Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival
January 18 & 19 2025
Produced by Echo Theatre
As the company in residence at Prairie Theatre Exchange
What is the Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival?
The Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival is dedicated to bringing Indigenous theatre to the stage, offering production support to achieve artistic goals of the work of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous artists. It aims to create more local opportunities for Indigenous creators, crafts and trades people, and performers, while nurturing a new generation of artistic and technical theatre professionals.
Festival Schedule at a Glance
Saturday January 18th
Opening Ceremony
11:00am - 12:30pm
Backstage Theatre Tour
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Minoosh Doo-Kapeeshiw
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Gone, She's Gone
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Star Speaker- DARLA CONTOIS
3:30pm - 4:30pm
~Feast~
4:30pm - 6:00pm
who will save the night sky
6:15pm - 7:15pm
Kiyanaan Cabaret
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Sunday January 19th
Your Festival HERE- Dreaming the future of the festival workshop
11:00am - 12:00am
Panel Discussion with Indigenous ADs
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Dreaming the future con't
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Waawaashkeshiwag-Wabano Open Rehearsal Viewing
2:45pm - 3:45pm
~Feast~
3:45pm - 5:00pm
fareWel Pre-show Talk
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Reading of fareWel
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Shows and Events
Minoosh Doo-Kapeeshiw by Charlene Van Buekenhout
January 18
1:00-1:30pm
FAMILY FRIENDLY!
A comedy about a cat who goes camping and finds a friend in a funny place. Silent silliness except for the narration in Southern Michif and the fiddle!
Dreaming The Future
January 19
11:00am
FIRST NATIONS, METIS, INUIT PARTICIPANTS ONLY
For Indigenous emerging, established, adjacent theatre community to share dreams, visions, desires for what this festival can be. Includes a zoom discussion with Indigenous Artistic Directors and Festival Producers across Turtle Island. Snacks and morning beverages provided.
Gone, She's Gone
by Ashley Cook
January 18
2:00-3:00pm
Best for ages-13+
GG, Warrior, and Sage's mother has been cursed and turned into a monster. The sisters must figure out how to survive while battling the monsters and living with the thought that they might be cursed too.
Star Speaker- Darla Contois
January 18
3:30-4:30pm
ALL AGES ARE WELCOME!
Darla Contois is the award winning star of Little Bird on Crave. Darla is also a playwright, stage actor, and film director. Darla will speak with our host about making a career on stage and screen.
Waawaashkeshiwag- Wabano
January 19
2:45-3:45pm
Ever wonder what it's like to be a deer? This piece examines the experience of female and male deer and the gender roles and expectations through a fluid lense, using elevated text and movement. Audiences will be invited to witness a movement rehearsal with performers and choreographer working to give life to beings in this work.
fareWel pre-show chat
January 19
5:00-6:00pm
A pre-show chat with Governor General award- winning playwright Ian Ross
Bingo Draw
6:00pm
Who got bingo? We find out!
who will save the night sky- by Philip Geller
January 18
6:15-7:15pm
A one-person performance that blends bouffon, clown, storytelling, and spectacle.
who will save the night sky is an interactive performance that reminds us of the importance of our relationship to the stars and sky world.
fareWel - reading
by Ian Ross
January 19
6:30-8:30pm
A reunion reading of the play with a semblance of the original cast who performed on the PTE stage in 1996.
Kiyanaan Cabaret
January 18
7:30pm
For the 18:00 hours crowd
Indigenous creators show their works in and out of process!
fareWel - reading
January 19
6:30-8:30pm
COLIN JACKSON THEATRE
A pre-recorded version with the same cast using language accommodations. Please click on continue for more information.
