by Festival of Health Research | Oct 15, 2015 | Poets of Honour
Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted Plains/Woodland Cree (Nēhiyaw) singer/songwriter, storyteller and voice, stage and film actor from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Band in Saskatchewan. He is renowned for his unique style of Cree/English storytelling, combined with original hybrid and traditional First Nations drum, flute and rattle songs. Joseph is the recipient of the 2006 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award’s Keeper of the Tradition Award and the 2005 Commemorative Medal for Saskatchewan’s Centennial. In 2009 Joseph also received a Gemini Award for Best Individual or Ensemble Performance in an Animated Program or Series for his role in the Wapos Bay Series. That same year he was also awarded Best Emerging Male Actor at the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival for his role in Run and won Best Traditional Male Dancer at John Arcand’s Fiddlefest in Saskatchewan. Joseph’s generosity and compassion for sharing cultural knowledge makes him a much sought after speaker, performer and educator for children and adults alike. As a child he was influenced by his grandfather’s traditional and ceremonial chants as well as the sounds of the fiddle and guitar. From 1995 to 2000 he served as the Storyteller-In- Residence for Meadow Lake Tribal Council. He has performed for the Prince of Wales, the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and many other notables. His demanding schedule continues to take him to conferences, symposia, forums, festivals and film sets across Canada, North America and around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of...
by Festival of Health Research | Oct 15, 2015 | Poets of Honour
El Jones is a spoken word activist and teacher. She was the 5th Poet Laureate of Halifax from 2013-2015. El captained the Hali Slam team to back-to-back National Championships in 2007 and 2008. She is a co-founder of Centerline Studios, a community development centre providing arts programming and community organizing space. She is a host of Youth Now! radio on CKDU, which programs straight into Burnside jail, where inmates can share poetry, rap, music, and their stories. She also writes the Saturday Morning File for the Halifax Examiner, where she brings a Black perspective to the news. She is currently a writer in residence at the University of...
by Festival of Health Research | Oct 14, 2015 | Artist Bio
Sabrina Benaim is an artist who has found herself on many stages since beginning her journey into poetry and spoken word in 2013. Sabrina is a two-time ensemble member of the Victoria Festival of Spoken Word, was a member of the National Championship team in 2014 at the Swiss Festival of Health Research, and most notably, her poem Explaining My Depression To My Mother on Button Poetry has over 2 million views. Sabrina’s work floats along the spectrum of love, pain, identity and Beyonce....
by Festival of Health Research | Oct 14, 2015 | Artist Bio
Bonnie Logan has been storytelling professionally for 30 years now. She has featured on national storytelling stages in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Hamilton and Toronto and she has played concert halls, schools and libraries from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, Uranium City to Willowbunch. These days she has storytelling residencies with Ranch Erhlo Society, Nature Saskatchewan and the Boreal Forest Learning Centre. These nights she is part of the comedy jazz trio, Too Darn Hot, where she gets to strut her sexy, naughty, okay mostly funny stuff. “If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life.” – Siberian...
by Festival of Health Research | Oct 14, 2015 | Artist Bio
Lindsay Knight aka Eekwol is an awardwinning hip hop performing artist living in Saskatoon, originally from Muskoday First Nation, Saskatchewan. She has successfully completed her Masters Degree at University of Saskatchewan, which she has taken along with her many years of dedication to hip hop and created something unique and astounding to give back to the community. Eekwol uses her music and words to spread messages of resistance, revolution and keeping the language, land and culture alive for the next generations. Through her original sound she displays her activist roots by living and creating as a supporter of both Hip Hop and Indigenous culture and rights. Along with music and academic work, Eekwol frequently works with young people across the country as a mentor and helper. She achieves this through performances, workshops, speaking events, conferences and programs. LINKS CBC Artists http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Eekwol Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Eekwol RPM Site...
