She’s intent on making sure those gains persist and deepen, and hopes that her role as director of Indigenous arts courses at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity can help assure that. “When space is being given for Indigenous voice it’s a way that the Nation rises and I really love how that is celebrated,” says Arluk, director of the centre’s first year-round program of contemporary Indigenous arts programming. One of the first ventures is a classical music gathering featuring Dutcher and cellist Cris Derksen in November. “Space is being made at Banff Centre, National Arts Centre, AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Stratford Festival. “The work that the elder artists have done to come before us, the ones that came before me built community, they spent a long time nurturing emerging Indigenous artists.

Source: National Post September 20, 2018 17:03 UTC