Day 2 - Sat Apr 23

7:00pm

aabaakwad Performances and Poetry


Oceans Space

Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Castello, 5069, 30122 Venezia

Event Type:

On-site

MC Daniel Browning

The Sound of the Colour Field
Rebecca Belmore

New Performance
Rana Bishara

Break

Poetry
Timimie Marak
Janet Rogers
Lyric Dela Cruz
Susie Anderson
Kulleh Grassi
Mosab Alnomire
Beaska Niils

New Performance
New Red Order with Krista Belle Stewart

About the Artists

Daniel Browning
Daniel Browning
Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal journalist, radio broadcaster, sound artist and writer. Currently, he presents The Art Show on Radio National and is the ABC’s Editor of Indigenous Radio. A visual arts graduate, Daniel is also a widely published freelance writer on the arts and culture. He is a former guest editor of Artlink Indigenous, an occasional series of the... Read more
Rebecca Belmore
Rebecca Belmore
A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Solo exhibitions include: Facing the Monumental, Art Gallery of Ontario (2018); Rebecca Belmore: Kwe, Justina M.Barnicke Gallery (2014); The Named and The... Read more
Rana Bishara
Rana Bishara
Rana Bishara is an installation artist, painter, graphic artist, photographer and performing artist, born in Tarsheha village -Galilee, northern Palestine, 1971.Bishara earned her BFA in Painting major, Women studies and philosophy minor, Haifa University 1993 and her, MFA Painting, Savannah Collage of Art and Design, Savannah G.A, USA, 2003 on a Fulbright scholarship. 1999 Bishara war... Read more
Timimie Märak
Timimie Märak
Timimie Märak is a poet, feminist & Sápmi queeraktivist living in Stockholm. Timimie puts just as much in between the lines they write as in the words they choose to share. Like them, their poetry is a combination of deep roots and connections, read at a big-city pace. Read more
Janet Marie Rogers
Janet Marie Rogers
Victoria British Columbia Poet Laureate 2012-2015University of Northern British Columbia Writer in Residence 2015/2016
OCAD Indigenous Visual Culture NIGIG Visiting Artist 2016Northern Comma Writer in Residence Sept.-Oct. 2017University of Lethbridge Gushul Artists Residency November 2017Joy Kogawa Writer in Residence April-June 2018Institute of American Indian Art Artist in Residence July-August 2018University of Alberta Writer in Residence September 2018-May... Read more
Susie Anderson
Susie Anderson
Susie Anderson writes from the nexus of compassion and resistance. Her poetry and nonfiction is widely published online and in print, in Archer Magazine, Artist Profile, Artlink, un magazine, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and in many poetry anthologies. She is a 2021 Black&Write! Fellow and is currently working on her first poetry collection. In 2018... Read more
Kulleh Grasi
Kulleh Grasi
Kulleh Grasi is a singer songwriter, poet/writer and visual artiste, iban descent from Sarawak,Malaysia.  Kulleh writes poetry primarily in Malay, interwoven with several indigenous languages of Sarawak, including Iban, Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit and Bidayuh His first full-length poetry collection,Tell Me Kenyalang,was published in 2019 by Circumference Books,a New York based publication.His work was featured in Poetry... Read more
Mosab Alnomire
Mosab Alnomire
Mosab Alnomire: Awarded Syrian Poet and Journalist. Published his first collection "The Star is Clearer in the CountrySide" in 2017. He is the founder of Henna Platform, which amplifies the voices of Arabic-speaking activists in Canada. Read more
Beaska Niillas
Beaska Niillas
Beaska Niillas from Deatnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, is among other things a father of two, Sámi duojár (Sámi storyteller and knowledgeholder) hunter, gatherer, nature guardian and politician. Nature has been at the centre of his life since childhood. Growing up, the land was his playing field and his friend. He has done a... Read more
New Red Order
New Red Order
New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, both Ojibway, and Jackson Polys, who is Tlingit. Working with an interdisciplinary network of informants, New Red Order (NRO) co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth, aiming to question and re-channel... Read more
Krista Belle Stewart
Krista Belle Stewart
Krista Belle Stewart is a citizen of the Syilx Nation currently based in Berlin and Vienna. Stewart works primarily with video, photography, sculpture, and performance, drawing out personal and political narratives inherent in archival materials while questioning their articulation in institutional histories. Her work has been shown as solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus (2022);... Read more