Jarrett MartineauCA
Jarrett Martineau is an award-winning, Indigenous media maker, curator, scholar, artist, and storyteller. He is a creative multihyphenate and a leading voice in Indigenous music, media, and cultural production; and he has worked extensively across the arts in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal, Berlin, and New York. He is currently Curator-in-Residence at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; Guest Curator with the Vancouver International Film Festival and Indian Summer Festival; and Creator/Host and Producer of Reclaimed—CBC's flagship and first-ever Indigenous music series. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria, he has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics in New York City, and his academic research explores the role of art and creativity in advancing Indigenous resurgence and decolonization at the intersections of art, media, technology, and social movements. Martineau is nêhiyaw and Denesuline from Frog Lake Cree Nation in Alberta and is currently based in Vancouver on the traditional, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.