RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing

A Powwow is a melding of music, song and dance at the very heart of Canadian Indigenous culture all the more significant as such expressions of indigenous culture were at one point illegal in Canada seen as heathen, immoral and Unchristian by the Canadian colonizers also responsible for the Residential School all part of anContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing”

RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready”

Documentaries are rarely uplifting preferring an endless stream of negativity and when the topic is Canadian indigenous life the negativity is often escalated to misery. Another plate of angry misery fills the screen in Hayley Morin’s documentary about jaye simpson a poet, activist and drag queen. Abandoned as a child her single mother died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready””