From the Heart - Enter into the Journey of Reconciliation
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- Published on Monday, 10 June 2013 11:25
- Written by mic
From the Heart - Enter into the Journey of Reconciliation
A new 90-min. theatre production about the transformative stories that move non-indigenous people to see their relationships with their aboriginal neighbours in new ways. This won’t be anything like an ordinary play - it'll be an experience.
Opening on June 12th at a donated space in the Uptown mall, the audience will be invited to move through a vast, beautiful labyrinth made of thousands of metres of colourful fabric, hundreds of doors and windows, and lit with paper lantern lights. In the nooks and alcoves along the way, the audience will encounter 16 scenes, songs, shadow theatre performances and visual installations that were all created this past winter by an intercultural cast of 30 community members ranging in age from 18 to 79.
The script development co-facilitator was Kwakwaka'wakw performance artist/ poet Krystal Cook, with singing and movement coaching from Bisia Belina.
The 14,000 sq ft. labyrinth was co-designed by two internationally acclaimed designers: eco-architect Mark Lakeman and tensile fabric architect Mar Ricketts.
The project was inspired by Paulette Regan’s bestselling book, Unsettling the Settler Within.
To learn more about the project, watch the 5-min, video here:
Directions: come south along Blanshard from Ravine Way, turn into Uptown at the RBC sign and go UP the ramp, then to the right and park. The performance space is on the opposite end of the parking lot of the RBC branch.
The space is wheelchair accessible.
