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September 2019 

American Indian Center Smoke Signals Newsletter

 

 
AIC Public Art Programs

 
 
In pertnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affair's World Music Festival,
AIC Presents
Jeremy Dutcher
Live in Concert

 

 
Jeremy Dutcher is a classically-trained Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist, who currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. This classically trained operatic tenor takes every opportunity to blend his Wolastoq roots into the music he creates. He is most noted for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, which won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize.
 

 

 

 
Click here to view Jeremy perform
"Lintuwakon 'ciw Mehcinut"

 
 
AIC Gallery

 
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EXTENDED through Thursday,
September 19th
 
Free and open to the public.

 
Reclaim
Indigenizing Colonized Spaces

We are on Indian land, these are the ancestral and present day homelands of the Three Fires Confederacy: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi. Illinois is also the territory of Ho-Chunk, Miami, Inoka, Menominee, Sac, Fox, and their descendants. We give thanks to out brothers and sisters for their kindness and hospitality.

Reclaim is a celebration of the power and magnificence of Indigenous women across the United States. Adam Sings In The Timber, Apsáalooke photojournalist, has been taking photos for decades as a documentarian of Indigenous culture and lifeways. In his travels and photographic adventures Sings In The Timber was overcome by the formidable presence of Indigenous women, and the way this presence has the power to transform the energy of space and place. Adam explains, "My project doesn't seek to expel non-Native people from our ancestral homelands but to inspire pride in my Indigenous brothers and sisters while also communicating to non-Native populations that Indigenous people are still here, and that we are powerful and sacred."

The ongoing series Indigenizing Colonized Spaces is Adam's passion project; he's worked diligently over the last two years to capture images of women in just about every city he's visited -- with Chicago at the forefront. Each location selected captures the colonial architecture and worldview of the area - with the buildings like the Trump Tower looming behind an elk tooth clad Apsáalooke woman, and downtown Chicago framing an Ojibwe girl dancing with delight, Adams intention to redirect his audience's ideas of power and beauty is undeniably effective.

Sings In The Timber and the Native American women he photographs stake claim to the earth beneath their feet, the spaces surrounding them. With her sacred presence, and her ancestors above her and below her, everything is transformed. RECLAIM is a visual prayer, and a lesson in empowerment.
 

 
 
Call for 
Native Youth Artists

 
DEADLINE EXTENDED
through Friday, September 20th

 
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Call for Curators and Exhibit Proposals

 
Open submission

 

 
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66th Annual Chicago Powwow
Committee Meeting

 
NEXT MEETING

 
October 2nd @ 6pm

 
@ AIC - 3401 West Ainslie Street
Chicago, Illinois 60625

 
 
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Community Events
 
Quilting Bee 
with Emily Johnson & Maggie Thompson
 

 
American Indian Center Gallery
3401 West Ainslie Street

 
Friday, September 20th
5:30-8:30pm

 
Come for a stitch and contribute to a large-scale volunteer quilting project designed by Makwa Studio textile artist Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe). Thompson's 4,000-square-foot installation of 84 community-made quilts serve as a gathering place for audiences who attend Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars-a 15-hour all-night performance gathering and feast created by choreographer Emily Johnson (Yup'ik). The quilts hold the visions and intentions of hundreds of quilting bee participants from around the world, in Australia, the US and Taiwan.

 
This gathering invites you to sew, talk, and contribute your own response to central questions about your community and future: "What do you want for your well-being? For the well-being of your chosen friends and family? For your neighborhood? For your town, city, reserve, tribal nation, world?
 

 

 
 
Bannock Making & Quilting Bee 
with Emily Johnson & Maggie Thompson
& Jen Rae
 

 

 
@ First Nations Garden
4575 North Pulaski Road
(Rain site: American Indian Center)

 
Saturday, September 21st @ 12-6pm

 
12-3pm Bannock Making Workshop  

 
12-6pm Quilting Bee

 
Join us in the First Nations Garden for an afternoon of activities with visiting artists Jen Rae (Métis), Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) and Emily Johnson (Yup'ik). 

 
Throughout the afternoon, we'll contribute to a large-scale volunteer quilting project designed by Makwa Studio textile artist Maggie Thompson. Thompson's 4,000-square-foot installation of 84 community-made quilts serve as a gathering place for audiences who attend Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars-a 15-hour all-night performance gathering and feast created by choreographer Emily Johnson, which will be presented in Chicago September 28-29, 2019 in Calumet Park.

 
Around the fire, Jen Rae offers a hand-on bannock-making workshop. Rae is a food futurist and artist whose organization Fair Share Fare works to decolonise thinking around food provenance, whilst advocating for food and land sovereignty.

 
Come for a stitch or stay all day!

 

 
 

 

 
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Celebrate the Passage of SB727 
Native American Employment Plan Act

 
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