Initiative For Indigenous Futures

Please see what we are capable of and what we’ve already done!

• Train-the-Trainer: Seventh Generation Character Design & Machinima – MacKenzie Art Gallery
  • Location: MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
  • Date: August 12th – 16th, 2019
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Maize Longboat, Kahentawaks Tiewishaw

• Seventh Generation Character Design & Portraiture – POP Montreal
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: July 15th – 19th, 2019
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Maize Longboat, Kahentawaks Tiewishaw

• Imagining Indigenous Solarities: 7th Generation Character Design – After Oil School
  • Location: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, QC
  • Date: May 24th – 25th, 2019
  • Duration: 2 sessions, 4 hours
  • Instructors: Maize Longboat, Waylon Wilson

• Seventh Generation Character Design – Native Montreal
  • Location: Native Montreal, Montreal, QC
  • Date: April 9th, 2019
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati

• Seventh Generation Character Design – McGill University
  • Location: First Peoples House, McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: March 26th, 2019
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati

• Skins 6.0 – He Au Hou 2
  • Location: Hālau ‘Īnana, Honolulu, HI
  • Date: July 2018
  • Duration: 3 weeks

• Make a World with Unity – WAMP
  • Location: Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP), Yellowknife, NT
  • Date: May 14th – 16th, 2018
  • Duration: 3 sessions of 3 hours
  • Instructors: Pippin Barr, Rilla Khaled

• Seventh Generation Character Design – Kahnawake Survival School
  • Location: Kahnawake Survival School, Kahnawake, QC
  • Date: April – May 2018
  • Duration: 5 sessions of 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis, Nancy Elizabeth Townsend, Dominick Meissner (Behaviour Interactive), Vivian Herzog (Behaviour Interactive), Kahentawaks Tiewishaw, Raymond Caplin, Maize Longboat

• Skins Machinima – MacKenzie Art Gallery
  • Location: MacKenzie Art Gallery / Regina Public Library, Regina, SK
  • Date: April 1st – 6th, 2018
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Nancy Elizabeth Townsend, Maize Longboat

• Indigenous Storytelling & Digital Media – Good Heart Good Mind Conference
  • Location: Loon Lake Lodge, Maple Ridge, BC
  • Date: February 21st, 2018
  • Duration: 2 sessions of 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Maize Longboat, Mia McKie, Waylon Wilson

• Machinima Demo – OCAD U
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: February 21st, 2018
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructor: Nancy Elizabeth Townsend

• Machinima Workshop – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
  • Location: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
  • Date: November 25th – 26th, 2017
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Nancy Elizabeth Townsend, Maize Longboat

• Intro to Machinima Demo – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
  • Location: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
  • Date: November 17th, 2017
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Darian Jacobs

• Seventh Generation Character Design – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
  • Location: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
  • Date: November 14th, 2017
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis, Suzanne Kite, Maize Longboat

• Introduction to Second Life/AbTeC Island – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
  • Location: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
  • Date: November 7th, 2017
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Maize Longboat

• Welcome to AbTeC Island – Concordia Student Union (CSU)
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: September 14th, 2017
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Maize Longboat, Darian Jacobs, Skawennati

• Skins 5.0 – He Au Hou
  • Location: Hālau ‘Īnana, Honolulu, HI
  • Date: July 2017 – August 2017
  • Duration: 3 weeks

• Skins Machinima Workshop – Native Youth Program (NYP)
  • Location: Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
  • Date: August 8th – 12th, 2016
  • Duration: 4.5 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Darian Jacobs, Erica Perreault

• Indigenous Character Design & Machinimagraphs – WAMP
  • Location: WAMP Office, Yellowknife, NT
  • Date: May 6th, 2016
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis

• Future Character Design – Dechinta Bush University
  • Location: Dechinta Bush University, Blachford Lake, Akaitcho, NT
  • Date: May 4th, 2016
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis

• Creative Computation: Introduction to Programming – Kahnawake Survival School
  • Location: Kahnawake Survival School, Kahnawake, QC
  • Date: February 8th, 2016
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Instructors: Sebastian Alvarez, Jason Edward Lewis

• Second Life and Machinima – Eastern Bloc
  • Location: Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC
  • Date: January 23rd, 30th, & February 6th, 2016
  • Duration: 3 days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Darian Jacobs, Erica Perreault

• Aboriginal Territories in 2nd Life – CINSA
  • Location: Obx Labs, Montreal, QC
  • Date: June 12th, 2015
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Darian Jacobs

• Skins 4.0 – Concordia University
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: May 27th – June 14th, 2013
  • Duration: 3 weeks

• Skins 3.0 – Extended Play
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: March 2012 – July 2012
  • Duration: 2 separated weeks, intensive

• Skins 2.0 – Concordia University
  • Location: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
  • Date: July 16th – 29th, 2011
  • Duration: 2 weeks intensive

• AbTeC Machinima Workshop – imagiNATIVE 2010
  • Location: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Toronto, ON
  • Date: October 21st – 22nd, 2010
  • Duration: 2 Days
  • Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis, Nancy Elizabeth Townsend

• Skins 1.0 – Kahnawake Survival School
  • Location: Kahnawake Survival School, Kahnawake, QC
  • Date: September 2008 – June 2009
  • Duration: Weekly highschool course with 2 weekend intensive sessions