Full Circle: First Nations Performance, the 20th Anniversary of the Talking Stick Festival in 2021, stokes the last of the Four Fires it has seasonally gathered around throughout the year. The anniversary celebrations began early in the year with The Winter Lodge: Sitting with our Ancestors, Spring Awakening and Summer Sojourn culminating now with Feasting Our Words
After a weekend collaboration with the Queer Arts Festival presenting Piano Burning. Feasting Our Words continues Tuesday, October 26, as Indigenous poets, storytellers and musicians come together for Wordplay & Rhythms for the Spirit! Also, in the afternoon on October 26, an Industry Series event is presented: Residencies as Re-imaginings: A Roundtable Conversation. Then on Wednesday, October 27 — a gala and feast to honour this final fire: The 20th Anniversary Talking Stick Gala Comes Full Circle!
Feasting Our Words is “a way to remember our Sacred Teachings, to honour legacy, to celebrate abundance. We raise our hands to those who have gathered throughout this season of four fires. With gratitude, we honour those who have made possible a 20-year legacy of creative sovereignty, cultural wisdom, and Indigenous joy. / We feast in honour and remembrance for what has endured. We feast around this final fire to strengthen those who carry forth the sacred roles of artist, knowledge keeper, warrior, teacher, leader and learner. / Our work around these four fires has been an echo of our ancestor’s sacred teachings and a call to the future ancestors within us all. Gather now to feast our words, to ensure a lineage of Indigenous abundance, and to harvest a collective embodiment of ancestral hope.”
Feasting Our Words events include:
Residencies as Re-imaginings: A Roundtable Conversation
Tuesday, October 26 at 2-5pm
Exhibition Hall, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre & via Zoom
Free (please see website for registration info)
Wordplay & Rhythms for the Spirit!
Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm
Exhibition Hall, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Free (please see website for registration info)
Spoken words of wisdom, of knowledge, insight, humour, anger, awakening – welcome to an evening of sharing and learning with acclaimed Indigenous artists, poets, storytellers… and music.
20th Anniversary Talking Stick Gala Comes Full Circle!
Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm
Exhibition Hall, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
An eclectic evening celebrating 20 years of the Talking Stick Festival
Free (please see website for registration info)
For full details on all of the festival’s events visit fullcircle.ca. Talking Stick Feasting Our Words runs October 26 and 27 at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre & via Zoom. Join Talking Stick Festival in celebration of 20 years of brilliant Indigenous performance and art!