Film Screening as part of Urban Shaman Gallery’s Programming, “A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project”
NIGHT 3
Date: April 25, 2017
Location at Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Price: $6-10
Times: 7-9pm
Films by Alanis Obamsowin, and Barry (whitecap) Hambly
As part of Urban Shaman Gallery’s Programming, “A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project” (running dates April 7 – April 29, 2017), features over twenty contemporary Indigenous artists who have produced artworks, performances, writing, and films in which they each describe a myriad of experiences on being adopted out or placed in care.
With the recognition that dealing with the 60’s Scoop is a move towards healing and reconciliation, and as the first and largest group exhibition that has a focus that spans from the 60’s Scoop in Canada to issues that currently exist of Indigenous children forcibly removed from their homes. The Urban Shaman Gallery is cognizant that here in Winnipeg there is a need to socially engage and involve the community.
Details of all events, please check our web site at www.urbanshaman.org
Alanis Obamsowin
Biography:
Alanis Obamsowin is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent. Born in New Hampshire, and raised primarily in Quebec, she has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history. Her best-known documentary isKanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, about the 1990 siege at Oka, Quebec..
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Film: “Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child” (1986) 30 mins
– This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, an Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. Taken from his home at the age of 4 due to family problems, he spent the rest of his 17 short years moving in and out of 28 foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta. A sensitive, articulate young man, Richard Cardinal left behind a diary upon which this film is based.
Barry (Whitecap) Hambly
Biography:
Barry (Whitecap) Hambly was born in 1967 on Carry The Kettle First Nation in Saskatchewan. A child of the “Sixties Scoop,” who experienced a loss of his Aboriginal heritage, abuse from a foster home, emotional scars and was shuffled from 10 different foster homes before being adopted into a family of British descent at the age of nine. Struggling throughout his adolescents, Hambly began his journey to search for his birth parents and cultural identity. Red Road is produced by Lost Heritage Productions in association with Life Network, and with the financial participation of the Canadian Television Fund.
Film: “Red Road: Ocangu-sa the Barry Hambly Story” (2009) 47 mins
– When Barry was four, his mother, Darlene Whitecap, ran from the reserve and an abusive relationship, taking Barry and his three siblings with her to Regina, 100km to the west. A victim of alcohol abuse, the 24-year-old mother would soon lose her children when social agencies intervened. This era, known as the “Sixties Scoop.” Red Road shadows Barry Hambly’s journey, returning to Saskatchewan to confront his past and meet his birth Mother. Red Road is produced by Lost Heritage Productions in association with Life Network, and with the financial participation of the Canadian Television Fund (CTF).
Organizers of A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project
Marcel Balfour, Daina Warren, Janell Henry
Elders
Velma Orvis, Wahlea Croxen, Carolyn Moar
For more information please contact Daina Warren, Director, at daina@urbanshaman.org; or Janell Henry, Project Coordinator, at aplacebetween2017@gmail.com; or call the Urban Shaman Gallery at 204-942-2674.
Special thanks to the National Indian Brotherhood Trust Fund, Sport, Culture, and Heritage | Government of Canada, {Re}conciliation | Canada Council for the Arts
Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery acknowledges the support of our friends, volunteers, community and all our relations, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, NCI FM, and Wawanesa Insurance. And all the donors and sponsors to the project.
Image: Still from Alanis Obamsowin’s “Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child”