A ̶C̶A̶S̶U̶A̶L̶ RECONSTRUCTION
Friday, June 14, 2019 to Sunday, June 16, 2019 Start time: 6:58 pm
Theatre
Venue: Rich Mix
A CASUAL RECONSTRUCTION is a collaboration between two Québecois friends: Indigenous visual artist Nadia Myre and non-Indigenous theatre artist Johanna Nutter. Both have questions about ancestry; blood mysteries. Together, they explore the uncomfortable feelings around being native and / or non-native.
With the help of diverse Londoners, the avatars of the audience, they reconstruct a recorded conversation between six culturally-mixed Canadians about the challenges of identifying as Aboriginal. Personal oral histories, disputed identities, selves in flux…
Each performance features a different London-based writer:
14 June - Mediah Ahmed
15 June - Becca Bland
16 June - Naomi Joseph