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'''shalan joudry'''{{refn|joudry chooses to capitalize neither her name nor the personal pronoun 'i' so as to "be consistent with not over-emphasizing myself in relation to the collective".<ref name="SaltWire">{{Cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Ardelle|date=2021-05-12|title=Mi'kma'ki storyteller hopes workshops encourage "beautiful increase" in Indigenous narrative artists|url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/mikmaki-storyteller-hopes-workshop-encourages-beautiful-increase-in-indigenous-narrative-artists-100587275/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=www.saltwire.com|language=en}}</ref>|group=note}} is a [[Mi'kmaw]] writer, oral storyteller, director, drummer/singer, and ecologist. |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Joudry's first book, a collection of poems titled, ''Generations Re-merging,'' was published by [[Gaspereau Press]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Webb-Campbell|first=Shannon|date=2015-08-27|title=Generations Re-merging|url=https://roommagazine.com/generations-re-merging/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=ROOM Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> Her poetry had previously appeared in "The Nashwaak Review" and "Mi'kmaq Anthology II".<ref>{{Cite news|date=2014-04-30|title=Mi'kmaq poet to read from new collection|work=Cape Breton Post|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/cape-breton-post/20140430/281986080562445|access-date=2021-12-26|via=PressReader}}</ref> In August 2018, joudry's play ''Elapultiek'' premiered with Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in [[Kings County, Nova Scotia]] at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Joudry played Nat opposite Matthew Lumley's Bill. The production subsequently toured four Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Emma|date=2018-08-22|title=How a play performed around a fire is inspiring reconciliation|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/elapultiek-ross-creek-centre-for-the-arts-shalan-joudry-play-mi-kmaw-1.4787536|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref> A second tour was carried out in the fall of 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nsreviews.blog/2019/09/28/elapultiek-back-on-stage-and-by-fire/|title = Elapultiek back on stage (And by fire)|date = 28 September 2019}}</ref> |
Joudry's first book, a collection of poems titled, ''Generations Re-merging,'' was published by [[Gaspereau Press]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Webb-Campbell|first=Shannon|date=2015-08-27|title=Generations Re-merging|url=https://roommagazine.com/generations-re-merging/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=ROOM Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> Her poetry had previously appeared in "The Nashwaak Review" and "Mi'kmaq Anthology II".<ref>{{Cite news|date=2014-04-30|title=Mi'kmaq poet to read from new collection|work=Cape Breton Post|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/cape-breton-post/20140430/281986080562445|access-date=2021-12-26|via=PressReader}}</ref> In August 2018, joudry's play ''Elapultiek'' premiered with Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in [[Kings County, Nova Scotia]] at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Joudry played Nat opposite Matthew Lumley's Bill. The production subsequently toured four Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Emma|date=2018-08-22|title=How a play performed around a fire is inspiring reconciliation|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/elapultiek-ross-creek-centre-for-the-arts-shalan-joudry-play-mi-kmaw-1.4787536|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref> A second tour was carried out in the fall of 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nsreviews.blog/2019/09/28/elapultiek-back-on-stage-and-by-fire/|title = Elapultiek back on stage (And by fire)|date = 28 September 2019}}</ref> |
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Joudry managed programs for species at risk and ecology for more than ten years.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Emma|date=2017-08-01|title=How one Mi'kmaq community is trying to save a threatened snake species|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/acadia-first-nation-eastern-ribbon-snake-conservation-1.4230181|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref> Her second published poetry collection, ''Waking Ground'', was released in 2020 also by Gaspereau Press.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Lawlor|first=Allison|date=2021-06-07|title=Resiliency of Mi'kmaw culture, power of nature|page=C1|work=Halifax Chronicle Herald}}</ref> In 2021, it was selected by the [[Writers' Trust of Canada]] as one of 25 books for the WT Amplified Voices program, which aims to amplify [[BIPOC]] voices in Canadian writing and promote works of BIPOC writers created during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=van Koeverden|first=Jane|date=2021-12-13|title=Writers' Trust of Canada launches program to support books by BIPOC writers launched during pandemic|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/writers-trust-of-canada-launches-program-to-support-books-by-bipoc-writers-launched-during-pandemic-1.6283634|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref> ''Waking Ground'' was shortlisted for numerous poetry awards in 2021. |
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Also in 2021, joudry's play ''KOQM'', premiered at the King's Theatre in [[Annapolis Royal]], starring joudry as all six characters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Googoo |first=Maureen |date=2022-08-11 |title=Mi'kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi'kmaw woman's perspective |url=http://kukukwes.com/2022/08/11/mikmaw-play-koqm-describes-colonialism-in-nova-scotia-from-a-mikmaw-womans-perspective/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Ku'ku'kwes News |language=en-US}}</ref> ''KOQM'' tells the 400-year story of Nova Scotia through the lives of L'nu (Mi'kmaw) women. It was subsequently staged by [[Neptune Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia)|Neptune Theatre]] in Halifax and [[Ship's Company Theatre]] in Parrsborro as well as the [[Highland Arts Theatre]] in Cape Breton.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tattrie |first=Jon |date=2022-04-07 |title=Neptune play tells Nova Scotia's colonial history through Mi'kmaw eyes |work=CBC |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/neptune-play-tells-nova-scotia-s-colonial-history-through-mi-kmaw-eyes-1.6410518 |access-date=2023-07-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mullin |first=Morgan |date=2022-06-21 |title=All the summer's a stage: Your guide to seasonal, out-of-town theatre |url=https://www.thecoast.ca/guides/all-the-summers-a-stage-your-guide-to-seasonal-out-of-town-theatre-28863854 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=The Coast Halifax |language=en}}</ref> ''KOQM'' was nominated for Best Production and won Best New Nova Scotian Play at the 2023 [[Robert Merritt Awards]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Mullin |first=Morgan |date=2023-03-28 |title=A surprise sweep at Theatre Nova Scotia's 2023 Robert Merritt Awards |url=https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/a-surprise-sweep-at-theatre-nova-scotias-2023-robert-merritt-awards-30499554 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=The Coast Halifax |language=en}}</ref> In the summer of 2024 shalan toured an off-grid version of KOQM in Newfoundland as well as performing a run at Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. |
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Her second published poetry collection was ''Waking Ground'', which was released in 2020 also by Gaspereau Press.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Lawlor|first=Allison|date=2021-06-07|title=Resiliency of Mi'kmaw culture, power of nature|page=C1|work=Halifax Chronicle Herald}}</ref> In 2021, it was selected by the [[Writers' Trust of Canada]] as one of 25 books for the WT Amplified Voices program, which aims to amplify [[BIPOC]] voices in Canadian writing and promote works of BIPOC writers created during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=van Koeverden|first=Jane|date=2021-12-13|title=Writers' Trust of Canada launches program to support books by BIPOC writers launched during pandemic|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/writers-trust-of-canada-launches-program-to-support-books-by-bipoc-writers-launched-during-pandemic-1.6283634|access-date=2021-12-26}}</ref> |
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Joudry was named the [[Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21]]'s artist-in-residence in Halifax for 2023 .<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023 |title=shalan joudry named artist-in-residence at Canadian Museum of Immigration |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2269681219971 |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=CBC Radio}}</ref> Her short film,''welima’q'', premiered at the [[2024 Toronto International Film Festival]] as part of the Programme 01, Short Cuts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bianchini |first=Elisabetta |date=2024-09-05 |title=TIFF 2024 'welima’q': shalan joudry's short film inspired by the beauty of sweetgrass picking |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiff-2024-welimaq-shalan-joudrys-short-film-inspired-by-the-beauty-of-sweetgrass-picking-014532579.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALQFbef1lSb6U7q8tEPg2PpVqinBePdzMSM71lo87HyO5D1oN5R5QYdiSmJVX6hldXin6k5u0jUQ5h-TKc_9NfgJZbTBnfBhSlo-KMfuLqq0ezgWcCAKD4YLctyzy0gl0KjmFuiL4t9djcYduX3ZQLMdYe-7PFPUf_3NVKYpB-XD |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-CA}}</ref> The four-minute film is her first and joudry was director and producer for the production.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=MacIntyre |first=Genevieve |date=2024-08-20 |title=Grand premiere: PhD candidate’s directorial debut set to show at TIFF |url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2024/08/20/tiff-shalan-joudry-welima-q.html |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Dalhousie News |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Works == |
== Works == |
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* ''Generations Re-merging'' ([[Gaspereau Press]], 2014) |
* ''Generations Re-merging'' ([[Gaspereau Press]], 2014) |
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* ''Waking Ground'' (Gaspereau Press, 2020) |
* ''Waking Ground'' (Gaspereau Press, 2020) |
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* ''Elapultiek (We Are Looking Towards)'' (Pottersfield Press, 2019) |
* ''Elapultiek (We Are Looking Towards)'' (Pottersfield Press, 2019) |
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* ''Mi'kmaq Stories: Past and Present'' (2020, co-created with [[Catherine Martin (director)|Catherine Martin]] and [[Trevor Gould]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mullin|first=Morgan|date=2020-07-09|title=Over 50 events to fill your summer|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/over-50-events-to-fill-your-summer/Content?oid=24399583 |
* ''Mi'kmaq Stories: Past and Present'' (2020, co-created with [[Catherine Martin (director)|Catherine Martin]] and [[Trevor Gould]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mullin|first=Morgan|date=2020-07-09|title=Over 50 events to fill your summer|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/over-50-events-to-fill-your-summer/Content?oid=24399583|access-date=2021-12-26|website=The Coast|language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''Koqm'' (2021) |
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* Koqm - off grid (2024) |
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* Winter Moons - off grid (2023) |
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=== Film/TV === |
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* Welima'q (TIFF 2024 and AIFF 2024) |
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* Women of this Land |
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* Mi'kma'ki |
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== Awards == |
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|League of Canadian Poets Awards |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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joudry is from [[Bear River First Nation|L’sɨtkuk (Bear River First Nation)]]. She has two children and lives in Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia) with her partner Frank Meuse.<ref name="SaltWire" /> Joudry is a PhD candidate at [[Dalhousie University]].<ref name=":2" /> |
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Born | 1979 (age 44–45) L’sɨtkuk (Bear River First Nation) |
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shalan joudry[note 1] is a Mi'kmaw writer, oral storyteller, director, drummer/singer, and ecologist.
Career
Joudry's first book, a collection of poems titled, Generations Re-merging, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2014.[2] Her poetry had previously appeared in "The Nashwaak Review" and "Mi'kmaq Anthology II".[3] In August 2018, joudry's play Elapultiek premiered with Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in Kings County, Nova Scotia at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Joudry played Nat opposite Matthew Lumley's Bill. The production subsequently toured four Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia.[4] A second tour was carried out in the fall of 2019.[5]
Joudry managed programs for species at risk and ecology for more than ten years.[6] Her second published poetry collection, Waking Ground, was released in 2020 also by Gaspereau Press.[7] In 2021, it was selected by the Writers' Trust of Canada as one of 25 books for the WT Amplified Voices program, which aims to amplify BIPOC voices in Canadian writing and promote works of BIPOC writers created during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] Waking Ground was shortlisted for numerous poetry awards in 2021.
Also in 2021, joudry's play KOQM, premiered at the King's Theatre in Annapolis Royal, starring joudry as all six characters.[9] KOQM tells the 400-year story of Nova Scotia through the lives of L'nu (Mi'kmaw) women. It was subsequently staged by Neptune Theatre in Halifax and Ship's Company Theatre in Parrsborro as well as the Highland Arts Theatre in Cape Breton.[10][11] KOQM was nominated for Best Production and won Best New Nova Scotian Play at the 2023 Robert Merritt Awards.[12] In the summer of 2024 shalan toured an off-grid version of KOQM in Newfoundland as well as performing a run at Two Planks and a Passion Theatre in Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
Joudry was named the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21's artist-in-residence in Halifax for 2023 .[13] Her short film,welima’q, premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Programme 01, Short Cuts.[14] The four-minute film is her first and joudry was director and producer for the production.[15]
Works
Poetry
- Generations Re-merging (Gaspereau Press, 2014)
- Waking Ground (Gaspereau Press, 2020)
Plays
- Elapultiek (We Are Looking Towards) (Pottersfield Press, 2019)
- Mi'kmaq Stories: Past and Present (2020, co-created with Catherine Martin and Trevor Gould)[16]
- Koqm (2021)
- Koqm - off grid (2024)
- Winter Moons - off grid (2023)
- Winter Moons musical theatre piece (2024)[17]
Film/TV
- Welima'q (TIFF 2024 and AIFF 2024)
- Women of this Land
- Mi'kma'ki
Awards
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | Atlantic Book Awards | Maxine Tynes Poetry Award | Waking Ground | Nominated | [1] |
J.M. Abraham Poetry Award | Nominated | [7] | |||
Indigenous Voices Awards | Published Poetry in English | Nominated | [18] | ||
League of Canadian Poets Awards | Pat Lowther Memorial Award | Nominated | [19] | ||
2023 | Robert Merrit Awards | Best New Nova Scotian Play | Koqm | Won | [12] |
Personal life
joudry is from L’sɨtkuk (Bear River First Nation). She has two children and lives in Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia) with her partner Frank Meuse.[1] Joudry is a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University.[15]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c Reynolds, Ardelle (2021-05-12). "Mi'kma'ki storyteller hopes workshops encourage "beautiful increase" in Indigenous narrative artists". www.saltwire.com. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Webb-Campbell, Shannon (2015-08-27). "Generations Re-merging". ROOM Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Mi'kmaq poet to read from new collection". Cape Breton Post. 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2021-12-26 – via PressReader.
- ^ Smith, Emma (2018-08-22). "How a play performed around a fire is inspiring reconciliation". CBC. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Elapultiek back on stage (And by fire)". 28 September 2019.
- ^ Smith, Emma (2017-08-01). "How one Mi'kmaq community is trying to save a threatened snake species". CBC. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ a b Lawlor, Allison (2021-06-07). "Resiliency of Mi'kmaw culture, power of nature". Halifax Chronicle Herald. p. C1.
- ^ van Koeverden, Jane (2021-12-13). "Writers' Trust of Canada launches program to support books by BIPOC writers launched during pandemic". CBC. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Googoo, Maureen (2022-08-11). "Mi'kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi'kmaw woman's perspective". Ku'ku'kwes News. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ^ Tattrie, Jon (2022-04-07). "Neptune play tells Nova Scotia's colonial history through Mi'kmaw eyes". CBC. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ^ Mullin, Morgan (2022-06-21). "All the summer's a stage: Your guide to seasonal, out-of-town theatre". The Coast Halifax. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ^ a b Mullin, Morgan (2023-03-28). "A surprise sweep at Theatre Nova Scotia's 2023 Robert Merritt Awards". The Coast Halifax. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ^ "shalan joudry named artist-in-residence at Canadian Museum of Immigration". CBC Radio. 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
- ^ Bianchini, Elisabetta (2024-09-05). "TIFF 2024 'welima'q': shalan joudry's short film inspired by the beauty of sweetgrass picking". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
- ^ a b MacIntyre, Genevieve (2024-08-20). "Grand premiere: PhD candidate's directorial debut set to show at TIFF". Dalhousie News. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
- ^ Mullin, Morgan (2020-07-09). "Over 50 events to fill your summer". The Coast. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "World Premiere of Koqm at King's Theatre, Annapolis Royal – the Grapevine".
- ^ Drudi, Cassandra (2021-05-03). "Finalists announced for 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Porter, Ryan (2021-04-15). "League of Canadian Poets announces shortlists for 2021 Book Awards". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian women poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian Mi'kmaq people
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Bear River First Nation
- 21st-century First Nations writers
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- First Nations women writers
- First Nations poets
- First Nations dramatists and playwrights