ripples: related activities
Attawapiskat is no Exception was a theatre project at Concordia co-lead by Ursula Neuerburg and Floyd Favel and featuring students from the Concordia University Department of Theatre. This play told the story of a fictional Indigenous community that was forced to evacuate their territory and ultimately decide whether or not they would take new land next to the city or return to their rightful homes.
2016 CATR
“Dwellings: Approaches to Decolonization through Collaborative Performance Creation” paper given at Decolonizing Theatre and Performance, Facilitators: Jill Carter.
2016 IFTR
“Dwellings – the Meaning, Loss and Promise of Home for First and Other Peoples – Theatre within the Indigenous/Settler Relationship” paper presented at Political Theatre Working Group: Stockholm, International Association for Theatre Research.
2017 Symposium
BODILY UNDOING – SOMATIC ACTIVISM AND PERFORMANCE CULTURES AS PRACTICES OF CRITIQUE, Bath Spa University, Bath UK.
Somatic Approaches to Dwellings: The pull to somatic and sensory work when working on emotionally challenging content. Talk presented.
Poland Conference
“Making Dwellings” –co-presented with Emilie Monnet at: Silesia, Indigenous Expressions of Culture in Storytelling, Drama, Theatre and Performance – Traditional and Contemporary Canadian and Polish Upper Silesian Perspectives.
2017 CATR
“Entering Dwellings: a Way into a Creation Process” co-presentation U. Neuerburg-Denzer and L.Ndejuru in: Seminar: Terra Nullius: charting paths to settler/Indigenous relationships through theatre and performance in academic contexts.
Emotion, Mimesis and Cultural Memory Acknowledging Genocide in Performance, Seminar: Decolonizing Methodologies and Settler Responsibility in Theatre and Performance Studies. Paper submitted.
Uncle Vanya – Chekhov, Nurse, Floyd Favel, Fort Battleford, SK 2018
In 2018, Floyd Favel directed a first version of an adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, featuring performers met at the ILSA conference in 2017.
Exhibit on housing at Floyd’s conference 2019
In 2019, on Poundmaker Reserve, SK, Leni Krivy of the Dwellings ensemble and research assistant Maddie Joliffe organized a photo exhibition on various examples of indigenous dwellings both past and present. This was part of the Poundmaker Performance Festival 2019, run by Miyawata Culture, Inc.
Ouje-Bougoumou visit
In spring of 2019, Neuerburg and Favel and a research assistant took a trip to Ouje Bougoumou. Here they met with _______ and _______, though many of the people of the reserve were away hunting due to Goose Break. Nonetheless the visits of Douglas Cardinals’ famous “model” village and the traditional village held within, a number of functional, traditional structures used by the community, it was a very informative trip and provided the space for reflection on the resonances of Dwellings within a reserve context.
2020 Presentation at Poundmaker Indigenous Performance festival
Goose Break in Oujé-BougoumouGoing North to connect thoughts on performance with teachings on traditional and contemporary Indigenous Dwellings.
From Uncle Vanya on Poundmaker, via Mashteuiatsh to the Shaptuans in Oujé-Bougoumou.
In 2020, Neuerburg presented a narrated powerpoint about this experience at the Miyawata Culture centre’s virtual 2020 Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival. https://miyawataculture.com/