deserted Eswatini outback when she tries to locate an elusive community leader. \n15′ BREAK \nMAASAI LIVING CULTURE\nDir. Samwell Nangiria | 2019 | Maasai\, Tanzania | 12′\nA fly-on-the-wall perspective of Maasai leaders visit to Oxford in November 2018\, to change the way their unique culture is represented in museums and strategising for next steps. Samwel Nangiria\, Maasai leader and Director of Oltoilo le Maa\, a Maasai Video Collective\, said: “Seeing the way Maasai sacred objects were displayed in the Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum I felt shocked. We are a living culture\, not a dead one\, and we want to talk to the Museum about how they can change this. I believe that working together with the Pitt Rivers Museum and with our partners at InsightShare we can honour my community and present our real culture in the museum”. \nBURKINABÈ BOUNTY: AGROECOLOGY IN BURKINA FASO\nDir. Iara Lee | Burkina Faso | 37′\nBurkinabè Bounty\, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films\, chronicles agricultural resistance and the fight for food sovereignty in Burkina Faso—a small\, landlocked country in West Africa. Showcasing activist farmers\, students\, artists\, and leaders in the local Slow Food movement\, the film looks at how the Burkinabè people are reclaiming their land and defending their traditions against the encroachment of corporate agriculture. From women gaining economic independence by selling ‘dolo’ beer\, to youth marching in the streets against companies like Monsanto\, to hip-hop musicians reviving the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara\, Burkinabè Bounty shows the creative tactics people are using to take back control of their food\, seeds\, and future. \nPROTECTING COUNTRY\nDir. Magali McDuffie | 2018 | Adnyamathana\, South Australia | 40′\nProtecting Country is dedicated to the memory of Tauto Sansbury (1949-2019)\, Narungga Elder\, Advocate\, Teacher\, and Warrior\, and to all our Ancestors who worked so hard to get us to where we are today. Today\, through this film\, we honour their memory and their incredible achievements. \nThe Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia have fought for many years to protect their country from a nuclear waste dump facility planned by the Federal Government on their land. This is their story.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-maori-to-maasai/
LOCATION:Human Rights Consortium\, Senate House Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU
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SUMMARY:SILLA AND SAMI -13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Programme subject to changes \nCelebrating 70th Anniversary of Skolt Sámi move to Inari area\, Finland with Q&A Erika Benke\, BBC World Service \nITALINA (Skolt Sámi music video) \nVÁLLJEN (Skolt Sámi music video) \nFIGHTING FOR LAPLAND – Q&A ERIKA BENKE BBC WORLD SERVICE\nDir. Erika Benke | 2019 | Skolt\, Northern & Inari Sámi\, Finland | 23’\nIn Lapland\, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world\, putting reindeer at risk of starvation and threatening the livelihoods of modern Sámi reindeer herders. Four Sámi women tell us about the extra threats to their land including plans to build a railway to exploit natural resources. \nBIRDS IN THE EARTH\nDir. Marja Helander | 2019 | Sámi\, Finland | 11’\nExamining the deeper questions of ownership of Sámi land in Finland through ballet performances of two young Sámi sisters\, Birit and Katja Haarla. \nHOME\nDir. Inuk Jørgensen | 2018 | Inuit\, Greenland | 8′\nA personal perspective on coming home after nearly a decade abroad and finding that something is off in the familiar paradise. A warning that profound change is coming. Change that will influence future generations. \nSILLA\nDir. Howard Adler | 2018 | Inuktitut\, Canada| 22′\nSilla is a short documentary about throat-singing duo Silla and their collaboration with DJ Rise Ashen\, it follows the band members behind the scenes as they prepare for and play numerous live shows\, it delves into the historical suppression of Inuit traditions\, and how their music is reviving and reclaiming the beautiful art form of Inuit throat singing. \n*In the Inuktitut language “Silla” has many connotations\, but it roughly translates as “weather”. \nNAMES FOR SNOW\nDir. Rebecca Thomassie | 2018 | Inuktitut\, Canada| 6′\nThis short follows Rebecca Thomassie\, an Inuk woman\, around Kangirsuk as she learns the 52 Inuktitut words for snow. \nTHROAT SINGING IN KANGIRSUK (Wapikoni Mobile)\nEva Kaukai\, Manon Chamberland | 2018 | Innu\, Canada | 3’\nEva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland practice the Inuk art of throat singing in their small village of Kangirsuk. Their mesmerizing voices carry through the four seasons of their Arctic land. \nI LOVE EVERYTHING – WAPIKONI MOBILE\nJosé Mestenapéo | 2017 | Innu\, Canada | 3’\nJosé is 8 and takes us on a guided tour of Nutashkuan\, showing us all that he loves.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-silla-and-sami/
LOCATION:Human Rights Consortium\, Senate House Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU
CATEGORIES:Arts,Dance,Environment,Festivals,Films,Free Events
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SUMMARY:13 Native Spirit Festival 12-20 Oct - 24 SNOW / 24 СНЕГА
DESCRIPTION:Director Mikhail Barynin\, 2016\, Yakut language with English subtitles\, Russian Federation\, 1h 30min \nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4-DnDpoq \nThe unbearable climate of the Arctic region of Yakutia. Permafrost. For most of the year\, the temperature is below zero and the ground is always cold. \nIn winter\, the temperature drops to minus 65 degrees. There is no telecommunication or electricity\, and the lack of roads hinders transport. Life in this condition means a daily battle with the elements and with yourself. Hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest settlement\, a person can rely only on himself. This severe land attracts people who are looking for freedom and independence. \n24 SNOW tells the story of Sergey\, a horse-breeder who lives most of the year in the tundra looking after the herd. With each year\, Sergey spends more and more time away from the village\, meeting his family just a few times a year for the horse-breeders’ feast and to bring the meat home. Feeling like a stranger in his own home\, Sergey is losing his connection with his family and missing the chance to see how his children to grow up. \nThe exhausting nature of life for the Northern man presents him with the hardest of dilemmas – who he really is.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13-native-spirit-festival-12-20-oct-24-snow-24-%d1%81%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b0/
LOCATION:Pushkin House\, 5A Bloomsbury Square\, London\, WC1A 2TA
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival - BOLIVIA & ANDES
DESCRIPTION:HUAHUA\nDir. Joshi Espinosa | 2018 | Ecuador | 70’\nA young aboriginal couple faces an unexpected pregnancy that will make them question their identity and the world in which they will raise their child. \nOTHER MOTHERS / OTRAS MADRES\nDir. Ingrid Pumayalla | 2018 | Quechua\, Peru | 13’\nMatilde Umeres returns to Pantipata\, her native land after twenty-two years. She left at the age of nine on a two-day bus journey to Lima\, capital of Peru\, arriving without speaking any Spanish only her native Quechua\, language of the native Indigenous people of the Andes. She will not forget this language and after some years it allows her to find her family after hearing the news of her mother’s funeral. \n________\nIN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EMBASSY OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA IN THE UK \nINTRODUCTION WITH PHAXSI COCA (BOLIVIA) \nBETWEEN SAINTS CHOLAS & MORENOS / ENTRE SANTOS CHOLAS Y MORENOS\nDir. Okie Cárdenas | 2019 | Aymara\, Bolivia | 73’\nDocu-fiction showing the background of religious patron festivities\, the process of preparation\, economic investment and the human stories that they exist behind. Filmed over four years in provinces such as Carabuco\, Colquepata\, Guaqui\, Sica Sica\, the city of El Alto and La Paz\, during an arduous process of investigation and image registration. Divided into three parts: first\, the story of Julio\, a character who works hard to be able to dance Morenada (a fokloric dance) every weekend; second\, the documentary record of activities carried out by fraternities before arriving at the party; and third a fiction story that represents the director’s vision of being there.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-bolivia-andes/
LOCATION:Human Rights Consortium\, Senate House Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU
CATEGORIES:Arts,Entertainment,Family Activities,Festivals,Films,Free Events,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Festival – Decolonial Love: 2-Spirit and Indigiqueer
DESCRIPTION:WARNING: ADULT CONTENT VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED (LESS LETHAL FETISHES) \nTHIRZA CUTHAND AT THE HORSE HOSPITAL PRESENTS HER FILM RETROSPECTIVE FOLLOWED BY TALK\nThirza is an Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. A filmmaker and writer\, of Plains Cree and Scots descent\, a member of Little Pine First Nation\, who currently resides in Toronto\, Canada. \nHELPLESS MAIDEN MAKES AN “I” STATEMENT 1999 | 6’\nBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children’s entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover\, and “evil” queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. \nSIGHT 2012 | 3’\nSuper 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker’s experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her cousin’s self induced blindness later in life. Paralleling the experience of Blindness with Mental Illness\, Cuthand deftly elucidates that any of us could lose any of our abilities at any time. \nJUST DANDY 2013 | 8’\nInvited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting\, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which leads to Turtle Island’s contraction of an invasive European flora. \n2 SPIRIT INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL $19.99 2015 | 5’\nNew to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? `Want to talk to someone in the Spirit and the Flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? We have just the service for you! Call now and for only 19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to traditional knowledge and support. We also provide monthly gifts for subscribers\, call now and we can hook you up with this beaded whisk! Perfect for DIY spankings and pancakes the morning after your first snag! Don’t hesitate\, ring those phones! \n2 SPIRIT DREAMCATCHER DOT COM 2017 | 5′\n2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN ‘lavalife” lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand)\, 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit “snagging and shacking up” with suggestions of nearby pipeline protests to take your date to\, and helpful elders who will matchmake you and tell off disrespectful suitors. It’s the culturally appropriate website all single 2 Spirit people wish existed.  \nTHIRZA CUTHAND IS AN INDIAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDIAN ACT\n2017 | 9’\nContemplating mixed race identity in Canada\, Cuthand presents us with images of blood ties and land ties for indigenous people\, and questions the use of the words “white passing” and “light skinned.” As a light skinned indigenous woman\, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen for her\, just in different ways. Community belonging is contrasted with the difference experiences she has from her darker skinned family. Ultimately\, a video with more questions than answers\, it situates the artist’s body in historical trauma and ongoing colonial survival. \nRECLAMATION 2018 | 13’\n‘Reclamation’ is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopic future in Canada after massive climate change\, wars\, pollution\, and the after effects of the large scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged white settlers who have moved to Mars\, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful planet they belong to. \nWARNING: ADULT CONTENT VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED\nLESS LETHAL FETISHES 2019 | 9’\nGrappling with a latent gas mask fetish\, Cuthand muses on art world political controversies\, toxic emissions from the petrochemical Industry\, and complicity in repression and pollution as an artist enmeshed in an art and film industry propped up by dirty funders. \nWe acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts \nBREAK \nDISCUSSION Q&A with Thirza Cuthand and Iris Wakulenko\, Associate Lecturer in documentary film at the University of Arts London and freelance filmmaker with subject areas of interest: women in film\, Indigenous filmmaking\, collaborative and ethical practice and emerging media. \nOCHISKWACHO \nJules Koostachin 2018 | Cree\, Canada | 15’\nOchiskwacho is a sacred being\, known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom\, an elderly (spiritually ailing) two-spirit woman has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the Ochiskwacho. \nOSHKIKISHIKAW: A NEW DAY\nJules Koostachin 2019 | Cree\, Canada | 15’\n12 year-old twins cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony. \nBIIDAABAN (THE DAWN COMES)\nAmanda Strong 2018 | Michif\, Canada | 19’\nGender-fluid Anishinaabeg youth collects sap ceremonially accompanied by a 10\,000-year-old shapeshifting Sasquatch and friend known as Sabe\, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighbourhood of Ontario. \nDriven by the words of Anishinaabe writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Amanda Strong’s mesmerizing stop motion animation intricately weaves together multiple worlds through time and space\, calling for a rebellion.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-festival-decolonial-love-2-spirit-and-indigiqueer-2/
LOCATION:The Horse Hospital\, Colonnade\, Bloomsbury\, London\, WC1N 1JD
CATEGORIES:Arts,Festivals,Films,Literature,Movies
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SUMMARY:The Launch of  13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival- UNESCO IYIL2019
DESCRIPTION:Programme may be subject to changes – check for updates. \nJoin us for morning 10-1pm and afternoon 2-4pm events at Brunei Theatre (see Individual listings). Follow us on social media @nativespirituk\n__________\nNative Spirit launches on Indigenous Peoples Day (Americas) celebrating UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019\, partnering with SOAS World Languages Institute; The Philippine Embassy and Philippine Studies at SOAS. \nWe are delighted to announce Director of K’na\, IDA ANITA DEL MUNDO\, will join us from The Philippines to attend in person and thrilled to welcome Presenter: LAURA SAMPSON – London-based storyteller-promoter who studied literature at UCL\, performance in UK & Japan\, and finds SOAS’ World Music programme irresistible. Laura also co-hosts Film & TV radio show Shoot the Breeze on Resonance 104.4FM. \nLive and vital artist ZENA EDWARDS opens festival playing !Xuma mouthbow from the Kalahari desert while singing Afro Blue – a tribute to her Grandfather. \nSOPHIE SALFFNER\, Archivist at the Endangered Languages Archive\, SOAS University of London\, speaks about The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR)\, a digital repository and multimedia collection of over 450 endangered languages\, with regional strongholds in Africa\, the Middle East\, Asia\, Australia and Latin America containing audio and video recordings of every day language use\, verbal art\, songs\, narratives\, ritual and dictionaries. \nEDUARDO SANTIAGO presents Nusavi (Mexico) voice recordings to SOAS Endangered Language Archive. Eduardo is founder of Atlachnolli cultural dance group in London. \nKỌ́LÁ TÚBỌ̀SÚN (also called KT) shares folk song and poetry from his native Yorùbá. Kọ́lá is a Nigerian writer\, poet\, and linguist\, author of Edwardsville by Heart. He writes in Yorùbá and English\, and his work has been translated into Korean and Spanish. He is currently a Chevening Fellow at the British Library. \nETIENNE CHARLES: CARNIVAL THE SOUNDS OF A PEOPLE\nThree DocuShorts from jazz professor Etienne Charles and Maria Nunes looking at the history of Indigenous Caribbean and Carnival: CARNIVAL: THE SOUND OF A PEOPLE\, BAMBOO and JAB MOLASSIE \nBAMBOO is the third movement of a composition by Etienne Charles as part of his newest album “Carnival: The Sound of a People”. The suite highlights the evolution of sonic identity in Trinidad & Tobago due to suppression by the British Colonial Authorities in the 19th century. In this movement\, Charles goes to Claxton Bay to record the legendary group Claxton Bay Tamboo Bamboo. The footage was recorded for Charles to work with during his composition process. The film was constructed to showcase the inspirations and research behind the musical creation. \nJAB MOLASSIE was conceptualized and composed by Etienne Charles as part of his latest album\, ‘Carnival: The Sound of a People’. The film shows Charles as he is exposed to the sights\, sounds\, and movements of Jab Molassie in Paramin and Port of Spain\, highlighting the myriad influences that inspired this composition. Initially\, the footage was only used by the composer to inspire sounds. The idea for the film came after the music had been composed and recorded to increase awareness and impact. \nCelebrating 70th Anniversary of Skolt Sámi move to Inari area\, Finland \nBIRDS OF THE EARTH\nDir. Marja Helander | 2019 | Sámi\, Finland | 11’\nBirds in the Earth is a short film based on dance\, telling a bit of a melancholic story about Sámi people´s rights in today´s Finland\, the Sámi being the indegenous people of Northern Europe. The story is told through the dance performances of two young Sámi sisters\, Birit and Katja Haarla. \nK’NA THE DREAMWEAVER Q&A with Director Ida Anita del Mundo.\nDir. Ida Anita del Mundo\, 2014\, T’boli language with English subtitles\, Philippines\, 1h 25min\nWhen K’na\, a young T’boli princess of Lake Sebu\, inherits the gift of dreamweaving the sacred t’nalak fabric\, she has the chance to weave together her village’s warring clans. But\, will she give up true love to do so? A period piece about the T’bolis of South Cotabato in the Philippines.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-launch-5-9pm-unesco-iyil2019/
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival - Opening (Day)
DESCRIPTION:photo credit ©Bruno Gomes AEI\n#NSFF13 Launch Day 10am-1pm\, 2-4pm\, Gala Night 5-10pm \nCONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ELECTRONIC ARTS AND GUARDIANS OF THE FOREST IN BRAZIL \nSebastián Gerlic\, Thydêwá Director from Brazil and curator Dr Thea Pitman\, School of Languages\, Cultures and Societies\, University of Leeds\, present REFLECTIONS – a series of Arte Electrônica Indígena (AEI) Short films made with Aldeia do Cachimbo\, Camaca Imboré/Tupinambá; Karapotó Plak-o; Pataxó de Barra Velha; and Kariri-Xocó communities\, and discuss the use of digital media to enhance Indigenous Peoples’ visibility worldwide. Followed by interactive Digital Body Painting and chance to see small collection of Indigenous artworks from some of the communities in this project.\n______________ \n3:15PM – GUARDING THE FOREST – Q&A Dir. Max Baring\nA documentary Directed by Max Baring and Karla Mendes for Thomson Reuters Foundation This is Place initiative\, which takes us to the frontline of forest protection with Guardians of the Forest\, a Guajajara force risking their lives to defend Guajajara Indigenous territory from illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon. \n(SKYPE TBC) SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL Gabriella Rutherford\, Research and Advocacy Officer\, will speak about Survival’s campaign to #StopBrazilsGenocide. Survival is the global movement for tribal peoples and has been fighting for the rights of Brazilian tribes since 1969. It has used it’s 50+ years expertise in international lobbying and campaigning to work through international institutions and effect change on the ground. Survival believes that Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency is the gravest threat to Indigenous Peoples in decades.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-opening-day/
LOCATION:Brunei Gallery SOAS\, Thornhaugh Street\, Russell Square\, London\, WC1H 0XG
CATEGORIES:Arts,Digital Arts,Entertainment,Family Activities,Festivals,Films,Free Events,Performing Arts,Shows,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:NATIVE SPIRIT INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL 2019
DESCRIPTION:13th Annual Native Spirit / Indigenous Film Festival is back 12 – 20 October bringing you 87+ films\, hosted at SOAS Bloomsbury and other venues. A celebration of the best in contemporary Indigenous Cinema\, Media and Arts\, Native Spirit brings to the UK the very best Indigenous films from across the globe representing top Native Filmmakers\, writers and musicians. \nThis year’s line up explores Indigenous languages\, Indigiqueer\, Dreamtime weaving patterns\, Decolonial Love\, and 2-Spirit. Travelling from the Arctic to hear throat-singing\, to Indigenous Caribbean jazz to learn the real history of Carnival\, to Melanesia Wantok dances of Resistance. From Bolivia – Saints\, Cholas and Morenos\, to Peruvian Andes for Winaypacha. Meet more diversity than you could ever imagine\, with documentaries to inspire\, magical stop-motion; avant-garde digital arts and interactive digital bodypainting from Indigenous Brazil. Plus live performances from poet and performance artist Zena Edwards playing !Xuma mouthbow from the Kalahari desert; and poetry and song from Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún\, Nigerian linguist\, writer\, scholar and cultural activist credited with adding Yoruba language to Twitter. \n\n\n \n  \nAccompanied by Q&A’s and Conversations with…’ special guest Thirza Cuthand\, Cree videomaker and performance artist (Sunday 13 October 2pm at The Horse Hospital)\, and screening award winning filmmakers including Michif animator Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) a story of magic and resistance\, plus more special guests it’s a must attend for anyone interesting in contemporary Indigenous cultures and indigenization. \nNative Spirit / Indigenous Film Festival is screening many UK Premieres\, plus films subtitled in English especially for our audiences. For many of the movies premiered\, the festival will be the only chance to watch these films with English subtitles. Don’t miss out on this rare chance to see incredible and fascinating films made by Indigenous people telling Indigenous peoples stories. \nFestival opens 10am on Indigenous Peoples Day (Americas)\, Saturday 12th October at SOAS Brunei Theatre\, Bloomsbury\, the first of three distinct sessions. Check our programme listings for full details of all three sessions including Indigenous Digital Arts from Brazil and live digital bodypainting. Small textile diplays from Brazil\, Philippines\, Mexico. Day sessions free with requested donation – Evening session just £10.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-2019/
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CATEGORIES:Charity Events,Crafts,Digital Arts,Films,History,Live Music,Performing Arts,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival – North Americas
DESCRIPTION:WHO OWNS THE CONTENT?\nDir. Subhashish Panigrahi | 2019 | English\, Spanish\, India\, Sri Lanka | 1′\nThe real story of a young Colombian man orphaned at an early age. While he was away from home studying in a city\, he found out about a a box of cassette tapes containing his late father’s interview which were recorded by a researcher in Europe. The tapes contained folk songs and stories from the father’s childhood. The young man thought it would be interesting to digitize the tapes and share them online\, and he did that. Soon after his siblings saw the recordings online and they did not like the recordings going online. The question—who owns the content—is complicated. The narrator leaves the audience to wonder who it could be—the researcher who recorded them in the first place\, the late father\, the children\, or the community themselves whose songs and stories are recorded.   \nDIZHSA NABANI\nDir. Sabea K. Evans\, Kathryn Goldberg\, Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe\, Edward Ogborn\, Catherine Rodgers\, Moisés García Guzmán | 2018 | Mexico | 45’\nA documentary project on Zapotec language and identity in San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya\, Oaxaca\, Mexico.  \nUMONHON IYE THE OMAHA SPEAKING\nDir. Brigitte Timmerman | 2018 | Omaha\, United States | 67’\n“Our Language is Sacred\, no one can take it from us.”–Omaha Elder. Only a handful of Native American fluent speakers remain of the Omaha Tribe. Fluent speaking elders reflect on growing up speaking their native language\, the efforts that was taken from the government to phase it out and why it is so important to preserve it. Hopefulness is expressed by the elders and a dedicated group of educators attempts to keep their language alive.   \nVOICES OF OUR ANCESTORS\nJoe Yates | 2018 | Yup’ik & Haida\, United States | 13’\nYup’ik\, Inupiat\, Tlingit\, Alutiiq\, Koyukon\, Aleut\, Tsimshian\, Gwich’in\, Haida… Alaska is home to more than 20 Native languages. From the fjords in the Southeast to the northern tundra where it meets the Arctic Ocean\, Alaskan languages have been spoken and sung for tens of thousands of years. See first-hand how important your Native language is and the effect on the way you live – a bi-cultural marriage begins to teach their daughter the heartbeat of their culture by revitalizing their language. \nBIMAADIZIWIN (THE LANGUAGE) – WAPIKONI MOBILE\nMary-Agnes Shawana | 2018 | Anishnabe\, Canada  | 4’\nFilmed during the Sheguiandah Annual Jiingtamok\, this film explores what the Anishinaabemowin language means to its speakers\, and why it is so important to promote and preserve it\, as it is an integral part of Wiikwemkoong’s culture\, history\, and identity. \nLEARNING DENE AND THE TALE OF THE RAVEN – WAPIKONI MOBILE\nThe Wapikoni team | 2017 | Innu\, Canada | 5’\nLearning Dene can be quite difficult\, but thankfully the children can rely on their elders for storytelling in their native language.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-indigenous-film-festival-north-americas/
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SUMMARY:13th Native Spirit Festival - Decolonial Love: 2-Spirit and Indigiqueer
DESCRIPTION:WARNING: ADULT CONTENT VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED (LESS LETHAL FETISHES) \nTHIRZA CUTHAND AT THE HORSE HOSPITAL PRESENTS HER FILM RETROSPECTIVE FOLLOWED BY TALK\nThirza is an Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. A filmmaker and writer\, of Plains Cree and Scots descent\, a member of Little Pine First Nation\, who currently resides in Toronto\, Canada. \nHELPLESS MAIDEN MAKES AN “I” STATEMENT 1999 | 6’\nBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children’s entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover\, and “evil” queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. \nSIGHT 2012 | 3’\nSuper 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker’s experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her cousin’s self induced blindness later in life. Paralleling the experience of Blindness with Mental Illness\, Cuthand deftly elucidates that any of us could lose any of our abilities at any time. \nJUST DANDY 2013 | 8’\nInvited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting\, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which leads to Turtle Island’s contraction of an invasive European flora. \n2 SPIRIT INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL $19.99 2015 | 5’\nNew to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? `Want to talk to someone in the Spirit and the Flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? We have just the service for you! Call now and for only 19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to traditional knowledge and support. We also provide monthly gifts for subscribers\, call now and we can hook you up with this beaded whisk! Perfect for DIY spankings and pancakes the morning after your first snag! Don’t hesitate\, ring those phones! \n2 SPIRIT DREAMCATCHER DOT COM 2017 | 5′\n2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN ‘lavalife” lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand)\, 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit “snagging and shacking up” with suggestions of nearby pipeline protests to take your date to\, and helpful elders who will matchmake you and tell off disrespectful suitors. It’s the culturally appropriate website all single 2 Spirit people wish existed. \nTHIRZA CUTHAND IS AN INDIAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDIAN ACT\n2017 | 9’\nContemplating mixed race identity in Canada\, Cuthand presents us with images of blood ties and land ties for indigenous people\, and questions the use of the words “white passing” and “light skinned.” As a light skinned indigenous woman\, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen for her\, just in different ways. Community belonging is contrasted with the difference experiences she has from her darker skinned family. Ultimately\, a video with more questions than answers\, it situates the artist’s body in historical trauma and ongoing colonial survival. \nRECLAMATION 2018 | 13’\n‘Reclamation’ is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopic future in Canada after massive climate change\, wars\, pollution\, and the after effects of the large scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged white settlers who have moved to Mars\, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful planet they belong to. \nWARNING: ADULT CONTENT VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED\nLESS LETHAL FETISHES 2019 | 9’\nGrappling with a latent gas mask fetish\, Cuthand muses on art world political controversies\, toxic emissions from the petrochemical Industry\, and complicity in repression and pollution as an artist enmeshed in an art and film industry propped up by dirty funders. \nWe acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts \nBREAK \nDISCUSSION Q&A with Thirza Cuthand and Iris Wakulenko\, Associate Lecturer in documentary film at the University of Arts London and freelance filmmaker with subject areas of interest: women in film\, Indigenous filmmaking\, collaborative and ethical practice and emerging media. \nOCHISKWACHO \nJules Koostachin 2018 | Cree\, Canada | 15’\nOchiskwacho is a sacred being\, known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom\, an elderly (spiritually ailing) two-spirit woman has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the Ochiskwacho. \nOSHKIKISHIKAW: A NEW DAY\nJules Koostachin 2019 | Cree\, Canada | 15’\n12 year-old twins cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony. \nBIIDAABAN (THE DAWN COMES)\nAmanda Strong 2018 | Michif\, Canada | 19’\nGender-fluid Anishinaabeg youth collects sap ceremonially accompanied by a 10\,000-year-old shapeshifting Sasquatch and friend known as Sabe\, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighbourhood of Ontario. \nDriven by the words of Anishinaabe writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Amanda Strong’s mesmerizing stop motion animation intricately weaves together multiple worlds through time and space\, calling for a rebellion.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/13th-native-spirit-festival-decolonial-love-2-spirit-and-indigiqueer/
LOCATION:The Horse Hospital\, Colonnade\, Bloomsbury\, London\, WC1N 1JD
CATEGORIES:Arts,Charity Events,Debates,Festivals,Films,Movies
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