{"id":151,"date":"2013-12-26T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T13:47:01","slug":"quilchena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"In Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancamilopalacio.com\/\">Juan Camilo Palacio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>a<strong> Native Earth Performing Arts <\/strong>production |<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember growing up. Not really. Do people remember that? Growing? Only when it hurts, maybe.\u201d<em><\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Spring, 1979. A young girl is mere days away from celebrating her birthday. Her dad can\u2019t keep the secret of her gift any longer, so proudly presents her with a new bike \u2013 well\u2026 new to her. Birthday girl and bike take their debut trip along the nearest paved road. Failing to return for dinner, a makeshift search party finds only the bike, tossed into some bushes at the side of the road. For years,\u00a0 family and friends imagine their missing girl into adulthood. This play is told from the perspective of the missing girl, her own memory returning for the telling, only in shards.<\/p>\n<p>This story is a fictionalized account inspired by all too many true stories. Through the perspective of one lone girl, it is the tragedy of a peoples systemically abused by an uncaring government, made intimate. This play is a plea that it never happens again.<\/p>\n<p>Native Earth\u2019s featured production is the much-acclaimed <strong><em>In Spirit<\/em><\/strong> (formerly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/art\/story.cfm?content=161141\"><strong><em>Quilchena<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,) directed by former Artistic Director\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xfqeZQkgDHw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tara Beagan<\/strong>.<\/a> Created by Beagan and the original creative team, <em>In Spirit<\/em> is a fiercely haunting work. Production Designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jy4i4VzHEwI\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andy Moro<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0returns with a fearsome videoscape along with the sound and lighting he conceived of in the SummerWorks production where \u201che seared our eyes and ears.\u201d (NOW Magazine, \u201907 Top Ten Theatre Artists of the year.) Actor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seralys.workbooklive.com\/\"><strong>Sera-Lys McArthur<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Where the Blood Mixes, CBC\u2019s Arctic Air, Hard Core Logo II) joins Beagan and Moro as the sole performer, rounding out the all-Indigenous creative team. The work will debut at the Talking Stick Festival before returning to the Aki Studio Theatre and Rutas Panamericanas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by Juan Camilo Palacio a Native Earth Performing Arts production | \u201cI don\u2019t remember growing up. Not really. Do people remember that?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}