Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, art-ivist, and educator, a land protector and a water protector. Born in Vassar, Manitoba, to a large Métis family, Marjorie’s life’s work has been about creating social change, working to give people the tools for creating possibilities and right relations. Whether in the classroom, community, campsite or the arts, Marjorie’s goal has been to pass on the stories, knowledge, and skills that will make a difference for the future. For Marjorie, the story is medicine.

As a Two-Spirit Métis Elder, Marjorie takes on the tough topics that need to be discussed. Her work is focused on giving voice to and creating safe cultural spaces for, traditionally silenced or excluded groups. Marjorie is known on the local, regional, and national levels as an Elder who speaks truth to power, and who holds space for difference. She has been a Grandmother for Walking With Our Sisters; the Elder for OUT Saskatoon and the youth-led Chokecherry Studios. She has also been called on for national research initiatives that focus on Indigenous women living with HIV, Indigenous Harm Reduction, Indigenous youth who experience sexual and gender-based violence, and post-traumatic stress.

She has created over 35 community-based videos, including her recent harm reduction video portraits on reducing the harms of colonialism. In all of these, Marjorie returns to story as medicine, to art as medicine. Marjorie says of her work, “Creation is a powerful thing; whether you’re making a baby or a loaf of bread or a movie, it comes from the same place. To get people to tap into that energy, that creates possibilities, so they don’t get stuck in this craziness that we’re in is transformative.” Her recent book, Leave Some For The Birds – movements for justice is also part of her legacy for the future.