Performance Art

"I think the arts have great potential to create citizens"

-Lee Maracle

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​Oratory is steeped into our Performance Art each time we are on stage, whether it be a theatrical piece, poetry, educating students, youth programming or conferences. We strive to be the performers we were born to be through our parent's guidance in Xxixwi dance, speech, big house or longhouse oratory, educational presentation,  poetry, singing songs or vocables of Cree-Ojibwe or Salish language, or acting in film or theatre. From the earliest known actor under the new law (Canadian law), Chief Dan George in (Performed 1974-1981) to our late mother; poet, novelist and speaker  Lee Maracle (Performed 1976-2021) and now to us (Performed 1986-present) we have studied performance art for many years and we have been performers for even longer. We believe performance art is a part of us as human beings.

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Performance Arts:

Poetry Performance

Acting

Singing

Words of Welcome

Salish orality on stage: indigenous approach to contemporary performance

Key Note address​​

Dramaturgy

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