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Canada's first national aboriginal fashion show is seeking professional and up-and-coming designers to compete for the top prize of $5,000 or an equivalent trip to Paris.

Winds of Change is organized by the Canadian Council for Native Business to showcase the best of aboriginal fashion design in Toronto on March 24, 1993.

The show is a career-making opportunity for aboriginal designers, says council president Patrick Lavelle.

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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Years of hard work and enjoyment of his art brought fancy dancer Cal Arcand national attention beyond his dreams.

Arcand was introduced to Native dancing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, shortly after his dad Eugene Arcand became head of the city's Indian Metis Friendship Centre eight years ago.

"I was up in the rec room when I heard an announcement about learning powwow dancing," Arcand said. He signed up and started along a path he will follow "for as long as I am able to dance."

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

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"Picasso," says Ojibwa artist Eddie Cobiness when asked who was the major influence on his painting.

"The way he used lines and colors and made them beyond what others had done."

Interestingly, Cobiness can't point to any one Native artist who influenced his work, and indeed his style is uniquely his own. While it doesn't resemble Picasso's works, either, the innovation and a great attention to balance and space are there.

Page 10 Anyone who reads a story or column written by Richard Wagamese knows he is a man who speaks from the heart. A long-time columnist for Windspeaker and other papers, he has dropped regular column-writing in papers like the Calgary Herald, concentrating instead on writing a novel. It's one of two books by him that are expected to be in book stores by next spring. "I had to decide what kind of a writer I wanted to be: A newspaper writer, a columnist, a short story writer or a novelist. I opted for fiction and it takes up all my energy," he explains.