Phyllis Grant | CANADA
8 min | Morning Cartoons (Ages 4-12)
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association

When an elder in the Mi'kmaq community offers Maq a small piece of pipestone, he carves a little person out of it. Proud of his work, the boy wants to impress his grandfather and journeys through the woods to find him.

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Phyllis Grant

A Mi’kmaq from the Pabineau First Nation, Phyllis Grant describes herself as a “mother, artist, rapper, filmmaker, dreamer and lover of all creation.” Joyously interdisciplinary, her artistic practice embraces poetry and music as well as visual art and film animation. She is a founding member of the Welneweg Arts Collective, a family art collective, in Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick.