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New Native Theatre Starts Second Week of Good Medicine Festival<\/div>\r\n
Monday, December 7, 2020<\/div>\r\n
Source: New Native Theatre <\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\n• TICKETS: Good Medicine Festival<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nNew Native Theatre opened its Fourth Annual Play Festival: Good Medicine<\/a> on Thursday night, December 3rd.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n The ten-day online festival will continue each day through December 13th, featuring Native American, First Nations, M\u0101ori, and S\u00e1mi artists from all around the world. The festival\u2019s theme centers around Good Medicine, (inspired by Yvette Nolan\u2019s book Medicine Shows that describes the importance of medicine in Native theatre) and Indigenous Futurism where Indigenous peoples reclaim and reframe their stories and imagine a vibrant future.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nUpcoming plays include Ice Man the Frozen Protector<\/em> by Red Lake Ojibwe playwright Zane (Tyrisah) Smith, The Great Return<\/em> by northern Minnesota Ojibwe playwright, Lara Gerhardson. International performances include New Zealand’s Turango Collective, a Maori indigenous health and wellness company, Asa Simma of Giron Sami Te\u00e1hter in Sweden and Australian First Nations dancer Suri Bin Saad. \r\n

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Clockwise, from top: Milly Grant-Koria, Sermsah Bin Saad, Dakota Camacho, Asa Simma. Photos courtesy New Native Theater\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThere are also performances by well-known North American First Nations artists such as acclaimed actor, Gary Farmer and dancer Dakota Alcantara-Camacho. The festival will culminate with live music from Twin Cities based rock-band, The Pretendians. There will also be talkbacks and conversations after the shows.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThursday night opened with Poetry Night with performances by Miriam Mosqueda (Chichimeca Guamare), Carey J Flack (Black\/Mvskoke Creek\/Cherokee Freedmen\/Choctaw Freedmen kinship ties), Robyn Katona (Cree), and Cyndi Bergloff (Grand Traverse band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Thunderbird clan), followed by a conversation with playwright Yvette Nolan (Algonquin). Friday night included a performance from Ilbijerri Youth Ensemble (Melbourne-based First Nations) and the play “Don\u2019t Put Your Moccasins Under Your Pillow” by Lini Wilkins (Din\u00e9) with Keir Shun (Din\u00e9), Owee Rae (Din\u00e9), and Ernest Tsosie (Din\u00e9) as part of the cast. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nWeekend shows included “Where Did All The Colorful Feathers Go?” by Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra (Maya Lenka) in collaboration with Xilam Balam Ybarra and Storytelling Sunday with Fern Renville (Dahkota) and Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe).\r\n

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