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Native Earth Performing Arts’ brilliant 2009 production of Daniel David Moses’s seminal play finally arrives in home territory, after successful tours to Halifax, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Montreal, Kingston, and London (Ontario & England).

Michael Greyeyes directs the captivating Derek Garza as the accidental Cree martyr Almighty Voice and award winning Saskatchewan-born PJ Prudat as his fierce young wife White Girl. Two startlingly different acts – the first set on the Saskatchewan prairie in 1897, the second set in a abandoned industrial school at Duck Lake in 1950’s – challenge our ideas of what we think we know about our own history.

“jarring, offensive, funny and ultimately uplifting”

The Coast, Halifax

“By its end, the poetic, imaginative Almighty Voice And His Wife has turned into a one-ring circus.  And that’s a good thing”

NOW Magazine, Toronto

Almighty Voice and His Wife plays for three shows only at the BackStage Stage, Frank and Ellen Remai Arts Centre, 100 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon

Friday January 27^th 2012, 8 pm
Saturday January 28^th, 2012, 8 pm
Sunday January 29^th, 2012, 2:30 pm

Tickets 306 384 7727 or www.persephonetheatre.org/buytickets.php

Info www.nativeearth.ca

In Saskatoon: Philip Adams – 652 7395 or Yvette Nolan – 975 7598

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Thursday December 8, 2011
Friday December 9, 2011
Friday December 16, 2011
Saturday December 17, 2011

8:00 pm, Tickets $20

Debajehmujig Creation Centre, 43 Queen Street, Manitowaning

Call Audge 859-1820 or email audge@debaj.ca

Featuring: Peter Mishibinijima, Josephine Pelletier, Henry Peltier, Thecla Pheasant, Lucy Ida Pitawanakwat, Mary Adeline Stacey, Marjorie Trudeau, RoseMarie Trudeau, Stella Trudeau, and Lillian Webkamigad

For more information, Check out Dejab’s website!

Native Earth is excited to bring the performing arts community together for our 24th annual Weesageechak Festival. This year’s 5 day festival is being held at Theatre Passe-Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave), October 25th until the 29th, 2011. Native Earth is pleased that our new festival dates provide us with the opportunity to engage with our sister organizations imagineNative and CIT. We also could not wait to present the works of the newly named Animikiig (Ah-knee-mah-key, formerly Young Voices) and Thundering Voices program.

For more information and festival schedule, visit Native Earth’s website or check out IPAA’s Events Page!

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Chocolate Woman Collective invites you to a night of music and performances for the fundraiser Chocolate on the Road – the national and international tour of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way by Monique Mojica

There will be a silent auction, chocolate goodies and a door price. We will be joined by the band Kanatan Aski, Norma Araiza, Michelle St. John, and videos from A Tribe Called Red. The Headliner is PURA FE.

We hope you can join us on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ Theatre Passe Muraille. Doors open at 7:30pm and tickets will be sold at the door for $20 or PYWC for seniors, students and under waged.
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York University’s McLean Performance Studio has posted an excellent profile Q&A with the ever-talented Santee Smith.

Well, while this year’s Rubaboo Festival has already passed, it can be experienced or re-lived through these fantastic photos by Marc J Chalifoux. The photos are categorized by event. See for example, Hoop Dancer Eric Pipestem, Hip Hop Event, Traditional and Contemporary Dance, and Aboriginal Artists Talk.

Frost Exploding Trees Moon will be featured at the 2011 Dancing on the Edge: Festival for Contemporary Dance! The festival runs from July 7-16, 2011 in Vancouver, BC. Frost Exploding Trees Moon is 17 minutes long and will be performed on four consecutive days (July 13-16) at 7pm at Queen Elizabeth Park.

Check out our Events Page listing for more information!

This solo piece follows the journey of a woman traveling her trap line. She finds a place to set up camp, builds her temporary home, and settles into the centre of her world of breath and perception. The piece is a movement score derived from the body positions and attitudes of Indigenous hunting cultures of the northern forests. The movement is close to the ground and does not impose upon the environment but rather seeks to disappear into the forests so to blend into the natural environment.

Choreographed by Floyd Favel and Michelle Olson, direction by Floyd Favel and performed by Jeanette Kotowich, this new work is an investigation in Indigenous Performance Culture and methodologies.  It is a work that is supported by Raven Spirit Dance.

Floyd Favel is a theatre director, playwright, and essayist. Over the last twenty years he has developed a theatre training derived from the Indigenous Peoples social and ceremonial structures. Jeannete Kotowich is a Metis contemporary dance artist from Regina, Sask. She her Bachelor of Fine Arts and currently trains and performs locally in and around Vancouver. Michelle Olson is a performer and choreographer and the Artistic Director of Raven Spirit Dance Company.

Full Circle First Nations Performance (Vancouver, BC) is seeking submissions for its annual Talking Stick Festival, a celebration of First Nations performance and art scheduled for February 2012. We welcome work of both established and emerging artists from all areas of the performing arts: theatre, dance and drumming, spoken word, music and multi media performance. Traditional and contemporary – or a combination of the two!
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Talking Stick Festival 2010. Photo by Git Hayetsk.

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To apply, please submit the following:

• Cover letter, outlining your interests and telling us a little bit about your self
• An updated resume
• A sample of your work if you have it (CD – if you are singer / DVD if you are a performer / link to your website or YouTube / copy of your script)
• Any other support material you feel would help your application
• A stamped and self addressed if you wish your  support material to be returned to you.
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The Talking Stick Festival also offers opportunities for artists whose work is in development and who are seeking artistic support/guidance. Artists who are interested in having their work presented in the “Development Series” are encouraged to state this in their submission and include a statement in the cover letter detailing their aspirations and dreams for their project, plus how they believe Full Circle could be of benefit to them. As well as 3 letters of references. Works in Development are limited to maximum 20 minutes performance.

MAIL SUBMISSION TO:

Full Circle First Nations Performance
TSF Submissions
PO BOX 12, 206-02 555 Great Northern Way
Vancouver BC V5T 1E2

OR EMAIL: info@fullcircle.ca (with a subject line: TSF submissions)

No Phone Calls Please

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 30, 2011

After all submissions are reviewed, shortlisted applicants will be contacted for further discussion. Due to budget restrictions, Full Circle is not always able to provide travel for artists. Therefore, to aid in their application, out-of-town artists are encouraged to pursue travel funding opportunities and include details of this in their applications.

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