Shannon Ainslie
Kel-C Jules, an Indigenous artist, teacher and model in Kamloops, poses for a photograph, Thursday, July 1, 2021. She teamed up with the owners at Overtime Apparel and Promotions to sell orange T-shirts to raise money for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
(SHANNON AINSLIE / iNFOnews.ca) July 02, 2021 - 8:00 PM Kamloops artist Kel-C Jules has teamed up with the owners of Overtime Apparel and Promotions to sell orange shirts as a fundraiser for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. The group set up under a canopy tent on the Tk’emlups First Nation early yesterday morning, July 1, and were sold out of the shirts by noon. Jules started the fundraiser one week ago, and has raised $10,000, all of which will be sent to the survivors society head office in North Vancouver.
Included among the 14 eclectic groups of performers in the show is the All My Relations Dance Group, a multi-generational group of Indigenous dancers, singers, musicians and storytellers, made up of sisters, daughters, mothers and cousins. Based out of Kamloops and featuring the talents of Bernice Jensen, Brittany Jensen, Jewel Jensen, Timara Jensen, Susan Oliverius and Shyla Raine, this group has honed its skills by travelling from powwows to festivals, sharing stories and creating a performance with visuals, songs with powerful meanings. Also part of the show is the mother-daughter duo of Robyn Wallis and Valerie Easton, who will be performing together for the first time. Robyn is an actor, dancer and singer who recently moved to Kamloops and is now a teacher in School District 73. Theatre fans may have seen her as Cosette in WCT’s production of Les Misérables. Valerie is best known for her direction and choreography (most recently choreographing WCT’s The Sound of Music)