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Billy-Ray Belcourt wins 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize
Date: Jun 7, 2018
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for his anthology, This Wound is a World.
Work of the Week: Thou Shalt/Shalt Not
Date: Jun 6, 2018
Celebrating the beginning of Pride Month, our work of the week for June 4 - 11, 2018 is Thou Shalt/Shalt Not by Shane Golby.
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award
Date: Jun 6, 2018
Billy Ray was recognized for most significant work of poetry in English by an emerging Indigenous writer. Joshua Whitehead was also nominated.
Work of the Week: Caller of Blue Medicine Lodge
Date: May 29, 2018
The Work of the Week is Caller of Blue Medicine Lodge by Dale Auger
Work of the Week: Fallen Angel
Date: May 22, 2018
The AFA Work of the Week is Fallen Angel by Garry Williams.
Resilience - 50 Indigenous Women Artists on Billboards Coast to Coast
Date: May 4, 2018
On June 1, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) launched Resilience, a national exhibition of artworks by fifty (50) Indigenous women artists.
Work of the Week: Land Sentence: Arbour
Date: May 2, 2018
The Work of the Week is Land Sentence: Arbour by Jane Kidd
Curtain going up on next act of Roxy Theatre story
Date: Apr 25, 2018
Eighty years after it opened, Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre is being reborn with some help from the Alberta government.
AFA Public Art Commission Awarded to Portage College
Date: Apr 24, 2018
This funding will be used to commission three pieces of work from Indigenous artists for MOAPPA's Celebrating New Dawn project.