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No words can prepare one for the event. I sit in the Broadway Theater in Saskatoon and Tanya Tagaq gently guides us into her performance by inviting us into an improvisation. She motions to and introduces Jean Martin and Jesse Zubot as long time fellow collaborators about to dialog together.  Days afterward, I struggle to articulate the experience ... not to name and grasp but to activate and research ... Retribution.  Somehow bracketed by the ever present notions of truth and reconciliation I experienced Retribution as a way of "schizo-analysis" - a pragmatic, disciplined, playful, experimental and collective process. Tagaq sources her ancestral throat-singing to follow an extreme vocal imaginative analysis induced by the colonial capitalist neurosis systems that pillage ourselves and the earth. Her deeply rooted presence enforces her acts of incarnated cultural reality of Cambridge Bay in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, as a way of maintaining nor...

"The festival strives to bring together many divergent groups: artists, social movements, community groups, organized labour and non-unionized workers to work together to support each other’s struggles and issues. We believe in using the arts to do this." ( MayWorks ) - See: Politics :: note :: ... sadly a day full of apathy where i am ...

"At a school with a locked-away ivorytower board of governors, one can feel hopeless to try to engage real change, Darwish of the Sierra Club told the group. "In my year it was cool to be an activist. It was cool to fuck shit up, but campuses are getting more corporate."" ( The Sheaf | Vol.99 Issue 22/ Jan. 24 2008 | pdf file ) "The Prairies Sustainable Campuses Conference will bring together campus community members from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to build a regional network as part of the national movement to institutionalize social and environmental sustainability on campus." ( Prairie Sustainable Campus Conference ) Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Mike Hudema Liela Darwish Rosa Kouri - See: Politics Environment Activism :: note :: ... a rich example of students working on important issues ... wishing to document this ...