Archive for February, 2012

Here are today’s Talking Stick events:

• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – Chocolate Woman Sings the Milky Way
• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – SHARING PERSPECTIVES: THE PATHS WE’VE TRAVELED
• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – SHARING PERSPECTIVES: THE PATHS WE’VE TRAVELED PART 1

For upcoming dates, check out our Events Page, which is jam packed with great stuff!

CHOCOLATE WOMAN DREAMS THE MILKY WAY

Tuesday Feb 28 – Saturday March 3, Door: 7pm,  Show: 8pm
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie & Pacific)

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way written and performed by Toronto actor/playwright Monique Mojica and performed with Gloria Miguel of New York’s Spiderwoman Theater is directed by renowned Guna theatre artist Jose A. Colman. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way layers the stories of a girl soldier, Daughter from the Stars, and Sky Woman Falling (First Woman) with retellings of cultural stories of the Grandmothers of Creation. The play weaves realities to create a daring, thought provoking performance. It is a dramatic narrative in a tapestry of creation, conflict and healing towards wholeness. Chocolate Woman Collective reclaims indigenous cultures through artistic process.

• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – Chocolate Woman Sings the Milky Way
• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – SHARING PERSPECTIVES: THE PATHS WE’VE TRAVELED
• 29 Feb – TSF 12 – SHARING PERSPECTIVES: THE PATHS WE’VE TRAVELED PART 1

For upcoming dates, check out our Events Page, which is jam packed with great stuff!

free as injuns / Buddies in Bad Times / Tues-Sat @ 8:00pm/Sun @ 2:30pm / $18

Co-production between Native Earth Performing Arts and Buddies, Tara Beagan’s free as injuns is a retelling of the American classic “Desire Under the Elms” by Eugene O’Neill. Featuring the story of Even Cabot and his struggle to reclaim his late mother’s land from the hands of his father, it’s the one of the most ambitious projects of the Native Earth season. Buddies is a natural partner for the production and the show should build on its previous success with The Maids and The Normal Heart.

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes
 a Native Earth Performing Arts production 
free as injuns by Tara Beagan, Directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones, Featuring James Cade, Lisa Codrington, Jerry Franken, John Ng, Yvette Nolan, PJ Prudat and Ash Knight

Lighting and Set Designer Andy Moro, Sound Design Verne Good, Sound Composition Jason Burnstick, Costume Design by Erika Iserhoff, Movement Michael Greyeyes, Apprentice Director Derek Garza, Dramaturge Daniel David Moses, Apprentice Dramaturge Sarah Podemski, Production Management by Charissa Wilcox.

“Real People Real Movement” with Rulan Tangen (Dance Workshop)

26 Feb 2012, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC

Real People, Real Movement – Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth Creations invites all humans, of all ages, at any level of experience with performing arts to participate in a circle of culturally rooted exercises that engage movement, rhythm, sound and language. From finding a sense of rootedness through feet into awareness emanating from spine as core, participants will explore both metaphor and imagery in a cohesive integration of body, mind, spirit and heart. Individual creativity will be balanced with the exciting playfulness of group dynamic in crafting collaborative dances together.  Let’s gather to make motion and sound to discover the uniquely different quality of expression that belongs to each body!

All ages and experience levels welcome!

Maximum 20 participants

• 25 Feb – TSF 12 – Electric Powwow ft. A Tribe Called Red
• 25 Feb – TSF 12 – Native By Nature: The Aboriginal Music Project
• 25 Feb – TSF 12 – In a World Created by a Drunken God
• 25 Feb – TSF 12 – FLOW with Rulan Tangen, Dance Master Class
• 25 Feb – TSF 12 – Storytelling Master Class with Trevor Duplessis

For upcoming dates, check out our Events Page, which is jam packed with great stuff!

Aboriginal Music Lab Week! Native by Nature, Saturday Feb 25

Concert Vancouver Community College Auditorium 8pm

Kinnie Starr, RPM Minute

Session instructors:
Kinnie Starr – Hip-hop music maker, singer and songwriter
David Larocque – Guitarist, producer, educator
Elaine Bomberry – Aboriginal performing arts activist
Oztwelve – Hip-hop guru, social media kingpin
Wes Nahanee – Traditional Coast Salish music
Bob D’Eith – Executive Director, MusicBC
Suzette Amaya – Hip Hop Music promotions

For more information, check out the Event Listing!

SNTC is proud to present this 2009 Govenor General Award Winning Play. This poignant work is a humorous, moving portrayal of three middle aged residential school survivors dealing with loss and the return of a long estranged daughter. The play demonstrates the healing power of stories in a reserve community, and puts faith in the youth for hope for the future.

For more information, visit the SNTC website or our Event Listing!

Today’s Talking Stick events. Don’t let the snow (!?) slow you down!

• 24 Feb – TSF 12 – In a World Created by a Drunken God
• 24 Feb – TSF 12 – From Seed to Stage!
• 24 Feb – TSF 12 – Artist Talk & Lunch
• 24 Feb – TSF 12 – Showcase your Work

For upcoming dates, check out our Events Page, which is jam packed with great stuff!

In a World Created by a Drunken God @ 2012 Talking Stick Festival

Thursday Feb 23 – Saturday February 25, Door 7pm, Show: 8pm
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie & Pacific)

By Drew Hayden Taylor. Performed by Trevor Duplessis & Kurt Spenrath.

Jason Pierce, a Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it all behind for his romanticized vision of a return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he’s leaving, he is paid an unexpected visit by Harry, an American who awkwardly introduces himself as Jason’s half-brother. Harry wants Jason be compatibility-tested for a possible kidney donation to their dying non-Native father – a man Jason has no memory of ever meeting.

A powerful drama by one of Canada’s leading First Nations playwrights, In A World Created By A Drunken God raises questions that transcend issues of culture, morality and history, cutting to the heart of what it means to be human in a world stripped of convenient labels and identity politics. In A World Created By A Drunken God was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.

Plus – Artist Talkback (Friday Feb 24)

Well, the 2012 Talking Stick Festival has started in excellent fashion with an incredible introduction via the Opening Gala, which showcased many artists and organizations that will be performing again during the coming two weeks.

Here’s tomorrow’s line-up (follow the links for event details):

• 23 Feb – TSF 12 – In a World Created by a Drunken God
• 23 Feb – TSF – Public Reading of Paul Seesequasis Novella Tobacco Wars
• 23 Feb – TSF 12 – Public Reading of Paul Seesequasis Novella Tobacco Wars
• 23 Feb – TSF 12 – Artist Talk – In A World Created by a Drunken God

For upcoming dates, check out our Events Page, which is jam packed with great stuff!

Here’s hoping everyone’s having fun

METIS MUTT
Tuesday Feb 21, Door: 7pm, Show: 8pm
Wednesday Feb 22, Door: 12pm, Show: 1pm & Door: 7pm, Show: 8pm
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie & Pacific)

Written and performed by Shelton Elter, an autobiographical one-man show, which recounts a young man’s coming of age through difficult family and cultural circumstances. The play is told through a variety of media: edgy stand-up comedy and original comedy songs, story-telling, and multi-character vignette acting in which Sheldon leaps from character to character with lightning speed and precision. The Edmonton Sun says “Elter is a skilled actor and storyteller, and his presence commands attention throughout. By turns screamingly funny and brutally honest, it’s a one-man show that blows all kinds of prejudices out of the water.”

Plus – Artist Talkback (Wednesday Feb 22 matinee).