Film Screening as part of Urban Shaman Gallery’s Programming, “A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project”
NIGHT 2
Date: April 24, 2017
Location at Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Price $6-10
Times: 7-9pm
Films by Jackie Traverse, and Curtis Kaltenbaugh
As part of Urban Shaman Gallery’s Programming, “A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project” (running dates April 7 – April 29, 2017), features over twenty contemporary Indigenous artists who have produced artworks, performances, writing, and films in which they each describe a myriad of experiences on being adopted out or placed in care.
With the recognition that dealing with the 60’s Scoop is a move towards healing and reconciliation, and as the first and largest group exhibition that has a focus that spans from the 60’s Scoop in Canada to issues that currently exist of Indigenous children forcibly removed from their homes. The Urban Shaman Gallery is cognizant that here in Winnipeg there is a need to socially engage and involve the community.
Details of all events, please check our web site at www.urbanshaman.org
Jackie Traverse
Biography:
Jackie Traverse is a multidiscipline artist working in many mediums from painting in oils and acrylics to mixed media, sculpture and stop motion animation.
Film: “Two Scoops” (2008) 3 mins
– Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the “Sixties Scoop of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.
Curtis Kaltenbaugh
Biography:
Curtis Kaltenbaugh is an Ojibway/Irish adoptee, who spent ten years in Pennsylvania before returning to Winnipeg. He works primarily in the documentary field, but is interested in exploring other genres. Apocalypse 16 is his first experimental piece.
Film-“A Place Between” (2007) 74 mins
– Following the tragic death of their younger brother in 1980, Curtis Kaltenbaugh, 7, and his brother Ashok, 4, were removed from their birth mother’s care in Manitoba and adopted into a white, middle-class family in Pennsylvania. This film follows Curtis’ struggle with his biological family’s turbulent history and observes what happens when his biological and adoptive families finally meet.
Organizers of A Place Between – A 60’s Scoop Arts Project
Marcel Balfour, Daina Warren, Janell Henry
Elders
Velma Orvis, Wahlea Croxen, Carolyn Moar
For more information please contact Daina Warren, Director, at daina@urbanshaman.org; or Janell Henry, Project Coordinator, at aplacebetween2017@gmail.com; or call the Urban Shaman Gallery at 204-942-2674.
Special thanks to the National Indian Brotherhood Trust Fund, Sport, Culture, and Heritage | Government of Canada, {Re}conciliation | Canada Council for the Arts
Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery acknowledges the support of our friends, volunteers, community and all our relations, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, NCI FM, and Wawanesa Insurance. And all the donors and sponsors to the project.
Image: Still from Jackie Traverse’s “Two Scoops”