Marjorie Beaucage: Retrospective

Join us for an online discussion with Marjorie Beaucage, Lisa Myers, and Jessie Ray Short.

Facebook Live: https://bit.ly/3oQ9gay
YouTube Live: https://bit.ly/2I7HTrU 

RPL Film Theatre is honoured to present this showcase of work by filmmaker and community producer Marjorie Beaucage (Métis). Curated by Lisa Myers originally for imagineNATIVE in 2018, these three programs celebrate the groundbreaking work of this significant media artist, activist, and leader. Her work reminds us of a vital part of our history and is a powerful statement that her voice and vision remain as strong and relevant today, as it will for the future.

RPL Film Theatre Screenings:

• Friday November 13 7 PM  In Her Own Words 
• Saturday November 14 3 PM:  Standing in the Middle
• Saturday November 14 7 PM: Otipemisiwak - A People Who Own Themselves

Videos available online at: https://vucavu.com/en/filmmaker-in-focus-series-marjorie-beaucage-retrospective

Marjorie Beaucage is a proud Métis Two-Spirit Filmmaker, cultural worker, and community-based video activist. Her work as a community based independent artist, seeks to question, empower, and change the ways we look at ourselves...seeing from the inside out. Marjorie was a cofounder of the Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance. As a ‘Runner’ she worked as a cultural Ambassador to negotiate self governing partnerships and alliances with the Banff Centre for the Arts, V-tape, the Canada Council for the Arts which resulted in the development of Aboriginal Arts programs. She also programmed the first Aboriginal Film Festival in Toronto in 1992.

Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Myers has a Master of Fine Arts in Criticism and Curatorial practice from OCAD University. Her recent work involves printmaking, stop-motion animation and performance. Since 2010 she has worked with anthocyanin pigment from blueberries in printmaking, and stop-motion animation. Her participatory performances involve sharing berries and other food items in social gatherings reflecting on the value found in place and displacement; straining and absorbing. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Urban Shaman (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Peterborough and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her writing has been published in a number of exhibition publications in addition to the journal Senses and Society, C Magazine and FUSE Magazine. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (formerly Faculty of Environmental Studies) at York University. Myers is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and she is based in Port Severn and Toronto, Ontario.

Jessie Ray Short is an artist, filmmaker and independent curator whose cross disciplinary practice involves memory, visual culture and Métis history. In the past 10 years she has exhibited work nationally and internationally at venues including The Banff Centre for the Arts, M:ST Performative Arts Festival, Calgary AB, and at the Wairoa Māori Film Festival in Wairoa, Aotearoa (NZ). Jessie Ray has been the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. As a curator she has had the opportunity to work on various projects, most notably ​Kablusiak: akunnirun kuupak​ and ​Fix your hearts or die, a​ n exhibition of two-spirit and gender diverse artists at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, AB. She has worked as a program coordinator with the Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, based in Edmonton and for TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary. Jessie Ray also worked as one of the adjunct curators of Indigenous Art for the Art Gallery of Alberta from July 2018 to February 2020. Jessie Ray holds an MA degree from Brock University with a focus on contemporary Métis visual culture. 

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