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Accessibility measures in this event:

• Live auto-captions through Zoom during the live event
• (TBD) A read-along copy of the presenter's talk is available during the live event only
• Presenter self-descriptions
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request

 

To register for this online event, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HxJmDxskRA-bKRuPty-O6A

 

First Draft: Conversations on Writing is an online talk series that dives into themes that affect our writing lives. Writing helps us to understand things and to communicate these findings to our audience, even if our audience is ourselves. Sometimes we are driven by these themes, other times they’re the things that hold us back – what we learn through the process can be revolutionary. The quest to be understood unifies all writers.

 

This event features a 15-minute talk presented by Floyd P. Favel. Following the talk is an interview conversation with Janelle “ecoaborijanelle” Pewapsconias to dig deeper into the event theme.

 

Participants are welcome to submit questions in advance of the event to swgevents@skwriter.com.

 

Writing in a second language - Winter Count and the Pictographic image as a syntactic model. 

The talk will explore an alternative model for text structure in drama and other writing genres. 

 

 

Presenter

 

Mr. Floyd P. Favel is a theatre theorist, director, teacher and essayist. He studied theatre in Denmark at the Tukak Teatret, a school for Inuit and Sami People and in Italy with Jerzy Grotowski, a Polish theatre director and one of the more influential theatre figures of the 20^th century.

 

As the curator of the Poundmaker Museum, he won the 2018 International Indigenous Tourism Award and revived the Exoneration of Chief Poundmaker in 2019. He is also the winner of the Saskatchewan Multi-cultural Leadership Award. He is the director of the Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival, a global Indigenous festival.

 

In 2021 He produced and wrote the documentary ‘Ashes and Embers’, a film about the Delmas Indian Residential School fire of 1948, which was premiered at the Presence Autochthone International Film Festival in Montreal, and it was screened at the Imaginative Film Festival in Toronto.

 

His book of collected essays on theatre methods and journalism was published by UNIWERSYTET SLASKI w Katowice, in 2022 in Poland in the Polish language. This is the first book published that articulates and outlines an Indigenous theatrical method. In 2023, he taught as an adjunct professor at Concordia University in Montreal (where he taught since 2014) and Indigenous Scholar in Residence at the Anako Research Institute at Carleton in Ottawa and at Uniwersytet Slaski in Poland.

 

Host

 

Janelle Pewapsconias, also known as "ecoaborijanelle", is a nehīyaw mother, Spoken Word artist, social entrepreneur, and Coordinator in her home community of Little Pine First Nation in Treaty 6 Territory. As a reserve-based artist, she practices, organizes, and builds her spoken word skills to continue the oral tradition and celebrate narratives of Indigenous survivance and strength. She believes in ahkamemowin (“ahh-gkaa-mey-moo-win”, 5 syllables), which means having resilience and never giving up. Passionate and determined, eco brings the message that “our words are alive, our words matter. Let us tell our stories with care.”

 

 

 

 

 

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