Luminato Festival 2021 - First the Truth... With Julian Taylor

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First, the Truth...
This interview series delves into deep-seated and important Indigenous issues in the land known as Turtle Island, or Canada. They are presented in relation to Built on Genocide, commissioned as part of the Luminato Festival 2021.
For more information on the project and these issues, please go here and read below.
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ABOUT JULIAN TAYLOR
With his latest release, The Ridge, Taylor has tapped into his roots and most intimate relationships more than ever before, resulting in arguably the artist’s biggest release in his 25 year career, which recently earned him nominations for English Songwriter Of The Year winner of Solo Artist Of The Year at the 2021 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
ABOUT BUILT ON GENOCIDE
Built on Genocide is a reckoning, a call to action, and an unflinching look at the colonial foundations of Canada that remain intact today. Created by Indigenous artist Jay Soule | CHIPPEWAR from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation (Deshkaan Ziibing Anishinaabeg), Built on Genocide is a powerful visual record of the 19th-century buffalo genocide that accompanied John A. MacDonald’s colonial expansion west with the railroad. In the mid-19th century, an estimated 30 to 60 million buffalo roamed the prairies, by the late 1880s, fewer than 300 remained. As the buffalo were slaughtered and the prairie ecosystem decimated, Indigenous peoples were robbed of their foods, lands, and cultures. The buffalo genocide became a genocide of the people.
Working from archival records, Soule combines installation and paintings to connect the past with the present, demanding the uncomfortable acknowledgement that Canada is a nation built on genocide.
For more information on the project and these issues, go here:
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