Ne'iikaanigaana - All Our Relations

Ne’iikaanigaana – All Our Relations

On Sunday, October 13th, at 2 pm, join us at the Dundas Museum and Archives for a performance of Ne’iikaanigaana – All Our Relations.

Ne’iikaanigaana is an all-ages dance performance by artists Jim Adams and Heryka Miranda which examines the deterioration of the relationship between humans and Turtle Island. Loosely based on the Anishinaabe creation story of Sky Woman, it asks of its audience: what are you grateful for? how would you describe your relationship with Dodem Aki (Mother Earth), and what can be done to right that relationship?

Thank you to the Hamilton Community Foundation for their support of this event!

Weather permitting, this performance will take place outside in our back courtyard, with seating available. Refreshments catered by Gage Park Diner will be served.

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ABOUT: 

Jim Adams is Swampy Cree, Innu and Mohawk from his father’s side of the family and Welsh and English on his mother’s side of the family. He credits this mix of nations with providing him with a rich mix of culture, ceremony, and story. He is a mixed media artist who uses photography, song, movement, and multi-sensory cues to share stories about life on Turtle Island. Reflecting on his career, Jim credits his grandfather, father, uncles and aunties with giving him the best possible teaching experience(s) possible: look, listen and learn. Everything and everyone has something to teach us. It is this approach that Jim brings to the various projects, performances and presentations that he has delivered over the past twenty years.

Heryka Miranda (she/her) is a dance artist with training in ecological land dance, expressive arts therapies, and a variety of dance genres. As a cross-cultural dance educator, Heryka teaches in non-traditional as well as traditional spaces of learning, including temporary agricultural workers in their farm residences. As a sessional instructor in the faculty of education at Brock University, she incorporates creativity theories, elements of dance and choreographic forms as approaches and methods of learning for teacher candidates. Her education in storytelling and ecological land dance practices has been shared with her in the oral tradition and on-site specific locations throughout Turtle Island from Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Metis, and International multi-media Indigenous artists, knowledge keepers, including migrant farm workers for whom she offers her deepest appreciation and gratitude. Heryka is excited to announce the start of a new movement and dance literacy program for children and youth in Hamilton. For more information, please contact: thedanceinside@gmail.com