Hip hop, pow-wow dance, song, and more feed into Resilient Roots at Vines Art Festival, August 18
The free outdoor performance at Trout Lake Park focuses on Indigenous joy and hope
Zofia Rose. Photo by Xander Images
Vines Art Festival presents Resilient Roots on August 18 at Trout Lake Park at 6 pm PDT.
RESILIENT ROOTS IS all about intergenerational mentorship as well as Indigenous joy and hope.
Among the diverse artists on the free Vines Art Fesitval program is Zofia Rose. A local singer-songwriter, poet, interdisciplinary performer and busker of Polish and Carrier First Nation descent, Rose is a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio whose poetry has been published in Prism, RoomMagazine, and Salt Chuck City Review. Rose has also performed music and poetry at Indigenous Brilliance and the Talking Stick Festival.
Joining Rose are axdii xbits axw, aka Justin Percival, a spoken-word/hip-hop artist of Nisga’a descent in the frog clan whose ancestral name translates to “fearless” and multidisciplinary artist Terreane Derrick, who has worked in drawing, painting, puppetry, and video production and who’s an emcee, public speaker, facilitator, and disability advisor currently focused on personal governance.
Also taking part, among others, are singer-storytellers Anishnaabe Sara Brooke Cadeau and Cheyenne Gardner, adopted sisters from Sto’lo territory; Raven Grenier, an emerging singer and performer with a background in traditional and contemporary Gitxsan dance and pow wow who works for Dancers of Damelahamid; jaz whitford, a secwepemc 2-spirit interdisciplinary artist with a focus on land-based learning, ancestral memory, decolonization and land sovereignty; dancer Madelaine McCallum, who performs Métis, pow-wow, contemporary, and hip-hop dance; spoken-word and hip-hop artist Á’a:líya of Skowkale origin who is also an activist and filmmaker; and Sekani Dakelth, who is from the Tl’azt’en Nation, calls the Downtown Eastside home, and is passionate about trans rights, sex worker rights, and harm reduction.
For more information, see Vines Art Festival.
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