Jun 9, 2016
big love to LAL tonight #brownblackfierce (at Mercury Room Yeg)
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big love to LAL tonight #brownblackfierce (at Mercury Room Yeg)
taking up the space to dream @lalforest #brownblackfierce (at Mercury Room Yeg)
Too Attached is @vivekshraya and @shamikmusic #brownblackfierce (at Mercury Room Yeg)
if you aren't at Mercury Room yet you should get here 5 minutes ago #brownblackfierce @karimahmusik (at Mercury Room Yeg)
we are on instagram ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 #brownblackfierce
Last night was the first event here at the gallery for Edmonton Poetry Fest—we're looking forward to hosting more events this week: Friday night's Wine and Wild Women Wordsmiths, and on Saturday, Poetry Becomes Social Conscience, Brown, Black, and Fierce, and Poetry Meets – Waitsing Around.
@oleylie #sipstea #brownblackfierce
Meet BB&F performance program MC, Jodi Stonehouse!
Jodi Stonehouse is of Cree and Mohawk descent from the Michel First Nation. She has completed her Bachelor of Arts in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and is now working on her MSc with the Faculty of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology. Her interests are Indigenous law, urban Indigenous issues, Indigenous women and Indigenous feminism.
Jodi currently is the producer & broadcaster of ACIMOWIN, an Aboriginal Radio program on CJSR. In collaboration with filmmaker Tracie Louttit, they are producing a 6-part internet series entitled “Indigenizing the Airwavez”. This series highlights contemporary Indigenous artists, musicians, and national activists.
Her work is dedicated to uplifting and educating audiences worldwide, and through this program she strives to break down social barriers to improve the perception and understandings of Indigenous people to broader community. Her work celebrates Aboriginal people and their success stories as well as their trials & tribulations to demonstrate the complexity of indigeneity and the 21st Century.