P r o g r a m
Carleton University, March 1, 2008
8:30 – 9:15 am
Registration
Coffee/juice/muffins
9:15 – 9:30 am
Welcome, Allan J. Ryan
New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
Opening prayer, Elder Jim Albert
Welcoming remarks, John Osborne
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University
9:30 – 10:20 am
Tracey Deer
documentary filmmaker
10:25 – 11:15 am
Elaine Keillor
ethnomusicologist and pianist,
Clealls (John Medicine Horse Kelly)
heritage language conservationist
and special guest singer Beverly Souliere
11:15 – 11:30 am
Nutrition Break
11:30 am – 12:20 pm
Taqralik Partridge
lyric-poet performance artist
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Buffet luncheon of Native cuisine,
Fenn Lounge, Residence Commons
Luncheon Menu:
• Bannock bread with whipped maple butter
• Grilled root vegetable salad
• White and wild rice salad with clams
• Roasted sweet and Yukon potatoes
• Acorn and butternut squash
• Venison and buffalo ragout
• Pan-seared Arctic char with creamy lobster bisque
• Pumpkin and blueberry pie with vanilla pod whipped cream
1:30 – 1:50 pm
Santee Smith in performance:
in an excerpt from the dance production Kaha:wi, Fenn Lounge
2:10 – 3:05 pm
Michael Greyeyes
actor/choreographer
3:10 – 4:05 pm
Santee Smith
dancer/choreographer
4:10 – 4:30 pm
Concluding remarks, gift basket draw
Closing prayer
A presentation of the New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
with the support of the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and the New Sun Fund
administered by the Community Foundation of Ottawa, plus the generosity of private donors