FW: Your heart is blooming!

Kwe, Kuei!!!
As part of the Native ART•CULTURE evenings

Your heart is blooming!
Tribute evening to Lisandro Guarcax Gonzaléz
Thursday, November 4th starting at 21h.
Café-bar l’Escalier 552, Saint-Catherine Street East

This Thursday November 4th we will be a paying tribute to Lisandro Guarcax Gonzaléz. Lisandro was a Maya Kaqchikel artist from Guatemala. He was the spiritual guide of his community and he worked for the cultural revival of the Mayan people. On the 25th of August he was murdered and the crime has not yet been clarified. His death is the latest in a series of murders among the cultural group he founded, called Sotz’il Jay.
In Guatemala, he has already been honored twice at festivals that were named Your heart is blooming.
With due respect, we gave ourselves the permission to call our evening: Your heart is blooming!

For this event, several Aboriginal artists will be present, including Dany Bacon who is a singer-songwriter originally from Mani-Utenam and Pessamit. Since a few years, his songs in the Innu language are being heard through the radio networks of SOCAM and performed in many communities. He recently became well known through his collaboration with the band Supay, with whom he is proposing an Andean-Innu musical fusion, a special «Bacon from the Andes»! For this evening he will sing and he will be accompanied by Julian Blacksmith, Cree guitar player.

Also, Iqi Balam and his Banda de Gaza will be giving a performance during this tribute. Iqui is a Mayan artist singing a committed music since many years in Quebec. You can learn more about him with the following link: http://www.myspace.com/labandadegaza

The Native ART•CULTURE evenings:
Sharing moments with the aboriginal community of Montreal on every first Thursday of each month!

Open to all! Free admission!

Organised by:
First Nations Circle of UQAM, (Le Cercle des Premières Nations de l’UQAM) and
The ART • CULTURE committee from the
Montreal Urban Aboriginal Strategy NETWORK
For more information: cpn@uqam.ca (514) 987-3000 ext 6793#
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