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Spirit of the Bluebird

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Using spray paint on a fence where Gloria Black Plume, an Indigenous (Blood) mother and grandmother was brutally murdered, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large-scale animation of a bluebird in flight. This award-winning film screened at TIFF, Imaginenative, APTN and over 100 film festivals worldwide.

Best Aboriginal at Yorkton Short Film Festival 
Best Short Documentary, Imaginenative Film and New Media Festival

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Dedicated to the arts of mask, puppetry and animated objects, Calgary Animated Objects Society is a non-profit charitable group running since 2003 in Calgary, Alberta. 

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CAOS acknowledges all First Nations, Metis, Inuit, status and non, as caretakers of Turtle Island, and is grateful to the Blackfoot – Kainai, Sikiska, Piikiani Nations, the Dene – Tsuutina Nation, and the Nakota -Welsey, Chiniki, Bearspaw Nations for their patience and guidance as we live within Treaty relationships. 

CAOS acknowledges and values the thousands of stories that travel through time and space, and how they sustain our connections to people, the plants, the animals, and the land.

CAOS is based in the city of Calgary, also known as Moh-kins-tsis (“Elbow” in Blackfoot), Winsheesh-pah (“Elbow” in Stoney), Otos-kwunee (“Elbow” in Cree), Kootsisaw (“Elbow” in T’suu T’ina), and Klincho-tinay-indihay (“Horse Town” in Slavey). The Elbow River gets its name from the distinctive “crook” as it flows towards the Bow River, which gets its name from the reeds used in bow making that grew along its banks.