Indigenous Literature to Music

Through their written works, the authors featured in this concert offer a window onto their perceptions of the world, which are intimately bound up with nature. They discuss love, the relationship between living beings and the land, fertility, and sensuality. Texts by Marie-Andrée Gill (Innu), Leanne Simpson (Anishinaabe), Virginia Bordeleau (Cree and Métis), Jean Sioui (Wendat) and Katarina Vermette (Métis) will converge with music by Vaughan Williams, Piazzolla, Ravel, and by the Canadian composer of Cree ancestry Andrew Balfour.