Stories of \u201csurvivance\u201d and \u201ca sure sense of presence\u201d are what we gather to share and celebrate today; visual, verbal, and musical stories of contemporary indigenous experience: in the films of Ernest Webb<\/strong>, which\u00a0<\/strong>seek to promote linguistic and environmental preservation and find humour in the possibilities of community television; in the drawings of Annie Pootoogook<\/strong>, which\u00a0depict, with unflinching detail and gritty realism, the challenges facing present-day Inuit communities in the North; in the efforts of artist\/curators Barry Ace<\/strong> and Ryan Rice<\/strong>\u00a0to increase the public visibility of Aboriginal arts, and expand indigenous scholarship; in the plays and poetry of Daniel David Moses<\/strong>, which\u00a0draw from both oral and literary traditions to animate what is particular and what is universal in the lives of Aboriginal peoples; and in the songs and performance of Elisapie Isaac<\/strong> and Taima<\/strong>, which\u00a0transcend cultural and linguistic borders to strike a common cord in all of us.<\/p>\n These stories of Aboriginal survivance, expressed through a range of artistic media, testify to the vitality of contemporary Aboriginal culture and affirm a sure sense of presence that enriches us all.<\/p>\n All my relations, A presentation of the New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture Welcome In his book\u00a0Fugitive Poses, Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (1998), Anshinaabe author Gerald Vizenor reflects on the concept of \u201csurvivance\u201d as it is played out in the arts and lives of contemporary Aboriginal peoples. He writes: \u201cSurvivance, in the sense of native survivance, is more than survival, more than endurance or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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