THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE MOURNS THE LOSS OF FOUR ARTISTS KILLED IN A TRAGIC ACCIDENT OUTSIDE OF REGINA
February 12, 2015 – OTTAWA (Canada) – The National Arts Centre (NAC) is mourning the loss of four well known Canadian artists who died in a tragic car accident that claimed five lives outside of Regina Tuesday. The NAC lowered its flag to honour the lives of Michael Green, Michele Sereda, Narcisse Blood and Lacy Morin-Desjarlais.
Michael Green, one of the founders and Co-Artistic Director of Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit, was killed along with performance artists and community leaders Michele Sereda of Regina, First Nations leader and artist Narcisse Blood, and artist and educator Lacy Morin-Desjarlais.
Michael Green was a major force in Canadian Theatre, instigating and leading One Yellow Rabbit and Calgary’s international festival of the arts, High Performance Rodeo. He was also a curator and creative producer of the Calgary 2012 cultural celebrations. Narcisse Blood was a leader and elder in the Blood Nation, an award-winning filmmaker, and an eminent scholar and instructor at Red Crow Community College. He also taught at the University of Lethbridge and in the International Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Calgary. Both Green and Blood were key members in the creation of the Making Treaty 7 Society.
Both Sereda and Morin-Desjarlais were celebrated artists based out of Regina. Sereda was a major force in Regina's arts community for a number of decades, but also had a wealth of experience on international stages. She shared her passion for the arts through teaching, both as a faculty member for the University of Regina's theatre department, as well as an instructor in workshops around the province.
Sereda received the Mayor’s Arts and Business Award for Living the Arts in 2013. She was also the Artistic Director of the experimental theatre company Curtain Razors.
Morin-Desjarlais was a Saulteux artist who was born in Saskatchewan and grew up in British Columbia. She moved back to Regina two years ago and recently began teaching at the University of Regina Conservatory.
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