Duncan Mercredi (he/him) was born in Misipawistik (Grand Rapids) Manitoba to a Métis father and Cree mother. He resided there until the age of sixteen until he left to attend high school in Cranberry Portage. After graduating, he entered the blue-collar working world. Mercredi is now retired and living in Winnipeg. He has also published four poetry collections, including Spirit of the Wolf: Raise Your Voice and The Duke of Windsor: Wolf Sings the Blues. His work has appeared in countless anthologies and periodicals including Prairie Fire and CV2, including the special joint issue ndncountry, published in 2018. He has appeared at storytelling and literary festivals across North America and for close to two decades he has been conducting workshops for school children all over Manitoba.
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Co-curating the Marvin Francis Audio
Our dialogically-composed essay discusses our co-curation of a SpokenWeb-sponsored event with audio recordings from the Marvin Francis fonds at the University of Manitoba, held at Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg in April 2023. Francis was a Cree poet and playwright active in the Winnipeg arts community in the 1990s and early 2000s, up until his death in 2005. We discuss the event in the broader context of the Marvin Francis archive and of Francis’ practice, and consider the role of this curatorial project in collective memory and affect, as well as the different political and ethical considerations of a project of this kind.