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Tyson Houseman

Théâtre de Quat’Sous + 70 min
This show is presented in nēhiyawēwin.

May 23, 7pm Ticket
May 24, 7pm* Ticket
May 29, 9pm Ticket
*Followed by an Offering (see details)

This multimedia opera combines multiple live video feed projections, dynamic theatrical set pieces, an electroacoustic musical score performed live by Devon Bate, and lyrics sung in nēhiyawēwin by baritone vocalist Jonathon Adams. Drawing inspiration from the nehiyaw calendar structure of six seasons and cosmological teachings from his Elders, Houseman proposes an ode to his ancestral territory at a critical moment of ecological crisis in human history.

Tyson Houseman is a nehiyaw interdisciplinary video and performance artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker from Paul First Nation and Ermineskin Cree Nation. Tyson’s practice focuses on aspects of nehiyaw ideologies and teachings such as Indigenous notions of non-linear time, and the interwoven relations between humans and their ecologies.

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