Critical Ideas: Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Performance

Ideas Series

Critical Ideas: Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Performance
Photo: Sarah Race

Critical Ideas brings together artists, critics, scholars and audiences to discuss formal, social and ideological issues affecting performance practice and reception.

This panel asks how Indigenous women artists from different territorial and disciplinary backgrounds approach issues as wide-ranging and complex as sexuality, sovereignty and spirituality.

Speakers

Daina Ashbee, dance artist & choreographer (Pour)
Cris Derksen, cellist & composer (Cris Derksen Trio)
Wesley Enoch, director, Sydney Festival
Lindsay Lachance, dramaturg & PhD candidate in theatre studies, UBC
Michelle Olson, artistic director, Raven Spirit Dance

Moderator

Dara Culhane, professor of anthropology, SFU

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Venue

Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver (Level 3)

Showtimes

February 2


10:30AM–12:00PM

Tickets

FREE
No reservation or Pass booking required.

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