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SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Mi'Kmaw Lunar Calendar with Gerald Gloade
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Dr. Gerald Gloade as he shares insight into the Mi’kmaw lunar calendar. Based on the 13 times the moon travels around the earth each year\, this calendar names each lunar phase according to what is happening locally on the land during that time.  \n\n\n\nAn artist\, educator\, storyteller\, naturalist\, Elder and visionary\, Dr. Gloade’s career has been rooted in the ecological history of Mi’kma’ki.1 \n\n\n\nThis event is inspired by artist Jordan Bennett’s series of 13 moons\, which is currently featured in the exhibition From One to Many Natures. \n\n\n\n1Mi’kma’ki: The territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. Provinces that stretch across Mi’kma’ki are Nova Scotia\, PEI\, and parts of New Brunswick\, Newfoundland and Labrador\, the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec\, and the northeastern region of Maine. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n                    \n                \n                            \n                            \n                Gerald Gloade is an artist\, educator\, storyteller\, naturalist\, Elder and visionary\, his efforts have been integral to expanding cultural understanding and contributing to healing in Mi’kma’ki. \nFrom Millbrook First Nation\, Gloade was raised by his grandmother. Because of a congenital heart condition\, he spent more time with her than with the other children and had a precious opportunity to learn traditional knowledge and skills through her stories. His grandmother imparted to Gloade the ways of the land\, the history of people and communities\, the skills to fish and weave\, and the legends of Kluskap\, whose seat at Cape Blomidon dominates the landscape of the Wolfville campus. \nA graduate of the Colchester Regional Vocational School (now part of the Nova Scotia Community College)\, Gloade began his government career with the Province of Nova Scotia at just 19\, working as a graphic designer and later public information officer for Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources and Office of Aboriginal Affairs. \nGerald Gloade has recently retired as the Program Development Officer for the Mi’kmawey Debert Project. Since 2005\, Gloade has guided the project with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq\, where the land tells its own stories of Mi’kma’ki through 13\,000 years of archaeological information. With a Two-Eyed Seeing approach\, the Debert Project strengthens understandings of the history of the land to improve its present and future. \nLuckily for all of us who live in or visit this land\, Gloade is not only a keeper of legends but also a sharer of them. He has generously spread his deep knowledge of the Mi’kmaq worldview among audiences that ranged from small children to members of the Smithsonian Institute and to the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband Philip\, the Duke of Edinburgh. \nGloade was honoured at the Vancouver Olympics Aboriginal Art Pavilion with a design on a Canada 150 coin for the Royal Canadian Mint and as a nominee for the prestigious Portia White Prize. He is also a past member of the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council. Every October\, his striking and informative posters for Mi’kmaq History Month are a sought-after tool for teaching the Mi’kmaq language. Most recently\, he illustrated A Journey of Love and Hope\, the Inspirational Words of a Mi’kmaw Elder for Nimbus Publishing. Gloade joined Acadia University’s Class of 2023 as a Doctor of Humanities\, receiving an honorary degree in recognition of his many contributions over his ongoing career. \nGloade lives in Millbrook First Nation with his wife\, Natalie. The couple have two sons\, Kyle and Gerald\, and two grandchildren\, Nina Gloade-Raining Bird and Gerald Lydian Gloade Raining-Bird. \n                                            \n            \n\n\n\n\nFeatured image: Jordan Bennett\, “Spawn of Tom-Cod – Punamujuikús\,” 2020. Giclée print. 61.0 × 61.0 cm. \n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved.
URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-mikmaw-lunar-calendar-with-gerald-gloade/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds
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