Bvlbancha Public Access Colonial Shoutout

This is video clip, research doc, and audio transcript work to succinctly describe the history of Indigenous land use, cites sources which create a pathway to understanding the damage of colonial oppression, define pressures which continue to exists, and provide a bibliography for further reading. 

This stuff was made to be open access items. We hope you can use it in other conferences, events, classes, or land acknowledgements. 

What is a Colonial Shout-Out

BPA works on Indigenous visibility in a touristic city. We are involved in lot of land acknowledgements. We have a bunch of thoughts around them. Read more here -> 

One observance is the burden to not only open an event in a good way, but to succinctly sum up 200 years of documentation in a palatable and digestible five minutes. 

A Colonial Shout-out is a term we came to understand from Adriel Louis. It is a short personal or community history which describes the process of access to a place. A good colonial shout-out elucidates the context of a place. It updates the audience on the current status of these processes of displacement, and provides calls to action to revise these to achieve reconciliation. The process opens conversations about the structures and history, and reinforces the concept of rationality. 

Organizing an event in which a Colonial Shout-out precedes a land acknowledgement and equips an Indigenous land acknowledgement guest to focus on celebrating their community and contemporary contributions.

How it Happened

Funding by the National Performance Network afforded us the time, and A Studio in the Woods provided the access for us to read and review all these sources. Hali Dardar did the research and made the content. Flowers Darling provided the music. Bayou Barkada  and Common Ground Relief afforded the trip to St. Malo.

Thank you all for your relation to this work.

Research Text