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Time for celebration? Mohawks reflect on Montreal’s 375th anniversary – CBC
Scholar Gage Diabo, Chief Christine Zachary-Deom, artist Ellen Gabriel share their perspecti May 17, 2017 ves As Montreal turns 375 today, Mohawks are wrestling with how to approach a multimillion dollar celebration of the founding of a city on their unceded ancestral land. “There’s still the part of me that’s cynical, that looks at it […]
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Montreal church bells ring out to celebrate city’s 375th birthday – CP
Source: The Canadian Press May 17, 2017 MONTREAL _ Church bells rang out across Montreal on Wednesday morning as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard helped celebrate the city’s 375th birthday. The bells chimed for several minutes ahead of a mass at the Notre-Dame Basilica attended by Trudeau, Couillard, Mayor Denis Coderre and several hundred […]
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Montreal 375: Rich history reaches back far before city’s founding – Montreal Gazette
May 16, 2017 Three hundred and seventy five years ago, French proselytizers founded Montreal. But Montreal Island’s history dates back thousands of years before that first mission. To paint a portrait of life here before 1642, we spoke to Louise Pothier, head archeologist at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, and Gavin Taylor, a senior lecturer in Concordia […]
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Nearly $300,000 in funding for projects by Montreal-based Aboriginal artists, writers and organizations
MONTREAL, May 12, 2017 – The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) are pleased to announce the names of the Aboriginal artists, writers and artistic organizations whose projects will be receiving support in connection with Sections 4 and 5 of the Entente de partenariat territorial en […]
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Official programming – May 12th to 18th – Montreal’s anniversary week to be marked with a series of special events!
MONTREAL, May 12, 2017 – May 17 is the official start of Montreal’s 375th anniversary, a special date that will be celebrated with the illumination of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and the premiere of AVUDO, a flagship event of the official programming for Montreal’s 375th anniversary presented in the city’s Old Port. Montreal’s anniversary week – kicking […]
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Collaborative project brings shíshálh Nation face-to-face with ancient ancestors
Gatineau, Quebec, May 10, 2017 — On July 1, the Canadian Museum of History will open its new signature gallery, the Canadian History Hall, which will present the story of Canada and its people more inclusively and candidly than ever before. Today, the Museum unveils a digital facial reconstruction based on the ancient remains of […]
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Aabiziingwashi (#WideAwake): NFB Indigenous Cinema on Tour launches today
May 5, 2017 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Throughout 2017, the National Film Board of Canada is offering titles from its unparalleled collection of 250 Indigenous-made films for free public screenings and special events across the country, in a tour entitled Aabiziingwashi (#WideAwake): NFB Indigenous Cinema on Tour. Featuring stories of […]
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Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations – Official programming – May 5 to 11, 2017
Month of May sees art invade Montreal streets MONTREAL, May 5, 2017 – On a blank space, an artist sketches a movement, an image, a line, but above all, he takes break. In the heart of the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough, artists invite you to take a break with them and make a creative contributions to their […]
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Totem of a painful legacy rises in Montreal’s Golden Square Mile – The Globe and Mail
May 05, 2017 Charles Joseph danced barefoot on the pavement of Montreal’s Sherbrooke Street, where a 21-metre totem pole he carved had just been installed outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He wore Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) regalia made by himself and his family, and as he danced with others from his West Coast nation, he […]
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375th anniversary of Montreal – Unveiling of a spectacular totem pole created by Charles Joseph of the Kwakiutl Nation
LA BALADE POUR LA PAIX – AN OPEN-AIR MUSEUM MONTREAL, May 3, 2017 – Artist Charles Joseph (1959) of the Kwakiutl Nation of the West Coast of Canada will unveil his work Residential School Totem Pole to be raised in the ancestral territory of Kanien’keha:ka, the nation to which it pays homage, in the context of […]
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