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good news – 2017 Chalmers Arts Fellowship Award

By: vera wabegijig February 27, 2017October 10, 2020

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I’m thrilled to share with you that I am the 2017 recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship Award by the Ontario Arts Council. This fellowship will experiment with innovative poetic techniques while increasing my current anishnaabe/odawa dialect language skills, and the transfer of traditional memory keeping methods. This year long project starts in a couple…