2-Spirit Cabaret
November 16
Part of Weesageechak Begins to Dance 31
Native Earth Performing Arts + Buddies in Bad Times
CURATED BY MICHAELA WASHBURN
Back for a third year, the 2-Spirit Cabaret is a celebration of the strength, beauty, and talent of queer and 2-Spirit Indigenous people. Buddies and Native Earth present an evening of performances, music, and spoken word as part of Weesageechak Begins to Dance 31 – Native Earth’s annual festival of Indigenous works.
photo of Michaela Washburn by Tanja-Tiziana
Native Earth Performing Arts is Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre company. They are dedicated to developing, producing and presenting professional artistic expressions of the Indigenous experience in Canada.
Buddies’ audiences will remember Native Earth from their critically acclaimed productions of Tara Beagan’s free as injuns (2012), Marie Clements’ Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (2010), and Yvette Nolan and Kennedy C. MacKinnon’s Death of a Chief (2008).
featuring
Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone
Binaeshee- Quae Couchie-Nabigon
Brian Solomon
Cris Derksen and Rebecca Benson
Kathleen MacLean
Yolanda Bonnell
curated by Michaela Washburn