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Spring Training Intensive in Contemporary & Traditional Aboriginal Dance, Story & Song
presented by Raven Spirit Dance & The Dance Centre

May 25th – June 2nd, 2012 in Vancouver, BC

Join us for a 9-Day intensive dance program full of classes, workshops, artist talks & professional development that focus on Contemporary & Traditional Aboringal Dance, Story & Song. Raven Spirit’s training and mentorship activities are formulated with the intent of providing artists the opportunity to make work in the creative field, as cultural workers fully invested in communicating, creating, performing and disseminating work as broadly as possible. The intent is to develop training opportunities for the emerging Indigenous community of artists, address break between the professional realm and training programs, foster the creation of critical skills, and ultimately work towards a stronger community and better developed pool of performers.

For more information, to register, or to see a class schedule please visit the RSD website!
See Schedule and Instructor Biographies!

Email: info@ravenspiritdance.com or Phone 604-646-0010

Latest: Can’t attend the whole 9 day training but want to experience some exciting new dance styles? Buy a 4-Class Card for only $20! (reg. $50). RSD still has spots left for this promotion to the first 20 people!

SCREENING AT HOTDOCS: The Language of Love
Featuring Stephen Lytton
Directed by Marie Clements
A frog girl films production

Friday, May 4th – 9:30 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Saturday, May 5th- 1:15PM Isabel Bader Theatre
Sunday, May 6th- 6:30PM Cumberland 3

The Language of Love is an eleven minute documentary featuring writer/actor/activist Stephen Lytton’s raw and poetic articulation of the fourteen years he endured in the residential school system — a child’s survival redefines itself as the artful embodiment of a man. The Language of Love was commissioned by The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival under their Building Bridges project as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Commemoration Initiative.

Inside Invention Artist Salon

TransMigration, Inspired by Norval Morrisseau’s life & iconic paintings!
May 10 – 13, 2012

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre (KDT) will bring together an incredible cast of performers for the upcoming world premiere of TransMigration, a co-production with Harbourfront Centre’s Planet IndigenUS as part of the NextSteps11/12 Series. This new production runs May 10-13 2012 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West, Toronto). All performances begin at 8:00 pm, on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Tickets: $35 (adult), $15 (student), $20-$22.50 (senior)
Packages: $18-$20 (senior package), $25-$30 (Nextstep)
Group discounts (10 people +) are available by calling Harbourfront Centre’s Group Sales Coordinator, Daniel Palmo at 416-973-4000 ext. 4856.

For Tickets, call Harbourfront Centre’s Box Office at 416-973-4000 or visit their website.

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and Harbourfront Centre will be hosting our “Artist Salon” Inside Invention on April 26 at 7:30 at the Lakeside Terrace.  For an incredible insight into contemporary indigenous art and personal look at Norval Morrisseau’s work and life join the discussion with guest speakers: curator, scholar, writer and media artist Steven Loft and poet, scholar, inspirational speaker and television personality Duke Redbird. Our informal look into the work-in-process includes excerpt presentation of developing choreography.

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Well, I’ve just lost about 3 hours to browsing through photo albums on the ol’ world wide web. (See Kaha:wi links below.) It’s only fair that I highlight the Dancers of Damelahamid, whose Coastal First Nations Dance Festival concluded yesterday. First, their website is amazing! Second, so are their photos!

Transformation

Transformation

Spirit and Tradition

Spirit and Tradition

The Coastal First Nations Dance Festival is happening this March 2012 in Vancouver, BC. Inside Vancouver wrote an excellent piece on this wonderful festival. It goes:

“If you’ve been to the UBC Museum of Anthropology, then you’ve probably stopped to admire the Great Hall. Glass walls rise several stories high, flooding the enormous hall with light. Inside are towering totem poles from Haida and other first nations villages along the British Columbia coast. It’s a breathtaking way to glimpse the area’s rich aboriginal history.
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Dancers of Damelahamid

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“Now imagine the Great Hall filled with with some of the best aboriginal dancers from throughout the province and around the world. From March 8-March 11, the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival returns to the Museum of Anthropology for four days of world-class performances in the shadow of the totem poles in the Great Hall. Celebrating its fifth year, the festival brings together acclaimed dancers from British Columbia, Manitoba, the Yukon, Alaska and as far away as Australia.

“The festival is the brainchild of the Dancers of Damelahamid, an aboriginal dance company from northwestern British Columbia who are part of the Gitxsan, the “people of the river mist,” who are renowned for their distinctive button blankets. The Dancers of Damelahamid bring the rich tradition of aboriginal masked dancing to the stage, combining dramatic choreography with thrilling stories, richly carved masks and elaborate traditional clothing.

“There are several ways you can experience the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival. On the weekend of March 10 and March 11, visiting performers will take the stage from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. These shows are included as part of the normal Museum of Anthropology admission.

“The headline performances, by the Dancers of Damelahamid themselves, are March 9 and March 10 at 7:30 p.m.  These performances ($25 adults/$20 students) have sold out in past years, and they feature special guests from aboriginal groups from around the province.

“Tickets are available now on the Tickets Tonight website. For more information about the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, check out the Dancers of Damelahamid website.

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.

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!

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)

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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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