sahgothé (redsun)’s Main Street Warrior Opening Reception

Date: Saturday, January 11, 2025

Time: Doors at 6pm and screening at 7pm 

Cost: Free

Address: 304-100 Arthur Street (Artspace Building), Winnipeg, MB 

Accessibility Information: The main entrances of the Art Space Building at Arthur St. and King St. have automatic door push triggers.  The West side entrance off King St. has a wheelchair lift to access the main lobby.  There are two washrooms on the third floor that are private, locking, and non-gendered. These washrooms do not have handrails or automatic doors.  The first floor has non-gendered, multi-stall washrooms. Washrooms on these floors have wheelchair accessible stalls with handrails, but do not have automatic doors.

 

Join us on Saturday, January 11th at the Black Lodge for the opening of Main Street Warrior by Archive/Counter-Archive Artist in Residence, Redsun//Sahgothé (Denesuline/Nehitho). The evening is the official launch of the Main Street Warrior artwork and features a short screening of Main Street Warrior by Redsun//Sahgothé (3min, 2023) and Main Street Soldier by Leonard Yakir (35min, 1972).

 

 

sahgothé (redsun) is a two-spirit Dënësųłinë́ and Nehithaw land and water protector & multi-media artist. The beauty of the land, people, and spirits inspires the creation of their art which surrounds a non-linear form of being and creating. Their livelihood & practice as a two-spirit person is deeply ingrained in the land, ceremony, and ancestral connection.

 

 

Archive/Counter-Archive (ACA) is a project and research network dedicated to activating and preserving audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and People of Colour, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities. Political, resistant, and community-based, counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories.  

Established in 2018 through a Social Science and Humanities Partnership Grant, the ACA network is committed to finding new ways to activate, preserve and restore the diverse moving image heritage across Canada. Their evolving mandate combines education and advocacy to raise awareness and find resources to support audio-visual preservation — with a special focus on short format media which have very few resources available for preservation.   

 

 

The WFG Case Study is extending the preservation efforts WFG itself has undertaken in recent years, digging deep into our archives to identify those films sidelined and subordinated in conventional histories of the organization. These works have the capability of transforming our understanding of the city, its cinema, and the cultures that converge here.  

In the spring of 2023, Artist-in-Residence Redsun//Sahgothé  was brought on board. They have been given carte blanche to both create and critique, to recognize the possibilities that the Film Group has opened up for independent filmmakers over the course of its history, but also to acknowledge the exclusions and elisions that complicate and compromise these achievements.