Our guests for our first episode are key players in our co-production of The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan with Factory: Nina Lee Aquino (Director, Factory Artistic Director), Camellia Koo (Set Designer), and Joanna Yu (Costume Designer). In this episode you can hear how these artists begin to design for a production,  what is a “design jam,” some of the inspirations for designs for The Unplugging, and more!

gaganoonidiwag 001: Inside Designs for The Unplugging

Jessica Lea Fleming is joined by theatre critic and arts journalist Carly Maga and Algonquin playwright and cultural leader Yvette Nolan in this jam-packed episode about aging women in society, female voices in theatre criticism, and how a post-apocalyptic world might be.

“I don’t know why we would do this except to be heard.”
– Yvette Nolan

gaganoonidiwaag 002: Women in Theatre

This week new media & performance artist Archer Pechawis (Cree) and The Unplugging playwright Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) sit down with Jessica Lea Fleming(Métis) to discuss the relationship between traditional Indigenous teachings and technology.

Bonus: Listen through to the end, when we are joined by a very special guest, Archer’s mom, who teaches us how to say Spring or “the beginning of new growth” in Cree.

“If the Higgs boson is a spirit, then everything else is a spirit.” – Archer Pechawis

gaganoonidiwaag 003: Teachings & Technology

Jessica Lea Fleming is back with dramaturge, director, writer, actor, educator and co-founder of the Agokwe Collective, Ed Roy, to talk about the art of dramaturgy, working as a dramaturge with God and The Indian playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, Ed’s history working with Indigenous artists and what that has taught him.

Bonus: Listen through to the end to hear Glen Bradley teach us a new word in Cayuga.

“A dramaturge is not one thing, like any character is not just one thing. They become many different things.” – Ed Roy, Dramaturge

gaganoonidiwaag 004: Dramaturgy

Native Earth Performing Arts is Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre company. Currently in our 33rd year, we are dedicated to developing, producing and presenting professional artistic expressions of the Indigenous experience in Canada.

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