World’s first Indigenous Theatre will bring first people’s languages to national audience GlobeArts
Women “are the centre of our communities,” Mr. Loring said. “Go to any band office in the country and it’s going to be women running the show. And, to be honest, the lion’s share of [artistic] creators in our ecology are Indigenous women.”
Indigenous artists are working in their own languages and the performances become both a vehicle for language rejuvenation as well as a teaching tool, said Mr. Loring, whose own playwill be staged in English and French with a dash of Nlaka’pamux’stn as part of the opening festival.In one of the shows, the performers will speak only in Inuktitut. In another, only Kalaallisut. But Mr. Loring said he does not believe it will be difficult for non-Indigenous audiences to follow along.
There was much to choose from when putting together the first season’s lineup, said Mr. Loring. Hundreds of plays have been written by Indigenous authors and artists that would appeal to national audiences. So, in addition to the Canadian performances, a show called Hot Brown Honey by Indigenous women in Australia will be staged in May. Decolonization “is a global conversation and we share that conversation with other nations around the world,” said Mr. Loring.
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