Angela Miracle Gladue, known as Lunacee, is a Cree (nehiyaw)/Greek Interdisciplinary Artist from amiskwacîwâskahikan (ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ) and a proud member of Frog Lake First Nation. 

As an international artist, she has been invited to give master classes, perform and lecture at countless communities throughout the world. Angela started cultural dancing (Metis & Powwow) at age six through her elementary school, where she first learned how to dance and perform. Since 2003, she has been a youth mentor and global community leader, as she continues her career as a B-Girl/ Hip-Hop Dancer and represents her cultural identity through this art and form of expression. 

In 2006, she was selected as 1 of 30 dancers in the world to train in New York with some of the originators, innovators, and pioneers of Hip-Hop Culture, through the Red Bull Beat Riders Camp, where she really began to study the history and foundation of the culture and dance.

Angela has toured as one of the lead dancers for The Halluci Nation (Formally known as A Tribe Called Red) since 2016 and has also performed alongside The Doors, Lido Pimienta, Jeremy Dutcher, and Cris Derksen. She has opened up for major recording artists such as TLC, D Smoke, MuMu Fresh, Sean Paul, Lil' Kim, Maestro, GrandMaster Flash, Busta Rhymes, and the America’s Best Dance Crew tour to name a few.

Selected accomplishments include: Performing at the 2017 Juno Awards for The Halluci Nation, 2 time Artist’s Emerge Champion - 1st Place at the Canadian Hip-Hop Championships and World Hip-Hop Championship Bronze Medalist with her crew the FlyGirlz (Edmonton, AB), and was the recipient of the 2015 Chief David Crowchild Memorial Youth Award for demonstrating outstanding community leadership through Hip-Hop and Powwow dance in the City of Calgary. 

She is currently a member of the Kennedy Center Culture Caucus in Washington, DC and a 2024-2025 Core Partner at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, preserving culture alongside the DC community in HipHop and Powwow Dance.

As an emerging filmmaker, she has created several short films and documentaries that have been screened at the ImagiNATIVE Film Festival, Global Visions Film Festival, 2023 Birrarangga Film Festival (Australia) and Dreamspeakers Film Festival. Angela’s latest work titled "itohtêwin" (Goal of Journey, Destination) was featured at the 2nd Annual Online, Quick + Dirty: A festival of emerging artists and ideas, where she was selected as 1 of 8 emerging filmmakers in Alberta to receive mentorship to create the film.

Angela is also an emerging fashion designer, utilizing traditional beadwork technique to create her own style of beaded jewelry she's dubbed "Club Bangaz". She established her own "Miss Chief Rocka" label in 2011, and has since created countless statement pieces for collectors internationally. Her beadwork has been featured at A Space Gallery in Toronto, Ontario and The  jagemô Gallery in Ottawa, Canada in an exhibition called ‘Thunderstruck: Physical Landscapes’. This piece now belongs in the collection of The Art Bank of Canada. More recently, she was a featured designer at Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto 2020, where she debuted her Club Wear Collection titled ᐄᐧᒉᐦᑐᐃᐧᐣ - wîcehtowin (Unity).

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Dr. Sarah Hewitt is a professor in the Biology Department at MRU and the current Interim Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Science and Technology. She was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow in 2023, and aside from teaching courses in physiology and neuroscience, she also teaches science communication. She has years of experience translating complex science into relatable stories through her work as an adventure scientist, where she travels around the world, working with scientists in the field and telling their stories for popular publications.