Bizhiki

Bizhiki presents a multidisciplinary performance aiming to educate, engage and empower audiences – specifically youth and families – around contemporary Ojibwe culture and lifeways. The project makes great efforts to both support revitalization within Tribal communities and enhance understanding in non-Tribal communities.

The music of Bizhiki blends the ethereal vocals and visceral drumming of Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings (Bad River Ojibwe) and Joe Rainey Sr. (Red Lake Ojibwe) with contemporary soundscape multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer S. Carey. Connecting the songs is a lyrical narrative in which Jennings and Rainey share pieces of the Anishinaabe experience around identity, loss and revitalization. The visual backdrop, created by filmmaker Finn Ryan, grounds and contextualizes the music and lyrics connecting with audiences in a culturally relevant way while building off of their own prior experiences with Indigenous culture and art.