P r o g r a m
Carleton University, Saturday, February 27, 2010
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
Christi Belcourt
painter and author
10:25 – 11:15 am
Manon Barbeau
Director, Wapikoni Mobile film training project
Abraham Cote
filmmaker
11:15 – 11:30 am
Nutrition Break
11:30 – 12:20 am
Gerald Vizenor
internationally renowned author
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Buffet luncheon of Native cuisine, Fenn Lounge,
Residence Commons
Luncheon Menu:
• Bannock bread with maple butter and ground cherry compote
• Red and wild rice salad with dried fruits
• Pickled beets and pearl onion salad
• Bitter greens salad
• Black garlic Yukon potato mash
• Honey-glazed root vegetables and squash
• Venison, celery root, and shitake mushroom ragout
• Clay salt rubbed salmon on a bed of julienne vegetables in a light saffron jus
• Berry fruit flan, pumpkin cheesecake (sugar-free)
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Tanya Tagaq in concert,
with Jesse Zubot (violin) and Jean Martin (drums)
Fenn Lounge
2:20 – 3:10 pm
Marwin Begaye
visual artist, diabetes awareness advocate
3:15 – 4:05 pm
Tanya Tagaq
throat singer/jazz-classic vocalist
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