Sunday, August 6 | 5 – 7pm
Bill Johnstone Memorial Gazebo
Presented in partnership with Sappyfest
Free
Join Artists Peter Morin (Tahltan Nation) and Jimmie Kilpatrick (Brandon, MB) as they celebrate their new album Love Songs to End Colonization! The album repurposes popular love songs to dismantle settler colonialism and includes both performance and karaoke versions of the tracks. Listeners are invited to perform these love songs and contribute to this collective project of singing.
About the artists
Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. His work is informed by dreams, Ancestors, Family members, and performance art as a research methodology. He holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
Jimmie Kilpatrick is a musician, educator, and interdisciplinary artist who works as a Sessional Instructor at Brandon University, in Brandon Manitoba. He's been releasing records on You've Changed Records since 2009.
Image 1 credit: Tomas Jonsson
Image 2 credit: Ashok Mathur