Title:
Retreating to re-treat : a performative encounter at the "edge of the woods"
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Edition:
First edition: February 2024.
Publication Date:
2024
2023
Publication Information:
Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
xx, 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780369104649
Abstract:
"In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the woods--a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land as a method of restor(y)ing treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their artistic offering and creation process, offered in the spirit of knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal--sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Wind / Sheilah Madonna Mortel Salvador -- Foreword / John Kim Bell -- A Note about the artists & the production / Jill Carter -- "Calling them in": A processual 'encounter' / Jill Carter and Brenda Wastasecoot with interjections from Jenny Blackbird and Sharai Masanganise -- Cree calls / Shirka Urechko in conversation with Trina Moyan -- Calling all Acakos Iskwewak (star women) to the edge of Kikawinaw Askiy (mother earth) / Trina Moyan -- Second thoughts: A postmortem at the edge of the woods / Grace Phan-Nguyen and Jennifer Alicia Murrin -- Lee / Sheilah Madonna Mortel Salvador -- Bringing spirit to the telling / Tash Naveau -- Encounters at the 'edge of the woods': Pre-show installations / Jenny Blackbird -- Encounters at the 'edge of the woods': The play and its aftermath -- Cree woman's song: Iskwewuk / Brenda I. Wastasecoot -- Experience of witnessing / Beka Morrison -- The uncomfortable moment / Sarah Michaels.
Language:
English
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