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Wiikwemkoong Arts and Music Festival
The Wiikwemkoong Arts and Music Festival was founded in 2018 by the Debajehmujig Theatre Group. The event was created to build platforms for young artists, of many disciplines, to be inspired and also garner experience. Having world class established artist perform on the same stage as exciting emerging artists affords this to happen. Also look for a smoke dance extraordinaire. As well, on site, join our exciting Indigenous Chefs who will be in showdown to battle for the 1st ever WUT Iron Chef style challenge. While music is the big ticket event, our festival presents a fine selection of various disciplines of displays that connect arts, culture, and promotes unity, allyship and the celebration of life through art.
This is an alcohol and substance free event. 24 hour security.
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Quique Escamilla Biography
JUNO Award-winning, Quique Escamilla, is a Maya-Zapotec singer-songwriter born and raised in the tropical land of Chiapas, Mexico. Today he is an international touring artist and producer based in Toronto, Canada.
Quique breaks down language barriers through his powerful voice and passionate delivery while fusing traditional Mexican and Latin American rhythms, such as ranchera, huapango and cumbia—along with contemporary elements of folk, rock, reggae and blues.
His latest album, Encomienda, is thematically aimed to denounce the abuses of this early period of colonization in the Americas. Musically, it represents Escamilla's own mestizaje of modern-day sounds and rhythms of the Americas. Quique passionately crafted this to elevate the world's diversity of culture, colour, race and language. His songs tell stories designed to support and strengthen Indigenous Peoples' voices, their untold realities and stories across the Americas, while aiming to help decimate the impacts of colonization, racism and xenophobia around the globe.
"Every performance is my opportunity to stimulate the human conscience and intellect, with potential to help effect positive change in our world"—Quique.
Read MoreQuique breaks down language barriers through his powerful voice and passionate delivery while fusing traditional Mexican and Latin American rhythms, such as ranchera, huapango and cumbia—along with contemporary elements of folk, rock, reggae and blues.
His latest album, Encomienda, is thematically aimed to denounce the abuses of this early period of colonization in the Americas. Musically, it represents Escamilla's own mestizaje of modern-day sounds and rhythms of the Americas. Quique passionately crafted this to elevate the world's diversity of culture, colour, race and language. His songs tell stories designed to support and strengthen Indigenous Peoples' voices, their untold realities and stories across the Americas, while aiming to help decimate the impacts of colonization, racism and xenophobia around the globe.
"Every performance is my opportunity to stimulate the human conscience and intellect, with potential to help effect positive change in our world"—Quique.
Latin
Rock
Cumbia
Folk
Mexican Folk
Reggae
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