Gulahallat is a term which holds several meanings in sámi, a verb meaning communication, listening, speaking and understanding between people, but also a term which can be used while saying goodbye, simultaneously implying that you will meet again.
CHROMATICS is a project that investigates different practices, perspectives and pedagogies linked to diversity in arts education. Since autumn 2022, the project has held several seminars across art, music and design for academic staff and students linked to practical-pedagogical education (PPU) at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD)/UiB and beyond.
This seminar invites you to listening with indigenous perspectives between art, music and pedagogy:
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21st, 10:00 - 12:00
10.00 – 11.00
Dylan Robinson
11:00 – 12:00
Annukka Hirvasvuopio (online)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22nd; 18:00 – 21:00
Dylan Robinson in conversation with Peter Meanwell (Artistic Director, Borealis Festival)
Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah First Nation) writer and artist, Robinson’s work seeks to prioritize Indigenous resurgence through writing, curation and arts practice. As an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, his work includes a documentary film on the appropriation of Indigenous song and misrepresentation of Indigenous culture in Canadian classical music created in collaboration with Neven Lochhead and Nick Dangeli (Nisga’a), and the award winning book Hungry Listening that focuses on Indigenous and settler colonial practices of listening.
Annukka Hirvasvuopio, (in Sámi Hirvas-Niillasa Heaikka Annukka), born 1973, living in Ohcejohka/Utsjok, Finland.
Musician, ethnomusicologist, reindeer herder, mother of three, PhD student, assistant professor in Sámi language and literature at Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino, Norway.