Project Description
Mahlikah Awe:ri
Becoming a Thunderbird – In-Person Performance
Becoming a Thunderbird is an interactive engaged performance, where young audiences are introduced to Onkwehonwehnéha (Our interconnection to all things). The performance explores the roles and responsibilities of stewardship as the next generation of water protectors, through storytelling, song, slam poetry and digital art.
Water Is Life: Mni Wiconi – In-Person Workshop
Participants will develop an intentional relationship to water through water memory mapping and spoken word. Must book two workshops consecutively (half day).
Connections & Themes
Cross Curricular Connections
Experiential Learning
Equity & Inclusion
Indigenous Education
Well-being
Booking Details
School Fee: $549.00 + HST
Audience Size: 200
Grades: 4-8
School Workshop Fee: $549+HST half day ; $793+ HST full day
Workshop Size: 25
Grades: 4-8
Language: English
Availability: Limited Year-Round
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About Artist
Haudenosaunee Kanien’kehà and Mi’kmaw, drum talk poetic rapologist, Mahlikah Awe:ri Enml’ga’t Saqama’sgw (The Woman Who Stands and Walks In The Light) a TD Diversity Arts and KM Hunter Award finalist, is a contemporary story weaver, slam poet, musician, performance artist, arts educator, founding member of Red Slam an Indigenous Art 4 Social Change Movement and emerging knowledge keeper and medicine carrier.