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Day 3 - Sat Dec 7

7:00pm - 10:00pm

aabaakwad Performance + Music Showcase


The Creative School Chrysalis, at Toronto Metropolitan University

43 Gerrard St East

Event Type:

On-site

Presented in association with The Creative School Chrysalis

Reserve your Spot on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/aabaakwad-performance-music-showcase-tickets-1097422513279

Headliner:
The Halluci Nation

Continuing their revolutionary sound, 3-time Juno Award Winners, The Halluci Nation brings brilliant music with a message that you can dance too. Electricity and Heart, that is what we have all come to know and love from Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill.

Ikumagiialit (those that need fire)
with Cris Derksen, Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory, Christine Tootoo
A Beautiful and Terrifying Journey through Fear with a Performance Art Band!

Archer Pechawis – Genocide Falling
An exciting and powerful new performance from a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.

Timimie Märak
Stunning word smith baring beautiful truths and queer dreams.

Roula Said
Hauntingly beautiful poetry from Gaza set to song.

Kimmernaq Kjeldsen and Mike Thomsen
Hailing from Greenland, an acoustic set from a well known famous favorite. 

Sarah DeCarlo and Charlie Glasspool
Songs as fuel for the soul and fun with a diverse and catchy sound. 


About the Artists

The Halluci Nation
The Halluci Nation
The Halluci Nation is real. After starting a new cycle, 3-time Juno Award Winners- Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red reintroduced themselves as The Halluci Nation to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation, took its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell, to describe the... Read more
Ikumagialiit
Ikumagialiit
Ikumagialiit ᐃᑯᒪᒋᐊᓖᑦ (those that need fire) is a new performance art band with Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Cris Derksen, Jamie Griffiths and Christine Tootoo. The Ikumagialiit quartet is egalitarian, bringing together four strong women from different disciplines, across generations. Turning towards the question of how to hold space for fear when pressure is mounting, Ikumagialiit takes on... Read more
Cris Derksen
Cris Derksen
Juno nominated Cris Derksen is an Internationally respected Indigenous Cellist and Composer. Derksen’s composition strength lies in her diversity for all artistic fields including: Dance, Theatre, Film, Television, Animation, Fashion, Podcasts, Symphonic, Chamber, Choral, and Installations. In 2022 and 2024 Derksen was the composer for the Canadian Pavilion for the World Expo in Dubai and Japan.... Read more
Laakkuluk
Laakkuluk
Laakkuluk is an award-winning  filmmaker, performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling and centers three elements: fear, humour and sexuality. Laakkuluk describes uaajeerneq as both a political and cultural act and an idiosyncratic art form. Upon giving her the... Read more
Christine Tootoo
Christine Tootoo
Christine Tootoo is an enigmatic and captivating actor in film and theatre, recently starring and collaborating in Kiviuq Returns, Qaggiavuut’s Inuit theatre epic that toured southern and northern Canada in 2017, and starred as Ani in the feature film Iqaluit by Quebec Director Benoit Pilon in 2016.Christine has toured as a drummer and throat singer with the Inuksuk Drum... Read more
Archer Pechawis
Archer Pechawis
Archer Pechawis was born in Alert Bay, BC. He has been a practicing artist since 1984 with particular interest in the intersection of Plains Cree culture and digital technology, merging "traditional" objects such as hand drums with digital video and audio sampling. His work has been exhibited across Canada, internationally in Paris and Moscow, and featured... Read more
Timimie Gassko Märak
Timimie Gassko Märak
Speaker, poet and word weaver.
 The first to hold the title of "Poet In Residence" at the Venice biennale and
together with ‘The Sámi Pavilion’ curators Beaska Niillas and Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Märak is also one of the three founding members of Hásstuheaddji collective, a Sámi led think-tank that gather thinkers, performers and artists to dialogue and reflect. 

... Read more
Roula Said
Roula Said
Roula Said is a multi-faceted artist and Palestinian human based in Toronto. As an actor, Roula has appeared most recently in the play Rubble (Aluna Theatre) and the award winning short film De-Clutter (Rimah Jabr) . As a mover, Roula has been primarily a performer and teacher of Arab dance and Sufi-style whirling. She is also... Read more
Kimmernaq Kjeldsen
Kimmernaq Kjeldsen
Kimmernaq Kjeldsen (1980) is born and raised in Aasiaat by her greenlandic mother Dorthe, and her danish father Jens Kjeldsen. As a teenager, Kimmernaq discovered that she could sing. The singing began as a hobby, but in 2006 she released her first solo album, beside her job as a flight attendant. She has since then released... Read more
Sarah DeCarlo
Sarah DeCarlo
Sarah DeCarlo is a practicing multi-disciplinary indigenous/italian artist (singer/songwriter/filmmaker/performer) who is also a coordinator, facilitator and producer, born and raised in Nogojiwanong,(Peterborough, ON). Sarah's music and songs are documented in 2 albums which include BUBBLE WRAPTURE (2017) and WHISPER IN YOUR EAR (2012). Sarah's music to date has been made up of many influences but packs... Read more