BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.1//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh Opening Reception X-WR-CALDESC:All My Relations Arts X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20230413T060000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20230413T060000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, October 12th for the opening reception of Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh\, a collaborative exhibition from artists Karen Goulet (Ojibwe) and Monique Verdin (Houma). Karen and Monique are sisters of the same river\, connected by the planetary lifeforce known as the Misi-ziibi (Big River\, Ojibwe) near the headwaters in the north and remembered as Misha sipokni (Older than Time\, Chata) in the coastal territories of the southern Delta\, where the bayous of Turtle Island m eet the sea.\n\n \;\n\n6-8pm\; All My Relations Arts\; Food and drin k will be provided.\n\n \;\n\nAbout the artists: \n\nKaren E. Goule t is a White Earth Ojibwe Band member and is also from Metis\, and Finni sh people. She is a practicing artist\, poet\, educator and community sc ulptor. She is the Miikanan Gallery Program Director at  Watermark Art Center in Bemidji\, Minnesota.  Karen received her BA from The Evergree n State College\, MFA in Sculpture from The University of Wisconsin – Madison\, and MEd from University of Minnesota Duluth. She is a recent r ecipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Grants\, Waterers Fellowship\, an d Region 2 Arts Council Anishinaabe Arts Fellowship. She was a pilot art ist for the Big River Continuum Project. Her work centers around communi ty\, environment\, and perpetuating culture. Her life path has always be en a creative path and she has dedicated her professional and personal l ife to making\, sharing\, and encouraging artistic practice.\n\n \;\ n\nMonique Verdin is a transdisciplinary storyteller\, citizen of the Ho uma Nation and director of The Land Memory Bank &\; Seed Exchange\, r esponding to the complex interconnectedness of environment\, economics\, culture\, climate\, and change in the Gulf South. Monique is currently working to support the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo\, a network of Indigenous s outheastern gardeners\, to grow food and medicine sovereignty in the low er Mississippi River Delta and is a Bvlbancha Liberation Radio collabora tor. Monique is co-producer/subject of the documentary My Louisiana Love and co-author of Return to Yakni Chitto : Houma Migrations. URL;VALUE=URI:https://allmyrelationsarts.org/exhibitions-events/events/a abijijiwan-ukeyat-yanalleh-opening-reception/ UID:urn:uuid:e43d8989-ba65-424e-92a1-15b2e7ae4684 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260110T102749Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T200000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR