Retreating to Re-Treat : A Performative Encounter at the 'Edge of the Woods'.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Jill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian drama--21st century.

Canadian drama.

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Drama.

Indigenous peoples.

Capitalism--Drama.

Capitalism.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Canada--Drama.

Nature.

Storytelling.

Reconciliation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2024.

Summary:

In 2019, the Collective Encounter--a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter--presented Encounters at the 'Edge of the Woods' as part of Hart House Theatre's 100th anniversary season. The piece acted as survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land to restor(y) treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their collective creation and process, offered in the spirit of creative knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal--sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin.

Contents:

The Wind / Sheilah Madonna Mortel Salvador

Foreword / John Kim Bell

A Note about the artists & the production / Jill Carter

"Calling them in": A processual 'encounter' / Jill Carter and Brenda Wastasecoot with interjections from Jenny Blackbird and Sharai Masanganise

Cree calls / Shirka Urechko in conversation with Trina Moyan

Calling all Acakos Iskwewak (star women) to the edge of Kikawinaw Askiy (mother earth) / Trina Moyan

Second thoughts: A postmortem at the edge of the woods / Grace Phan-Nguyen and Jennifer Alicia Murrin

Lee / Sheilah Madonna Mortel Salvador

Bringing spirit to the telling / Tash Naveau

Encounters at the 'edge of the woods': Pre-show installations / Jenny Blackbird

Encounters at the 'edge of the woods': The play and its aftermath

Cree woman's song: Iskwewuk / Brenda I. Wastasecoot

Experience of witnessing / Beka Morrison

The uncomfortable moment / Sarah Michaels.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-3691-0465-X

0-3691-0466-8

OCLC:

1424750840