UW Theatre and Film Presents...
Directed by Philip Geller
Scenic Design Anyinmachi Chijioke
Costume Design Amanda Jones
Lighting Design Delton Kreller
Stage Manager Keira Jordan
Performed by the 4th Year Honours Acting Class with technical and design support by Senior & Junior Production & Design students
ACTF Theatre, 400 Colony Street (enter off Balmoral)
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WHITE GIRLS IN MOCCASINS runs from Tuesday, April 1st to Friday, April 4th at 7:30 pm each night, and Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at 4 pm.
RESERVATIONS FOR ALL PERFORMANCES HERE
The UW's Theatre and Film Department is pleased to present WHITE GIRLS IN MOCCASINS, by Bi/Queer 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe, South Asian mixed performer, playwright and multidisciplinary creator/facilitator Yolanda Bonnell.
White Girls in Moccasins is an urgent exploration of healing and reclamation of Indigenous culture. Miskozi (she is red) is an Anishinaabe-femme reeling from the effects of colonization. She is lost in a storm of pop-culture, gameshows, old lovers, and internalized whiteness. She is tired. She is searching. She is fighting. Out of the storm emerges Waabishkizi (she is white), a representation of the whiteness within, and offers a chance to meet the parts of ourselves we need to heal. All the while Ziibi (river), the ancestor, flows around the story offering a pathway, but only when we’re ready.
Through song, storytelling, and movement, this performance piece is an incredible opportunity to celebrate the continued power of Indigenous peoples to resist colonization and (re)discover their cultural practices.
White Girls in Moccasins runs Tuesday, April 1st through Friday, April 4th at 7:30 pm, and Saturday, April 5th at 4 pm in the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, 400 Colony Street (enter from Balmoral).
Performance Length: approximately 95 minutes, no intermission.
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This production includes mature language and content which may be upsetting to some audience members. Further information on potentially charged material will be posted here shortly.
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