SJIWFF presents Singing Back the Buffalo
The LSPU Hall [St. John's]
Event info
| Date: | April 16, 2025 |
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| Time: | 7:00 pm |
| Location: | The LSPU Hall |
| Address: | 3 Victoria St St. John's |
Details
Come see award-winning Cree filmmaker’s Dr. Tasha Hubbard’s 2024 documentary SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO, an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp, which follows Indigenous visionaries and communities who are rematriating the buffalo to the lands they once defined.
Q&A with director Dr. Tasha Hubbard will follow the film.
Dr. Tasha Hubbard is a filmmaker and an associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has ties to Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She is also the mother of a fifteen-year-old son. Her academic research is on Indigenous efforts to return the buffalo to the lands and Indigenous film in North America. She has been working to support the Buffalo Treaty since 2015, and is one of the founding directors of the International Buffalo Relations Institute.
