Scroll down to see all of the Festival activities taking place.
NOTE: All programming is subject to change.
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5:30 pm
Festival Opening
In partnership with Indigenous Performance Initiatives in association with Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent University and the Art Gallery of Peterborough
Art Gallery of Peterborough
250 Crescent Street Peterborough
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Jiigbiing, the visual art exhibition and Gaabinjigabaa’aang, a site-specific dance performance of a work-in-progress will be presented at the Art Gallery of Peterborough during the opening of the Ode’min Giizis Festival. The visual art exhibition jiigbiing: at the edge where the water and the earth meet, curated by William Kingfisher, includes work by Vanessa Dion Fletcher and stories gathered by regional Elders and traditional knowledge holders for the artists in the process of researching the importance of clean water.
jiigbiing: at the edge where the water and the earth meet Gaabinjigabaa’aang: where we came ashore, following the flood at the end of the first world
Melissa General from the Six Nations of Grand River Territory has her exhibit Longing and Belonging at the Art Gallery of Peterborough until June 24th. For more information contact the Art Gallery of Peterborough at 705 743 9179 and visit www.agp.on.ca
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| Wednesday June 20th
9:00 pm
Performance Art
All Saints Anglican Church 235 Rubidge Street Peterborough Tickets $12. Available in advance from Market Hall (705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org) and in person at Green Eyewear, 374 George St. N., 705-775-3937
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Luna and Gómez-Peña have been collaborating since 1993. Solid Gold is their most recent performance. This piece is an anthology of past and recent work in the form of a live art record album. Performing within the architecture of a Long House, the artists challenge the audience to move, groove and experience the performance actions from multiple perspectives and “git down” to participate in the celebration. They are joined by curator, producer and cowgirl performance artist Heather Haynes who has been on tour with them for the past three years.
Is everybody in? In everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin- Jim Morrison
Brief History of the project: Since the early 1990s, conceptual artist James Luna and performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña have worked on an ongoing project titled The Shame-man meets El Mexican’t, in which they challenge assumptions and lazy thinking about ethnicity and culture in our society with a strong dose of melancholic humor and sharp- edged conceptualism.
By using performance, writing, photography and video, the artists have remained flexible and relevant to our shifting culture. The project uses nostalgia as style, a form of resistance and reinvention, exploring the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of “nostalgia” both on the Native American “rez” and in the Chicano “barrio.”
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| Thursday June 21st
7:30pm
Theatre
Preview/Dress Rehearsal The (Post) Mistress Produced by OKW and Public Energy
The Market Hall
140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough $12 Tickets are available at the door and in advance from Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. Phone 705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org.
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The (Post) Mistress a new one-woman musical written and composed by Tomson Highway, recounts the adventures of a small-town postmistress, Marie-Louise Faucon (performed by Patricia Cano) who divines the contents of sealed letters that pass through her hands. After having worked at the same post office for many years the postmistress has come to know the emotional lives of her clients. Through twelve songs (the letters) and text, she shares with us details and episodes of their lives.
Written and Composed by: Tomson Highway
Director: Ruth Madoc-Jones
Costume Design: Martha Cockshutt
Lighting and Set Design: Ted Roberts
Movement: Marie-Josée Chartier Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kantor
Featuring Patricia Cano as the postmistress, Tomson Highway on piano and Marcus Ali on saxophone
Supported by the Pine Tree Lecture Series in conjunction with the Department of Indigenous Studies and the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University.
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| Thursday June 21st
10:00 pm
Music with Tara Williamson, special guests and Rosary Spence The Garnet 231 Hunter St West, Peterborough By Donation
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Come out to enjoy an evening of contemporary music hosted by Tara Williamson with Rosary Spence and local rising stars & touring guests! |
| Friday June 22nd
Bimaadiziwin
a cultural educational day designed for area students In partnership with the Art Gallery of Peterborough Art Gallery of Peterborough
250 Crescent Street Peterborough |
Bimaadiziwin: a cultural educational day designed for area students in partnership with the Art Gallery of Peterborough Local schools will celebrate the cultural richness and the contributions of First Nations peoples on Friday June 22, at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street in Peterborough. The day will feature culturally-grounded learning opportunities through interaction with some of the leaders in indigenous education and artistry including:
• Storytelling in the Performance Tipi. • Gitigaan: Garden: Being within Nature with William Kingfisher. • Interpretive tours of Art Gallery of Peterborough exhibitions with artists and curators. • Hands-on art making workshop in the AGP Studio with artist Jimson Bowler. For more information contact the Art Gallery of Peterborough at 705 743 9179 and visit www.agp.on.ca
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| Friday June 22nd
2pm and 6pm
Theatre
Weskeyjack, a work-in-progress
Produced by Mazinaw Rocks Productions in partnership with Indigenous Performance Initiatives in association with the Department of Indigenous Studies. Nozhem: First Peoples Performance Space
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough By Donation |
Weskeyjack, original man, responsible for naming all life aka the trickster, returns home to the Kiji Sibi but his family, the Algonquin people, now only ignore him. Weskeyjack is bewildered by the change in his people and sets out on a journey through time and transformation challenging historical figure – Champlain. Time is running out and he must decide to stay or leave them all behind forever – to a land void of culture or language or original people. A magical play portrays the story of an old way of life all around the legends and clans including their relationship to natural law.
Written by: Paula Sherman Director and Script Mentor: Alanis King Co-Director and Dramaturge: Alejandro Ronceria Assistant Director: Karyn Recollet Language and Cultural Consultant: Shirley Williams Film and Sound Design: Sarah DeCarlo Costume Design: Melanie McCall Lighting Designer: Don White Set Design: Jimson Bowler
Featuring: Cherish Violet Blood, Nimkii Osawamick, Karyn Recollet, Jeff Legacy, Sundance Crowe with Cris Derkson on cello and Joy Mullen on drums.
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| Friday June 22nd
7:30pm
Theatre The (Post) Mistress (Opening Night)
The Market Hall 140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough
$22, $15 students, underwaged Tickets are available at the door and in advance from Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. Phone 705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org.
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The (Post) Mistress a new one-woman musical written and composed by Tomson Highway, recounts the adventures of a small-town postmistress, Marie-Louise Faucon (performed by Patricia Cano) who divines the contents of sealed letters that pass through her hands. After having worked at the same post office for many years the postmistress has come to know the emotional lives of her clients. Through twelve songs (the letters) and text, she shares with us details and episodes of their lives.
Written and Composed by: Tomson Highway
Director: Ruth Madoc-Jones
Costume Design: Martha Cockshutt
Lighting and Set Design: Ted Roberts
Movement: Marie-Josée Chartier
Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kantor
Featuring Patricia Cano as the postmistress, Tomson Highway on piano and Marcus Ali on saxophone
Supported by the Pine Tree Lecture Series in conjunction with the Department of Indigenous Studies and the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University.
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| Friday June 22nd
10:00 pm
Theatre
Huff Gordon Best Theatre
216 Hunter Street West, Peterborough $15 Available in advance from Market Hall (705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org) and in person at Green Eyewear, 374 George St. N., 705-775-3937
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Huff is a new one-man show by Cliff Cardinal about the wondrous lives of Wind and his brothers, caught in a torrent of solvent abuse and struggling to cope with the death of their mother. Wind’s fantastic gas-induced dream-world bleeds into his haunting reality as he’s preyed on by the trickster through the hallways at school, the abandoned motel he loves more than home, and through his own fragile psyche.
Wrought with dark humor, and vivid imagery Huff weaves a violent, spellbinding tale. Modern pace mixed with First Nation’s mythic meets biting stand-up routine. Video games and trickster collide and Huff conjures a theatrical storm. Written and Performed by: Clifford Cardinal Director: Karin Randoja Dramaturge: Jiovanni Sy Production Design/Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kantor
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| Friday June 22nd
11pm
Music Sarah DeCarlo and special guests The Garnet 231 Hunter St West, Peterborough
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Come and enjoy a night of contemporary music hosted by Sarah DeCarlo and other special guests! |
| Saturday June 23rd
Noon – 2pm
Visual Art Indigenous Guerilla Art and The Missing Island by Jimson Bowler – Portage Walk Big Loon Studio
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Portage Walk
Join artist Jimson Bowler on a walk along the Chemong Portage. Retrace this historic footpath and hear the local lore, with special surprises along the way. Meet at Big Loon Studio, 212 Hunter St. W. (behind the Benevolent Stranger)
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| Saturday June 23rd
Noon – 5 pm
Community Street Fair On Hunter Street (between Aylmer Street and Chambers Street)
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Featuring craft vendors, story-telling, lacrosse clinic, art making, music, food, and a walking tour along the historic Chemong Portage. |
| Saturday June 23rd
2-4 pm
Storytelling with Douglas Williams and Leanne Simpson
In partnership with Wii-Kendiming Nishinaabemowin Saswaansing |
Please join local Anishnaabeg superstars Douglas Williams and Leanne Simpson for an afternoon of storytelling. Doug will be sharing his oral account of Mississauga People and the Land, and Mishibizhiw and Chemong Lake and Leanne will share two stories Zhiisib Makes Everybody Lunch and Tails Actually Don’t Make Great Fishing Poles. |
| Saturday June 23rd
3pm
Visual Art Indigenous Guerilla Art and The Missing Island by Jimson Bowler – Painting Our Stories
Big Loon Studio
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Painting Our Stories
Meet the young artists from the Wii-Kendiming Nishinaabemowin Saswaansing (The Art of Learning Language in the Little Nest), and join us while we bring our own stories to life on a huge canvas mural in the Great Anishinaabe/Woodland style. Bring chalk and help re-create Jackson Creek! |
| Saturday June 23rd
2pm and 6pm
Theatre Weskeyjack, a work-in-progress Produced by Mazinaw Rocks Productions in partnership with Indigenous Performance Initiatives in association with the Department of Indigenous Studies. Nozhem: First Peoples Performance Space Trent University 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough By Donation
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Weskeyjack, original man, responsible for naming all life aka the trickster, returns home to the Kiji Sibi but his family, the Algonquin people, now only ignore him. Weskeyjack is bewildered by the change in his people and sets out on a journey through time and transformation challenging historical figure – Champlain. Time is running out and he must decide to stay or leave them all behind forever – to a land void of culture or language or original people. A magical play portrays the story of an old way of life all around the legends and clans including their relationship to natural law.
Written by: Paula Sherman Director and Script Mentor: Alanis King Co-Director and Dramaturge: Alejandro Ronceria Assistant Director: Karyn Recollet Language and Cultural Consultant: Shirley Williams Film and Sound Design: Sarah DeCarlo Costume Design: Melanie McCall Lighting Designer: Don White Set Design: Jimson Bowler Featuring: Cherish Violet Blood, Nimkii Osawamick, Karyn Recollet, Jeff Legacy, Sundance Crowe with Cris Derkson on cello and Joy Mullen on drums.
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| Saturday June 23rd
4pm
Theatre Huff Gordon Best Theatre 216 Hunter Street West, Peterborough $15 Available in advance from Market Hall (705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org) and in person at Green Eyewear, 374 George St. N., 705-775-3937
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Huff is a new one-man show by Cliff Cardinal about the wondrous lives of Wind and his brothers, caught in a torrent of solvent abuse and struggling to cope with the death of their mother. Wind’s fantastic gas-induced dream-world bleeds into his haunting reality as he’s preyed on by the trickster through the hallways at school, the abandoned motel he loves more than home, and through his own fragile psyche.
Wrought with dark humor, and vivid imagery Huff weaves a violent, spellbinding tale. Modern pace mixed with First Nation’s mythic meets biting stand-up routine. Video games and trickster collide and Huff conjures a theatrical storm. Written and Performed by: Clifford Cardinal Director: Karin Randoja Dramaturge: Jiovanni Sy Production Design/Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kant
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| Saturday June 23rd
7:30 pm
Theatre The (Post) Mistress
The Market Hall 140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough $22, $15 students, underwaged Tickets are available at the door and in advance from Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. Phone 705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org.
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The (Post) Mistress a new one-woman musical written and composed by Tomson Highway, recounts the adventures of a small-town postmistress, Marie-Louise Faucon (performed by Patricia Cano) who divines the contents of sealed letters that pass through her hands. After having worked at the same post office for many years the postmistress has come to know the emotional lives of her clients. Through twelve songs (the letters) and text, she shares with us details and episodes of their lives.
Written and Composed by: Tomson Highway Director: Ruth Madoc-Jones Costume Design: Martha Cockshutt Lighting and Set Design: Ted Roberts Movement: Marie-Josée Chartier Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kantor Featuring Patricia Cano as the postmistress, Tomson Highway on piano and Marcus Ali on saxophone
Supported by the Pine Tree Lecture Series in conjunction with the Department of Indigenous Studies and the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University.
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| Saturday June 23rd
7pm-11pm
Music
Hunter Street Outdoor Concert Corner of Hunter and Alymer St. by donation
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With Sean Conway, Cris Derkson and Joy Mullen, Imbayakunas and Grupo Granma from Santiago de Cuba.
Enjoy live music at this annual street party! |
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| Saturday June 23rd
11pm
After Party A Tribe Called Red Gordon Best Theatre 216 Hunter Street West, Peterborough $10
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They’re back. A Tribe Called Red returns to Peterborough June 23rd for the Ode’min Giizis Festival. Bear Witness, DJ NDN, and DJ Snub bringing in not just their signature style of sound known as PowWow Step, but also a performance that presents the collectives re-appropriation of pop culture’s depiction of indigenous culture. Their performance electrifies all senses with their dubbing of popular music and blending of multimedia to enhance the experience. With a mix of traditional Aboriginal pow-wow drumming and vocals with modern powerful Electronic and Club music, A Tribe Called red will have you dancing for more. These Ottawa based Indigenous djs are paving the way for Indigenous urban culture with their eclectic sound that brings Pow Wow music, Hip-hop, and poetry together. Come out and experience what everyone has been talking about! |
| Sunday June 24th
2:00 pm
Theatre The (Post) Mistress
The Market Hall
140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough
$22, $15 students, underwaged Tickets are available at the door and in advance from Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. Phone 705-749-1146 or online www.markethall.org.
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The (Post) Mistress a new one-woman musical written and composed by Tomson Highway, recounts the adventures of a small-town postmistress, Marie-Louise Faucon (performed by Patricia Cano) who divines the contents of sealed letters that pass through her hands. After having worked at the same post office for many years the postmistress has come to know the emotional lives of her clients. Through twelve songs (the letters) and text, she shares with us details and episodes of their lives.
Written and Composed by: Tomson Highway Director: Ruth Madoc-Jones Costume Design: Martha Cockshutt Lighting and Set Design: Ted Roberts Movement: Marie-Josée Chartier Stage Manager: Elizabeth Kantor Featuring Patricia Cano as the postmistress, Tomson Highway on piano and Marcus Ali on saxophone
Supported by the Pine Tree Lecture Series in conjunction with the Department of Indigenous Studies and the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University. |
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