Nuit Blanche Regina - Love Songs to End Colonization

By Jimmie Kilpatrick and Peter Morin. Animated by Kris and Zoë James. In partnership with Nuit Blanche Regina

Join mother-daughter artist duo Kris Alvarez and Zoë James for Nuit Blanche Regina as they co-host karaoke night at Dunlop! Inspired by the theme “Love Songs to End Colonization” created by Jimmie Kilpatrick and Peter Morin.

Special thanks to Canadian Heritage for their support of the project.

Nuit Blanche Regina is a free, all-access night-time event in Regina's downtown. More information found here 

Jimmie Kilpatrick is a musician and interdisciplinary artist based in Brandon, Manitoba. He’s been touring regularly and releasing records on Toronto’s You’ve Changed Records since 2009. Kilpatrick cut his rock ‘n’ roll teeth in the early 2000’s, playing alongside Fred Squire, Julie Doiron, Paul Henderson and Jesse Baird in seminal east coast indie outfit Shotgun and Jaybird. He has appeared on recordings by John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, Joel Plaskett and By Divine Right. His 2011 release Transistor Sister was long-listed for Canada’s Polaris Music Prize. Kilpatrick holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Brandon University and is currently a Master of Fine Arts Candidate at the University of Manitoba. In 2018, he was the Manitoba Winner of the BMO 1stART! Competition and presented his performance/installation Quality Control at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto.

Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss, articulating Community Knowing, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. The work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, and on the land. All of the work is informed by dreams, Ancestors, Family members, and Performance Art as a Research Methodology. Morin began art school in 1997, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2001 and his Masters in Fine Arts in 2010 at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. Initially trained in lithography, Morin’s artistic practice moves from Printmaking to Poetry to Beadwork to Installation to Drum Making to Performance Art. Peter is the son of Janelle Creyke (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre Morin (Quebecois). Throughout his exhibition and making history, Morin has focused upon his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal structuring of the Tahltan Nation, and prioritizes Cross-Ancestral collaborations. Morin was longlisted for the Brink and Sobey Awards, in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. Peter Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, and is the Graduate Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program at OCADU.

Kris Alvarez loves a good metaphor. She makes art like "that 80’s mom makes life": a flowered kerchief taming her unruly hair, heading to the lake in a two-toned station wagon, windows rolled down, blaring her favourite mixtape. "Jump into the back!", she says to friends she makes along the way, "No seatbelts - Dunno what time we'll get there - But there’s good snacks!"

Zoë James, recent Balfour Arts Collective graduate, is pumped to be a karaoke co-pilot! She loves dancing and teaching (Fadadance). She loves performing (Burnt Sienna, Sum Theatre, Choir of the Truly Unruly) Zoë loves buying unique earrings while drinking bubble tea as much as she loves the Regina Public Library and Dunlop Art Gallery.

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