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The Confluence/skəlɣap - Live-stream
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March 25(Monday) 10:00am - March 26(Tuesday) 6:00pm
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Event Details
2 Rivers Remix Society presents the 2024 Confluence (skəlɣap in syilx, our host Nation’s language), a public live streamed event, which aims to bring together
Event Details
2 Rivers Remix Society presents the 2024 Confluence (skəlɣap in syilx, our host Nation’s language), a public live streamed event, which aims to bring together Indigenous community representatives with a diverse group of Indigenous musicians, academics and cultural organizers to build networks, deliver resources and facilitate knowledge sharing from across Turtle Island and beyond. The Confluence features keynote speakers such as Lila Gilday and Ronnie Dean Harris, elder blessings and teachings, presentations and workshops, interactive traditional and creative activities, daily bearing witness panels, all remixed with showcases of music, dance, and art.
We collaborate closely with our host community and the syilx Nation and allow them to guide us in how we carry ourselves, while sharing with us the stories of their territory, their origin stories and how they express their relationship to what makes them who they are.
The Confluence/skəlɣap – Live-stream 2024 ~ Community Roots to Rhizome (CR2R) ~ will explore how our past and continued ideas and expression, grow into a network bringing new growth. As our seeds grew into a root, we now grow into rhizomes ~ transporting water and nutrients to other parts of the plant, retaining the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards, as well as storing nutrients for later and much needed, use.
In 2024, The Confluence will focus on our stories, inclusive of 2RMX’s ~ origins, differing historical narratives, and how the climate change crisis has impacted our nations, communities, families and individuals, and how relationships/networks can help recover from the effects of that. It will also delve into the creation of safe spaces, for 2RMX and for indigenous-queen communities. This year we will also be bringing a strong focus onto our 2RMX community connector project, mentorships, and co-capacity building between 2RMX and communities, while addressing critical topics that impact Indigenous artists. Each day will include a showcase of indigenous music, dance and art, and all of these activities will be live streamed.
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Indigenous Artists for this Event!
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Leela Gilday
Leela Gilday
[Dene]
A passionate singer/songwriter and soulful performer, Leela Gilday has a voice that comes straight from the heart. Confessing her stories to her audiences with a gutsy voice and open stage presence, Gilday weaves her experiences as a northerner, a member of the Dene nation, and a traveler into a beautiful world that transports the listener.If you’re from the North, Leela’s music is home. If you’ve never been, it will take you there. Born and raised in the Northwest Territories, she writes about the people and the land that created her. The power in her voice conveys the depth of her feelings of love and life in a rugged environment and vibrant culture, as if it comes straight from that earth. Leela’s family is from Délįne on the shore of Great Bear Lake and her rich vocals dance across the rhythmic beats of traditional Dene drumming as smoothly as a bass line onstage the largest venues in the country.Leela has toured festivals and concert halls with her four-piece band through every province and territory in Canada. She has played in the United States, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand and several countries in Europe. Her live shows are where she connects with fans who have followed her on a 20-year career and where new fans are born. She reaches into their hearts and feels the energy of every person in front of her as she guides them on a journey through song and experience. Shebelieves music has an inexplicable effect on people. It is a place where she can share light and dark and the most vulnerable moments, with a clarity and genuine purpose that reassures her listeners through every word. She is a storyteller, and through this, reflects the world onto itself.Leela’s fifth album “North Star Calling” was awarded the Indigenous Artist of the Year JUNO Award 2021. It is more raw, more intimate and more Leela than anything you’ve heard from her before. She is currently working on a Dene-language record with her close friend and producer Hill Kourkoutis. It is expected out summer 2024.
[Dene]
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Ronnie Dean Harris
Ronnie Dean Harris
[Sto:lo/Nlaka’pamux]
Emcee Ronnie Dean Harris aka Ostwelve, is a Stolo/Nlaka’pamux multimedia artist based in Vancouver, BC.
As hip-hop artist Ostwelve, he has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts such as Guru, K’naan, and Snoop DoggRon got his start with professional graphic design at the age of 14 after submitting a design to a Vancouver-based skateboard company “Arson” and got this design printed. In the same year he began co-hosting the “When Spirits Whisper” on CO-OP Radio 100.5 FM (formerly 102.7 FM).In the past years he’s worked on number of projects, most prominently as an actor and composer for APTN/Showcase dramatic series “Moccasin Flats” for two seasons as a performer and a lead character, and in the subsequent film project “Moccasin Flats: Redemption” in 2007. As well, he was the lead composer for APTN children’s Cree language series “Nehiyawetan: Let’s Speak Cree”.
He has gone on to contribute music to TV series such as ARCTIC AIR, MOHAWK GIRLS, FIRST STORY, SKYE & CHANG and film projects like FIRE SONG, NUMBER 14, THE ROAD FORWARD, WINDIGO TALE and CEDAR & BAMBOO.
In 2011, he was hired as Content Manager for RPM.fm, an Indigenous music culture website based out of Vancouver. The website focuses on bringing the latest of Indigenous music culture to its audience, as well as a podcast series of which he was the host. The podcast was selected as the recipient of the United Nations DPI Gold Medal as well as being awarded a Silver Medal in the Culture & The Arts, Audio Podcast category at the New York Festivals Awards.
Check out the podcasts here: http://rpm.fm/podcasts/
Most recently, Ron is featured in the National Film Board musical documentary “The Road Forward”, directed by Marie Clements. https://www.nfb.ca/film/road_forward/Ron performed and emceed at 2RMX in 2019 and 2018.
[Sto:lo/Nlaka’pamux]
Organizer
2 Rivers Remix Society
2 Rivers Remix Society is the instigator and organiser of The 2 Rivers Remix (2RMX), an annual 3-day Feast of contemporary Indigenous Music and Culture. Since its incorporation in 2018 2RMX was hosted by the Nlaka’pamux Nation in Tl’kemtsin/Lytton, BC, until the devastating fire that incinerated most of our host community in 2021. In 2022, 2 Rivers Remix Society evolved towards a decentralised, Indigenised feast model called the "Movable Feast", that brings a series of contemporary Indigenous music and culture events direct to multiple small indigenous communities across BC.