For Indigenous people, storytelling is both a gift, and a very old custom, used to teach, entertain, and remember. Since 2004, the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples (LSSAP) committee has coordinated Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Month. Through the month of February, free storytelling events are held by libraries and their partners in communities throughout Saskatchewan. More information about LSSAP’s Indigenous Storytelling Program is at https://www.lssap.ca/sas2025.
Join Dr. Tasha Hubbard, for a captivating evening with a free screening of her latest film titled SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO followed by her storytelling of being a director and the impact her films have had in truth and reconciliation. Tasha is an award-winning filmmaker from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has paternal ties to Thunderchild First Nation. Hubbard’s Canadian Screen Award winning NÎPAWISTAMÂSOWIN: WE WILL STAND UP opened Hot Docs in 2019, the first Indigenous-directed film to do so. The film took home the festival’s Best Canadian Feature prize and screened theatrically across Canada and at festivals around the world, with Hubbard picking up the DGC Discovery Award for her direction and winning the Canadian Academy award for Best Feature Documentary.
Tasha made her solo directorial debut in 2005 with the Canadian Academy winning TWO WORLDS COLLIDING, an exposé of Saskatoon’s infamous ‘starlight tours,’ where police abandoned Indigenous men in freezing conditions. With her acclaimed BIRTH OF A FAMILY, Hubbard sensitively parsed the Sixties Scoop legacy: a practice that saw more than 20,000 Indigenous babies removed from their birth families. Hubbard is also an Associate Professor in the University of Alberta. She led the creation of the very successful online course Countering Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples, including a micro-credential version for lifelong learners. Tasha’s research and advocacy in support of Indigenous efforts to return the buffalo to the lands is the focus of her latest documentary feature called SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO, which premiered in early 2024.
SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO in the news: https://buffalosong.com/news.
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