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Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino) is a writer, artist, facilitator and land-based educator from Denendeh (NWT) and Pond Inlet, NU.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/person/siku-allooloo/|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=21 Jan 2019|website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino) is a writer, artist, facilitator and land-based educator from Denendeh (NWT) and Pond Inlet, NU.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/person/siku-allooloo/|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=21 Jan 2019|website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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== Personal Life == |
== Personal Life == |
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Allooloo comes from a long lineage of Dene storytellers/leaders, and has been raised to have a close relationship to the land. Allooloo has collaborated artistically with indigenous artists across the country since 2014.<ref name=":0" /> Her writing has been featured in Briarpatch Magazine, The Malahat Review, Nuit Blanche Toronto, CanadianArt magazine and Surrey Art Gallery Presents, among others <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/degrees-programs/summer-indigenous-art-intensive/|title=Summer Indigenous Art Intensive|last=|first=|date=2019|website=The University of British Columbia: Okanagan Campus|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> She is also the winner of Briarpatch Magazine's 2016 creative nonfiction contest.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://web.uvic.ca/malahat/interviews/allooloo_interview.html|title=Bringing Fragments Together: John Barton in Conversation with Siku Allooloo|last=Barton|first=John|date=|website=The Malahat Review|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
Allooloo comes from a long lineage of Dene storytellers/leaders, and has been raised to have a close relationship to the land. Allooloo has collaborated artistically with indigenous artists across the country since 2014.<ref name=":0" /> Her writing has been featured in Briarpatch Magazine, The Malahat Review, Nuit Blanche Toronto, CanadianArt magazine and Surrey Art Gallery Presents, among others <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/degrees-programs/summer-indigenous-art-intensive/|title=Summer Indigenous Art Intensive|last=|first=|date=2019|website=The University of British Columbia: Okanagan Campus|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> She is also the winner of Briarpatch Magazine's 2016 creative nonfiction contest.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://web.uvic.ca/malahat/interviews/allooloo_interview.html|title=Bringing Fragments Together: John Barton in Conversation with Siku Allooloo|last=Barton|first=John|date=|website=The Malahat Review|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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She has a background in land-based education; cross-cultural/decolonial training; climate change and food security research; youth development; Indigenous arts; and writing. <ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://bryan-mccrae-plan.squarespace.com/our-team/2019/4/8/siku-allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=|website=Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
She has a background in land-based education; cross-cultural/decolonial training; climate change and food security research; youth development; Indigenous arts; and writing. <ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://bryan-mccrae-plan.squarespace.com/our-team/2019/4/8/siku-allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=|website=Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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In 2013, Allooloo drafted principles for the Indigenous Nationhood movement. This website was a call for Aboriginal nations to move away from the Indian Act and towards autonomy within age Canadian government.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/indigenous-nationhood-movement-goes-online-1.2415233|title=Indigenous Nationhood movement goes online|last=|first=|date=November 5, 2013|website=CBC|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
In 2013, Allooloo drafted principles for the Indigenous Nationhood movement. This website was a call for Aboriginal nations to move away from the Indian Act and towards autonomy within age Canadian government.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/indigenous-nationhood-movement-goes-online-1.2415233|title=Indigenous Nationhood movement goes online|last=|first=|date=November 5, 2013|website=CBC|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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In 2020, Allooloo participated in a demonstration of support for Wet’suwet’en in Yukon. In late December of 2019, a British Columbia judge signed off on an injunction that would prevent the Wet’suwet’en from protecting their land from Coastal Gaslink's proposed pipeline.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.yukon-news.com/news/yukoners-show-support-for-the-wetsuweten/|title=Yukoners show support for the Wet’suwet’en|last=Gignac|first=Julien|date=January 13, 2020|website=Yukon News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
In 2020, Allooloo participated in a demonstration of support for Wet’suwet’en in Yukon. In late December of 2019, a British Columbia judge signed off on an injunction that would prevent the Wet’suwet’en from protecting their land from Coastal Gaslink's proposed pipeline.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.yukon-news.com/news/yukoners-show-support-for-the-wetsuweten/|title=Yukoners show support for the Wet’suwet’en|last=Gignac|first=Julien|date=January 13, 2020|website=Yukon News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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== Education == |
== Education == |
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Siku Allooloo holds a BA in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies from the University of Victoria. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/siku-allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=|website=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
Siku Allooloo holds a BA in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies from the University of Victoria. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/siku-allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=|website=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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=== Residencies === |
=== Residencies === |
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She was faculty for the residency “The Space Between Us: Technology, collaboration, and the future” held at the Banff Center for Creativity and Arts. This residency gathered Indigenous visual artists, curators, and scholars from all nations around the world to create new work, collaborate, and investigate technology using Indigenous methodologies of collaboration.<ref name=":0" /> |
She was faculty for the residency “The Space Between Us: Technology, collaboration, and the future” held at the Banff Center for Creativity and Arts. This residency gathered Indigenous visual artists, curators, and scholars from all nations around the world to create new work, collaborate, and investigate technology using Indigenous methodologies of collaboration.<ref name=":0" /> |
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=== Panels/Talks === |
=== Panels/Talks === |
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She was a featured artist in a panel at UBC Okanagan's Summer Indigenous Art Intensive in 2019. This program offered a series of courses, lectures, art shows, and art creation opportunities. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2019/06/26/ubco-hosts-indigenous-art-making-immersive-programs/|title=UBCO hosts Indigenous art-making immersive programs|last=|first=|date=June 26, 2019|website=UBC Okanagan News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
She was a featured artist in a panel at UBC Okanagan's Summer Indigenous Art Intensive in 2019. This program offered a series of courses, lectures, art shows, and art creation opportunities. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2019/06/26/ubco-hosts-indigenous-art-making-immersive-programs/|title=UBCO hosts Indigenous art-making immersive programs|last=|first=|date=June 26, 2019|website=UBC Okanagan News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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During “International Development Week” in Whitehorse. Siku Allooloo collaborated on “An Evening with François Paulette: A Talk on Climate Change from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective.” Allooloo accompanied François in speaking about climate change from an Indigenous perspective, and offered opening remarks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whatsupyukon.com/events/evening-francois-paulette-talk-climate-change-indigenous-knowledge-perspective./|title=An Evening with Francois Paulette|last=|first=|date=|website=What's Up Yukon|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
During “International Development Week” in Whitehorse. Siku Allooloo collaborated on “An Evening with François Paulette: A Talk on Climate Change from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective.” Allooloo accompanied François in speaking about climate change from an Indigenous perspective, and offered opening remarks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whatsupyukon.com/events/evening-francois-paulette-talk-climate-change-indigenous-knowledge-perspective./|title=An Evening with Francois Paulette|last=|first=|date=|website=What's Up Yukon|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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=== Artistic Producer === |
=== Artistic Producer === |
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Allooloo was the artistic producer for |
Allooloo was the artistic producer for : Study Guide” by Gwaandak theater.<ref name=":1" /> |
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== Group Exhibitions == |
== Group Exhibitions == |
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=== this world; here === |
=== this world; here === |
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This exhibition, which ran from February 14th-21st in 2018 was held at Queens University. She contributed to this exhibition, along with artists Asinnajaq and Camille Georgeson-Usher, and Donna Usher.<ref name=":3" /> |
This exhibition, which ran from February 14th-21st in 2018 was held at Queens University. She contributed to this exhibition, along with artists Asinnajaq and Camille Georgeson-Usher, and Donna Usher.<ref name=":3" /> |
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=== Hexsa'am === |
=== Hexsa'am === |
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Allooloo presented her piece "Aika"(2018) at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art |
Allooloo presented her piece "Aika"(2018) at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art 's "Hexsa'am" exhibition in 2019.<ref name=":5" /> Aika is made of sealskin letters placed on canvas, in the form of a poem.<ref name=":4" /> |
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== Publications == |
== Publications == |
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=== Caribou People === |
=== Caribou People === |
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Her creative nonfiction piece, "Caribou People,"appears in Indigenous Perspectives. Her writing describes the impact of climate change on Indigenous people living in the north<ref name=":2" />. |
Her creative nonfiction piece, "Caribou People,"appears in Indigenous Perspectives. Her writing describes the impact of climate change on Indigenous people living in the north<ref name=":2" />. |
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=== Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present === |
=== Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present === |
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Siku Allooloo wrote this piece for Truthout in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/dismantling-columbus-and-the-power-of-the-present/|title=Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present|last=Allooloo and Dhillon|first=Jaskiran and Siku|date=October 10, 2016|website=Truthout|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
Siku Allooloo wrote this piece for Truthout in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/dismantling-columbus-and-the-power-of-the-present/|title=Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present|last=Allooloo and Dhillon|first=Jaskiran and Siku|date=October 10, 2016|website=Truthout|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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=== Four Poems === |
=== Four Poems === |
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These four poems, individually titled "Because, colonialism", "Survivor’s guilt", "Stone whisperer", and "Offering", were featured in The New Quarterly, and written in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaf/iad/artist/Siku-Allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=2020|website=Inuit Art Quarterly|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tnq.ca/four-poems/|title=Four Poems|last=Allooloo|first=Siku|date=|website=The New Quarterly|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
These four poems, individually titled "Because, colonialism", "Survivor’s guilt", "Stone whisperer", and "Offering", were featured in The New Quarterly, and written in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaf/iad/artist/Siku-Allooloo|title=Siku Allooloo|last=|first=|date=2020|website=Inuit Art Quarterly|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tnq.ca/four-poems/|title=Four Poems|last=Allooloo|first=Siku|date=|website=The New Quarterly|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:32, 11 March 2020
Siku Allooloo
Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino) is a writer, artist, facilitator and land-based educator from Denendeh (NWT) and Pond Inlet, NU.[1]
Personal Life
Allooloo comes from a long lineage of Dene storytellers/leaders, and has been raised to have a close relationship to the land. Allooloo has collaborated artistically with indigenous artists across the country since 2014.[1] Her writing has been featured in Briarpatch Magazine, The Malahat Review, Nuit Blanche Toronto, CanadianArt magazine and Surrey Art Gallery Presents, among others [2] She is also the winner of Briarpatch Magazine's 2016 creative nonfiction contest.[3]
She has a background in land-based education; cross-cultural/decolonial training; climate change and food security research; youth development; Indigenous arts; and writing. [4]
In 2013, Allooloo drafted principles for the Indigenous Nationhood movement. This website was a call for Aboriginal nations to move away from the Indian Act and towards autonomy within age Canadian government.[5]
In 2020, Allooloo participated in a demonstration of support for Wet’suwet’en in Yukon. In late December of 2019, a British Columbia judge signed off on an injunction that would prevent the Wet’suwet’en from protecting their land from Coastal Gaslink's proposed pipeline.[6]
Education
Siku Allooloo holds a BA in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies from the University of Victoria. [7]
Career
Residencies
She was faculty for the residency “The Space Between Us: Technology, collaboration, and the future” held at the Banff Center for Creativity and Arts. This residency gathered Indigenous visual artists, curators, and scholars from all nations around the world to create new work, collaborate, and investigate technology using Indigenous methodologies of collaboration.[1]
Panels/Talks
She was a featured artist in a panel at UBC Okanagan's Summer Indigenous Art Intensive in 2019. This program offered a series of courses, lectures, art shows, and art creation opportunities. [8]
During “International Development Week” in Whitehorse. Siku Allooloo collaborated on “An Evening with François Paulette: A Talk on Climate Change from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective.” Allooloo accompanied François in speaking about climate change from an Indigenous perspective, and offered opening remarks.[9]
Artistic Producer
Allooloo was the artistic producer for “Bystander: Study Guide” by Gwaandak theater.[2]
Group Exhibitions
this world; here
This exhibition, which ran from February 14th-21st in 2018 was held at Queens University. She contributed to this exhibition, along with artists Asinnajaq and Camille Georgeson-Usher, and Donna Usher.[4]
Hexsa'am
Allooloo presented her piece "Aika"(2018) at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery's "Hexsa'am" exhibition in 2019.[6] Aika is made of sealskin letters placed on canvas, in the form of a poem.[5]
Publications
Caribou People
Her creative nonfiction piece, "Caribou People,"appears in Indigenous Perspectives. Her writing describes the impact of climate change on Indigenous people living in the north[3].
Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present
Siku Allooloo wrote this piece for Truthout in 2016.[10]
Four Poems
These four poems, individually titled "Because, colonialism", "Survivor’s guilt", "Stone whisperer", and "Offering", were featured in The New Quarterly, and written in 2017.[11][12]
- ^ a b c "Siku Allooloo". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. 21 Jan 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Summer Indigenous Art Intensive". The University of British Columbia: Okanagan Campus. 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Barton, John. "Bringing Fragments Together: John Barton in Conversation with Siku Allooloo". The Malahat Review.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Siku Allooloo". Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Indigenous Nationhood movement goes online". CBC. November 5, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Gignac, Julien (January 13, 2020). "Yukoners show support for the Wet'suwet'en". Yukon News.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Siku Allooloo". The Guardian.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "UBCO hosts Indigenous art-making immersive programs". UBC Okanagan News. June 26, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "An Evening with Francois Paulette". What's Up Yukon.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Allooloo and Dhillon, Jaskiran and Siku (October 10, 2016). "Dismantling Columbus and the Power of the Present". Truthout.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Siku Allooloo". Inuit Art Quarterly. 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Allooloo, Siku. "Four Poems". The New Quarterly.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)