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Join us to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day! Honour Indigenous heritage, culture, and achievements with vibrant performances and delicious Bannock!
This event takes place at Central Branch's Mezzanine. No registration required. All are welcome.
Enjoy cultural performances by the Lone Creek Dance Troupe, featuring traditional singing, drumming and dances narrated by lead singer Jeff Cappo, and Metis Jigging by Marcus Merasty.
Refreshments will be provided.
Don't miss this enriching cultural experience!
Lone Creek Dance Troupe is a drum group and powwow dancers consisting of family, friends, and others from various Treaty areas. They sing in the original style as shared with them by their ancestors. They are happy and proud to share their style of song and drumming wherever they are invited.
Marcus Merasty: Marcus Merasty(he/him) is Nehithaw/Woodlands Cree dance artist Pelican Narrows, SK. He started his dance career by learning traditional Metis jigging and square-dancing. In 2014 Marcus began an intermittent mentorship with artists Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. Marcus trained in the Professional Program of The School of Contemporary Dancers, graduating in 2021. He has participated in two Indigenous dance residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (2016, 2019) and has worked with various choreographers from around the country. Marcus is currently based in Regina, SK and working on a new solo dance work choreographed by Robin Poitras set to premiere at the Stream of Dance Festival in 2024.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Indigenous |
TAGS: | Special Event | Performance | Indigenous |
Central Library, the largest of the nine Branches in the Regina Public Library system, is a social and informational hub in the heart of downtown Regina. The Library maintains an extensive calendar of programs, training opportunities, art exhibits in the Dunlop Art Gallery, along with film screenings in the Library's very own repertory film theatre!
