# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series with Leah Marie Dorion: Honouring Métis Culture: Crea
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 16 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Date: Wed, Jul 16 @ 7:00 PM
Location: Max Bell Auditorium
Optional Smudge at 6:45 PM

This event is free and all are welcome.

Saskatchewan-based artist Leah Marie Dorion shares the backstory behind her various creative projects involving Métis culture and its relationship to family kinship, identity, and the land. She’ll discuss how she thinks about balancing her artistic impulses with her responsibility to offer accurate representations of Métis children and families.

Leah Marie Dorion is a Métis writer and visual artist. Her artwork celebrates the strength and resilience of Indigenous women and families. A published children's book author and illustrator, she’s currently working to develop Métis early years resources for children and families. She has also participated as a mentor and lead artist for the Mann Art Gallery Indigenous Residency Project. Visit www.leahdorion.ca for more information about her artistic practice.

Facilitated by Janine Windolph, Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre, the session includes a presentation by Dorion, followed by a discussion and a Q&A. This conversation will be live streamed and will also be recorded and shared following the event. Sessions may share experiences and ask difficult questions.

About the Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series

The Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series is a bi-monthly conversation session inviting leading Indigenous Art creators to discuss their practices and processes. The series engages an Indigenous lens across various art forms, including Literary Arts, Film and Media Arts, Digital Media, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts such as Theatre, Dance, and Music. These sessions offer a space to explore and deepen your understanding of how Indigenous artists use their disciplines as tools to decolonize artistic processes and creation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/banff/decolonizing-the-narrative-conversation-series-with-leah-marie-dorion-honouring-métis-culture-crea/200028182232649
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, performances, theatre, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.banffcentre.ca/summer-arts-festival/indigenous-arts/leah-marie-dorion?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=banff-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Banff
- **state**: AB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5
- **lat**: 51.17394
- **long**: -115.5598
- **full address**: 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (https://allevents.in/org/banff-centre-for-arts-and-creativity/25953931)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 16 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, entertainment, performances, theatre, virtual
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series with Leah Marie Dorion: Honouring Métis Culture: Crea ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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