WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND Oct. 27-30 2016

This episode contains audio from water protectors FB Live stream in and around Standing Rock, ND from October 30th to October 30th 2016.

LISTEN LIVE FROM THE FRONTLINE OCT. 27-30 2016 HERE:

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This is the SECOND episode featuring a collection of live stream Facebook posts from water protectors and features first hand accounts and information regarding what has taken place October 27th to October 30th 2016 in Standing Rock, ND.

Broken Boxes Podcast is assisting this information to reach further than the one media forum of Facebook and to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to do. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are all connected.

Not one single person can live without water, we are Standing Rock!

Please share far and wide! Break Media Blackout!!!

Material sourced for this podcast from live video on the following water protector Facebook pages October 27-30 2016, FOLLOW THESE PAGES:
Unicorn Riot
International Indigenous Youth Council
Myron Dewey
Standing Rock Medic & Healing Council
Dallas Goldtooth
Waniya Locke
Idle No More
Indigenous Environmental Network
Activist Post
Prolific The Rapper
Sacred Stone Camp
Red Warrior Camp

Thank you to all those who continue to be the eyes, ears and voices of this moment, keep broadcasting live, we are the media! Stay peaceful! Stay in prayer! History is being made!

Broken Boxes Podcast will continue to release episodes like this every few days to keep you informed, especially those of you not on FB!

WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND. Oct. 22-24 2016

This episode contains audio from water protectors FB Live stream from in and around Standing Rock, ND from the morning of October 22nd to the morning of October 24th 2016.

LISTEN LIVE FROM THE FRONTLINE OCT.22-24 2016 HERE:

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This rebroadcasting of FB live footage from the water protectors through Broken Boxes Podcast is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than one media forum, to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to do. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are all connected. Not one single person can live without water, we are Standing Rock!

Please share far and wide! Break Media Blackout!!!

Material sourced for this podcast from live video on the following water protector Facebook pages October 22-24 2016, FOLLOW THESE FB PAGES:
Myron Dewey
Honor the Earth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Sacred Stone Camp
Red Warrior Camp
International Indigenous Youth Council
The Anti-media
Prolific the Rapper

Thank you to all those who continue to be the eyes, ears and voices of this moment, keep broadcasting live, we are the media! Stay peaceful! Stay in prayer! History is being made!

On Location: Water Protectors at Camp of the Sacred Stones - Standing Rock, ND

What is happening right now at Standing Rock is a crucial historical moment regarding frontline resistance by aboriginal peoples and their allies against extractive industry; these are people who have come to protect the water and environment on behalf of the planet and all human beings.

Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Standing Rock, North Dakota to deliver supplies from New Mexico to the water protectors currently on the front lines. Although my stay was very short with a specific trajectory of supply delivery, I took an afternoon to walk around Camp of the Sacred Stones and listen to story from folks who have joined in solidarity and support of this movement. I simply started walking through the camp, with no real proposed outcome, not looking for anyone in particular to speak with. But, wanting simply to engage with the human beings who had come, had made the journey to be here, and listen to why. I found myself engaged in conversation with many brilliant and activated protectors of water. Lakota peoples with ties to the very land the Dakota Access Pipeline is trying to penetrate and disrupt. A first hand account of the initial arrests that had recently occurred and which halted the construction, was also shared with me. I spoke with a Maori water protector, and I found myself engaged in deep conversation with a group of activated protectors from Hawai’i, who had come to stand strong with the movement in recognition of what the importance water or ‘wai' holds for all human beings. The conversations you will hear in this podcast episode are of a moment in time, an afternoon of story and reflection, and I hope they may give us a reminder of the power of collective consciousness. These conversations took place during the simple and powerful act of being present and speak to what is at the core of this fight; that water is life. 

Here are the conversations with Water Protectors at Sacred Stone Camp:

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Music featured on this episode by artists Ginger Dunnill and Trevor Hall

More about the Water Protectors movement and the Dakota Access Pipeline:

People from across all nations of turtle island and the globe have joined Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s movement against a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that if implemented will disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for over 8,000 tribal members, not to mention the millions of people further downstream and which would pass through Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota. 

For several months, thousands of people have been taking part in peaceful resistance at the Camp of the Sacred Stones and the Red Warrior camp in North Dakota.

About 30 people have been arrested in recent weeks and direct action and non-violent resistance have successfully stopped construction to this point. A federal judge will rule by Sept. 9, 2016 on whether construction will be halted on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

More information and how to help:

standingrock.org

sacredstonecamp.org

Conversation with Curators/ Artists Tania Willard, Maria Hupfield and Tarah Hogue - #callresponse project finale at Grunt Gallery

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present the final episode in a series of interviews featuring participants and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse. This episode was recorded live at grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC and features conversation and reflection with co-organizers Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard along with respondents Cheryl L’Hirondelle and  IV Castellanos.

Here is the series finale of the #callresponse series:

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Music featured on this episode: Original composition by Leela Gilday for Only Available Light by Tania Willard, Tania Tagaq, Ursula Johnson with Cease Wyss and Cassandra Smith, Alanis Obomsawin.

Catch up on the #callresponse interview series

Tania Willard, Maria Hupfield, IV Castellanos, Ginger Dunnill, Tarah Hogue, Cherylle L’Hirondelle viewing Tanya Tagaq's Retribution video. Vancouver, BC.

Tania Willard, Maria Hupfield, IV Castellanos, Ginger Dunnill, Tarah Hogue, Cherylle L’Hirondelle viewing Tanya Tagaq's Retribution video. Vancouver, BC.

About #callresponse:

Strategically centering Indigenous women as vital presences across multiple platforms, #callresponse is a multifaceted project which includes a website, social media platform, touring exhibition and catalogue. The project brings together five local art commissions by Indigenous women artists from across Canada, including Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Tania Willard and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory. Each artist has invited a guest to respond to their work, including Isaac Murdoch, IV Castellanos and Esther Neff, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Marcia Crosby and Tanya Tagaq.

#callresponse is co-organized by Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard, and produced in partnership with grunt gallery and generously supported by the {Re}conciliation initiative of the Canada Council for the Arts, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Additional presentation partners include BUSH Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, FADO Performance Art Centre,Kamloops Art Gallery, OFFTA live art festival, the National Arts Centre, and the Native Education College.

decolonial toolbox with flags by participants at ECUAD from Feet On The Ground, by Esther Neff, IV Castellanos, and Maria Hupfield

decolonial toolbox with flags by participants at ECUAD from Feet On The Ground, by Esther Neff, IV Castellanos, and Maria Hupfield

CALL
To support the work of Indigenous North American women and artists through local art commissions that incite dialogue and catalyze action between individuals, communities, territories and institutions. To stand together across sovereign territories as accomplices in awakened solidarity with all our relations both human and non.

RESPONSE
To ground art in responsible action, value lived experience, and demonstrate ongoing commitment to accountability and community building. To respond to re/conciliation as a present day negotiation and the reconstruction of communities in the aftermath of colonial trauma. 

 

Ursula Johnson, Cease Wyss and Cassandra Smith #callresponse performance behind grunt gallery, Vancouver BC

Ursula Johnson, Cease Wyss and Cassandra Smith #callresponse performance behind grunt gallery, Vancouver BC

Tanya Tagaq and Lakkuluk Williamson Bathory #callresponse performance at the Native Education College Vancouver, BC.

Tanya Tagaq and Lakkuluk Williamson Bathory #callresponse performance at the Native Education College Vancouver, BC.

Find out more about #callresponse:

Curator/organizer Tarah Hogue at grunt gallery, Vancouver BC

Curator/organizer Tarah Hogue at grunt gallery, Vancouver BC

http://www.callresponseart.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/callresponse/
https://twitter.com/callresponseus
https://www.instagram.com/callresponse/
http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/
http://grunt.ca/exhibitions/callresponse/ 

 

Broken Boxes Podcast would like to thank the organizers, artists and respondents of #callresponse for the incredible opportunity to document the project through the podcast platform. Mahalo Nui Loa!

Conversation with Curator Tarah Hogue

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode featuring curator Tarah Hogue as the tenth installation in a series of interviews featuring participants and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse.  

In this episode Tarah Hogue speaks about her experience as co-organizer of #callresponse with Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard. She shares with us her path to the world of curation, her experiences working with grunt gallery, her views on reconciliation and the challenges and highlights of co-organizing the #callresponse project. Tarah also offers insight for those interested in curating, providing contemporary resource and sharing her favorite publications.

Music featured on this episode by Miss Christie Lee, Mob Bounce, JB the First Lady & Cris Derksen

More about the curator:

Tarah Hogue is the 2016 Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Curator at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her work with Indigenous People in Canada aims to decenter institutional space and history. Using collaborative methodologies and a careful attentiveness to place, she prioritizes responsible research methodologies of Indigenous knowledge that are grounded in the intersectional practices of Indigenous feminisms, re/conciliation, and cultural resurgence.

Tarah Hogue is Métis/French Canadian and of Dutch Canadian ancestry, she grew up in Red Deer Alberta, on the border between Treaty 6 and 7 along the original trading route of the Métis. She identifies as an uninvited guest on the unceded Coast Salish territories of Vancouver BC where she has lived since 2008.

Recent curatorial projects include #callresponse, a series of local art commissions centering Indigenous women and artists accompanied by a touring exhibition with guest respondents at grunt gallery, co-organized with Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard;Unsettled Sites, a group show on haunting settler colonialism at SFU Gallery; and Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, a collaboration between grunt gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery UBC, co-organizer Shelly Rosenblum. The symposium brought together live performance art with a panel of Indigenous theorists and curators around the exhibition Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick. Previous exhibits featured the work of residential school survivors in Canada and their descendants, including NET-ETH: Going Out of the Darkness, co-curated with Rose M. Spahan, Malaspina Printmakers; and Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, co-curated by Geoffrey Carr, Dana Claxton, Tarah Hogue, Shelly Rosenblum, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Keith Wallace. She also curated No Windows, Satellite Gallery;Facing the Animal, Or Gallery; and is co-founder and curator of Gam Gallery with Julia Kreutz, an exhibition space and artist studio located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Hogue is writer-in-residence for thirstDays with VIVO Media Arts, and has written forBlackFlash Magazine (forthcoming) Canadian Art, Decoy Magazine, Inuit Art Quarterly, and MICE Magazine. She holds an MA in Art History, Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a BA(H) in Art History from Queen’s University.

#callresponse Project Details:

Strategically centering Indigenous women as vital presences across multiple platforms, #callresponse is a multifaceted project which includes a website, social media platform, touring exhibition and catalogue. The project brings together five local art commissions by Indigenous women artists from across Canada, including Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Tania Willard and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory. Each artist has invited a guest to respond to their work, including Isaac Murdoch, IV Castellanos and Esther Neff, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Marcia Crosby and Tanya Tagaq.

#callresponse is co-organized by Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard, and produced in partnership with grunt gallery and generously supported by the {Re}conciliation initiative of the Canada Council for the Arts, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Additional presentation partners include BUSH Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, FADO Performance Art Centre, Kamloops Art Gallery, OFFTA live art festival, the National Arts Centre, and the Native Education College.

Stay connected with the #callresponse project: