How it all Happened

2008
April 13
An Art Project
The arts project that was the inception to The Melawmen Collective started as a indigenous youth art project. A friend of Morgan’s kept saying he needed to connect her to a curator in the area, who then expressed that she was working with an artist on themes of space, territory,..Read More
2010
March 21
Mobile Collaborative Art & Music Tour Bus Project
The Collective continued as a group of artists hosting workshops that continued sharing stories around cultural identity and historical consciousness, to then process through music, art and writing. The collective received an award in the form of a grant from Canada Council of the Arts, to do a series of..Read More
2012
June 21
IndigenEYES
IndigenEYES was another series of workshops with Indigenous and Non-Indigenous youth facilitated by Meeka, Rob and Geo, teaching the significant story of genocide and colonization from an Indigenous perspective ~ through a variety of historical documents and story . The exhibition showcased the music and art of the participants, through..Read More
2013
June 15
Kiva joins
Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Indigenous identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the changing demographics of Indigenous people today. Around..Read More
2015
March 22
The Gathering
When the collective developed more into a ‘band’ it had had more members. This album is a fusion of different genres and voices that reflect the diversity of its artists, stories created musically through styles of roots, rock, hip hop, reggae and many things in between. After the making of..Read More
2016
September 21
2017
June 21
Bones
2018
November 22