With the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Program, the pîkiskwe-speak Art & Film Installation will tour to select locations across Canada. Lana and Beth look forward to travelling to each Host community to launch the Installations and share in a community Conversation in Reconciliation. An Indigenous Elder from the Host community will be invited to guide the conversation and help participants understand the unique experience of the people in that area. It is hoped that Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Canadians will join in the conversations and work together to heal the wounding and build community in this shared land.
Visitors to the ongoing Installation can join the conversation by sharing their thoughts and feelings in the pîkiskwe-speak Sharing Book, which will be available in each location. These comments will be shared anonymously online with an even wider community as the tour progresses and the conversation grows.
We invite YOUR contributions to the wider Conversation in Reconciliation here.
Please share your thoughts and feelings honestly but kindly.
Hi! I love this!
I am so very proud of the work you are both doing in reconciliation. Beth – thank you for telling Lana’s story, which is representative of so many stories on this land. Lana – thank you for your amazing art and storytelling. Hiy hiy
And thank you Rebecca Lippiatt (Photography) for the photos you have taken to help us share the story. They are wonderful!
I am looking forward to hearing, seeing, and feeling her Story. It would be great insight and gain of knowledge of this History through Mixed Media Art.
I attended the opening of this show at the central library in Ottawa last week .After laughing,brought to tears ,humbled ,I felt honoured to be present ! This past week ,I saw the show at Gallery 101 in Ottawa .i was amazed at the size of the piece of Uncle George, I had assumed from the visual perspective of the film and his story,the piece would be larger,,,it’s presence still rests in my mind and heart .i must thank all involved for such clarity to the tragic circumstances that brought this show to all who have had the pleasure of your energies!
Words and thoughts shared at:
Galerie Citè, La Cité Francophone
Edmonton, Alberta
January 20-March 30, 2018
Thank you for creating this time for first peoples stories to be heard.
Thank you for gathering us together.
Thank you for sharing.
Humbly grateful,
AL
Lana, you are such a beautiful human being.
Lots of love,
WW
Lana, it was an honour to hear your story, of healing, the strength of your voice and the love you shared.
KE
“I want to take the time to thank you for being who you are and for your talent.
Thank you for opening yourself up to the world by sharing your personal history. You may not want to consider it, but one way or another you are a heroine, and today’s world needs someone like you, to change, modify and illuminate the steps taken by others.
Every time, I enter this establishment and watch this documentary film I find light shining upon tragic words and others…”
Je veur prendu le temps de vous remercier pour votre personne et votre talent.
Merci de vous ouvrir au monde en partagiant votre histoiré. Vous pouvez ne pas le coin deris, mais d’une façon ou d’une autre vous ètes une heroine et le monde d’aujourd’hui á le temps précis a besion d’une personne comme vous, pour changez , modifier it ensoleeller des pas des autres.
A chaques fois, j’entre dans cet etablissement et regarde ce film on le documentaire je trouve le soleil brille au delá des mots tragiques et autres…
(I want to take the time to thank you for being who you are and for your talent.
Thank you for opening yourself up to the world by sharing your personal history. You may not want to consider it, but one way or another you are a heroine, and today’s world needs someone like you, to change, modify and illuminate the steps taken by others.
Every time, I enter this establishment and watch this documentary film I find light shining upon tragic words and others…)
Merci. Thank you for everything and keep like that.
MT
Lana,
Thank you for sharing your journey of healing with us. Listening to you speak about your art and why you added different elements and processes gave me so much more understanding.
Beth,
Thank you for making such an awesome documentary.
M-A
Lana,
Thank you so much for your courage and resilience to continue to tell your story.
Bless you for continued Boldness to share. We pray for open doors … wherever you need to go.
J
Lana,
Thank you for your love and friendship. We’re blessed to know such a beautiful iskwew (woman).
Much love,
T & Family
Thank you, Lana, for sharing who you are in all its beauty and grandeur.
With gratitude,
JV
This is a wonderful exhibit, Lana, and good to learn more about what is behind the works through Beth’s film. This work and the realities and questions it raises should be shared with more communities.
KdeG
A wonderful and meaningful interpretation of your art. A great film to be shared.
KD
Lana,
This is a beautiful gift. Honored to hear your voice.
JL
Lana, ninaskoman (I am grateful), this was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gifts.
Ay Ay
EML
Lana,
Thank you for sharing your art and your reflections about the impact of residential schools and individuals and communities.
LF & JB
Thank you.
This is a wonderful work which speaks without words… about the loss of words and what went with them. It communicates.
KL
Lana & Beth
What a blessing to experience your movie, your artwork and your story in the first person. It is very profound and hits me in the heart.
TW
Gorgeous work Lana! Absolutely adored your paintings. You are such an inspiration!
Ay Ay
AP
Thank you for sharing your vision and your work.
GB
Congratulations on your installation. Only got to see the still works.
MJ
Lana, thank you for sharing your stories and art work.
Beth, thank you for sharing her story.
Powerful. Beautiful.
RJ
Reconciliation is so important as our society changes, year by year. The Racism and hate needs to be acknowledged so all can change their ways One at a time and teach their kids so can be seen one generation at a time. We need to love and respect each other. If we can’t be nice then just don’t be mean and look at why you are the way you are!
C
Thank you, merci, Lana and Beth, and everyone involved in this project for sharing, with such beauty and depth, this important information and message to the greater community!
Keep making your voice and message heard.
MP-F/L’uniThéâtre
(P.S. “Art…is my way of healing and my way of remembering where I come from.”
Yes! The power of ART! And you, Lana, are helping to heal others, too, through sharing your art and story.)
Thank you Lana. I really enjoyed sitting and watching the film. Very inspiring for me and I resonate with everything you shared. Bless you on your healing journey and success.
A
Dear Beth Wishart Mackenzie!! How and where on this earth can we maybe still be watching your powerful documentary?
E & E L
Nanaskahmoon kahkiyaw nimis sahkitin kiya Ni Osawan kehew!
I am very grateful for everything my little sister. I love you my little sister.
YE
Lana, your reflective artwork encourages me to also reflect on life events. Thank you.
DC
Thank you Beth and Lana for your years of preparation to share this story with Canadians and beyond. I know them as syllabics. Thank you for showing us the details.
MR
Thanks for sharing.
DB
Very powerful presentations. Adds so much to the depth portrayed in the artwork. Thanks.
P.S.
Merci tout simplement …
(heart)
(syllabics) miyasin (very good)
Ay Ay
R.G.
Dear Lana!
Thanks for deeply moving and powerful paintings.
E.L.
Je m’appelle J.
Wayki (Hello – Okanagan)
Bella
(mark of circle – by little one)
A very impressive and powerful film and art display. Thank you for sharing
D & H W. (Lashburn, SK)
I like your paintings (smiley face)
Love, GW
Thank you for sharing your story. It was an honour to hear it.
(anonymous)
I’m really glad I was able to hear your story through your art, but also in your voice in the documentary by Beth Wishart MacKenzie. I think not enough people have had the chance to really know about Residential Schools and intergenerational trauma. I think this is a great way of sharing this with others.
Hay hay
M. J-J.