Tea for Tara – Episode 7: 2Spirit Art & Healing
July 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2SPIRIT ART & HEALING with SPECIAL GUESTS
Kole Peplinskie & Tai Reign
Live-streaming on the Ottawa Trans Library Youtube and Facebook Channels.
Opening Prayer by Elaine Kicknosway
Kole Peplinskie (they/them) is an Anishinaabe indigiqueer beader and artist currently living on the unceeded and unsurrendered Algonquin territory known as Ottawa. They are of mixed Polish, French and Algonquin ancestry, with familial ties to Kebaowek First Nation. Kole has always created art in some capacity their whole life, but started creating professionally under the name Rustling Pine in 2018. In 2020, their mixed media/beadwork piece “Grassroots” was shown at Carleton University Art Gallery and now remains there as part of the gallery’s permanent collection.
Tai Reign (they/them) is a Two-Spirit artist from Peepeekisis Cree Nation based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 Territory. As a young artist they’ve used spoken word as an avenue of self expression. Collaborating with artists from different disciplines has helped them find a sense of connection and play from art and storytelling. They have performed across Canada and at the Voices of Today Youth Poetry Festival in Toronto. On their artistic journey they’ve ventured into longer forms of storytelling; where they have co-created and performed two devised theater productions, Lift/Break and The Rehearsal. Currently they are the Youth Poet Laureate for Saskatchewan Writers Guild.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
Grapics by Blue Petties
Produced and Mentored by Elaina Martin
