Lenfest Outreach & Engagement Series: Sandra Laronde, Keynote Speaker & Indigenous Dinner

Lenfest Outreach & Engagement Series
Keynote Speaker & Authentic Indigenous Prepared Dinner

MEET SANDRA LARONDE
RED SKY PERFORMANCE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

"SANDRA LARONDE IS A FORCE OF NATURE TO BE RECKONED WITH
ON THE CANADIAN CULTURAL SCENE."
~DANCE INTERNATIONAL

RED SKY PERFORMANCE MORE THAN DANCE-WE ARE A MOVEMENT!

Join keynote speaker-Sandra Laronde-the artistic director of Red Sky Performance, at an authentic Indigenous dinner prepared by W&L's talented chefs.

Monday, October 7, 2024; Evans Dining Hall/W&L Campus at 5:30 pm

Doors will open at 5 p.m. for event. Tickets must be bought prior to Sept. 30.

Tickets are Required/Limited tickets are available

Tickets are required and must be purchased in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door. Make sure to purchase today, as tickets are limited. Tickets prices are $36.73 per person for talk and dinner. Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing. On-line ticket sales are available at my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Ticket sales for this event will conclude Sept. 30.

Laronde is a renowned visionary leader, multidisciplinary artist and arts innovator. She is the recipient of the 2023 Indigenous Artists Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation and the 2023 Indspire Award for the Arts. Her work is fundamentally based on ‘story' and her body of work that she has created in performing arts has led to numerous powerful transformational experiences across Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. Most recently, she wrote an award-winning novel, "She Holds Up the Stars."

Her life's passion is to move the Indigenous narrative from the margins into the centre of Canada's consciousness for seven generations to come. Much of her work is about growing and elevating the Indigenous canon.

Laronde actively engages in diplomacy through the arts, forging stronger ties by representing the nation at prominent international delegations, events and platforms.

Sandra Laronde is from the Teme-Augama Anishinaabe, the People of the Deep Water, in Temagami, northern Ontario and based in Toronto.

Sandra Laronde, (Misko Kizhigoo Migizii Kwe) which means "Red Sky Eagle Woman" in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language, M.S.C., O.M.C., OOnt, B.A. (Hon), Hon. LLD., stands at the forefront of the ongoing Indigenous cultural resurgence of Canada.

She has created an extraordinary body of work with collaborators that has led to powerful arts experiences elevating the ecology of arts and culture in this country while strengthening an international presence.

Sponsored in part by the Class of '64 Performing Arts Fund; Pickens World Music Fund; Native American Indigenous Cohort Diversity; Inclusion and Student Engagement; Art and Art History; Latin American/Caribbean Studies; and Theater, Dance, and Film Studies.