Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues

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Alyssa Duck Chief, 2019

Mother Tongues Gathering & Exhibition Tour // November 3 from 12PM-4:30PM at the Calgary Central Library

Featuring work by Cheyenne Bearspaw, Alyssa Duck Chief, Danielle Piper, and a collaborative project by youth from Tsuut’ina Nation with AJ Starlight

Curated by Missy Leblanc and presented in partnership with the Calgary Public Library

Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues brings together emerging artists from four Indigenous language groups of the Treaty 7 region, who incorporate Nakoda, Nēhiyawēwin, Nitsiipowahsiin, and Tsuut’ina into their artistic practices. Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues gives space back to the First Nations communities of this area, while asserting that the Indigenous lands that we occupy carry specific language traditions that root us to this land and still flow through us.

Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues is presented in concert with TRUCK’s forthcoming Main Space exhibition Taskoch pipon pesim kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it. Curated by our inaugural Emerging Curatorial Resident, Missy LeBlanc, the exhibition runs November 1 – December 14, 2019 at TRUCK Contemporary Art.

Please join us on Sunday, November 3 for the Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues gathering, an all-day discussion with artists from Taskoch pipon pesim kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew in conversation with regional knowledge keepers and elders, at the Calgary Central Library. This gathering will additionally offer an opportunity to celebrate the artists included in the Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues exhibition, and will include a tour of their work led by curator Missy LeBlanc.

This project is made possible with support from the Rozsa Foundation, the Calgary Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Calgary Central Library, and Gumisistiy, an ongoing contemporary art program for Tsuut’ina youth presented by the Tsuu’tina Youth Program, Stride Gallery, and TRUCK Contemporary Art.