{"id":41022,"date":"2019-11-13T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heho.ca\/?p=41022"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:15:30","slug":"festival-du-voyageur-launches-2020-wordmark-designed-by-jordan-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/festival-du-voyageur-launches-2020-wordmark-designed-by-jordan-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival du Voyageur\u00a0launches 2020 wordmark designed by Jordan Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The tipi in the center\u00a0represents home with the four directions and the sacred hoop on the front.<\/p>\n<p>As a whole, the wordmark\u00a0vibrates with the energy of Festival du Voyageur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is bigger than\u00a0anyone, and we need to all be able to work together,\u201d said Stranger, artist\u00a0and\u00a0designer of the 2020 Festival du Voyageur wordmark. \u201cHaving that history at\u00a0Festival \u2013 the\u00a0fort itself with the fur trade and having First Nations as a\u00a0part of it. They all operated together, and\u00a0that\u2019s the way it should continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stanger is a visual\u00a0artist who communicates the importance of life, culture and acceptance. His\u00a0works are deeply rooted in the traditions within contemporary Indigenous\u00a0culture. As an Oji-Cree\u00a0individual, Stranger uses his life experiences to drive\u00a0his artistic passions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is about\u00a0happiness. My work is an example of searching for it,\u201d says Stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Stranger is best known\u00a0for his solo exhibition, \u201cFirekeeper\u201d at ace art inc. running until December\u00a06,\u00a0his murals \u201cElk Crossing\u201d, \u201cTogether\u201d, \u201cRespect\u201d, and \u201cLove Grows\u201d in the Forks\u00a0Market, and\u00a0his blanketing of the\u00a0Sutherland Hotel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Watch the video<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CVzqK7zA0M0\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tipi in the center\u00a0represents home with the four directions and the sacred hoop on the front. As a whole, the wordmark\u00a0vibrates with the energy of Festival du Voyageur. \u201cNobody is bigger than\u00a0anyone, and we need to all be able to work together,\u201d said Stranger, artist\u00a0and\u00a0designer of the 2020 Festival du Voyageur wordmark. \u201cHaving that history at\u00a0Festival \u2013 the\u00a0fort itself &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/festival-du-voyageur-launches-2020-wordmark-designed-by-jordan-stranger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,110,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-festival","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heho.myhello.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}