Mi’kma’ki Nights
Come for the press, stay for the poetry, leave with a keepsake land acknowledgement.
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Venez pour la presse à impression, restez pour la poésie, partez avec un souvenir de reconnaissance
de la terre où l’on se trouve.
Mi’kma’ki Nights is a collaboration between printer and curator Katherine Taylor and poet and performer Deirdre Lee. Utilizing the resources and space of the Dawson Print Shop, we will create an interactive land acknowledgement. Visitors on Nocturne will arrive at a space transformed by the presence of poetry and performers whose ancestral land we all live upon. As performing poets share stories and poems illuminating their lived experiences in K’jipuktuk, folx will have the opportunity to participate in the printing of a land acknowledgement. With art detailing inspired by traditional Mi’kmaq quill and basket work, participants will help to print the call-and-response phrase, “Where are we? Mi’kma’ki!” along with a colophon that specifies that the festival and all we do takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Mi'kma'ki Nights will serve as the land acknowledgement for the festival as a whole, generating awareness and conversation through spoken word and ink that will reverberate through the night.
