Jarrett Martineau
Creator | Host | Producer | Music Officer, City of Vancouver
Jarrett Martineau is a leading voice in Indigenous media and cultural production. He works extensively at the intersections of music, art, media, technology, and social movements and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics in New York and his academic research explores the role of art and creativity in advancing Indigenous resurgence and decolonization.
Jarrett is the host, creator and producer of Reclaimed, the first-ever Indigenous music series on CBC Radio, CBC Music, SiriusXM and across Turtle Island on Native Voice One - the Native American Radio Network. He is currently the Music Officer for the City of Vancouver, where he delivered the Vancouver Music Strategy and the Vancouver Music Fund, the first music funding of its kind in North America to provide dedicated support for Indigenous and underrepresented communities; and a co-founder of SoundON, a new, relief, recovery, and presentation platform supporting BC’s music sector.
Prior to his current roles, Jarrett was the creator and series producer of the award-winning, documentary series RISE for VICELAND, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Series, as well as a Reel Screen Diversity Award; he co-founded Revolutions Per Minute, a global new music platform, boutique record label, and artist collective, celebrating contemporary Indigenous music; he hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated cross-platform television series ZeD, for which he received a Leo Award nomination; and he was a host and producer of Brave New Waves, an acclaimed late night music series on CBC Radio. He also co-founded the New Forms Festival, an annual contemporary art and music festival held in Vancouver.
His scholarly research and writing examine Indigenous art, music, and media as emergent forms of political communication. By exploring how Indigenous resistances to colonialism and neoliberal capitalism have changed under globalization, Jarrett's research pursues new pathways in Indigenous resurgence through the creative arts.
Jarrett has worked with CBC Radio, Music, Digital, and Television, VICE Media, MTV World, NowPublic, Make Believe Media, Elastic Entertainment, and other media, to produce award-winning content for a global audience across all media (digital, TV, and radio).
He is nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and Dene Suline from Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta and is currently based in Vancouver on the traditional, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
