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Sound House: Never Forgotten—SOLD OUT
Thursday September 30, 2021 | 7 – 9 pm
MOA’s popular Sound House series returns for its third season.
Another season of Sound House launches with a reflective night of poetry, hip hop, and spoken word by Indigenous artists to mark Orange Shirt Day. Join in a commemorative lantern procession and take in the powerful performances by the orange glow in MOA’s Haida House.
Arrive early to join the orange lantern procession in honour of residential school survivors, and for the children who never made it home. Pick up a lantern when you check in at the lobby, and make your way down to the Haida House to hang it up in a commemorative display. The evening will feature a powerful showcase of unique talents from the invited Indigenous artists. The docket includes spoken word artist Tawahum Bige, hip hop artist Keliya, and poet Dallas Hunt.
Sound House is MOA’s music series, now in its third season, featuring a fantastic and eclectic lineup of Vancouver bands and artists—from spoken word to hip hop to soul. Sound House is a celebration of culture and music, set in MOA’s Haida House, against a stunning backdrop of Northwest Coast art and architecture. Let the picturesque views and scent of cedar inhabit your senses.
Sound House: Never Forgotten is part of the UBC ARTIVISM Festival 2021: Queering the Self
Doors | 7 pm
Performances | 7:30 pm
Tickets | $20 Regular; Free for Indigenous peoples (includes museum admission)
Ticket proceeds will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Sound House delivers a season of surprises and delights—on the last Thursday of each month: September 30, October 28, November 25.
Proof of vaccination
As per provincial orders, all special event participants 12 and older will be required to provide proof of vaccination (eg. BC Vaccine Card). MOA reserves the right to deny entry or participation to anyone who doesn’t comply with MOA’s stated policies, procedures and visitor code of conduct.
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Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative works published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM international and Arc Poetry. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was nominated for several awards. His new book, CREELAND, is out through Nightwood Editions. Hunt is an assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of British Columbia.
Keliya is an innovative artist and hip hop persona who draws roots from Coast Salish Territory. Once a part of the female rap duo Rapsure Risin, gracing the scene in the early 2000s, her current solo work speaks to Indigenous worldviews, rise, voice, and passion for unity and change.
Tawahum Bige is a Łutselkʼe Dene, Plains Cree poet, spoken word artist, and activist from unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-waututh Territory (Vancouver). Their Scorpio-moon-ass poems expose growth, resistance & persistence as a hopeless Two Spirit Nonbinary sadboy on occupied Turtle Island. With a BA in Creative Writing from KPU, Tawahum has performed at countless festivals with poems featured in numerous publications. Tawahum’s debut collection of poetry is set for Spring 2022, published by Nightwood Editions.
MOA's Haida House • $20 Regular; Free for Indigenous people (includes museum admission) Performance Program