b'DAY IN THE LIFEAs a mentor to young Indigenous people looking for a similar career, Scott-Moore is helping to build a critical mass of Indigenous talent in the business.the production of the InternationalOttawa and Halifax. When she spoke Indigenous Music Summit, to nametoIndigenous Business Report, she just a few events. was on the brink of embarking on yet another trip: to Ottawa to work as a Today, freelancing accounts for moststage manager on the CBC and APTN of Scott-Moores work and brings herbroadcast of the National Day for Truth into contact with an even wider arrayand Reconciliation. of industries and event types. I work in anything from fashion to music to film,Scott-Moore had also just wrapped and more, she says. As an example, Iupahugelysuccessfulthree-day work in the schools on and around myfestival in Toronto called UpFRONT reserve, teaching about how amazingFestival of Indigenous Arts, Music & Indigenous people are. So Ill go fromCulture, which she and the TKMF team a Grade Five classroom to being a floorcurated, handling the programming director on a national broadcast of theand outreach to artists. It was the coun-Juno Awards.trys first UpFRONT festival, and judging by how successful it was, Scott-Moore Its quite an impressive array of projects,is sure it wont be the last.and one that keeps Scott-Moore on her toes and fired up for every opportunitySTEP BY STEPthat comes her way. It also allows herScott-Moore says her work agenda to live a working life that builds on hervaries depending on the stage of a own cultural background. A member ofgiven project. She can be juggling as the Sucker Fish Clan of the Kettle andmany as a dozen events at any one Stony Point First Nation on Lake Huron,time, each at a different phase of Scott-Moore is also the co-founderdevelopment. of TKMF Productionsa production company for Indigenous-led events.In the early stagesand for the post-This includes the annual Tkarontoevent reviewshell be at home. But Music Festival, billed as Turtle Islands premiere music festival putting thethe only uninterrupted work time in spotlight on Indigenous talent.her day is late in the evening, usually after 9:00 p.m., when she can catch up So just what does the working lifeon creating, reading and scheduling. of a successful festival producer ofAfter a late night, she gets going at Indigenous events and gatheringsaround 8:30 a.m. Once shes coffee-ed look like?up, she spends the first hour of the day listening to the news and checking For starters, its far from a nine-to-fiveemails and social media, followed by a office job. Scott-Moore spends aboutquick smudge and then the commute a third of her time away from her homedown the hall to her home office.on her First Nation, which she shares with her husband Richard, who hailsIn pre-planning and pre-production from Australias Yuin Nation. While shemode, Ill be creating production sched-works from a home office, the natureules, envisioning the big picture of how and demands of event production areto make the most impactful experience such that travel is part and parcel of herthat the event can capture, she says. work, week in and week out. Some events Im wrapping up, some were just talking about starting. Some In just the previous year, Scott-Moorewere raising money for. And with some, travelled to Vancouver, Edmonton,were at the point of putting together Winnipeg, Iqaluit, Toronto (many times),the actual programming. Indigenous BUSINESS REPORT43'