‍In partnership with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) presented on January 11, 2022 at 4 pm Central. Speakers included Tracey Kim Bonneau and T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss.

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About the speakers:

‍Tracey Kim Bonneau

Tracey Kim Bonneau is a member of the syilx Nation, born and raised within the unceded traditional territory of the Okanagan people. Tracey has received recognition from The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, BC Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia (Leo Awards), American Indian Film Institute and The BC Association of Broadcasters for her riveting documentaries. Tracey is also known for her travel documentary series Quest Out West Wild Food airing on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Tracey has successfully produced, written and hosted 39 ½ hour episodes since 2014. The series has been greenlit for 13 more episodes and is scheduled for production, in the Spring of 2022. Tracey is veteran broadcaster with Thirty years’ experience in print, radio, television and multimedia digital platforms. In 2018 Tracey joined the IM4 Lab as a Matriarch in collaboration with Emily Carr University to offer workshops training Indigenous peoples in XR. IM4 is dedicated to Indigenizing VR/AR/360 by enabling Indigenous communities to find effective ways to incorporate these technologies into educational, cultural, language, artistic, commercial applications. Aside from her arts career Tracey is the Manager of Arts Culture and Adult Higher Learning at En'owkin Centre located in Penticton.

‍T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss

‍T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss (Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/Hawaiian/Swiss) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with digital media, writing, performance as her multi-disciplinary arts practice. She is a community engaged and public artist and ethnobotanist. Her works range over 30 years and have always focussed on sustainability, permaculture techniques, Coast Salish Cultural elements and have included themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology. Cease has focussed on connecting her Polynesian roots to her Salish roots through weaving and digital media projects and on raising visibility towards land based works. Her collaboration with Anne Riley with “A Constellation of Remediation” and “For the Radical Love of Butterflies” have been tremendous examples of how indigenous communities need to unite through a cultural lens in order to raise awareness about sustainability and protecting species at risk, as well as recognition of our part in the colonial destruction and yet the potential remediation and restoration of ecosystems. Anne and Cease were long-listed for the 2021 Sobey Art Award for their work on “A Constellation of Remediation” and “For the Radical Love of Butterflies”. Through recent residences that Cease has been involved in through Frames Sovereignty Collective and the IM4 Lab at ECUAD, she has been expanding her practice through accessing laser cutters, 3D Printers and large scale felting machines which have inspired her to work more with textiles and other tactile materials.