Marie Michael Library

Title

Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project

Length

25:25 min.

File No

937

Format

DVD

Description

Zambian musician John Chiti, a person with albinism, uses his music to promote inclusion of people with disabilities. The film follows John in Livingstone as he engages the local deaf choir. Together they practice and perform his new song for a public performance which advocates for inclusion. The film also shows the personal challenges that people with disabilities face in daily life. This unique group of performers uses the power of music to highlight that disability is not an inability. Producer and director: Musola Cathrine Kaseketi.

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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Canada

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