"Collective Responsibility" by Julie Bull (An Island Fringe Production, 2020)
This spoken-word performance is a call to action. Julie emphasizes our collective responsibility to be anti-racist and anti-colonial in all our endeavours. In this performance, Julie is both the protagonist and the practitioner, the researcher and the participant, the student and the teacher, the insider and the outsider. Her intention in performing this set is to not to call people out; rather, it is to call people in. To call people into dialogue and intentional action in our attempts to become able humans and able institutions – to #JustSuckLess.
Julie Bull is Inuk from NunatuKavut, and currently lives on Epekwitk (PEI). She is a poet, a spoken word artist, an educator, an ethicist, a scholar, an entrepreneur, a learner, a philosopher, a traveler, a winter- enthusiast, a daughter, a grand-daughter, a great-grand daughter, an auntie, a bit nomadic, a change-maker, and a sh!t disturber. Julie was awarded an Indigenous Storytelling and Spoken-word Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in March 2020 where she learned to bring her words from the page to the stage with some unlikely integrations, influences, and imagination.
Island artists who identify as Indigenous, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, and those with a disability come together to tell their own stories from their own perspectives at The Island Fringe Festival. Performances are made up of 10-20 minute vignettes that explore people’s journeys of discovery to having their voices heard, and presented as dramatic readings of original poetry and plays, songs, dance, and stand-up comedy.
www.juliebull.net
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