September 2 to 5, 2025
3 days outside of Montreal
Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships and call backwards into the future of indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledges, this workshop invites participants to explore present space-time continuums and dream more radical futurities.
Full week: $130 (taxes included)
Language of instruction: English
Questions can be asked in English. Translation into French is offered
Weather Beings (Moe Clark & Victoria Hunt) © kimurya byol
This 3-day immersive laboratory will be hosted on the unceded territories of the Algonquin & Kanien:keha’ka nations, on the edge of lake Marois (Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs).
Overnight accommodation and meals included
Arrival on-site at 2 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 2
Departure at 2 pm on Friday, Sept. 5
Financial compensation for transportation is available. Studio 303 & REPAIRE will help you carpool
For this workshop, it is recommended to have an artistic practice or previous experience that shifts between dance/movement and music/voice or sounds.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships and call backwards into the future of indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledges, this workshop invites participants to explore present space-time continuums and dream more radical futurities.
Through heightened sensory awareness and body-voice activations, we will attune ourselves to the intimate processes and cycles that unfold within and around us. Expanding on personal, collective and cosmological frameworks, which centre Métis and Mâori practices, we deepen into the rich intersections of land-based methodologies.
We will explore the interplay of ancestral connections, creative lineages, stillness/silence as resistance, and personal intuition as emergent tools for liberation.
CONTENT
The site provides an opportunity to drop into ritual practices and gather at iskotêw (fire), immerse our bodies in sakahikan (lake) and listen under the canopy of mistikwak (trees). Our bodies, spirits and beings start to fold and unfold into papatuanuku (Mother Earth).
Drawing upon principles of BodyWeather as a movement and performance practice, we will foster a deep awareness of the shifting states of change, like the weather, within and around our bodies.
Working with vocal improvisation, sonic meditations and somatic practices, we expand on perceptions of silence, breath, toning and vocal mimicry within the multitude of resonating bodies.
In small ensemble practices, circle work, body-based partner manipulations, image work, and call and response with one another and the land, we examine tactile and sensorial relationships as catalysts for transformative states.
*Participants are invited to come prepared to work in shifting weather conditions and to engage in a rigorous body-voice practice which challenges previous assumptions.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
Adaptable to the group’s needs | Subgroups exercises Physical contact between participants |
BIOGRAPHY
Established in 2019, Weather Beings is a 2Spirit performance collective co-founded by Michif/ mixed-settler vocalist/somatic practitioner/multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark and Australian-Māori choreographer/performance artist Victoria Hunt. Weather Beings examine the intersections of Mâori whakapapa and Métis wâhkôhtowin (kinship systems), asserting a critical position to reclaim, restore and rematriate feminine and queer knowledge into our cultural and creative practices.
As collaborators, Weather Beings navigate thresholds between what is ‘known’, what is withheld or ‘unknown,’ and what is being dreamt into being. In essence, we activate creative practices that refuse violent linearities by dreaming backwards into the future. Encoded in this dreaming are Te Reo Mâori and nêhiyawêwin languages, where old words create new worlds.
It allowed me to increase communication with others, use my voice, explore more dimensions of my interests, and push me to ask more questions about my intentions in my practices.
— Emily
The workshop is supported by REPAIRE, Culture Laurentides and Studio 303 with financial assistance from the Quebec government via the Intervention-Compétences program, administered by Compétence Culture.
