Such a [healing] journey will require an enormous shift. It will require […] spaces in which our white relations will begin to accept and activate the work they need to do. It will require a privileging of the sacred over commercial concerns. It will require active listening, not passive consumption. It will require courage. It will require belief. It will require the tremendous respect that is born of love.
(Jill Carter, Canadian Theatre Review)
At the beginning of the performance journey, audiences and performers entered the atrium of the Library Building (LB). Each company member performed small ritualistic movements in relation to their surroundings and location, an acknowledgement of the here and now in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Eventually they gathered into a circle while singing a traditional Cree round-dance song. A Kanien’kehá:ka land acknowledgment was given opening night by Josephine Curotte of Kahnawà:ke, thereafter by ensemble member Sara Flicht.
CREDITS
Director: Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer
Traditional Cree song taught by Floyd Favel
Costume Designers: Cecilia Macdonald, Amy White
Performers/Co-Creators: S. E. Callender, Camille Banville, Sebastien Burke, Caite Clark, Erin Finkelstein, Sara Flicht, Kyla Gilbert-Heaney, Zeina Ismail-Allouche, Emma Lee Iversen, Sara Jarvie-Clark, Marika Karlsson, Leni Krivy, Jade Legault, Beric Manywounds, Giorgio Picone, Lexxus Reid, Ollie Siino, Anne-Marie St-Louis, Aidan Thorne, Spiro Xiradakis
