The Indigenous Circle meets online on the last Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm ET, and provides a space for local Indigenous community members of Guelph & Kitchener Waterloo & surrounding area to explore intersectional identity & voice. This is for Indigenous community members only, and is facilitated by Hope Engel and Kevin Wesaquate.
Activities explore identity & develop creativity by looking at race, gender, class, ability, who we are for ourselves and others “in-relation-to-creation”, & medicine wheel journaling & collaging our creative vision/stories & multiple relational identities. It is an opportunity to share our stories & writing with each other, and by supporting each other in this conversation, be inspired to share and develop our creative writing voices.
Hope Engel is Turtle Clan, mixed ancestry Oklahoma Choctaw, Chickasaw & Cherokee, two-spirit & multiple-disabled. She is co-founder of Plume Writers & Artists Circle, which has hosted creative writing workshops, and edited & published a local indigenous anthology in 2006, called River Bundles. Her writing has been published in The Peak, and she has performed in When the Rainbow Ain’t Enough Toronto Spoken Word. She is a University of Guelph Honours BA English & Gender Studies graduate & a Brock University Honours BEd Indigenous Adult Education graduate.
Kevin Wesaquate is a poet, painter, welder, spoken word artist and founder of the Indigenous Poet’s Society. Originally from Piapot First Nation he has been an Indigenous Art Leader with SCYAP since 2009. Kevin is passionate about combining written word, storytelling and visual imagery to create dynamic workshops for both youth and adults throughout our community.
Email Hope to join and get the zoom link at: hopemagic7@gmail.com
Thanks to funders City of Guelph, City of Kitchener, Ontario Arts Council, Guelph Spoken Word & K/W PS.
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