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116 - 350 E A S T 2ND AVENUE, VANCOUVER B . C . VST 4 R 8 (604) 8 7 5 - 9 5 1 6
May 4, 2000
Rita Deverell
Vice President, Production & Presentation
Vision TV
80 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1X2
Re: Ablakela / On Holy Ground
Dear Ms Deverell,
Thank you for your agreement in principle to use Dorothy Christian SkyLight piece On
Holy Ground for our enhanced CD / CDROM Ablakela. The project will contain music
from the performance by Native American Church peyote singers Verdell Primeaux and
Johhny Mike on Cdand the CDROM tracks include a photographic gallery from the
performance of 16 images and 3 short video clips from 1) Dana's footage in the
performance, 2) Mike MacDonald's footage of Primeaux and Mike and 3) The complete
4 minute piece by Christian from Skylight / Vision tapes. Video clips are between 3 and 6
minutes. In addition there will be an essay by Lakota elder and anthropologist Dr. Bea
Medicine concerning the peyote practice of the Native American Church within the
modern Lakota and an essay by myself contxtualizing the work in performance art
historical terms.
For use of this tape we can offer you a credit for Skylight, Vision and Dorothy Christian
with logo on the CDROM portion as well text credits as on the cover of the CD, in the
CDROM itself and in the publicity. This is the third project of ours that Christian has
covered for Skylight (the earlier two on Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Laura Wee Lay
Laq) and we very much appreciate her interest in our programming.
Thank you for your agreement.
Sincerely Yours

Glenn Alteen