This poignant family drama addresses intergenerational relations, diasporic reconnection to the homeland, and recent Canadian history.
GEMFest 2025 will screen NiiMisSak, which features interviews with seven B.C.-based Indigenous women filmmakers in addition to Obamsawin.
名字往往承载着重要的意义。因此，对于温哥华的编舞家兼舞者 Marissa Wong 来说，讨论她的舞蹈公司名称的意义似乎是个极为合适的起点。
Wong says that her newest piece is about her family, and it will have its world premiere at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Les noms véhiculent souvent une grande importance. Alors, selon Marissa Wong, chorégraphe et danseuse de Vancouver, il est important de commencer par discuter de l’appellation de sa compagnie de danse.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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