With new skills, imagination, and creativity, we explore what is possible

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Tantoo Cardinal’s Tap Root Actors Academy is an acting and filmmaking academy for Indigenous youth based in Kikino Métis Settlement, Alberta

 
Studio Bell photo dump! 🌞
After the library, we had a tour of Studio Bell from Eric Cinnamon and Graham Lessard and a recording demonstration from Wyatt C Louis! Our youth got to experience firsthand how a song gets made and the recording process. They even got to record with
Calgary Central Library photo dump :)
Today we had another artist talk with Eman Safadi and Priya Ramesh from Foreignerz Productions at the Calgary Central Library! They shared their work and industry tips with our youth! Thank you Eman and Priya for sharing your time with us and making
Thank you to Brock Mitchell for organizing the entire Calgary itinerary of our trip! Thank you so much for fundraising locally in Calgary. The demo’s, artist talks and locations were inspiring to our youth & TRAA community. Thank you to
Last night our film Last Summer won the Devon Bolton Memorial Award at the Alberta Spirits CIFF Showcase. Voted by a 5 person jury, the award honours the jury’s selection of their favourite film of the Alberta Shorts program. The award is in
Photo Dump of CIFF @ciffcalgary
@ciffcalgary TRAA Photo Dump

We enable students to discover the gems in Indigenous inheritance and to explore artistry in acting and filmmaking. These experiences are intended to fill the heart and soul, to strengthen community, and to expose students to hands-on filmmaking.

 

We explore our histories through family and friends; utilizing their skills and languages as storytellers, musicians, and carpenters

We give our artists the experience of telling their own stories, as well as experience being part of someone else’s

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