Tomson Highway
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Canada's most famous Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise...
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"Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only..." From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, Latin, French, English, Spanish, and the universal language...
3) Rez Sisters
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Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award when first published in 1988, The Rez Sisters has gone on to become an internationally critically acclaimed play, included in all major anthologies of Canadian literature world-wide. Now, in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, the play is being published in its original language: Cree. Included is a Note on Dialect" by the author. The...
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«Ne parler qu'une langue... c'est comme vivre dans une maison avec une seule fenêtre», c'est ce que dit Tomson Highway. Dans son livre A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism, l'auteur s'interroge sur la force avec laquelle les mots peuvent illuminer notre monde. Depuis sa naissance légendaire dans un banc de neige dans le nord-ouest du Manitoba à son illustre carrière artistique, il démontre que le cri, le déné,...
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Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. It is...
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Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time, to laugh ourselves to death.
Ever the trickster, Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language,...
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Il était une fois un jeune lapin nommé Weeskits qui gambadait dans la forêt à la périphérie de Kisoos, une petite ville peuplée exclusivement de lapins, considérée le nombril du monde. Il avait des nouvelles très importantes à annoncer : Salamoo Cook, le grand chef de tous les lapins de la planète, était en route pour annoncer un mystérieux concours. Le prix qu'on pourrait gagner ? Un approvisionnement d'un an en jus de waaskee-choos...
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Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos-a town known as the Earth's belly button-to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones that have just fallen. Would Weeskits be able to help his brother Keegach win the juice to rid his wife of...
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In this issue
Savoury short fiction from Tomson Highway, Jakob Drud, Kim Harbridge, Hannah Van Didden, Dave Gregory, NRM Roshak and R Daniel Lester. Poetry from Erin Kirsh and Peter Norman. Further adventures of Frankie Ray in The Extra from Mel Anastasiou and a brand new Allaigna novella from JM Landels. Plus the winners of the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest and the SiWC runner up, capped off with a chilling tale from Kris Sayer.
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Champion et Ooneemeetoo Okimasis, jeunes Cris du nord du Manitoba, sont arrachés à leur famille et placés dans une école catholique résidentielle du Sud. Aliénés par une culture qu'on leur impose, ils luttent pour leur survie. La Reine blanche, personnage mythique, veille sur eux et les ramène vers l'univers magique dont ils sont issus. L'un deviendra musicien et l'autre danseur. De leur art, un espace de possibilités, un monde nouveau, émergera....