moe clark (weather beings, QWF, PIV)
Music & Sound
Specialities: Choir, Creative writing, Haiku, Improvisation, Music Production, Nature-focused art, Percussion, Songwriting, Soundscapes, Spoken Word/Slam Poetry, Storytelling, Zines
Contact Info
Email address
Phone Number
Website address
Resides in
English Montreal
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Experience working with
Student In
- Cycle 1 Elementary
- Cycle 2 Elementary
- Cycle 3 Elementary
- Secondary 1 & 2
- Secondary 3 & 4
- Secondary 5
- CEGEP
- Senior Citizens
Lifelong Learners
- Adult Learners
I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work
- Health and Wellbeing
- Environmental Awareness and Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
- Media Literacy
- Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)
Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire
- Yes
I have experience working with
- ArtsSmarts
- ELAN’s ACE Initiative
- MASC
- MikwChiyâm
- Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Writers in the Communities Program
- Poetry In Voice
I can facilitate virtual creative experiences
- Yes
Travel
- An extended residency is an option
âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis/ Norwegian/ French/ British) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing Thunderbird. She works across diverse disciplines of vocal improvisation, spoken word poetry, storytelling, and music to create meaning that is rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory and embodied knowledge. Her approach to arts facilitation is participatory, inclusive, and reciprocal, engaging learners through land-based teachings, tools of empowerment, and Indigenous languages.
Creative Approach and Experiences Offered
There are many possibilities to be explored in my workshops, depending on the group's capacities, needs, and age. We explore the voice as an instrument for transformation and connection.Example: "We shared practices centred around building better relationships with our surrounding environments through song-catching, deep listening and vocal improvisation practices. Participants were able to imagine their own vocal relationships with prompts to activate qualities of voice and movement from the natural world, including creatures, elements & landscapes. They were also enthusiastic to participate in call and response practices and circle singing, which were all invitations to consider the natural world around and within us as catalysts for musical discoveries." Other explorations: breath-work connected to medicine wheel (4-directions); collective songwriting incorporating poetic prompts, Indigenous / mother tongue languages, and earth-based understandings; partner work; talking circle.
One-Day Event Description
askiy nikamotan / singing the landSmall ensemble music + storytelling concert featuring 2-3 musicians. Highlighting Indigenous creation stories, being in right relation to the land, honouring our Indigenous song + drum practices, and reclaiming ancestral languages. Students will be invited to join in call-and-response sing-a-longs, including aspects of nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree language). Honouring our diverse cultural traditions, musicians also demonstrate how traditional land-based practices can be brought into contemporary settings and act as tools for creative collaboration, land stewardship, and community building.
I can work with any number of students at a time.
Multimedia Links (copy paste web address into your browser to view):
https://vimeo.com/user3989572
*video example is a fuller band - performance would be smaller ensemble
Video
land-based performance of drum song that has been performed/workshopped with students as a call + response
digital drum video