LIVE Arts with Eekwol a.k.a. Lindsay Knight
Song All About You
This session will give students the opportunity to participate in a live broadcast with professional musician Eekwol. Students will learn how rap artists such as Eekwol come up with ideas and draw inspiration from their own experiences and communities. Lindsay will speak about her background in Plains Cree Indigenous music and how it impacts her contemporary practice.
She will also address the influence of Pop Culture on artists in her field. The broadcast features live performances of both a traditional song and one of Lindsay’s original compositions.
- Art Strand: Drama
- Broadcast length: 45 minutes.
- Off camera hands-on teacher guided activity: approximately 45-60 min.
- Date and time: May 12, 2022
- Grade 5: 10:00-11:45am
- Grade 8: 1:15-3:00pm
- Host School: Muskoday First Nation Community School (Muskoday)
- Register below for the Revisited & Live Q&A
Teacher Guides and Resources
Artist Biography: Lindsay Knight aka Eekwol
Lindsay Knight aka Eekwol is an award winning hip-hop performing artist living in Saskatoon, originally from Muskoday First Nation, Saskatchewan. She completed her Masters Degree, and is now a PhD candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. She has taken this formal education, along with her many years of dedication to hip hop, and created something unique to give back to the community. Eekwol uses her voice and words to spread messages of resistance, revolution and keeping the language, land and culture alive for the next generations. Through her original music she displays her activist roots by living and creating as a supporter of both Hip Hop and Indigenous culture and rights. Along with music and academic work, Eekwol frequently works with young people as a mentor and helper through workshops, conferences and programs.
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