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Art NOW series featuring Amethyst First Rider and Michelle Sylvestre
November 17 | Noon | 免费福利资源在线看片 Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

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Amethyst First Rider is a member of the Kainai Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy, Alberta, Canada and married to Leroy Little Bear. She is a leader in the performing arts community for more that 20 years, producing and directing plays depicting Aboriginal stories and culture. Her experience in the arts has included dance productions, consulting for the 免费福利资源在线看片 of California, Berkeley鈥檚 planetarium, as well as narration and production in the National Film Board鈥檚 documentary: Kainayssini Imanistaiswa, The People Go On. She co-conceived Iniskim an immersive puppet lantern performance celebrating the reintegration of Bison into the natural ecosystem of Banff National Park. She is central to the development and success of The Buffalo: A Treaty of Cooperation, Renewal and Restoration signed by over 30 First Nations and Tribes in Canada and the USA. It is the biggest modern Treaty amongst First Nations. Its purpose is to 鈥渙nce again welcome the Buffalo to live among us鈥� and it recognizes 鈥淏uffalo as a wild free-ranging animal and as an important of the ecological ecosystem.鈥� She is also a founding-advisor to the Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association.

惭颈肠丑别濒濒别鈥疭测濒惫别蝉迟谤别 holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art (2017) and a Master of Fine Arts in New Media (2021) from the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, on Treaty鈥�7鈥疶erritory in Alberta. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought, where her research focuses on the heteropatriarchal, colonial biases, and exclusionary foundations embedded within artificial intelligence systems.听听As an interdisciplinary artist, Sylvestre鈥檚 work spans public art commissions and gallery exhibitions, engaging installation, sculpture, performance, and digital media. Her practice explores questions of identity, community, memory, and relational accountability. Using a research creation methodology, she merges critical inquiry with artistic practice to address urgent sociocultural issues and advocate for equity and inclusion in technologies.听听Sylvestre is a Researcher in Residence with the Indigenous-led Abundance Intelligence鈥疦iitsitapi鈥疨od at the Centre for Indigenous Art, Research, and Technology, and she teaches sessionally in the New Media Department at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge. She is honoured to be the first student from the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge to be awarded the Pierre鈥疎lliott鈥疶rudeau鈥疐oundation Scholarship.听
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