Friday
September 17th
2010
Come be part of the live taping of this unique radio drama.
CBC Radio, The University of Winnipeg, NCI-FM, and Arbeiter Ring Publishing present a performance of “The Crisis in Oka, Manitoba” by Douglas Raymond Nepinak from ARP’s This is an Honour Song.
2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. shows Friday, September 17, 2010
Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film at UWinnipeg, 400 Colony St. (enter off Balmoral)
Admission: pay what you can; all proceeds to The Opportunity Fund to help low income students attend UWinnipeg
Reserve your seats at okatickets@cbc.ca or 788-3128
For more information go to www.cbc.ca/manitoba or www.ncifm.com
Directed by Tracy McCorrister and adapted for radio by Ross McMillan. Original music by Dave Boulanger and Burnt
Mature content. Duration 90 minutes. No late arrivals. Each performance will be followed by a brief round table. Reception after evening performance.
Copies of This is an Honour Song will be available for purchase ($20), and contributors will be present to answer questions and sign copies
Twenty years ago an event known as the “Crisis in Oka” turned all eyes to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke. We watched and waited to see whether the army would roll through the barricades, launching militant reaction across the country. The impact of the event resonated throughout Canada, especially in Aboriginal communities, where it stirred great passion and debate between friends and family. Was this the event that would galvanize a people and bring about real change in the relationship between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal Peoples?
Ten years after the standoff, Manitoba playwright Douglas Nepinak took a look around and found that not much had changed. “The Crisis in Oka, Manitoba” is his humorous and compelling examination of the impact of the event on one North End Winnipeg family. The play examines how we interpret and respond to situations based on our own experiences and it does so with unflinching honesty, great compassion and a wild sense of humour.
Now CBC Radio and NCI, in partnership with The University of Winnipeg and ARP, are thrilled to be bringing the play to audiences once again in a newly adapted radio version.
Oka, twenty years later. Has anything Changed?
- Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film at the U of W
- 400 Colony Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
