Arts & Culture
Debuting the next generation of artists
Seventeen-year-old Lake Delisle hopes that visitors at the Rising Voices exhibit in Montreal’s Old Port will feel some of the medicine she stitched into her beaded canvas, which will proudly be on display at the Sacred Fire Productions Cultural Space for the next two months.
Sculpture honours scary story
Nearly 150 years ago, a woman named Mary Gallagher was the victim of a gruesome murder in Montreal, beheaded by her friend after a night on the town.
Skawennati shakes up Montreal building
The grand facade of the Conseil des arts de Montreal (CAM) building on Sherbrooke Street has been adorned with colour this week, as part of a new art piece by Kahnawake’s own Skawennati.
Kahnawake aims high at acting awards
It was a big night for Kahnawake’s actresses at this year’s ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists) Montreal awards, with Kaniehtiio Horn taking home one of the biggest trophies of the night.
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June 6, 2025Creating connections in Uganda
Entebbe, Uganda, is more than 11,000 KM away from Kahnawake, but when Lacey and Lanny Lazare touched down there for the International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Restorative Development in Africa, they realized that the two Indigenous communities had more in common than one might expect.
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June 6, 2025Sunshine and smiles for Motion Commotion
Kahnawa’kehró:non participating in the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s first-ever Motion Commotion colour run didn’t just run through clouds of eco-friendly coloured powder being thrown at them during their race - many picked up handfuls from the floor and showered themselves with it, and some even rolled in piles of the stuff, committing fully to the rainbow of the day.
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June 6, 2025Skawennati spotlit for solo show
In the year 1999, local artist Skawennati was commissioned to make a timeline of 1,000 years of Indigenous history.
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June 6, 2025Twin Flames takes home award
It was a nerve-wracking evening for Twin Flames at the Capital Music Awards – they were nominated in the Group of the Year category, and given that it’s such a big award, it was to be announced at the very end of a stacked awards ceremony.
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May 30, 2025Delaronde delivers first solo exhibition
If you were to crack open Russell Delaronde’s math books when he was growing up, you’d find the margins full of doodles, and if you wanted a word with him, you’d probably look outside somewhere.
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May 30, 2025Jacobs selected for Directors Lab
Sixty stories in the sky, a Mohawk ironworker wrestles with his identity, torn physically and emotionally between his community back in Kahnawake and the bustling streets of Manhattan, where his growing feelings for a white photographer lead him to question everything.
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May 9, 2025Delaronde returns to town for artist residency
Lindsay Katitsakatste Delaronde has become the first artist-in-residency for the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR) with her PhD thesis “Reconstellation of the Village.”
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May 2, 2025Standups bring the house down
The Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR)’s art centre at United Church Hall turned into the comedy centre for one night last Friday, as three standup talents took the stage for a night of local laughs.
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April 24, 2025Deer wa’tiontèn:tsha’ Indspire atkarià:ktshera'
Ken’ shitiakoién:ha ne Arsaniq, iah nonwén:ton teiakononhtonniónkwen tsi iorihowá:nen eniakó:ton’se' tsi iakónhnhe' tsi teiehiá:tons – teiakoterén:nonte’ tsi tóka’ teniontèn:tsha’ kí:ken atkarià:ktshera' tsi entiakorihónnien’ ótia’ke ken’ nitiakoièn:sa Inuit aiónttoke' tsi kanó:ron tsi niieweiennò:ten.
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April 24, 2025Deer wins Indspire award
When Arsaniq was younger, she never considered tattooing would one day play such a huge role in her life.
