Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award helps Kainai student continue passion for music
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By University of Lethbridge on April 28, 2021.
Sonny Day Rider is the recipient of the first-ever Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award, as he pursues Master of Music studies at the University of Lethbridge. University of Lethbridge photo
Sonny-Ray Day Rider’s voyage to the first-ever Fine Arts Indigenous Graduate Admission Award began as a young child, in the warm presence of his paternal grandmother and the piano she had at her house. “I was always into music. It’s been my biggest passion since I was a child. I grew up with it,” says Day Rider. “For me, creating is a way of being. I don’t think of it exactly as a process, it’s more visceral, I guess. Something higher than me.”
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Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi, from Toronto, Ontario.
This year’s jury consists of three authors:
Souvankham Thammavongsa, whose debut short story collection,
Craig Davidson, whose book
Lee Maracle, whose books include I Am Woman,
Ravensong.
The winner, who will be revealed on Thursday (April 29), will receive a cash prize of $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
The four other finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.
All five short stories have been published at the CBC Books website.More
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Glenbow Museum has nominated five new governors in a step to further diversify its board and build a more equitable museum.
Once the five nominees are formally confirmed as governors later this year, the museum’s board will include 10 Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) members. Forty-two per cent of the board will be BIPOC members, an increase from the current 22 per cent.
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This is another action to uncover and address bias, discrimination and exclusion within Glenbow, according to the museum’s president of CEO Nicholas R. Bell.
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