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“Assiniboia", published in 2012, is a long performative poem about the metaphysics and spiritual politics of Louis Riel and his sister Sara. The poems in “Sara Riel: The Long Journey” are taken from this book. “Assiniboia” was the name given by the Second Provisional Government at Fort Garry for this land.
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Yvonne ChartrandCompagnie V'ni Dansi's Artistic Director
Yvonne Chartrand is a contemporary choreographer and dancer as well as a national award-winning master Métis jigger. Her ancestors come from the Michif (Métis) settlement of St. Laurent, Manitoba. She is the Artistic Director of V’ni Dansi, whose name translates as “Come and Dance” in Michif. Dancers perform traditional Métis dance under the name - the Louis Riel Métis Dancers and contemporary works as V'ni Dansi. The company is dedicated to sharing the stories and culture of the Métis for Indigenous and audiences of all nations. Yvonne received the 2011 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. Yvonne's most recent creation "Eagle Spirit" premiered in Vancouver in November 2016.
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Tim LilburnPoet & Essayist
Tim Lilburn was born in Regina and presently lives in the Bowker Creek watershed in W̱SÁNEĆ territory on Vancouver Island. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Harmonia Mundi, The House of Charlemagne, The Names, Assiniboia, Orphic Politics, Kill-site, Moosewood Sandhills and To the River. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Award, The Canadian Authors’ Association Award, the European Medal of Poetry and Art (the Homer Prize), the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and the Saskatchewan Non-fiction Book of the Year Award and most recently the Kloppenburg Award. His poetry has been anthologized and translated widely, especially in China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Lilburn is also the author of three earlier essay collections concerned with desire and place, Living in the World as if It Were Home, Going Home and The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place, and editor of two other influential books on poetics. A new essay collection, Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change, appeared from the University of Alberta Press in 2023. He has taught at the University of Victoria, the University of Saskatchewan, St. Peter’s College and Middlebury College and worked with the dance company New Dance Horizons as a writer and performer, collaborating with directors Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras. He has been poetry editor for Grain and was one of the founders of Jackpine Press.
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