Indigenous Works
Enrich your curriculum by integrating important conversations found in the storytelling of 1939, Women of the Fur Trade and more, brought to you by Indigenous playwrights and theatre artists.
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4 itemsWomen of the Fur Trade
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Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. In this lively historical sa...
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Movie + 2 extras1939
Movie + 2 extras
An inspiring journey from page to stage.
Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a church-run residential school in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All's Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged ... -
Celebrated Speakers: Bev Sellars | The Meighen Forum
Author and advocate Bev Sellars formerly served as councilor and chief of Xatśūll (Soda Creek) First Nation in British Columbia. Her memoir, They Called Me Number One, about her experiences in the residential institution St. Joseph's Mission, formed a key part of the research for the play 1939,...
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6 itemsNew France Series
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New France, 1660: follow two families, one settler and one Indigenous, over twenty years as they love, scheme, and fight to carve out their place in the New World. A smart, sexy, and radical re-framing of our country’s history from a female and First Nations perspective.
“Deceitful Above All Thi...
