Feature Image: Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Outside Looking In) A celebration of Indigenous dance, music and visual art will take center stage at Toronto’s Meridian Hall as award-winning Anishinaabe artist Tamara Podemski produces Outside Looking In’s 17th Annual Showcase. T...
Featured Image: L- Poster for PawâkanMacbeth courtesy of akpiktheatre.com, R- Photo by Shannon Webb-Campbell The first time I saw Akpik Theatre’s community retelling of Pawâkan Macbeth, co-presented by Neptune Theatre and Prismatic Arts Festival on October 5, 2023, my mind was spinning and heart was rac...
Red Sky Performance | Image source: Bruce Zinger with artwork by Andy Moro. Red Sky Performance presents the world premiere of Flow, a performance created in response to the 1941’s children’s book Paddle to the Sea – a book told from a White lens featuring Indigenous characters. The showcase premiered o...
Co-presented by MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM, Stephanie Pangowish, Anishnaabekwe (Ah-nish-nah-beh-kway) from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island busted a few guts at the 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation and Parry Sound, Ontario this past winter. F...
Back at the beginning of winter biboon, MUSKRAT Magazine and ReZ Radio 91.3 FM co-presented the well-attended 5th Annual Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytellers Festival in Wasauksing First Nation (Lighting the 7th Fire at the Gchi Dewin Indigenous Storytelling Festival) and Parry Sound, Ontario. Over the ne...
From residential schools to missing and murdered women to environmental destruction to white fragility to lateral violence to colonialism in academia to truth and (re)conciliation there is no issue impacting Indigenous peoples that is not touched upon in Encounters. The opening scene depicts a competiti...
Cara Gee as May in Fool For Love | photo by Dahlia Katz Ojibway actress, Cara Gee is on fire right now. She is currently starring in the classic Sam Shephard play Fool For Love, a story exploring a fierce love-hate relationship between a couple running at Soulpepper Theatre Company from July 13 to Augus...
Indrit Kasapi, Mark Cassius, Joseph Zita, Tsholo Khalema, Ryan G. Hinds, Troy Emery Twigg, Walter Borden, and Alexander Chapman | Photo credit: Jeremy Mimnagh Lilies: or The Revival of a Romantic Drama is an exploration of two-spiritedness and queerness while highlighting the disproportionate rate of in...
James Whetung and his daughter, Daemin | Image source: Ryan Edwardson/Al Jazeera Like most southern First Nations people, James Whetung grew up not being able to learn or practice traditional food gathering in his territory. When he learned about harvesting manoomin (wild rice) he realized that bringing...
Yolanda Bonnell in Bug | Image source: Connie Tsange Bug, a one woman theatrical performance, will makes it’s Tkaronto debut June 20 – 24 2018 at the Theatre Centre in conjunction with the Luminato Festival. The production will be performed by Anishinaabe playwright Yolanda Bonnell and explores the addi...
