Please welcome the newest IPAA members in the dedicated Members tab on our website. We have divided the membership into three categories - organizations, artists, and friends - to make it easier to navigate. So, go browse for for future collaborators!

IPAA played host to an event to encourage just that at the closing night of the 26th Weesageechak Begins To Dance Festival at the Aki Studio Theatre. Click here for more photos of Indigenous artists full of food, performance and fun.

Raven Spirit Dance with Nyla Carpentier Present: Pow Wow Bootcamp in Vancouver

Back by popular demand RSD will be kicking off the 2014 New Year with the Pow-Wow Bootcamp series with instructor Nyla Carpentier, Jan 5 - Feb 9.

Nyla Carpentier will teach the history & origins of Pow Wow styles and intertwine it with building muscle & stamina while meditating with the fast heartbeat of the drum. Basic steps and formations will be shown and discussed in relation to history and origin.

Theatre for Living presents I Have to Tell My Story

Using interactive, Forum Theatre, I Have to Tell My Story asks questions about how we, in the context of the legacy of Residential Schools, create and support healthy family and community safety.

The project will be presented at the Vancouver Public Library on January 9, 2014. For more information contact TFL at 604.871.0508 or email: outreach@theatreforliving.com

The Language of Ceremony Jan 17-18

Speech Acts and Joyous Utterances: Translating, Teaching, Learning and Living, Indigenous Tribalographies

Conference: workshops and presentations.
With LeAnne Howe giving the keynote speech!

Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto

See here for the full conference schedule!

Tanya Taguq in partnership with Alberta Aboriginal Arts presents the acclaimed Nanook of the North

In a live concert for film, Tanya Tagaq improvises with her voice, a violinist and a drummer to create a soundscape during a screening of the 1922 “documentary” Nanook of the North.

Mesmerizing, inspired and truly original, Tanya Tagaq is a multi-award-winning music artist from Nunavut who has earned internationally acclaim.

January 30, 2014 at the Metro Cinema in Edmonton.

A Soldier’s Tale by Michael Greyeyes, presented by Signal Theatre

DanceWorks DW204 – Signal Theatre (Dance Theatre)
Feb 20-21 at the Fleck Dance Theatre, Toronto

A Soldier’s Tale is a new dance theatre work by Michael Greyeyes that explores the aftermath of war on the soldiers who wage it and their families who survive its consequences with them.

Full Circle's 13th annual Talking Stick Festival

Experience, Explore, Enjoy
Aboriginal Culture Through The Arts
Feb 18 – March 2, 2014

Discover the work of Aboriginal arts and artists at the 13th annual Talking Stick Festival presented by Full Circle First Nations Performance. This years’ festival takes place in venues throughout Vancouver with national and international artists.

Go here for the full Talking Stick Schedule.

Gwaandak Theatre and New Harlem Productions present Keith Barker’s The Hours that Remain, touring Feb-March 2014

The Hours That Remain explores the story of a woman haunted by the disappearance of her sister. In confronting the pervasive reality of missing women in Canada, we are also faced with the legacy of loss endured by families, friends and community.

Look for The Hours that Remain at the Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver on Feb 22, 23, and 25 and the Yukon Arts Centre from March 5-8 @ 8:00pm.

CH’ODZA: She is Dancing

Presented by Raven Spirit Dance in partnership with Full Circle and the Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver

An Evening of Contemporary Aboriginal
Performance: Celebrating their 10th Anniversary

Featuring works by Shane Belcourt, Muriel Miguel, Starr Muranko, and Michelle Olson

February 28th 2014, 8pm

Potash Corp presents Reunir by PJ Prudat featuring Circle of Voices, March 5 – 12, Saskatoon

Réunir is an homage to our Métis culture. A passage of old river systems and maps, plumbing the depths of fierce tenets and whimsy, reuniting our past and present blood-ties to the land. A poetic love story for our relations, played with the same fervour and celebration with which our ancestors lived, ebbing and flowing like the great North and South Saskatchewan Rivers, calm at points, treacherous and old as glaciers from the west

Dreary and Izzy, Tara Beagan in association with Persephone Theatre, Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company and Western Canadian Theatre

When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre must care for her beloved older sister Isabelle, who’s adopted, First Nations and affected by fetal alcohol syndrome. Deirdre struggles to manage until twin rays of hope appear in the form of a gorgeous vacuum cleaner salesman and a family friend.

It will be touring Feb – Apr at Gateway Theatre from Mar 5-15, and Persephone Theatre from Mar 26-April 6.

Quilchena, Tara Beagan and Native Earth

Touring Western Canada in January/February 2014: 
Rutas Panamericanas Festival March 2014 and at Aki Studio Theatre in Toronto, March 11th – 16

Written and directed by NEPA Artistic Director Tara Beagan, Quilchena is a fiercely haunting work inspired by a true story. Production Designer Andy Moro returns with a fearsome videoscape. Actor Sera-Lys McArthur joins as the sole performer, rounding out the all-Indigenous creative team.

MAKING TREATY 7

Performances April 4 – 6, Canmore Opera House @ Heritage Park, Calgary. Check ATPlive.com for more details. Admission is free.

We are all treaty people. The Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society is creating a performance that explores the historic events, and the contemporary consequences, of the Alberta treaty that was made at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877. A large and diverse contingent of interdisciplinary artists has been working together to create this work-in-progress.

NeoIndigenA is the much-anticipated full evening solo work created and performed by artistic director Santee Smith, May 3-5 in Toronto

The new conceptual performance explores Indigenous sources from the perspective of an unbroken continuum. She navigates liminal space between the futuristic realms of Skyworld, Underworld and Earthworld. It’s an ecstatic, transcendent, primordial, perilous and biomorphic journey propelled by the elemental voice of Tanya Tagaq, Cris Derksen’s cello and others.

Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT) has moved to a the new Artscape YOUNGPLACE Building at 180 Shaw Street, Toronto

CIT's doors will reopen Jan 3, 2014! There will be an Official Opening some time soon.

Official address is:

Centre for Indigenous Theatre
Suite 209 - 180 Shaw Street
Toronto ON M6J 2W5

Curtis Peeteetuce is headed to the Playwrights Theatre Centre's 2013 Writers Colony

Supported by PTC’s dramaturgical team and a nationally-respected guest dramaturg, the playwrights hear their work read by a team of Vancouver’s best actors, discuss the directions they are taking with their dramaturg, and write – from concise scene revisions to full new drafts. The Colony community develops connections between the writers, and exposes emerging writers to national leaders in the theatre.

Three IPAA members are being published!

Congratulations!