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There are a few questions that professional artists get asked regularly: Where do you get your ideas? How did you get started? And be honest--are you really in it for the money? Following the highly successful Me Funny and Me Sexy anthologies, Me Artsy answers these eternal quest...ions and more. With essays from fourteen First Nations artists from a variety of disciplines, the collection provides insight into the paths that led each artist to pursue and develop his or her craft. The essays explore many common themes around the role of art in First Nations communities, including the importance of art for creating social change, the role of art in representing Native culture and the fusion of traditional and contemporary techniques. On a more personal level, the essays describe the significance of art in the lives of the contributors, along with their sometimes unlikely journeys to success, stories which are often touched with humour and humility. Chef David Wolfman describes gruelling years of prep work in the kitchens of the exclusive National Club; filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk discusses leaping into his first feature film without knowing how to finance it; fashion designer Kim Picard describes making a dress inspired by coffee beans; and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor tells the story of putting a bullet through his first play and burying it in his yard. Other contributors include actor/playwright Monique Mojica, painter Marianne Nicolson, painter Maxine Noel, blues pianist Murray Porter, scholar Karyn Recollet, dancer/choreographer Santee Smith, director/actor Rose Stella, drummer Steve Teekens, writer Richard Van Camp and manga artist Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas.
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Jason Pierce, a 31-year-old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment for a romanticized return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he is leaving, he is paid an unexpected visit by a 34-year-old American man, Harry Dieter, who awkwardly introduces himsel...f as Jason's half-brother. What Harry wants from Jason is bizarre.
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A thirty-something urban professional, having discovered her roots as an Ojibway orphan, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve, is pregnant, and must now come to grips with the question of her true identity. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
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A band with nowhere to go ends up in the last place they wanted to be.
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The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of fancy dancers of every stripe on the Pow wow trail.
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In this collection of two plays about the process of children becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bittersweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions which persist between Native and Colonial culture in North America.
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A troubled teenager's life on a reservation is complicated when her father rents her room to an ancient vampire, newly returned to his tribal home from Europe. A blending of Gothic romance and modern coming-of-age, this is unlike any other vampire story.
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A funny yet thought-provoking play about identity politics. Cast of 4 men and 1 woman.
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A troubled teenager's life on a reservation is complicated when her father rents her room to an ancient vampire, newly returned to his tribal home from Europe. A blending of Gothic romance and modern coming-of-age, this is unlike any other vampire story.
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A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancien...t petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective --
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