Growing a life in music: FPCC Music Program supports professional music production of the new Ellescriv album and launch. Lorissa Scriven performing as Ellescriv, is an alt-folk songwriter from Saulteau First Nation who grew up in the pines of northwest B.C. She received funding through the First Peoples’ Cultural Council’s (FPCC) Music Program to create,…
FPCC’s 2021 Arts Infrastructure Program recipient, Marie Clements, was assisted in mentoring an emerging filmmaker in B.C. Bones of Crows, the Indigenous-made Canadian feature film which has been making waves throughout its media tour, successfully premiered in June thanks in part to an arts grant through FPCC’s Arts Infrastructure Program. Marie Clements has long been…
Marlene King, a recipient of FPCC’s Arts Strengthening grant, shares the powerful moments of reconnecting weavers with community artwork and visiting museums’ back rooms. Thanks to FPCC’s Arts grant, Marlene King (Nuxalk) was able to create opportunities for weaving mentors to travel to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of…
FPCC’s arts grant supports weaver Tina Robinson who is expanding her weaving skills by working side by side in their weaving culture with mentor Pearl Innis. Tina Robinson (Blackfish clan, Ginaaxangiik tribe, Lax Kw’alaams), who is Ts’msyen and currently lives on Kxeen Island (also known as Prince Rupert), first started weaving in 2016 and has been…
A music grant from FPCC supported Saltwater Hank’s road to releasing his new music in Sm’algya̱x. For as long as he remembers, Ts’msyen storyteller and songwriter Jeremy Pahl (stage name Saltwater Hank) has been writing poetry and prose. He carries the name Wil Uks Batsga G̱a̱laaw (where the cedar tree stands out on the point,…
In collaboration with the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, Knowledge Network has launched a Call for Proposals from Indigenous filmmakers to produce a series of short documentary films that showcase the revitalization of First Nations languages, arts, cultures and heritage in B.C. For media enquiries please contact media@fpcc.ca
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