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ASAP 2022 presenting The Light in Us All in Durham, ON

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The Light in Us All
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film – Durham, ON
July 23, 2022 @ 7 pm

The Light in Us All is a presentation of the 2022 Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program 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 an indigenous story shared by Monique Manatch. This is the way we heard it: A long time ago the light went out. Fear and distrust grew. Loved ones were lost. They all journeyed together to find the light. What fans your light? How do we protect the light? The Light in Us All shares and celebrates our stories and imaginings.

This is our 15th Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program. Our company and community have experienced great change. We are excited to look back at our repertoire and past participants: our elders, artists, and youth. We have been engaging with, dreaming of and developing our narrative sovereignty through art-making. We will re-imagine and re-envision our previous works in a new performance.

The Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program (ASAP) is a 6-week intensive in indigenous performing and visual arts. Now in its fifteenth 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 are 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.

CREDITS:

2022 Aanmitagzi Summer Arts Program Participants – Dan Babin, Ouske Couchie-Bobb, Abby Hopkins, Brad McDonald, Angel McLeod, Georgia Mianskum,  and North Sutherland-Spence

Artist Leads / Facilitators

  • Penny Couchie – Choreography / Direction
  • Sid Bobb – Theatre / Direction
  • Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey – Dance / Choreography
  • Sherry Guppy – Visual Arts, Installation / Set
  • Michaela Washburn – Theatre, Story-telling
  • Tasheena Sarazin – Singing
  • Blair Beaucage – Anishinaabemowin

Photo Credit – Liz Lott Photography

Graphic Design – Daniel Couchie

Serpent People at Big Medicine Studio

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Aanmitaagzi will be wrapping up its Summer Arts Program (ASAP) with a presentation of Serpent People at Big Medicine Studio on August 4, 2017 at 7 pm.

Our ASAP students and community members have been working hard all summer putting together and touring this production, and we’re pleased to be presenting it here in our community to mark the 10th anniversary of the ASAP program.

The event is free, however we gladly accept donations. Please note that this performance contains mature content.

 

Serpent People opens June 15 @ The Citadel

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June 15 – 17, 2017 at 8pm

The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
304 Parliament St. (Parliament & Dundas), Toronto, ON
                            
$25 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Artists
CLC Box Office: 416.364.8011 ext. 1 or Purchase Tickets Online here

Proudly presented by Coleman, Lemieux & Compagnie

Serpent People is an interactive community-engaged live theatre performance. Grounded in historic Anishinaabe stories of the Black Sturgeon from Nipissing, Serpent People gathers, reflects, and expresses stories and imaginings about the human condition.

Co-Directors: Penny Couchie and Sid Bobb
Storyweaving Director: Muriel Miguel
Choreographer: Penny Couchie
Composer: Edgardo Moreno
Assistant to the Composer: Gerald McComb
Voice & Acting Coach: Imelda Villalon
Lead Set and Installation Designers: Sherry Guppy and Megan Paulin
Set & Installation Assistant: Thaila Sarazin
Costume Designer: Meri-Lee “MJ” Helmer
Costume Assistant: Sylver Waukey-Chisel
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Jimenez
Film and Video Installation: Daniel Couchie
Multi-media: Clayton Windatt and Jacob Dayfox
Production Manager: Deborah Ratelle
Production Co-ordinator: Stephanie Fehr

Co-creators/Performers:
Darien Benjamins, Jossée Bernier, Sid Bobb, Miigwan Buswa, Penny Couchie, Binaeshee-Quae Couchie-Nabigon, Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey, Jacob Dayfox, Carol Guppy, Gabriel Guppy, Casandra MacDonald, Darren Nakogee, Mckenzie Ottereyes-Eagle, Tasheena Sarazin, and Jodi Taylor

Bright Nights ahead for Serpent People

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We’ve got a busy summer ahead at Aanmitaagzi! Our Summer Arts Program is now in full swing, and we’ll be putting everyone to work over the next few weeks as we develop and prepare the latest incarnation of the Serpent People project. Then we’ll be hitting the road to tour this dynamic collaboratively-created performance all across Ontario.

The Performance

Grounded in historic Anishinaabe stories of the Black Sturgeon from Nipissing First Nation as told by one of Aanmitaagzi’s founding artists, Perry Mcleod-Shabogeesic, Serpent People gathers, reflects, and expresses stories and imaginings about the human condition. What are we consuming that gives us power? What are we consuming that is toxic? What has taken us away from ourselves and the essence of who we are? What would it take to transform us, and what transformations have we already undergone in our lives? Serpent People investigates these questions and explores our ability for self-reclamation and to transform for the positive.

The Tour

Our first presentation will be at The Citadel as part of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie’s Bright Nights performance arts series from June 15 – 17 at 8 pm. Tickets are $25 for General Admission and $20 for Artists, Students, Seniors, and can be purchased online or by calling the Box Office at 1-416-364-8011 ext.1.

Following that, Serpent People will be in Ottawa for the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival, performing on June 25 at 3 pm at Vincent Massey Park. Admission is free and paid parking is available.

The last stop on our summer tour (unless we squeeze in a few more!) will be in Red Rock for the Live From the Rock Folk Festival from August 11 – 13. Camping sites are available for $20, and festival passes can be purchased at the gate or online.

Hope to see you on the tour!