Join us to watch brilliant satirical film Peace Pipeline and stay for a conversation and bannock with director and actor Gitz Crazyboy.
In the Peace Pipeline, comedian-activists pose as an Indigenous energy company sharing plans to reroute Enbridge’s pipeline through the wealthy white suburbs of Duluth, MN, to more fairly share the risks oil pipelines bring—with shocking and hilarious results. 24 minutes.
Gitz Crazyboy is a Denesuthine and Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) activist and youth worker who de-colonizes indigenous studies and teaches the history of Canada’s indigenous population. Working on reservations in rural areas and in cities, he educates on the destructive nature of the development of the Tar Sands. He is an author (“The Secret of the Stars”), an actor (credits include the Darren Aronofsky film “Mother!”) and an impresario (he hosted an episode of VICE’s “Rise,” and played both himself and a comic fictional character in “The Yes Men Are Revolting”).
Tito Ybarra is an Anishinaabe and Mexican comedian, pow-wow singer, actor and activist. He is well known in Indian Country for his stand-up, and he has appeared in the TV series “United Shades of America,” the film “Injunuity,” and he played both himself and a comic fictional character in “The Yes Men Are Revolting.” He has also been featured on Funny or Die, and has worked with legendary Native sketch comedy troupe the 1491s.
Free screening of this video is presented in recognition of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at CSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine is modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residency program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.
*Note that capacity is extremely limited.* If you sign up, please attend, or cancel your reservation so that others may.
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Links of Interest:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TitoComedy
Pipeline Humour
https://www.facebook.com/APTNNews/videos/454485501866723
Star Tribune Oct 28, 2019
https://www.startribune.com/enbridge-and-its-controversial-line-3-pipeline-targets-of-hoax/563997772/
Website
https://theyesmen.org/project/peacepipeline
cSPACE Projects acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
