The Light in Us All Programmer: Aanmitaagzi Storymakers

Show Format

A live theatrical performance of ‘The Light in Us All’

Writer(s)

Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program participants and artist facilitators.

Choreographer(s)

Penny Couchie / Lead Choreographer in collaboration with the program participants

Director:

Collaborative leads: Penny Couchie and Sid Bobb

Show Description:

This is a presentation of the Aanmitaagzi Summer Arts Program 2022 and our multi-year project, ALL MY R(el)ATIONS.

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 reimagine 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 is 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

Aanmitagzi Summer Arts Program 2022 Participants

Artist Facilitators

Penny Couchie Dance, Theatre, Making

Sid Bobb – Theatre, Story-telling, Making

Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey – Dance

Sherry Guppy – Visual Arts, Installation

Michaela Washburn – Theatre, Story-telling

Tasheena Sarazin – Singing

Photo Credit

Liz Lott Photography

Editing

Daniel Couchie