Screening of ‘Amuksism. You really have to listen’ and Q&A with Professor Dylan Robinson

Monday, March 9, 2026 from 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm

• In-person event
• MC2000, Minto Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• Cost: Free

• Contact
• Malini Guha, MaliniGuha@CUNET.CARLETON.CA

Please join us for a two-day event with Professor Dylan Robinson (UCB), xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) scholar, artist, curator and writer. 

Screening of Amuksism. You really have to listen. (2025) by Robinson and Neven Lochhead with Nick Dangeli.

Followed by a Q&A with Professor Robinson

This film documents a process of redress undertaken by Dr. Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō/Skwah) and members of the Nisga’a Nation (Keane Tait, Michael Dangeli) with the Canadian Opera Company for their 2017 production of Louis Riel, which contains the unauthorized use of a Nisga’a Limx ooy song belonging to the House of Sgat’iin. This documentary explores what is at stake when when settler artists misappropriate and misuse indigenous song and ceremony and how to broach a move towards reparations. 

The screening is free and the film has closed captions.

Co-sponsors:

• Indigenous Studies
• Film Studies 
• Music
• Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada
• Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations