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COREY PAYETTE - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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CELEBRATING 15 SEASONS OF2015-2016
Urban InkPRODUCTIONS
15 YEARS AGOB U R N I N G V I S I O N BY MARIE CLEMENTSW A S T H E F I R S T P R O D U C T I O N I N D E V E L O P M E N T B YU R B A N I N K P R O D U C T I O N S WITH RUMBLE THEATRE
It is with the utmost pride and excitement that I introduce Urban Ink’s celebratory 15th anniversary season. It’s the most ambitious and wide-reaching season in the company’s history - that reaches local, rural, and national Indigenous and Intercultural communities.
At Urban Ink, we are putting the power in the hands of Indigenous and Intercultural artists to tell their own stories from their own unique voices. Join us this season for four outstanding productions: the powerful story of two remarkable women in Return Home, a workshop production of Children of God in Kamloops, a national tour of our groundbreaking production Sal Capone, and a brand new work by the exciting emerging artists of the Urban Ink Collective in Silenced.
This landmark 15th anniversary season furthers our efforts to promote intercultural understanding, ignite conversation from coast to coast, and celebrate the rich history of this land by bringing communities together in a national conversation that affirms diversity as a shared Canadian value.
I hope you will join us.
Corey PayetteArtistic DirectorUrban Ink Productions
MESSAGE FROM THEARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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SumMerworks Festival 6-16 Aug 2015Toronto ON
Impact Festival 26-27 Sep 2015Kitchener ON
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Produced by Salish Sea Productions and The Return Home Collective in association with MT Space and Urban Ink Productions.
Directed by Majdi Bou-Matar and Diane RobertsPerformed by Dima Alansari, Emilie Monnet, and Carlos Rivera MartínezSound Design by Sunil Sunny MewaniMusic by Jeremy Therrien & Heather MajauryVideo Design by Alex Williams Return Home follows two characters. One is an Indigenous Anishinaabe woman from Quebec living under the legacy of colonization, and the other is an Indigenous Palestinian woman born in exile, living in diaspora.
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CHILDREN OF GOD pavillion theatre24, 26, 28 Oct 2015 kamloops BC
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A NEW MUSICAL BY COREY PAYETTE
Developed in partnership with Raven Theatre, Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops) in collaboration with English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre and in association with the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc.
Children of God is a musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were sent to residential school. It takes place in two time periods twenty years apart, and examines how the effects of our past are directly related to our future. To share in what was lost, the pain and anger that still exists in many families from wounds that will not heal. Hopefully, by acknowledging these stories we can move toward accepting the past. Written as a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ never-ending cultural spirit featuring new contemporary dancing, drumming and spirit songs all created to celebrate the characters’ desires to retain their culture.
Directed by Corey PayetteMusical Direction by Julie McIsaacProduction Design by Marshall McMahenDramaturgy by Sybille PearsonViola by Elliot Vaughan
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MichelleBardach
AaronWells
JenniferLines
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SAL CAPONE: THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF…
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By Omari Newton
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of was developed by Urban Ink Productions in association with Palywright’s Workshop Montreal and was first produced in Montreal and Vancouver by Urban Ink Productions and Black Theatre Workshop.
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of is a theatrical powerhouse that follows a young hip hop group caught in the aftermath of a violent police shooting. It is a raw and honest portrayal of friendship, loss and the choices we make when trust is shattered.
Directed by Diane RobertsSet and lighting design by Ana Cappelluto Costume design by Sarah Hall-K Sound design by Troy SlocumVideo design by Candelario Andrade
TOUR DATES
yukon arts centre18, 19 Mar 2016whitehorse yk mt space 23-25 mar 2016 kitchener on presentation house29 mar - 2 APR 2016 north vancouver BC
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Tristan D.Lalla
BillyMerasty
KimVillagante
Jordan Waunch
BOLDSKOOL Hip Hop Theatre Workshops offer youth a creative platform to free their original voices, combining skills training in the elements of hip hop (break-dancing, spoken word, MC’ing, beat boxing) and theatre. These will be presented alongside our tour production.
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SILENCED THE CULTCH12, 15 May 2016VANCOUVER BCBY THE URBAN INK COLLETIVE
Silenced is presented in partnership with the rEvolver Theatre Festival.
Silenced is an interdisciplinary work by the Urban Ink Collective that examines lives and stories silenced within our communities. It explores the choices we make as friends, neighbors, and witnesses that make us either complicit in silencing or engaged in demanding and building social equality. Silenced is a collaborative creation by the Urban Ink Collective, a group of emerging artists with a passion for storytelling and shared commitment to advance the diversity of voices on the Canadian stage.
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ClaireLove Wilson
SindyAngel
SandraSuasnabar
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Urban Ink offers schools and community groups a range of artistic workshops for youth focused on the creative self-expression of participants, and exploring intersections between Indigenous practice and cultural traditions from around the world. The workshops are delivered by an exceptional team of Indigenous and culturally diverse artists.
COMMUNITYWORKSHOPS
THE COLLECTIVE
THEWRITERS GROUP
The Collective is a group of emerging artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic practices dedicated to improving their craft as performing artists. They receive ongoing training from professional artists that focuses on varied aspects of performance work and an interdisciplinary approach to live performance creation. The program is open to artists of any and all disciplines.
Our Writer’s Group is a creative hub for emerging/established playwrights, offering a platform for artists to meet and discuss their work throughout the year alongside a dramaturg. Workshops of the new works in development are organized in collaboration with our Collective. At the end of the season, each playwright has a staged reading of a work in development.
#urbaninkworkshops #urbaninkcollective #urbaninkwriters
URBAN INK Production Society, founded in 2001, ignites and inspires revolutionary voices that transform our world. We collaborate with artists and communities to push artistic boundaries through the creation and production of innovative Indigenous and Intercultural performance works. We are dedicated to providing a platform for these artists to tell their own stories from their own unique voice.
COMPANY:Corey Payette, Artistic Director [email protected]
Kate Declerck, General Manager [email protected]
Jordan Chin, Community Outreach Coordinator [email protected]
Artist in Residence: Reneltta Arluk
General Enquiries: [email protected]
Associate Artists: Omari Newton, Rosemary Georgeson, Dima Alansari, Quelemia Sparrow
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:Olivia Davies, PresidentJennifer Reddy, Past PresidentJorge Zylberberg, TreasurerTony Lanier, Vice President & Acting SecretaryLaura Suarez Acuzar, DirectorObediya Jones-Darrell, DirectorStephen Lytton, DirectorSachi Lovatt, Director
If you would like to supportUrban Ink’s 15th Season
please make cheques payable to:
Urban Ink Production Society220-111 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
Federal Charitable number #87668 9217 RR0001P
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DONORS:Rena Cohen and Rick Parnell, Olivia Davies, Tony Lanier, Joel Solomon