2013

Safe Passage looks at the personal and scientific impact environmental changes are having on the people, community and wildlife in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, home of the largest inland delta in North America. A visiting research scientist from the University of Saskatchewan shares his observations. A local media artist, Pierrette Settee, shares her personal experience of being evacuated during the summer flooding that left its mark across western Canada in 2013.

Through performance and production workshops we worked with students at Nisto Awasisak Memorial School, art teacher Josie Pelly and local media artists Pierrette Settee to create a series of video shorts. The stories are inspired by the land and living by the largest inland delta in North America.

Production mentors: Trudy Stewart, Ann Verrall, Janine Windolph,

Performance mentor: Michele Sereda

Cumberland House media artist, Pierrette Settee, shares her experience of creating the NAMS Media Club at the Nisto Awasisak Memorial School, Cumberland House Cree Nation, Saskatchewan. Photography by the NAMS Media Club participants are featured.

The Cumberland House Video Project took place from between May 2013 and December 2013. Visiting artists Janine Windolph, Michele Sereda, Trudy Stewart & Ann Verrall collaborated with Nisto Awasisak Memorial School students, teacher Josie Pelly and local media artist Pierrette Settee to create a series of short videos. Day with the Delta, written, directed and crewed by the youth participants, reveals the quiet and profound presence of the delta in their lives.