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NOZHEM
FIRST PEOPLES PERFORMANCE SPACEHOW TO FIND THE THEATRE: Nozhem is located in Peter Gzowski College off the River Road. Look for the big yellow (ochre) building. Take Pioneer Road (off River Road) to get to the closest parking lot - east side of the building. Facing the main entrance of the building you will see two wings. Nozhem performance space is in the right side wing of the building. Do not enter this side. Enter the first set of doors on the left (the left wing of the building). You will notice a staircase. Take the staircase one flight to the bottom floor. Proceed straight ahead and turn left down a long passageway. Follow to the very end of the building. The theatre is the last set of doors on the right.
Artist in Residence September 20 to September 30, 2011
All in the Family...Creative Power for Future Generations
featuring the Founder's of New York City's Spiderwoman Theatre
and Three Generations of their FamilyWorkshops, Pay What You Can Performances, Talks
NOZHEM
The First Peoples Performance Space (with seating for 100) is an exciting venue in which the audience can participate in an intimate relationship with the artists and performers. Unlike traditional Western theatre, the space will be used for ceremony, as a vessel to pour forth and nurture Aboriginal oral tradition, language and knowledge. The space will be the summer home of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto.
The photos on this page highlight a few of the previous performances hosted by this theatre. The 2006/2007 schedule will be posted on this page in early September 2006. Please check back at that time for a schedule of upcoming performances, performers, workshops and events. Frequently throughout the year we will have unscheduled performances. Check this page or the Events page for unscheduled events
Marrie Mumford artistic director
Marrie Mumford, appointed the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Arts and Literature at Trent, will be the first artistic director of Trent’s First Peoples Performance Space. Marrie (Metis/Chippewa-Cree) has spent over 25 years in professional theatre in Canada and the U.S. as an actor, director, producer and instructor. She has taught at acting studios and at the University of Toronto after earning a M.A. from Brandesis and a B.A. from the University of Alberta.She has worked with the Native Earth Performing Arts Inc., Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre and Toronto Free Theatre (Toronto) and nationally with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Group, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
From 1992 to 1995, Marrie worked with the Ontario Ministry of Culture to implement a cultural industries strategy for Aboriginal Arts organizations. From 1995 to 2003, as Artistic Director of the Aboriginal Arts Program at the Banff Centre, she founded and established innovative programs such as, the Aboriginal Dance program, the Creation of New Works program, the Aboriginal Women’s Voices music project, the Aboriginal New Media program, the Aboriginal Screenwriters’ Program and the Aboriginal Curators series at the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Marrie has also participated on the First Peoples Advisory Committee for the Canada Council, juried the Dreamspeaker Festival in Edmonton and the Sundance Festival in Utah and been a member of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards Committee. In 1996, Marrie was honoured with the first James Buller Award for the Advancement of Aboriginal Theatre by the Centre for Indigenous Theatre.
"It is my dream, a dream of many, that someday in Canada, we will have as the Maori have in New Zealand, Aboriginal arts centres, where Aboriginal people can learn, create and produce in their own language, from ancient cultural knowledge, perpetuating this knowledge through contemporary art and culture."
Marrie Mumford
2000 (Banff Centre for the Arts)
