August 7 – Ehren Kee Natay performs Peter Morin’s ‘NDN Love Songs’
Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 7pm | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required
New Mexico-based multi-media artist Ehren Kee Natay performs an interpretation of the score to Tahltan artist Peter Morin‘s NDN Long Songs as part of Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts.
NDN Love Songs presents seven short videos that can be read as ‘drum portraits.’ The drums featured are from the Royal BC Museum, and each represent someone that Peter Morin has loved in his life, and for whom he has not fully been able to express that love. Playing in succession in a line and moving at different speeds, the drum portraits can be interpreted through the written score on the neighboring wall composed by Morin.
This performance is part of the exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts.
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About the artist: Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator. Throughout his artistic practice, Morin investigates the impact zones that occur when Indigenous practices collide with Western-settler colonialism. Morin’s artworks are shaped, and reshaped, by Tahltan epistemological production and often takes the form of performance interventions. In addition to his exhibition history, Morin has curated exhibition for the Museum of Anthropology, Western Front, Bill Reid Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery.
About the performer: Ehren Kee Natay is a multi-media artist from Santa Fe New Mexico and is a recognized member of the Navajo Nation. Ehren began playing percussion at the age of twelve and became a career professional by the age of nineteen. He toured and performed in venues in the Southwest and West-coast of the U.S. as he played drums for various groups in multiple genres. He has held exhibitions both nationally and internationally through galleries, museums, public installations, and site-specific theatrical performances. He continues to impact the youth as an arts educator in New Mexico public schools and among Native American communities across the nation.
