University of Manitoba : For the Love of Words Aboriginal Writers of Canada Conference - Kane
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Jeannette Armstrong
 
Louise Halfe
 
Margo Kane  

Armand Garnet Ruffo

 

 

 



Margo Kane (Cree/Saulteaux) is an interdisciplinary artist and a leading figure in Native performing arts. Over the past twenty years, she has been recognized as a storyteller, dancer, singer, animator, video and installation artist, director, producer, writer and teacher. Her desire to create work that has meaning for her people is the catalyst for her extensive travels into both rural and urban Native communities across Canada and fuels her commitment to performance that is not only socially relevant but empowering as well.

Her work was recognized with the Canadian Achievement Award in 1991. Her play, Moonlodge, has been acclaimed across Canada and the United States. She has performed new work in theatres, galleries and communities nationwide, in addition to her extensive career in film, radio and television. Always concerned with issues of cultural access, she initiated the Vancouver forum, “Telling Our Own Story: Appropriation and Indigenous Writers/Artists” in 1989-90 and in 1990 was invited to join two committees of The Canada Council: Racial Equality and First Peoples' Advisory. In 1991 she also began developing the First Nations' Access Program with the Satellite Video Exchange in Vancouver.

Full Circle: First Nations Performance is her new company formed to initiate and develop contemporary work rooted in First Nations experience. The River-Home is the latest video installation/performance that she is developing with this ensemble. In 1994 her work was included in This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, an inaugural exhibition for a new site of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute. She currently resides in Vancouver.