Denise Bolduc

Denise Bolduc is an accomplished cultural leader and a catalyst for creative growth. Denise curates, programs, and produces platforms inspiring creative experiences, exchange, collaboration, and engagement. Selected work: Biziindan!, Illuminating works, and Tributaries (Luminato Festival), The Original Peoples Party & First Nations Exchange-Turtle Island program (Tri Nations, Australia), Transforming Landscapes, New Voices New Vision, Inconvenient Ideas, and Intersections of Culture (CAPACOA), Beyond 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Indigenous Film (REEL Canada), Miiyuu Pimaatswin Symposium (Native Women in the Arts), Songs in the Key of Cree (Tomson Highway Retrospective), Maadaadizi/Summer Journeys (PanAm Games), and Thunderbird Marketplace (One of A Kind/Miziwe Biik Development). Denise was founding Artistic Director & Producer of Planet IndigenUs, the Indigenous Arts Program Officer (Ontario Arts Council), and the Indigenous Dance and Music Program Officer (Canada Council for the Arts), and Co-Founder & Artistic Director of the Aboriginal Music Project. She has programmed and presented in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. She is an instructor, mentor, speaker, host, a member on numerous boards and advisories, and has partnered on many artistic projects with numerous arts and cultural organizations. Denise is the recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s Indigenous Arts Award, the SOLID Festival’s Arts Leadership Award, the Indigenous Business Leadership Award and a Fellow recipient with the ISPA International Congress.
Denise is Ojibwe | Anishinaabe kwe from the Robinson Huron Treaty Territory, and is a member of the Batchewana First Nation with familial ties in Garden River First Nation.