Performing & Capturing Notions of "decolonization": How white folk co opt our sacred for their guilt
This photo won the “World Press Photo Of The Year'' award and was captured by Amber Bracken, a Canadian photojournalist for The New York...
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Kim Senklip Harvey
- Feb 1
The Script: The Beginning of Break Horizons
Wáy Slaxts! I just completed a big draft of Break for an application and I said on my socials that I was going to share the first part of...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Jan 18
A Cultural Guardians Creation Story of Kamloopa: The Artistic Dimensions of Legal Orders
I wrote a paper for my PhD in Law program. I was chatting a bit about it on my social media at the end of 2021 and there was some...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Aug 31, 2021
PhDaaayum I'm Excited!
Wáy Slaxts - It has been a while! I took some time away from the blog because I have been incredibly full with writing in other parts of...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- May 31, 2021
KAMLOOPA Has Won The GG!!!
HOLEH! I'm so happy and honoured to be the first Indigenous woman to win the GG Literary Award for Drama. Check out the vlog below as...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- May 26, 2021
GG Nominated
Well on May 4th, 2020 I found out that Kamloopa and the Fire Company was nominated for a 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Apr 28, 2021
Defend the Sacred
On April 16th I successfully defended my Masters in Creative Writing Thesis: Break Horizons: A Rocking Indigenous Justice Ceremony. I...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Apr 27, 2021
Memory Essay
For my last class of my MFA taught by David Leach we had to write a memory essay on a creative piece we presented to the class. I...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Apr 2, 2021
Beyond the Script.
I am in the middle of some major applications but I wanted to write this down because I want this knowledge to be witnessed and for our...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Mar 30, 2021
Anything Is Possible At A Rez Gas Bar
Holeh Slaxts! Where I been?! Where you been??! I have never been so busy in my life and I miss you all! I'm in my final term of my MFA,...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Feb 9, 2021
Systemic Racism
It's Black History month, with some referring to it as Black Futurist month and as I work on my allyship I want to make February's blog...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Jan 13, 2021
The Digital Shift Theatre Must Make
As organizations continue to seriously investigate budgets and fiscal priorities during an unprecedented sectoral shutdown, I think it's...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Jan 7, 2021
Prisons Are Not Designed for Public Safety.
When I say prisons are not for our safety it’s because the statistics clearly demonstrate that prisons exacerbate recidivism. If the...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Jan 5, 2021
What Does Our Happiness Rely On?
This is a question I saw on some brief doom scrolling on twitter this morning. It struck me as an important one to consider in this...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Dec 31, 2020
Season 2 of TICE & a Complex Year
I'm going to keep this short because I'm still on a couple writing deadlines and I am taking 4 days off in a row starting tmw and I gotta...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Dec 12, 2020
30-50% of Hunters Were Women...
On Dec 11, 2020 Business Insider released an article entitled, "13 discoveries in the last year have fundamentally altered our...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Dec 10, 2020
Indigenous Cultural Pluralism: The Multiplicitous Nature of Indigenous Beings and Stories
One of the most unhelpful approaches to understanding Indigenous ontologies and stories is using western comparative analysis to...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Nov 27, 2020
The Grinch Deserved More
Imagine Entertainment hired a CIA operative to teach Jim Carrey how to endure the process of becoming The Grinch because it felt like he...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Nov 26, 2020
Making Friends With Failure is the Game
My parents had this really incredible approach to our childhood activities, we always had to be in a sport and something artistic. My Ma...
Kim Senklip Harvey
- Nov 14, 2020
The Mystics: Salish Earthing
Tsilhqot’in Tsilhqot’in up to the land where the waters are filled with juniper medicine and the land is drentched with the stories of...