08/06/2024
ALL MY R(el)ATIONS
Written and Performed by Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program participants and artist facilitators.
"This is a presentation of the Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program 2024 and our multi-year project, “ALL MY R(el)ATIONS”. It is collaboratively created and performed by the Aanmitaagzi company artists and the program participants. It is an investigation and expression of indigenous dance and our myths. We have spent weeks singing, dancing, regalia making, story-telling, and travelling to pow wows. This performance has grown out of these activities and what lies in our hearts and minds.
The Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program (ASAP) is an 8-week intensive in indigenous performing and visual arts. Now in its seventeenth year, the program faculty is led by award winning and renowned professional indigenous artists and educators. Participants learn, share, express and create alongside our professional multi-arts team.
ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, our latest work-in -progress, explores our historic abundance in opposition to systemic oppression and poverty. How much of what we have now, is a ration; a small shadow of what we once had? What are we entitled to? What dances, stories, songs and language is our birthright?
ALL MY R(el)ATIONS explores historically rooted ways in which we make a return to abundance by connecting to ourselves and all of Creation."
Show Credits:
Aanmitagzi Summer Arts Program 2024
Youth Arts Interns
Albany Benson, Ouske Couchie-Bobb, Autumn Hookimaw, Skyler Hookimaw, William McGrath, Malia Mizzi, Finn Rice, and Shania Splane
Special Guest(s)
Waseskwan Linklater, Mya Katt, and Niganii Dokis
Artist Leads / Facilitators
Penny Couchie - Choreography / Direction
Sid Bobb – Theatre
Sherry Guppy - Visual Arts, Installation / Set
Darren Nakogee –Singing
