Category: First Nations
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Embodying Story: Part Two
Sometime in my thirties I became part of a very active Playback Theatre troupe. Playback is an improvisational form in which individuals from the audience tell personal stories and the actors on stage seek to faithfully play the story back to the teller. Doing Playback well is a remarkably challenging practice, one filled with opportunities…
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Embodying Story
This is the first of a two-part post that was originally published in earlier this month in THE BeZINE. I’ve been making theatre for nearly as long as I can remember. My first memory of being on stage was in grade school. I was an ultra-skinny kid with a pronounced Polio limp, earning me the…
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Me Artsy
Summer is upon us, with temperatures in the 80’s, and thunderstorms roaming around. Earlier in the week our office AC went down, and it is a relief to have it back. I’m finding I need to have some time outside at the end of the day, an opportunity to reconnect with Nature. I’m grateful for…
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Canal Stories
Today the sky is grumpy and there is a welcome chill to the air. Here on our residential street Nature is celebrating summer’s abundance. The robin that set up housekeeping on our front porch is patrolling the garden during her time off the nest. Our sunflowers are in bloom and the goldfinches are noisily enjoying…
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