Wednesday 23 May 2012

E. Pauline Johnson ~ (re) Articulating Her Legacy

Janet Rogers has undertaken a project of research at the National Museum of the American Indian, and is ready to make her report:













E. Pauline Johnson
(re) Articulating Her Legacy Thursday May 24th 2012, 7-9 pm Native Education College, 285 East 5th Avenue,Vancouver

Introductions
  Russell Wallace, Native Education College Cultural Director
  Keevin Lewis, National Museum of the American Indian)
  Janet Rogers, Artists Leadership Fellowship participant

Readings
  Joanne Arnott, Pauline poem, Original poem
  Garry Thomas Morse, Pauline poem, Original story
  Russell Wallace, Pauline poem, Original work
  Janet Rogers, Pauline poem, Original poem

Audio/video media work inspired by the research and by Pauline


Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora from the Six Nations Indian reserve in Ontario), a writer who lives in British Columbia, will research the writings and cultural material of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake, 1861–1913). During the late 19th and early 20th century, Miss Johnson, a Mohawk/English poet from Six Nations, turned her poems into stage presentations. Janet's proposed community project is to provide a presentation of poetry readings and video projections of Miss Johnson's objects in Vancouver, where Johnson spent the last years of her life. Source


Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast are pleased to co-present this evening of business & pleasure, with Victoria's new Poet Laureate, Janet Marie Rogers.

To explore NMAI online collections, http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx


To download Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahionwake, www.grandriveruel.ca/Documents/Flint%20and%20Feather.doc

~ all welcome ~

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