teacher
photo by Kate Dalton
post-secondary | community | workshops | talks
My work as an educator centres around an abundance based practice, which honours and celebrates every students/participants gifts and means meeting students/participants where they are at. In my teaching/education/facilitation I assert that Indigenous education practices benefit all with an emphasis on Tatawaw/Tawaw (Cree/Michif) – welcome there is room, there is space, there is time, there is a path for all of us.
I have taught at post-secondary institutions, developed and implemented workshops and talks, and directed residencies and training through theatre organizations.
I am experienced in facilitating workshops on clown, devising, creation, decolonizing theatre practice, and Indigenous leadership. I have offered workshops at organizations including Theatre by the Bay, York University, Victoria School of the Arts, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Gwaandak Theatre, and independently.
learner
writings | events | conversations | research
I am learning in all that I do.
A part of the journey of learning is articulating what my practice is in any given moment. Which includes writing and publishing work that interrogate my ways of working, creating spaces of knowledge sharing, and speaking at conferences and events. I am a privileged SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship winner, amongst other academic funding and awards.
Founding member of the (de)collective. A collective of 6 international performance-scholars, practitioners, and cultural theorists –from a diversity of lived and ancestral experiences – examining the nuances of decolonizing individual/collective practice within performance. Gathering since late 2020, we have hosted a decolonizing unconference with over 40 attendees of scholar-practitioners from across Turtle Island. Our research has furthered with a week-long in-person (un)learning to (re)member residency. We have presented our developing practice at the University of Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) conference. With an upcoming publication in Performance Research Journal. Amongst us we have over 25 articles published and are active practitioners in a myriad of disciplines from food, movement, puppetry, land-based dramaturgy, play(writing), and (re)claiming craft(s) as material resistance.
JUST BECAUSE IT’S A ROAD DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT: A JOURNEY OF DECOLONIZING RESISTANCE THROUGH STORYTELLING, MFA Directing Thesis through York University
manifesto of self (governance) in The Mamawi Project’s ‘zine governing/owning ourselves.
A Proposed Guide to Witnessing: Dailoguing with Streaming Life: Storying the 94 as a Site for Call and Response, Vol. 192, Fall 2022 Ethics and Socially Engage Theatre, Canadian Theatre Review
Good Beginnings: Decolonizing Protocols and Agreements or Mouse Crosses River, Percées - Explorations en arts vivants in the collection: “Indigenous theatre and performance: rules of engagement”. The piece is an exploration of good beginnings and positive encounters between Indigenous artists and non-Indigenous artists and institutions.
Co-organizing a four day un-conference that created a circle of sharing around decolonizing practices. With over 6 guests, including Donna-Michelle St.Bernard and Dr. Jill Carter, and 40 participants, the virtual event mobilized decolonizing praxis across communities. WEBSITE
Presented at “Urgent-Emergent: Imagining Differently: Research-Creation Practices in Urgent Times”
Indigenous and Decolonizing Theatre Techniques Through Cultural Praxis. An interactive presentation that questions our relationship to land and the exploitation of land.
Presented at “IS|CS Intersections | Cross-Sections 2020 Graduate Conference, Changing the Current”